Pentagon Eyewitnesses' Traffic Descriptions
Witnesses described heavy traffic conditions around the Pentagon:
HIGHWAY TRAFFIC JAMS NEXT TO THE PENTAGON
-
Steve Riskus
:
"I took these pictures less then 1 minute after
I watched the American airlines
757 airplane crash into the pentagon on September 11 2001.
I left shortly after the pictures were taken
in fear of further attacks… Yes,
I did actually see the plane impact the building."
-
"James Cissell
:
sat in traffic on a Virginia interstate by the Pentagon
Tuesday morning."
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Bobby Eberle
:
"we slowly crept along in traffic at about 9:30 am"
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Don Fortunato
:
"Traffic was at a standstill,
so I parked on the shoulder, not far from the scene and ran to the site."
-
"Afework Hagos
,
a computer programmer,
was on his way to work but stuck in a traffic jam near the Pentagon...
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Don Mason
:
"At the time of the crash,
Mason was "stopped in traffic west of the building."
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Elaine McCusker
:
"Traffic is normally slow right
around the Pentagon as the road winds and we line up
to cross the 14th Street bridge heading into the District of Columbia."
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Stephen McGraw
:
"He mistakenly took the Pentagon exit
onto Washington Boulevard…The traffic was very slow moving,
and at one point just about at a standstill."
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Vin Narayanan
:
"With traffic at a standstill,
my eyes wandered around the road, looking for the cause
of the traffic jam… [after the plane hit]
the highway was filled with shocked commuters,
walking around in a daze."
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Mary Ann Owens
:
"I sat lodged in gridlock
on Washington Boulevard, next to the Pentagon on September 11.
[I experienced] frustration with the worse-than-normal traffic snarl."
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Phillip Thompson
:
"I was sitting in heavy traffic
in the I-395 HOV lanes about 9:45 a.m., directly
across from the Navy Annex. I could see the
roof of the Pentagon and, in the distance, the Washington Monument."
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Christine Peterson
:
"For all of my twenty-eight years
living in the Washington, D.C. area,
terrible traffic was a constant...and now I was officially late for work.
I was at a complete stop on the road in front
of the helipad at the Pentagon;
what I had thought would be a shortcut
was as slow as the other routes I had taken that morning."
-
"Naval officer
Clyde Ragland
,
who works near the Pentagon, was stuck in his office
because the streets outside were clogged with traffic."
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"Rodney Washington
,
a systems engineer
for a Pentagon contractor, was stuck in stand-still traffic
a few hundred yards from the Pentagon."
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