Sort of reminds me of the original 'Run to the Sun' which I lead in 2001 down to the Misano Superbike race. There we were all 14 of us batting down the Italian A1 south of Milan when we ran into some serious congestion. Well we 'filtered' to the front as you do-this actually involved riding for about 5 miles down the hard shoulder at about 90........
When we got to the front there were police everywhere, 2 helicopters, and what seemed like a very small shunt involving a fiat and a lorry-I thought we were in for some serious trouble but they just waved us through-onto 20 miles of completely empty motorway...................enough said.
John