Drivers faced with more traffic back-ups on I-65 south of Louisville

MUNDFORDVILLE, KY (WAVE) – More back-ups on Interstate 65 south of Louisville forced delays for drivers on Friday, but this time the snow wasn't to blame.

Drivers heading south in the last 48 hours haven't had it easy.

While Friday's traffic caused some headaches and detours, cars continued to move and that is a big upgrade from 48 hours ago.

In Munfordville, drivers were detoured off of I-65 because of an accident hours earlier. Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials say a semi crashed into a barrier wall and for safety reasons it had to be repaired.

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"While this morning's crash was probably caused by some icy conditions, what we are managing now is actually maintenance issue as we try to get traffic around those maintenance operations," said Chris Jessie, with KYTC.

The back-ups may look similar to the day before, but this time the roads were clear and drivers weren't stuck. Wednesday night, hundreds of people were stranded and forced to sleep in their cars.

"Our typical winter, what we are built for, the snow volumes maybe three or four inch snows, several times a year, that's what we are kind of built to handle," Jessie said. "Twenty-four inch snows which I think we saw some reports of we aren't built to handle that."

Those traveling Friday knew all about the traffic nightmare.

"We had seen that there were people on there, trapped for 15 hours, pretty crazy," said Cody Overman, who was traveling from Ohio.

"I mean this is nothing compared to what that is like," said Bob Lawson, who was traveling to Alabama.

Lawson and some friends are heading south for a fishing trip. He says the first five and half hours there were no problems, but their smooth sailing quickly came to halt.

"It's supposed to be a seven hour trip, but we aren't even out of Kentucky yet and we are going to Northern Alabama, so we've got another six hours to go or so," Lawson said.

They are taking it in stride and focusing on the final destination.

"We will be on the lake in the morning, we will be fine," Lawson said.

This section of I-65 is in the middle of a construction project, so KYTC says that also didn't help with the volume of Friday's traffic.

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