Not always. Sometimes roads are bad, sometimes ice is invisible, sometimes driving is inevitable or required when it would be better not to and there's no way to do it safely.
- Sorry to have to say this but you are only right for about haft of those videos, the other haft they should not even be out driving in those conditions & I'm surprise many of the roads weren't closed until the weather improved or the roads were cleared or sanded & salted 1st!
100%! People driving way too fast for conditions and following much too close to stop in those conditions as well. Edited to add: Do not try to stop a sliding vehicle WITH YOUR BODY.
"Hey, the road is icy and cars are out of control. Let's get out of our cars and stand in the road right in the spot all the cars are sliding towards."
I'm always surprised to see people standing on a slippery road where cars have crashed and then be surpised when the next car almost hits them while sliding in the same curve.....
@ernestlmorellsr Plus, AWD (All Wheel Drive) has differentials and such so the wheels can rotate at different speeds. 4WD does not, all 4 wheels are rigidly locked together to turn at the same speed. 4WD is ONLY for use in offroading and deep snow. It is VERY poor for use on slippery snow and ice, since all 4 wheels are rigidly locked together when 4WD is engaged, you get wheel spin on 1 wheel and all 4 are spinning, basically forcing the vehicle out of control.
A lot of commenters say "slow down" and sure, you shouldn't be reckless, but I've been out on solid ice roads at WALKING speed and the car just let's go and starts sliding. Even EMPTY cars can just slide away. Sometimes the best thing is to not head out into those conditions, or at least without 4 wheel chains or studs.
When I was feenager, I was trying to get to a friend's house to spend the night insfead of trying to drive the 15 miles home after a full day of sacking and restocking groceries, while our area got more than double the most extreme weather forecast of freezing rain and sleet. Everyone had been caught off guard because it started about 8 hours earlier than predicted. We were the only grocery store in town, because the other one had burned to the ground a week before Thanksgiving. The store owners jep the store open intil we aere completely sold out of milk, bread, eggs, bacon, lunch meats and almost out of beer which had never come closeo to happening before. Just before getting to my friend's house, I pulled up to a stop sign at a Y intersection and the part of the street I was on has a bit of a bank to it. I coasted to a complete stop to let a propane truck pass, but as I tracked him from the side something just didn't look right, then it occured to me that the stop-sugn was getting farther away from me as I slid down the slop and into the ditch. I couldnt get out of the ditch and walked the last half mile to my friend's house leaving my 72 Mach-I there and praying no one else slid off the road there.
I do also love when I see a human being think that they can stop a vehicle that weighs THOUSANDS of pounds by themselves from rolling down a hill..... All because you can just move it on a flat surface.....you got this.
The answer to driving in freezing weather is to slow down or stay at home unless it's really necessary or you could lose your vehicle. Some people are absolutely stupid driving fast in these conditions .
I do it like this: when I see conditions like those in video, I do not start my car. I go back into my house, put kettle on stove and make more coffee. Than I sit in front of a window, coffee mug in my hands and watch my neighbours wrecking their vehicles.
If you’re sliding down a hill on ice, don’t push your brakes as hard as you can and hold them in a lock position. Let your foot up a little bit. I know it’s against your inner judgment once your vehicle is straighter if there’s nothing in front of you, you can continue to tap the brakestrying to get the vehicle to slow down, but if you lock them up, you have no control. I do a lot of plowing and I have a lot of access roads that are up and down and when you’re going down outside of my plow being on the truck, one way to maintain control is to not let the brakes lock up.
If you get in a pile up on an icy road, stay in the vehicle. That's a ton of steel between you and the next inevitable collision. Exchanging insurance can wait until the road is completely stopped up and nobody can reach you anymore. How many close calls did they show, too many. Standing around outside the car in whiteout conditions means other cars can't see you. In the car, if they hit the car it won't be your tender flesh being smashed to hamburger.
