In this entire thread no one addressed the root of the problem (pun intended). Why was the log in the road, and WHY does NO ONE ever stop to get road hazards off on the shoulder so that EVERYONE can safely pass.

And before someone says another snide remark, Yes, I have stopped in the middle of the road to get "obstacles" out of the way, just because I can drive over it does not mean the next vehicle can (as evidenced in the original post). We all have hazard flashers, was that not a hazard in the road?

In no way am I suggesting that we all try to cause traffic accidents to remove debris from the road, but it seems that no one makes the effort to ensure everyone's safety. Just yesterday I was on the highway near downtown Houston and traffic stopped dead just around a curve. Cars were pointed in 3 different directions, but everyone was stopped between 2 lanes of traffic. The cars jockeyed around and everything started rolling again, and as I rolled by I saw the problem, it looked like a new windsheild fell out of a truck or something and was busted in a few pieces in the middle of the road. Now I was already rolling by with thousands of cars right behind me, but what of the people that were stopped in the road just before I went by? They could have put it in park, popped the flashers on, and grabbed the big chunks and threw them off the side of the road (it was on the left side of the far right lane). People.