I feel bad for the drivers who actually were alert, took their time to slow down to be rammed by an idiot doing highway speeds in these conditions😭🤦🏾♂️
Yep. If you slow down and avoid traffic accidents in front of you, you're not done yet. Keep your eyes open. If you see fast traffic coming behind you, 99% you will, get off the road completely if at all possible. If the terrain is sufficiently steep, abandon your car and head uphill if you can do so safely. The trick is to get your body as far up and away from the pileup as possible. Hanging around in that mess is only going to get you killed.
@@bluflaam777LSA exactly, it can be hard to gauge how fast someone else is moving in traffic sometimes. Add in this is MN and you also have concentrate your n the snow, ice and glare. Flashers are there for a reason.
@@bluflaam777LSA Or, and this is obviously a foreign concept in this video, how 'bout not speeding in these conditions in the first place? It's not the people's responsibility who were involved in accidents to turn on their flashers. Geezus, this is what's wrong in this world. Absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
Good tip but let's elaborate. You will probably have your heater on and don't really know when you hit below freezing temps. Use this: If the road "looks" wet but there's no tire spray, YOU'RE ON ICE!!!
In Australia we don't icey roads that mutch but water on the road is just as bad, I was taught to slow down 5-10 kph 3-6 mph to be on the safe side ice I can would be worse it would be like a skating rink so why travel at speeds in those conditions.
The issue is, here in Minnesota where this happens, we have roadways paved with asphalt that resists ice forming to well below freezing, so that wet looking road is sometimes genuinely just wet. That said, in the video here you can see some of the signs of slushy precipitation on the road.
Yep if it's 32 degrees or less then it's frozen for sure. Although if it's windy sometimes the wind chill can freeze roads even when it's slightly above 32 degrees. And in this case it's an overpass so bridges freeze a lot easier due to the wind passing under the bridge making it easier to freeze up. Always be extra alert when going over a bridge or overpass.
It's staggering how many phenomenally Bad, Inattentive drivers there are.... 90% of those could've been avoided if people weren't driving too fast for conditions & if they actually paid attention to their surroundings.
@@Wtfsazerk Because it's dangerous to stay in as other cars can crash into your car from behind, so it's best to get off the highway and behind a safety rail ASAP
Right!? I am genuinely shocked that no pedestrians were injured here. I just don’t get it. What, you think all those people behind you will slow down to avoid hitting a pedestrian…just like you did to avoid hitting the car…that you hit? Smh.
That is actually understandable because in a pileup cars normally keep coming at you and crashing behind you over and over, many people has died because they stay inside the car on those conditions, the best way is get out always looking behind you and dodging anything that may come to you and run out of the way.
@@tylerfb1Dozens of cars being smashed up but no pedestrians being injured kind of points to it not being such a stupid idea. I mean, maybe you have a fundamentally different kind of car than me, but I can generally move sideways faster on feet than on wheels.
One tip from a Canadian, I notice a habit here of when approaching something like this, a previous crash or a complete slowdown, is many folks here throw on their hazard lights. When you are looking in the distance on an urban freeway like this, you might see brake lights ahead but attribute that to just cars slowing down and by the time you realize it, it's too late to stop safely. If I see hazard lights flashing all over the place ahead, I start slowing down early and I throw mine on too and the message gets sent back in the queue.
I've driven all over the states in all kinds of weather and I completely agree with you. I stay aware of changing situations and adjust my speed/distance accordingly. When I realize there is something going on even in a distance, the hazard lights are the first thing on. I just hoping that it will make the difference for someone(s).
As an advanced Collision investigator and reconstructionist, I have investigated 100's of collisions. Many of the collisions I've investigated were during weather with rain snow and ice. One thing I have found and 100% stand by is 45 being the magic number. During poor conditions, if you stay at or below 45 mph you stand a very good chance to not only avoid losing control but also regaining control safely if you do. A huge problem is people think they can drive normal speeds during not normal conditions.
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db just because we HAVE insurance doesn't mean we are required to use it. Be safe, drive safely,, and shave those accident "points" off your driver's license. You be thankful when you're older. ~ love, Grandma
Didn’t know about 45 being the magic number. I have kept it at max 45 during the rainstorms in California. Also, had to cross the U.S. Mexico border. Saw a semi truck hauling a tanker car filled with who knows what tailgating a small car at a high rate of speed along their bumpy highway during yesterday’s rainstorm.
Two types of people in this situation: the guy going 70 mph on black ice until he hits someone and the guy going 15 mph waiting to collect the first guy.
The best solution would be slow to driveable speeds, drive and park safe place. If you have chains, chain your tyres it anyway breaks the ice little. Continue to work since none of them seems to have winter tyres.
