This is what happens when you don't SLOW DOWN in bad winter conditions

Really?!? Do please explain the factors those drivers couldn't account for when making their decisions on their travel speed. When you find one that they couldn't possibly know, get back to us.


But since you want facts, here you go. By failing to accurately assess the condition of the road surface, and neglecting to account for reduced visibility, those drivers who slammed into stopped traffic were travelling a speed much greater than dictated by conditions.

Plain and simple, they screwed the pooch. You can twist it any way you like, but it doesn't change the facts. The only good thing to come out of that wreck is the fact that they didn't have to haul multiple bodies out of that carnage, and that is quite frankly a miracle considering the way trucks were slamming into the wreckage.

 

IDK, freightwipper, you're kind of pushing it with that one.

 

That wasn't the high horse I was speaking of. You'll get no argument from me that people going to fast for conditions was the cause of all of this.

What I was speaking of was the flippant comment that bystanders should have ran down the road and tried to flag down motorists. That comment is simply idiotic on so many levels and if the poster who said it had any kind of remote idea of the facts involved he or she would likely agree with me.

I was also speaking, to a lessor extent, of the judgmental comments about how this all could have been prevented if guys just had CB's turned on so they could hear the warnings about the wreck. I would love to know how it is that these individuals are so positive that anyone was making constant announcements on 19 about the upcoming wreck. I would love to hear how it is they can be so sure that happened.

 

No one can be sure warnings went out on ch19. However, just monitoring the ####-chat on 19 can give you some advanced notice of trouble ahead.

 

Several years ago I got detained at a shipper in Kalamazoo and had to spend the night. Woke up to 8 inches of snow.

We all eased along west on 94, eastbound told us the road cleared up for about 5 miles and then at the 6 it was icey again, and that Indiana was clear and dry. They hit that clean pavement and took off , foot on the floor.

Then we got near the 6, a flatbed in the middle lane, me in the right, we got stopped in time as cars and trucks wrecked.
A big hooded truck in the middle lane couldn't stop, I remember looking at their steer tires turned toward me, but skidding straight, it hit the back of the flatbed stopping it and popping the radiater.

I eased thru the carnage and Indiana was clean and dry.

I had the cb on, went slow, but if her steers would have caught, she'd of plowed into my side and I would have been involved.

 

Ah! Sorry for jumping on you. And I agree with you, it's the same everywhere you go on the internet, it's as if they are staking out the moral high ground.

There's a longer version of the OP's clip the shows the guys filming running to help people as soon as they could without worry about a car taking them out. Just as anyone with any common sense would do...

 

Oh boy hear we go again.

 

This will help you, honest!

 

You know... Got my cb installed, set up and screwed down... Ran 300 miles...

Nary a word to the wise about a #### thing. Pretty sure I can across a couple nazi drivers, two drunk Mexicans and some guys doing something illegal... But nothing useful. Lol