Winter Wrecks Pics

Hi all,
I know we have a photo / art gallery on here and I guess my idea behind this is to share pics of wrecks in the winter. Not trying to poke fun at any company at all, but just to remind us all of what can happen in the winter times. For the newer drivers...tip number 1 in winter....slow down if you have to drive at all.

*Note...I use a digital camera with a continuous shot feature. All I do is hold the camera with one hand and aim, while holding the button. I do this at the same time while driving looking forward. The only difference is that one hand is off the wheel. I take about 30-50 pictures each time, tilting the camera in all sorts of directions in order to get the picture as I dont look at the camera while doing this. Of those...I selected the best ones to post on here.

Im planning on adding to this throughout the winter with additional pictures. We had a storm come through last week and I got a two-fer.


This is a Fed-Ex hauling doubles. On the far left you can see the other trailer, which I think was still attached to the tractor. In the ditch is the wrecker, although its hard to see...on the other side of the trailer but if you look closely, you can see it....maybe.

As you can see, not much snow at all...melted that afternoon...but the wind made everything very slick.


Swift trailer on its side. It was going from right to left, but got turned around and flipped on its side. There were packages tossed out the back door about 40 feet from where the trailer stopped.

 

I run the same stretch of highway every day and boy...lemme tell ya...I see tons of Fed-Ex doubles in the ditch. and half of the time, it looks like they make a pretty good explosion of packages all over the place. Last year...I stopped counting when I got to ten. If they have that many accidents on the stretch of highway Im on...that really freaks me out how many they must have across the country.

Im sure Ill have more to share as time goes on.

I don't know what the procedure is for the highway patrol in these accidents. I mean...now that I think of it...there wasn't any trooper or wrecker around the swift truck, so maybe it had just happened or something.