The truck driver REALLLY did not need to slow down THAT much and then STAY in the middle lane i mean that is NOT helping anyone at that point he should just pull all the way over he is just being a giant obstacle. Like come on
Yes. I drove delivery for amazon for a while and its unbelievable how unaware some drivers are and the semi truck drivers are definately the most aware and courteous. Reminds me of that freeze in texas the other year. it sould be a lisence requirement to know how to drive in icy conditions.
That’s why they have their license, they don’t give those out to no dummies. It’s like now In days people are born with a driving license 🤦🏻♂️ no experience whatsoever….
60% of those drivers couldn’t sense what was happening- brake lights everywhere, slow downs, congestion ahead, flashing lights, drivers outside their cars, cars sideways, ice on the ground: despite all these things, they kept their pace and drove right into it. Incredible. Incredible we made it this far as a species.
We’v only made it this far because cars were only used extensively for the last 125 years or so! And the number #1 rule is STAY IN THE CAR! Ad things happen when cars hit them.
Progress for our species is pretty much only done by maybe 1% of the population smart enough and/or capable enough to achieve something new. Everybody else is just following along. Golden ages happen when you get 2% of a generation pulling their weight. 😄
it still amazes me how many people get out of their vehicles in these situations, and on a bridge no less.... nowhere to run. The self preservation gene is clearly missing.
Yeah that's a bad place to be. If my car was still working I think I'd drive off the bridge to the regular road and onto the regular shoulder. On the other hand, if it were disabled, I wouldn't want to wait in my car for a deadly pileup like the I-35W one. Tough choices.
Yup, that one guy in the vid just mooching around his car wondering who to blame for his wreck when the traffic is still bearing down on him....... I had my breath held as I thought he'd be chopped Liver before too long.
This is in Minnesota and I have seen SO MANY of these pile-ups and you would think people would understand how to drive on icy roads that live in a state that is winter 10 months out of the year... but NOPE! It drives me crazy how people stop on the freeway when they get into a minor accident instead of continuing to the next exit! You just spun out cuz you don't know how to brake on ice and you think stopping on the same icy road with a couple hundred cars and trucks barreling down on you is a good plan?!?!?! Then you exit your only protection to stand on... YEP you guessed it... that SAME damn icy road!!! Bravo MN drivers... BRAV-O 👏👏👏
@@Ovahlls Minnesota is 31st in fatal weather related fatal crashes and the northern states do handle cold weather driving conditions better than the southern states. I only saw one small pileup in the 50 years I have lived in Minnesota, the first 20 of which were in the Twin Cities.
@@ExplorationRandomDestination The practical difference between a driver who recently immigrated from a country with no snow and a driver driving in snowy icy conditions for the first time is nearly non existent. Nothing can save you from how different it is driving on Ice than being careful. Absolutely nothing, no luck, no skill, just survival instincts and chance. Nobody wants to become a road death statistic. I saw a fucking armored car go into the ditch in South Dakota in conditions very similar to this, do you think they'd let some fresh of the boat new blood for the melting pot drive that fucking thing?
Amazing how many people barely look one car length ahead! So many drivers ignored the multiple brake lights, flashing lights, and spinning cars - and sped up to pass traffic slowing in front of them. smdh!
Looking one car length ahead is exactly why so many wrecks/ near miss happened. You're suppose to look at least 12 seconds ahead, as far as you can see, or one block ahead. Predicting one's moves will save a lot of people as well. Shout out to the truckers 💪🏽 most of us are well trained when scanning ahead!
@@latoshabrownlee4708 Exactly! At 70 mph, a vehicle travels 102 feet a *second*. It takes the average human 1 second to react and hit the brakes - ergo, you went 102 feet before you even reacted! It's going to be another 240 feet before your car comes to a complete stop, more than 3/4 the length of a football field.
@@gsdalpha1358 right!!! We were taught that it takes a length of a football field to stop in truck driving school. Scanning ahead was something I always did to look out for hazards and the first indicator of a hazard up ahead…brake lights.
@@latoshabrownlee4708 Driving a big rig is a different ball game! Good on you! I drove a DOT snowplow for years as a relief driver, Class B CDL required. 60,000 lbs and air brakes make it far different from the family SUV. Thank you for taking that on.
"Never" is too harsh. Don't do it unless you see that there's a break in traffic and have a safe place to run to. Staying in your vehicle can lead to you being pinned if a truck hits the pile.
To be fair, if you're in a small compact car and there's a semi barreling towards you? Staying in your car is probably a death sentence at that point - especially if your car is already crammed up against a bunch of larger vehicles and yours will definitely be the one that gets completely smushed.