90% of these accidents could have been avoided by driving SLOWLY and adding distance to the one driving ahead. If you have black ice conditions, stay home. No matter how good a driver you are, you cannot negotiate with the laws of physics.
1) don't over accelerate 2) don't oversteer/too sharp 3) don't slam brakes(pump brakes allow to slow car) Remember if your foot's on the break, you cannot steer
Im in Montreal Canada. The salt and sand trucks are out at 2 in the morning if it gets icy. By the time traffic starts the roads are already done. If the highway hasn't been done they close it to avoid everything that's happening in this video 😂😂😂
I live in the western NY state in the US and go to work super early. I'm glad that they don't have our roads done by the time I leave for work. It means I get to hit the traction control button and have some fun in my Silverado lol.
It strikes me they are all driving to fast and don't know how to get back road adhesion back once they start to skid . They just keep their foot on the brake !
Or at least all season M&S (Mud and Snow). Some all seasons have VERY poor grip on snow and nothing at all on ice. M&S usually have pretty good grip on snow, and at least "some" even on glare ice (I had some where it was probably 10-20% grip compared to dry pavement on the low end, one set was pretty amazing, it was probably close to 50% grip levels even on glare ice. I seriously got out of the car one time and found it was too icy to stand, which surprised me since the car handled fine. I guess I could have gotten the hint it was icy since I passed a police car that was halfway up the hill spinning their tires, before they gave up and reversed down the hill). You might not be able to get up the steepest hills if it's totally glare ice and you have those "10-20% grip" M&S, but you also aren't going to go careening back down it out of control like the people in these clips. (If you do expect to go up steep hills in slippery snow or ice conditions on some regular basis, then do get the winter tires, chains, or even studded tires. And an AWD vehicle -- not 4WD! -- might not be a bad idea.)
Almost all of these accidents are preventable. Although it sounds counterintuitive using acceleration to counter a spin especially on front wheel drive can allow the tires to find somewhere to bite. Where locking brake makes the tires skate. 35.0.0.
No technique to drive on ice. Most of these cars hold the brakes, get behind on their steering and are going too FAST for conditions. With kids in the vehicle alot of times.
You think winter cold and snow are bad you should see the carnage when it's a hot sunny day, there's cars flying about all over the place, if it wasn't for all the environmental taxes the world would end in one big car crash. The best part of snow is it covers solar panels, kills wind turbines and batteries go dead, much like the poor and the elderly, but it's the warm sunny days we have to stop, and of course plastic straws. On a hot day the gov spends money with adverts telling us to drink more if you're thirsty and then have a national drought but they never tell people to turn up the heating in a blizzard when they're freezing to death, literally. Funny how that works.
Хотелось бы послушать тех водителей которые видят укатанный каток под гору и едут, интересно, что в голове у них, какой ход мыслей, о чём думают , на что надеются? Многие местные, знают город, где горки, летом видят, зимой видят как бьются машины , … и один х… едут туда, лезут туда, и если бы это был один!!! Под такую или в такую гору при таких дорогах ни на каких машинах не получится, это или тупость или че???
PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL WHEN YOU START TO SLIDE!!! this allows you to slow the car without the engine pushing/driving ( whatever the term is) the tires. You can, in most cases stop. Unless you are a real idiot and are doing 80 on an icy road!!! It works. It saved me a many of times at stop light, at the bottom of a hill stop signs, or on a curve where i live out in the country. Play with it, don't wait til you need it. Most of us do this in the country where I live, and we have very few ice caused accidents.
@ 28:00 mins. Why is everyone outside in the snow driving, uh? What's up with people who are driving in the snow, not unless they have an emergency or on their way home.
- Haft of those videos, it's the drivers fault for driving too fast for the road conditions & the other haft they should not even be out driving in those conditions & I'm surprise many of the roads weren't closed until the weather improved or the roads were cleared or sanded & salted 1st!
