A few years back I was driving cross-country and was heading east out of Bend, OR. I was at least an hour's drive out when traffic on the highway suddenly ground to a complete halt. A car had just gotten into an accident entering a road construction zone. To get those people to the hospital meant they had to wait an hour for the ambulance to drive from Bend, stabilize the patients, and then drive an hour back to Bend (the nearest hospital). Yikes. <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />