Was thinking the same thing there. No escape route at all even if you managed to get stopped in time.
A few years ago Wifey and I were coming back from some trip out east and got caught in a construction zone in PA, I think it was. One lane with those concrete barriers on each side. We stopped for traffic and a guy on a motorcycle was behind us. Suddenly I saw him trying desperately to get up alongside us. I thought at first he was just trying to get ahead of us, then I saw what he had seen. Some idiot woman flying up behind us with her face in her cell phone. I thought we were going to die. She suddenly saw us stopped there and came to a screeching, skidding halt about 2 inches off our bumper. If the motorcycle guy hadn't moved up beside us, he would have been crushed. As I was looking back at this idiot behind us I could see the shock on her face, but after a second or two she went right back to texting. I wanted to get out and go rip the phone out of her hand, but it was too tight to even open the door, which is another whole safety issue unto itself.
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