How most these folks got their driver license let alone made it through life, I don’t know. Drive slow in these conditions is common sense, and ALWAYS pay attention to your surroundings and the other drivers on the road bc chances are, they’ll be the one hitting you.
8:18 This is one case where were someone was not going fast enough for the icy banked road turn. Go too slow and gravity will pull you down into the ditch.
The law in Canada is that if you park on a hill or slope, you must turn your wheels towards the curb so that if the vehicle slips, it mounts the sidewalk out of harm's way.
Next time someone from "up north" tells me I don't know how to drive in snow/ice.. I'm going to let them know I grew up in Bavaria and to kindly shut it. Too many "expert drivers" going way too fast for conditions!
I never drive in the winter unless I have to and if so its half the speed limit if the roads are bad or slower, rather get where I want ine one piece than be in a ditch and without a vehicle for weeks.
Again I have said it before, when it's snowing, then you can figure it is Slippery, ICY, which means Slow Down, or have an accident. why is it we see bad weather on here we see IDIOTS in cars doing 70,80, or 90 ?????????????
Icy road madness isn’t about bad roads - it’s about drivers who think skill can outsmart physics.
Not always. Sometimes roads are bad, sometimes ice is invisible, sometimes driving is inevitable or required when it would be better not to and there's no way to do it safely.
@JessBlake2stay in that's what I do and watch this on TV and have a good old laugh , lol😂
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98 percent is due to driving too fast for the conditions
You are 100th percent right.
- Sorry to have to say this but you are only right for about haft of those videos, the other haft they should not even be out driving in those conditions & I'm surprise many of the roads weren't closed until the weather improved or the roads were cleared or sanded & salted 1st!
1/3 were slide-offs, while trying to pass a car or truck, that was already going too fast!
Schools closed stay home days nation wide---at least storm areas!
@JohnPlum-c1rSchools closed stay home days nation wide---at least storm areas!
Slowing DOWN, may help.
100%! People driving way too fast for conditions and following much too close to stop in those conditions as well. Edited to add: Do not try to stop a sliding vehicle WITH YOUR BODY.
Exactky. It's a very simple solution that some people can't comprehend.
"Hey, the road is icy and cars are out of control. Let's get out of our cars and stand in the road right in the spot all the cars are sliding towards."
I'm always surprised to see people standing on a slippery road where cars have crashed and then be surpised when the next car almost hits them while sliding in the same curve.....
Sorry, but I’m really not surprised
Exactly, they stand between their car and the out of control car. Exactly where you don't want to be
Victimhood, has many faces and behaviors. I've seen way worse.
It’s wild how people forget the road is still just as slippery after the first crash.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I know, right!!!
i love how people in 4x4's think they're invincible in the snow.
Yeah, I know what you mean, it's a four-wheel drive, [ NOT ] a four-wheel stop.
@ernestlmorellsr Plus, AWD (All Wheel Drive) has differentials and such so the wheels can rotate at different speeds. 4WD does not, all 4 wheels are rigidly locked together to turn at the same speed. 4WD is ONLY for use in offroading and deep snow. It is VERY poor for use on slippery snow and ice, since all 4 wheels are rigidly locked together when 4WD is engaged, you get wheel spin on 1 wheel and all 4 are spinning, basically forcing the vehicle out of control.
@hwertz104wd is superior to Awd. If you’ve driven either one you’d know.
@hwertz10 Never heard of limited slip rear ends??
I'm grateful for having enough common sense to just stay home in times like this
Try to remember folks: Every dumbaaa you ever met will be out there on a slick day. And sometimes they is us.
A lot of commenters say "slow down" and sure, you shouldn't be reckless, but I've been out on solid ice roads at WALKING speed and the car just let's go and starts sliding. Even EMPTY cars can just slide away. Sometimes the best thing is to not head out into those conditions, or at least without 4 wheel chains or studs.
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When I was feenager, I was trying to get to a friend's house to spend the night insfead of trying to drive the 15 miles home after a full day of sacking and restocking groceries, while our area got more than double the most extreme weather forecast of freezing rain and sleet.
