Contents Under Pressure
“A thirty-ton crane being used to remove a forty-five-ton metal sign over the Palmetto Expressway toppled over, and the sign crashed onto the roadway. Thousands of overheated motorists and steaming cars were trapped in a six-hour traffic jam that spawned three heart attacks and numerous fistfights. The official temperature was 92, but out on the sun-blasted pavement it had to be 110. I parked on a side street that flanked the Palmetto and climbed the embankment to the x-way to interview the unhappy workers, hassled highway patrolmen, and melting motorists. Lottie was up in a rented chopper shooting aerials of the mess, when more bad news broke out ten miles away at the toll booth to the Rickenbacker Causeway.
Midday temperatures had triggered a battle in which a pregnant woman and an eight-year-old boy were injured, and three other motorists shot. When the car in which the woman and child were riding overheated and stalled, enraged drivers behind them attacked. When one waved a kni...fe, the woman’s brother-in-law pulled a gun from the glove compartment and shot him.MoreLess
Midday temperatures had triggered a battle in which a pregnant woman and an eight-year-old boy were injured, and three other motorists shot. When the car in which the woman and child were riding overheated and stalled, enraged drivers behind them attacked. When one waved a kni...fe, the woman’s brother-in-law pulled a gun from the glove compartment and shot him.MoreLess
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