Newport News Accident Injury Lawyer Report – Failure of Richmond Over I-64 Improvements

The failure of the state government in Virginia to fix the roads, especially on Interstate 64 (I64) going from Norfolk to Hampton and Newport News to Williamsburg, has led to ongoing problems.

The problem is that our roads are so congested and overcrowded that there is almost always a traffic backup in Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel and again in the Denbigh area of Newport News and again just outside Williamsburg. There never seems to be an actual accident or other explanation for why the traffic slows down to a crawl on what’s supposed to be a 55 mile-an-hour highway. The problem is that the road needs to be wider than just two lanes in each direction. Richmond has known this for years and has failed to come up with the money to expand and repair this vital artery into the peninsula and south side Hampton Roads, Virginia.

The reason that this failure leads to accidents, injuries, and even deaths is that variable speed kills. If I am a tourist or tired commuter going with the flow of traffic even in the right-hand lane at 55 miles-an-hour and all of a sudden the traffic comes to a dead stop for no apparent reason there’s a pretty good chance I am going to end up hitting the car in front of me.

This rear-ender is the fault of the person who rear-ends the car in front of them for following too close. However part of the blame goes to our inept legislature in Richmond for failing to ease the traffic woes by putting sufficient money into the highway system for the benefit of everyone. So next time that the traffic all of a sudden drops to a 15 mile-an-hour crawl in front of you on an interstate highway in Tidewater, Virginia think of your legislator who failed to get the job done.

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