Everyone had been caught off guard because it started about 8 hours earlier than predicted.
We were the only grocery store in town, because the other one had burned to the ground a week before Thanksgiving.
The store owners jep the store open intil we aere completely sold out of milk, bread, eggs, bacon, lunch meats and almost out of beer which had never come closeo to happening before.
Just before getting to my friend's house, I pulled up to a stop sign at a Y intersection and the part of the street I was on has a bit of a bank to it.
I coasted to a complete stop to let a propane truck pass, but as I tracked him from the side something just didn't look right, then it occured to me that the stop-sugn was getting farther away from me as I slid down the slop and into the ditch.
I couldnt get out of the ditch and walked the last half mile to my friend's house leaving my 72 Mach-I there and praying no one else slid off the road there.
I do also love when I see a human being think that they can stop a vehicle that weighs THOUSANDS of pounds by themselves from rolling down a hill..... All because you can just move it on a flat surface.....you got this.
In weather like this, just stay home. These conditions can cost you more, than you will make that day at work!
Reducing speed could make a real difference.
Mother nature is undefeated, some people never learn.
The answer to driving in freezing weather is to slow down or stay at home unless it's really necessary or you could lose your vehicle. Some people are absolutely stupid driving fast in these conditions .
I do it like this: when I see conditions like those in video, I do not start my car. I go back into my house, put kettle on stove and make more coffee. Than I sit in front of a window,
coffee mug in my hands and watch my neighbours wrecking their vehicles.
The bobtail cabover did some really good fishtail driving.
5:00 unlucky... i would not even leave my car on a steep road in these conditions
Dude unparked 4 cars at once. F-cking legend.
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looks like the safe bet when approaching a pileup like this is to go off the right side away from the pack.
Yep. Looks like a nice day for a drive.
These moments remind you that confidence can disappear quickly when circumstances shift unexpectedly.
3 seconds was enough. When you said "hellooow", I said goodbye
If you’re sliding down a hill on ice, don’t push your brakes as hard as you can and hold them in a lock position. Let your foot up a little bit. I know it’s against your inner judgment once your vehicle is straighter if there’s nothing in front of you, you can continue to tap the brakestrying to get the vehicle to slow down, but if you lock them up, you have no control. I do a lot of plowing and I have a lot of access roads that are up and down and when you’re going down outside of my plow being on the truck, one way to maintain control is to not let the brakes lock up.
If you get in a pile up on an icy road, stay in the vehicle. That's a ton of steel between you and the next inevitable collision. Exchanging insurance can wait until the road is completely stopped up and nobody can reach you anymore. How many close calls did they show, too many. Standing around outside the car in whiteout conditions means other cars can't see you. In the car, if they hit the car it won't be your tender flesh being smashed to hamburger.
snow + ice + speeding = NOT GOOD.
Lived in Alaska for the last 50 years, so snow driving is an annual event. Advice to everyone out there, slow the hell down! Good grief, people.
90% of these accidents could have been avoided by driving SLOWLY and adding distance to the one driving ahead.
If you have black ice conditions, stay home. No matter how good a driver you are, you cannot negotiate with the laws of physics.
Why does this look like the world’s funniest videos? This must be a documentary.
Some people just do not need to have a driver’s license!!!
Watching this makes you respect winter a whole lot more
That van was beautiful wheel work
Mother Nature doesn’t play around we as humans need to pay attention to weather conditions !!
I was really hoping the "you can't park there" guys would have an accident too.
People are asking for problems on the roads when they are hazardous JUST STAY HOME
1) don't over accelerate
2) don't oversteer/too sharp
3) don't slam brakes(pump brakes allow to slow car)
Remember if your foot's on the break, you cannot steer
I will note, in a few of these clips, that is not black ice. It's ice. Great clips though!
