Video: Fuel Tanker Fire, Alberta

This "highway of death" BS is typical of todays society of 'shuffle the blame'. I've driven 63 MANY times, mostly in winter and there is NOTHING wrong with that highway. The highway is fine, it's the people that drive on it that are the problem. How is speeding and passing on a solid line the fault of the highway?. Those are the two main causes of accidents on 63. Once it's twinned all the way and the accidents keep coming, what are you going to blame then?. Sure there won't be the head ons with separate lanes but people will STILL drive to fast (maybe even worse than now). When will people start taking responsibility for their own actions rather than blaming someone or something else....I know never.

 

This one the SUV driver was coming out of the 881, he was just an idiot and turned right in front of the tanker. Nothing to do with the highway.

 

About 12 years ago I went up there with a load of Pepsi on a Friday evening. It was really entertaining watching all the traffic coming at me heading out for the weekend. People passing on hills and such. I thought the same thing back then, it was a nice wide highway, just the clowns on it were the problem.

 

That's the point. It rarely IS the highway, but rather the idiotic drivers but people like to blame something OTHER than those responsible. In this case, it's a highway. In most cases, it a gun that is at fault for the idiot miss using it. Sad times that will continue to get worse.

 

Yep, blame it on the inanimate object. Humans are infallible, don't cha' know!

I miss the days when people actually owned up to being responsible for their actions. Now, if you take responsibility for your actions, you are branded an idiot, or worse, a crimnal. Deny you made a mistake and place the blame on something else and your are the victim, instead. Sigh...

 

Ironically, that section is twinned with a very wide median.

 

That was at the junction oh 63 and 881 wasn't it?

 

Yes it was ^