2200 hour
He relaxed back in his seat and divided his gaze between the video monitors and the actual scene on either side of him in the night . Once again the sky was lighted , this time much brighter on the horizon as the road ways swept to the south of Cincinnati . Traffic was once again heavy and fast with the blue and green carrying almost equal loads while white was really crowded and even the yellow `` zoom '' lane was beginning to fill . The 2200 hour density reports from Cinncy had been given before the Ohio State-Cal football game traffic had hit the thruways and densities now were peaking near twenty thousand vehicles for the one-hundred-mile block of westbound NAT 26 out of Cincinnati . Back to the east , near the eastern Ohio state line , Martin could hear Car 207 calling for a wrecker and meat wagon . Beulah rumbled on through the night . The video monitors flicked to the next ten-mile stretch as the patrol car rolled past another interchange .