@SadisticSenpai61...Because your body will take the impact of getting hit by a truck, so much better than the engineered steel body and chassis of your car?
If you are ever in this situation where there is a potential for a pile up and your car can still drive after crashing, keep driving. Dont stop. Even if you pull off to the side and stop you're potentially trapping yourself in a pile up, because your car will eventually block any exits for out of control cars. Just keep moving and don't stop until you are 100% sure you are safe, or your car cant keep going.
yea and also if you do stay ie as a result of your car being disabled from getting in an accident don't get out of the car. You are safer in the car than outside where you could potentially get hit and unlived. The red people in that car with the green reflector jackets is a good example of what not to do. The white car at 1:15 came close to hitting them. Thankfully the white car was able to stop in time.
That's an ice covered bridge. I'd venture to say that all of those cars started braking and just slid. It's not just about paying attention. I've been In this situation before. You see multiple hazard lights on and red brake lights ahead. So you attempt to brake yourself and nothing happens. You just slide until you slam into another car ahead of you. Many commenters think this could've been avoided. In most cases it couldn't. Ice is no joke. Look at the car that slammed into the semi. Brake lights were blazing red. But they couldn't stop the slide.
drive slower. cant expect to drive highway speeds when its snowing. you have zero traction. its a miracle that you can even drive on such bad conditions. should not be driving over 50mph.
The DMV in most states is nothing more than a revenue generator that will license anybody. Even those that can't read are given licenses nowadays. Seems like a totally safe proposition, lol.
I grew up in the midwest, so from early on our parents, but mostly dad, instilled in us safety in driving, no matter what the other kids were doing, I thank God for dad. Several years after my dad and my husband who was also an extremely good driver had both passed away. I decided to relocate to the city where my only daughter resided so I could be there for the birth of my very first grandchild. it's a 130 mile trip, when I started out it was cold, and clear, at exactly 6:01 pm (I didn't answer of course, but noted later that my neice called me) just about 1/2 mile from where I was about to round a curve where I'd been headed north, to now travel east it began to rain. I was driving a rental truck, for the very first time with a car on a trailer, so I lessened my speed even slower than I had been driving. a black sports car, I forgot the model, passed me honking, and giving me his middle finger, shortly after a pickup passed me also, he really laid on the horn. Very soon that rain turned into big snowflakes, by the time I'd reached that junction to now head east and up a slight incline which on the right was a steep hill, I spotted that black sports car with the driver just starting to get out, I could see where he'd spun out went down the embankment and was nose down in a hugh snow bank. I suppose I could have stopped to see if I could help, but, well I just didn't want to, I remembered his kind gesture at his admiration of my driving skills. Plus it was really snowing pretty hard by then. I considered pulling into a rest area that had no facilities, but I kept going, dropped my speed down even more, I figure about 10 or 20 miles later. I saw that pickup who'd blasted his horn at me, he had also spun out, but down into the median, he'd come up to the roadway, waving his arms. I waved back, but kept going. My thoughts were. I am female, no protection, alone out here in this weather. I saw there were hardly any other vehicles on the road! And no one passed me at all. Shortly after that, I broke my speed down to 20 mph, and drove the rest of the way which by then was about 99 miles more. There was another rest area, but chose not to stop. I finally blessedly arrived in the city I was headed to and stopped, it was 10:27 pm. I took a moment to thank God, and prayed hopefully that he had helped those who had passed me earlier.
I had a similar experience about 8 years ago on a vacation trip. Hit a big snow storm, just kept dropping the speed more and more as the conditions got worse, saw several of the vehicles that had passed me earlier on the side of the road later. For some reason many people drive thinking if they go too slow their car will stall and drop out of the sky . . .
Hell yeah... It should be required in the driving test that you should know what to do and what not to do in situations like this.... I absolutely beat it in my kids and nieces and nephews.... Get as far off the highway if a accident occurs and don't be out there wondering around in a still live lane of traffic
Driving in conditions like this many years ago, I slowed down to about 20 / 25 mph. Expressway. Cars would whip past me going 65 / 70 mph. One or two miles later I'd see them in the ditch.
I clocked that! Some where slipping and sliding and managed to not crash 👍 all the comments saying people wasn’t paying attention….driving like idiots ect, soo what I’m glad because then we wouldn’t get videos like this 😂😂
@@mikevo3974Not really. In these conditions, you could get away with good quality all-season tires. When places don't face ice often, lots of people use old all season or just summer tires and think that will suffice. The skilled drivers can use the road because they know they have tires that are able to handle the conditions.
