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Some of those people were flying down that highway, CRAZY
Sent 2700 feet per second.
Sent 2700 feet per second.
I hate winter driving for that very reason. It's not me I'm worried about, it's the fucking douche-bags hauling ass. I almost got hit a few days ago by a little hatchback car that couldn't stop for the red light in an intersection. Luckily I saw it coming and didn't enter the intersection but the car next to me making a right hand turn didn't (my truck was kinda blocking their view so what can you do) and got T-boned at 20mph or so, so not bad but still.
Being a southern boy that had NEVER seen snow until I moved to Oklahoma when I was 20, it was quite an eye opening experience.
The school I went to even told all of us if we had never driven in snow to come out after hours and drive around in the parking lot to get used to it.
I equated driving in snow to driving on a muddy road at night. It was very similar.
What I was NOT prepared for was driving on ice. The ice storms were horrendous. The freaking wind in Oklahoma could blow your car off an icy road.
People in these big 4x4s would get ticked off at me for driving 15-20mph (on 40 or 40mph roads by the way) and pass me. Countless times I would find them in someone's front yard or in a ditch a few miles up the road. When ice is involved it doesn't matter if you have a 4x4 or not.....mass is mass....and kinetic mass cannot be made static when on ice.
Luckily I only had one accident.....I was hit by a snow plow when I tried to go by him in the other lane (4-lane highway). Little did I know that was illegal. The friendly OKHP officer informed me of that before he handed me the ticket as the wrecker hauled my car away.
I miss the snow, but not the ice. The ice blows.
Be safe out there, guys.
The school I went to even told all of us if we had never driven in snow to come out after hours and drive around in the parking lot to get used to it.
I equated driving in snow to driving on a muddy road at night. It was very similar.
What I was NOT prepared for was driving on ice. The ice storms were horrendous. The freaking wind in Oklahoma could blow your car off an icy road.
People in these big 4x4s would get ticked off at me for driving 15-20mph (on 40 or 40mph roads by the way) and pass me. Countless times I would find them in someone's front yard or in a ditch a few miles up the road. When ice is involved it doesn't matter if you have a 4x4 or not.....mass is mass....and kinetic mass cannot be made static when on ice.
Luckily I only had one accident.....I was hit by a snow plow when I tried to go by him in the other lane (4-lane highway). Little did I know that was illegal. The friendly OKHP officer informed me of that before he handed me the ticket as the wrecker hauled my car away.
I miss the snow, but not the ice. The ice blows.
Be safe out there, guys.
My aunt and uncle barely missed being involved in that mess.
Its the typical routine. A few idiots are doing 60 when the conditions merit 30. That must have been one pain in the ass accident report to write up. First snow today in NY and there was a 25 car pile up. The roads had a dusting.
Guys, if you ever find yourself in that predicament, PLEASE DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE!!
Crazy dumb bastards even jumped the center divider and were hanging out with on-coming traffic. Good chance of becoming a meat waffle.
Crazy video, thanks to the OP for posting!!
Crazy dumb bastards even jumped the center divider and were hanging out with on-coming traffic. Good chance of becoming a meat waffle.
Crazy video, thanks to the OP for posting!!
That is a grouping of the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet.
One time me and my friend drove the quite short distance from my house to his, and we noticed a perfectly smooth sheet of ice covering the entire road (every road) all the way to his house. We must have drove 5 mph the hole way. His house was about 2 miles away, and it must have took us 40 minutes to get there. There was absolutely ZERO grip. You know how roads are slightly convex? Well the car was actually sliding off the road because of that. We actually hit a mailbox going like 3mph, and we tried stopping/turning for a few hundred feet. Didn't slow down or turn even a little. The slowest crash I've ever even seen, lol. Not a single spot of the road wasn't covered in ice.
Is there a hill or something just before this area? I can't see any other reason why you wouldn't be able to see this from far enough back to make a speed adjustment. I live where the roads look like this 4-5 months out if the year so I'm familiar with driving on icy roads.
Crazy. Everyone too busy texting.
It just goes on for what seems like forever.
Crokinole with cars.
Last week we had some extremely cold weather, as in highs in the low single digits, and a lot of snow. I was heading down a 4-lane road in my F-350 4x4 dually with snow tires at about 20 mph (and probably going a bit too fast at that), and was passed by a Kia Sephia doing about 50. I was tempted to follow her just out of morbid curiosity to see where the car would finally come to a stop (ditch/telephone pole/whatever), but getting home in one piece was a tad more important.
I am appalled at how poorly people drive in this town even when the weather is mild.
I am appalled at how poorly people drive in this town even when the weather is mild.
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