Im in Montreal Canada. The salt and sand trucks are out at 2 in the morning if it gets icy. By the time traffic starts the roads are already done. If the highway hasn't been done they close it to avoid everything that's happening in this video 😂😂😂
I live in the western NY state in the US and go to work super early. I'm glad that they don't have our roads done by the time I leave for work. It means I get to hit the traction control button and have some fun in my Silverado lol.
It strikes me they are all driving to fast and don't know how to get back road adhesion back once they start to skid . They just keep their foot on the brake !
1. Give yourself EXTRA TIME. Slow Down. 2. Use Winter Tires. NOT All-Seaons. 3. Use Chains . 4. Stay Home.
Or at least all season M&S (Mud and Snow). Some all seasons have VERY poor grip on snow and nothing at all on ice.
M&S usually have pretty good grip on snow, and at least "some" even on glare ice (I had some where it was probably 10-20% grip compared to dry pavement on the low end, one set was pretty amazing, it was probably close to 50% grip levels even on glare ice. I seriously got out of the car one time and found it was too icy to stand, which surprised me since the car handled fine. I guess I could have gotten the hint it was icy since I passed a police car that was halfway up the hill spinning their tires, before they gave up and reversed down the hill).
You might not be able to get up the steepest hills if it's totally glare ice and you have those "10-20% grip" M&S, but you also aren't going to go careening back down it out of control like the people in these clips. (If you do expect to go up steep hills in slippery snow or ice conditions on some regular basis, then do get the winter tires, chains, or even studded tires. And an AWD vehicle -- not 4WD! -- might not be a bad idea.)
Every car was driving way TOO fast for those conditions. Learned to drive in Quebec in the late 60’s no salt on road except Autoroute.
12:36 Smart move. Getting between sliding vehicles and unmoving ones. Dumb ways to die.
people just don't learn and don't listen
Proven , the abject stupidity of people
5:01 Only in a Jeep!
Almost all of these accidents are preventable. Although it sounds counterintuitive using acceleration to counter a spin especially on front wheel drive can allow the tires to find somewhere to bite. Where locking brake makes the tires skate. 35.0.0.
It looks like automotive curling!
Icy roads just bring out the best in drivers
Thank goodness it's Spring
We've lived in three states of the Pacific NW...3 mountain passes...at least..icy pile ups always scary..and entertaining..possible disasters...
When you see the baby carriage handle on the back of a car you know the driver doesn't know what he's doing, lol
Snow and ice makes all the idiots rush out of their homes and begin driving around at unsafe speeds.
What do these people expect when your driving like bats out of hell.
Ice turns ordinary roads into instant danger zones. These clips show how fast control disappears on frozen streets - slow down and stay safe. ❄🚗
whya re people out going?
Well deserved , keep up this fine job
Just be careful...Mother nature wins
Semi drivers aren’t as skilled as they used to be
6:16 poor tiny car😂
Schools closed stay home days nation wide---at least storm areas!
Love your videos 😮😮
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
No technique to drive on ice. Most of these cars hold the brakes, get behind on their steering and are going too FAST for conditions. With kids in the vehicle alot of times.
Streusalz is all you need. 😄
People do not respect road conditions. Most accidents could be avoided if the just slowed down.
That grey sedan tried to squeeze in between two cars but hit the curb instead. Classic move.
You think winter cold and snow are bad you should see the carnage when it's a hot sunny day, there's cars flying about all over the place, if it wasn't for all the environmental taxes the world would end in one big car crash. The best part of snow is it covers solar panels, kills wind turbines and batteries go dead, much like the poor and the elderly, but it's the warm sunny days we have to stop, and of course plastic straws. On a hot day the gov spends money with adverts telling us to drink more if you're thirsty and then have a national drought but they never tell people to turn up the heating in a blizzard when they're freezing to death, literally. Funny how that works.
