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