I am responding to the accident on I-95 Aug. 15. I know this was an enormous job trying to save lives and clean up the highway, but I feel that the police and the Connecticut Department of Transportation dropped the ball on Exit 72. I entered Exit 72 southbound at 1:38 p.m. There was a state trooper with a disabled vehicle on the entrance but there was no indication that the highway was shut down. It took one hour to get to the end of Exit 71 (where DOT had been detouring traffic) and there was a trooper sitting in his car blocking the entrance to I-95 but not directing traffic. It was a free-for-all to either go left or right to Rocky Neck or Old Post Road. There was traffic all over and another accident waiting to happen.

Paula Pasquaretta

East Lyme