Хотелось бы послушать тех водителей которые видят укатанный каток под гору и едут, интересно, что в голове у них, какой ход мыслей, о чём думают , на что надеются? Многие местные, знают город, где горки, летом видят, зимой видят как бьются машины , … и один х… едут туда, лезут туда, и если бы это был один!!! Под такую или в такую гору при таких дорогах ни на каких машинах не получится, это или тупость или че???
Trucking back in the 80s issue different from now
Lol @ the dumb clucks standing in the middle of the road in the exact same place they wrecked 10mins earlier.
If you are dumb enough to drive faster than the weather allows, you deserve the damage to your car !
PUT THE CAR IN NEUTRAL WHEN YOU START TO SLIDE!!! this allows you to slow the car without the engine pushing/driving ( whatever the term is) the tires. You can, in most cases stop. Unless you are a real idiot and are doing 80 on an icy road!!! It works. It saved me a many of times at stop light, at the bottom of a hill stop signs, or on a curve where i live out in the country. Play with it, don't wait til you need it. Most of us do this in the country where I live, and we have very few ice caused accidents.
Some days, you just got to stay home.
All wrecked out 😢
Daddy taught his daughter some new words
All I saw were idiots driving too fast for conditions. Some showed no signs of slowing down just before a collision. IDIOTS
@ 28:00 mins. Why is everyone outside in the snow driving, uh? What's up with people who are driving in the snow, not unless they have an emergency or on their way home.
- Haft of those videos, it's the drivers fault for driving too fast for the road conditions & the other haft they should not even be out driving in those conditions & I'm surprise many of the roads weren't closed until the weather improved or the roads were cleared or sanded & salted 1st!
Drive slowly stay away from other vehicles if possible! Driving on ice is like walking on ice. Proceed at only 5 mph if you have to!
10:19. You can see the ice. Then you just call in that you cannot get to where you were going.
These things happen because people are stupid
TEXAS is not any kind of weather tire country.
How most these folks got their driver license let alone made it through life, I don’t know. Drive slow in these conditions is common sense, and ALWAYS pay attention to your surroundings and the other drivers on the road bc chances are, they’ll be the one hitting you.
These people are the exact reason we have Warning Labels on Shampoo and TIDE pods
That's why you stay home, unless you really need to go somewhere!
nobody ever hear of tire chains ? omfg
14:50 thats just a normal day snow driving in a subaru carry on xD gotta make sure everyone else on the road knows who has AWD
8:18 This is one case where were someone was not going fast enough for the icy banked road turn. Go too slow and gravity will pull you down into the ditch.
5:00 hurts different
5:31 drop it like a banana in Mario kart
No chains and/or studded tires? STAY OFF the snowy/icy roads!
Since we can't account for the other guy, we should stay off those roads if at all possible
About 98% of these incidents come down to driving too fast for the conditions.
I did that once 360 very scary 😨
1) shouldn’t be driving in those conditions
2) if driving , shouldn’t be driving that fast
iclusta? Jay? lol
ill will never understand why people dont up the road the road 500 ft and wave their arms to tell people of the danger!
The law in Canada is that if you park on a hill or slope, you must turn your wheels towards the curb so that if the vehicle slips, it mounts the sidewalk out of harm's way.
i dontbunderstand why people stay in the path of oncoming vehicles
Next time someone from "up north" tells me I don't know how to drive in snow/ice.. I'm going to let them know I grew up in Bavaria and to kindly shut it. Too many "expert drivers" going way too fast for conditions!
I never drive in the winter unless I have to and if so its half the speed limit if the roads are bad or slower, rather get where I want ine one piece than be in a ditch and without a vehicle for weeks.
So tired of hearing you need snow tires while on ice. 3 suggestions. #1 slow down #2 learn how to drive #3 stay home and stay off your phone
The roads are iced over I should drive fast because I'm an excellent driver.
Again I have said it before, when it's snowing, then you can figure it is Slippery, ICY, which means Slow Down, or have an accident. why is it we see bad weather on here we see IDIOTS in cars doing 70,80, or 90 ?????????????