After working a 15 hour day, I didn’t check the traffic on my route home because it was already 9, past even the point of Los Angeles rush hour.
Of course, this is the one time where there was a massive accident after 9 on the 405, and I got stuck in entirely non-moving traffic for over 40 minutes.
By the time I figured out how screwed I was, I was past the last place I could bail before the accident. Yaaaay, commuting.