I was supposed to be at work at 8:30, I had said I'd be 5 minutes late when I was given the 'earlier than normal' shift, then on the freeway, traffic was at a standstill. So, super late.
It was one of those things where you couldn't see what the problem was, so we were all basically holding our lanes, and waiting. Finally, as I got to the edge of where there's a bridge over another freeway, there's a cop, SUV with lights on, blocking the left lane.
So traffic is merging together into the 1 lane as well as could be expected (there's an exit there too so a bit of chaos, but, not to bad.)
When I"m about 5 car-lengths past the cop car I hear a squeal of tires, a screech of brakes, and I braced...because if someone plowed into the back of our line of cars we were going to all feel it.
And I hear the crash and...
I look in my rearview and realize that there was some jackass in a sports car who whipped out of 'line' and tried to go down the empty right lane and didn't see the cop car until moments before he hit the back of it.
Everyone got out and was walking around, so they were ok.
The cop car was an SUV so...drivable.
The sports car's hood was shaped like an a-frame tent.
And then I went to work late. (and I've no idea what happened to start the initial block/reason for the cop cars)
(also, I called work to say "uh, more like 15 min late, but I only called the main # becuse, driving. I got a call from my supervisor when I was 1 block away and I explained she hadn't heard the msg yet, accident, I was almost there.
She had 2 of us scheduled early for a group, and both of us had weirdo things happen [my coworker was the pedestrian witness to a road rage incident where the injured party chased down the person who cut him off and smashed in her windows] and were late.
The morning @ work was for shit, but, still.)