Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:59:37 -0700

From: Bruce Gelder bgelder[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CAMEL.CORP.ES.COM

Subject: Re: gapers' block



In Chicago, a traffic slowdown caused by drivers slowing to look at an

accident in the opposite lane, or some other sight (currently a portrait of

Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls, changing hair color as Rodman does) - is

called a "gapers' block."



Is that term used elsewhere? If not, what?



Thanks - Allan Metcalf



The act of slowing to look is called "rubbernecking" here in Salt Lake

City, but I've never heard a word for a traffic slowdown specifically

caused by that, just general things like "traffic jam" and so on. I've

never heard "gapers' block."



--Bruce Gelder