On April 8th at around 3 o’clock eastern time, parts of western Kentucky will go dark during the totality of a solar eclipse. Trooper Corey King of state police post 16 in Henderson says during the 2017 eclipse, there were traffic back-ups and motorists who, whether they knew it or not, created dangerous situations.
“A lot of spectators were merely pulling off the side of the road, on the emergency shoulders, and that's what we're discouraging. We don't want people to pull off in the emergency shoulders. Obviously, at that point, you're still gonna have the semis, the commuters, that's coming through. And some people that may be completely oblivious to what is happening. And now you're having the roadways lined up with spectators alongside the interstate.”
