Dash cam clip shows how fast black ice can ruin your day

He had it coming. You could schedule the crash yesterday in that ice that was a reality today.

This is not a attack post against poor trucker who slid and wrecked. (More importantly that wire was amazing in keeping him from crossing over...)

As the others said, he should have parked the #### thing on that kind of ice.

What part of you will not make it wherever you are going for a while don't he understand?

We have had ice so bad that the poor truck had a hell of a time getting off the road to a parking that is safe and adequate enough so that when it's finished with icing we drive on.

Here in Arkansas the rains quit in the night, some snow some icing storm. The winds picked up and the air dried out in humidity. Blewdry every thing that was wet turning frozen by sunrise, the sun burned it off by 10 am. By 2 PM there was nothing much of that big bad scary ice to be around. Almost as if it never happened.

 

Not black ice! You can clearly see the road is slippery

 

I have one one question, left lane from the video looks way more dry and with 0 ice, I know you suppose to stay on a right side, but when right side have so much issue ( and you can see it from 1st second) why keep staying on a right ?

 

Nothing ever stopped me from taking the cleaner of the two lanes. And especially early on when say a plow has made his first pass or whatever, its normal for one lane to be preferable to the other. If its safer or looks safer, by all means do it.

 

That dude's truck is roached.

 

This is split ice. Rocky Doubles Tanker had dry strip he is using to the far right of this interstate near Sheridan in Wyoming. This ice was probably almost a week old, damaged by chains to the point at being too beaten to be much good for anything.

He was doing 10 I was on my own split ice on the left using that strip of dry pavement at 15 with lockers in.

He was a mile behind me, both of us doing 12 or so more or less with some dancing on full ice when this idiot new car came along. We saw it coming like two miles back. Camera (Old film style) was ready and waiting as soon she broke traction, slid across me and went off road into snow deep enough to bury the two people in it. You can see she had applied the necessary steering correction, but too little too late. That back end will swing back right and haul her off the highway.

 

No reason he couldn’t have been in left lane, you can see when he flipped around there was nothing behind him. I commonly ran whichever lane was cleanest. Just watch the mirrors & slowly move over when someone wants to get around. 1st thing I noticed in video also

 

Dad gum, I really need to park till next April or May? lol

A dollar to a donut hole says he had cruise on.

 

One of your boys, Joe 379 biffed it in OH-HI-OH some years ago in a blizzard going too fast. Like 08 or 09 south of Toledo, snowing like 27 mofos.

I was doing about 40 with about a 100 trucks behind me.

Here comes Joe.

Like 6 inches of snow on the Joe lane, but Joe has to go 45 or 50.

Well about 10 minutes after he passed me, he was jackknifed in the median.

HAMMER DOWN!!!!!!

 

thats why i ride in the left lane. know better high then passing someone in snow covered roads. i always get over on the white line and make the snow dust them out.