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Family of ducks crossing Perth's Kwinana Freeway cause six-car peak-hour pile up (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 days ago by Infrapink@thebrainbin.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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It's unclear how the ducks got onto the freeway, which is guarded by a concrete barrier.

It is the second day in a row ducks have caused peak hour chaos in the same spot on the freeway.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't you have traffic jams on highways? Including some that involve cars stopping completely?

I mean the reason you can do 130 kmh on a highway is because you can see like a kilometer forward and stop safely from that speed.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's also a lot easier to see an entire freeway full of stopped and slowly moving vehicles, as opposed to a single immobile one in the middle of an otherwise empty highway. There's a reason we have laws against it.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah I think I mellowed out too much from highway driving, average speeds on a Belgian highway where I am now is like 40 km/h.