Nowadays, I use internet heavily to plan my routes, even when I know the shortest route to a destination that I have driven through many times over. The traffic data is what I look for and I apply judgement to the presented data. Incidents in Columbus traffic are mind boggling in a way that the explanation of the cause might belong in very silly or unnecessary categories.
It is not uncommon for an accident to happen in a straight section of a highway in broad daylight, light traffic flow, and on a dry road surface.