"Ret." gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying:

All right then - from your years of experience tell me why they'd close
almost the entire road for a simple collision with the street
furniture.

I was not there and I was not dealing with it so I don't know - and
neither do you.

I'm sure you can take an educated guess, though - what factors would you
have taken into account when you were coning off lanes, that could have
led to the situation described?