I usually pass trucks doing five under the car speed limit on the freeway, but when the temperature is near freezing, I assume that the truckers know something that I don't know.
1) Drive for the conditions and beware of bridges in cold weather. 2) If you have an accident, especially on a freeway (especially an icy one), get your car out of the right-of-way as soon as possible. 3) Stay buckled up in your car until it's safe to get out and then get yourself outside the crash barriers. People meandering around in the middle of the icy freeway where they and several other cars just wrecked is practically suicidal.
I'm seriously impressed at the 2 cars (camera pans to follow them in the beginning) that saw the cars in front of them sliding on the black ice, and began sliding themselves, but managed to slide between the semi on the left & a car on the right before emerging on the other side unscathed. Nice!
first one was stupid, they should have taken their foot off the gas, not cut the other off trying to get over last minute, because they can't look past their own bumper
It never ceases to amaze me how fast people drive in icy weather. I know experience matters some, but this video, like many others, proves that reaction time is decreased the faster you drive.
Of course you have less time to react the faster you go, that's not something that needs to be proven anymore than the need to prove that there's an increase in energy in a collision the faster you go.
"reaction time is decreased the faster you drive" If that was true, you should drive faster in order to be able to react in a shorter amount of time. The more likely effect is that your raction time is the same, but since you're traveling faster, in that reaction time you've traveled a farther distance. To compensate, you need to react to trouble sooner in time (and distance) in order to be able to stop in time.
It also has to do with what's happened in society. People are distracted, unskilled and worst of all super selfish. I see it all the time with drivers in my area who couldn't care less about anyone else on the road. They left late for work, so it should be OK for them to run red lights, cut people off etc. I call them assh*les... but thats just me lol
People see this and think or say "Oh, that will never happen to me, I know how to drive in anything and my car has traction control and ABS, I have been driving 70 MPH in this weather my whole life and nothing has happened to me". And that is EXACTLY why this kind of thing happens. People refusing to slow down when the conditions are marginal at best. It is a curse to have a better than average understanding of physics, because I see glossy roads and temperatures around the freezing point or less, I automatically assume all glossy surfaces are slick and drive accordingly. If other people would LEARN to SLOW DOWN, stop rushing and pay attention!... We would have a lot less, of this....
I think what’s going on here is an area where it doesn’t get cold very often. The drivers are obviously not aware that the bridge will ice over before the rest of the road. The state obviously didn’t salt the bridge. None of the cars have adequate ice tires. And the ground isn’t cold enough for the road to freeze over. I grew up in the very north and this situation wouldn’t have occurred for all those reasons. 1. Drivers know that in early fall and late spring it’s possible for bridges to develop ice when the road is still just wet 2. The state salts the heck out of the bridges at the first sign of cold weather 3. Everyone is running tires with at least decent ice traction 4. 99% of the time when it’s cold enough for ice, it’s not just the bridges, it’s everywhere, so people wouldn’t have been flying 70 mph in the first place.
Rule 4: observe Newton's law of momentum and you'll do fine Rule 5: minimize all unnecessary breaking and apply brakes gradually if needed. Rule 6: disregard posted speed limits and follow the flow of traffic going no faster or slower than the cars around you. Rule 7: if you can't handle rules 4 through 6, observe rules 1 through 3 and leave the driving to the pros who've done this winter thing more than a few times; it's overcautious break-happy drivers who cause more winter weather accidents than reckless drivers.
What amazed me more than anything about this incident was that not a single vehicle put on their warning hazard lights (or whatever you call them in the US) as soon as they seen the incident unfolding in front of them as would happen in Britain. It's a highly visible warning to the traffic behind that there is an issue ahead even before the brake lights come on. It gives drivers way back plenty of time to react. People brake for many reasons, nobody puts on their hazard lights without a very, very good reason👍👍
Because Americans are stupid. They made it a law in every or almost every state that it's illegal to drive with hazards on. It's only to be used when vehicle is stopped, or certain exceptions for semis going up hills.
@@volgax2 The American governments weird, ass backwards logic for not allowing hazards while driving is "hazard signals cancel turn signals so other drivers can't tell if your changing lanes." Pretty sure warning other drivers that traffic is slowing down/stopping or there is a major problem ahead is MORE important than signaling the occasional lane change. Turn signals aren't a magic pass making lane changes safe, you still have to look and change when safe to do so. Once traffic speeds up or you're past the problem hazards turned off and turn signals work. It's not like people are constantly changing lanes back and forth, plus with slower traffic it's easier/safer to change safely even without turn signals because with everyone having hazards on people are actually paying really close attention to their driving and what others are doing.
I'd be interested to see how many Americans even KNOW where the hazard switch is. Just tonight I went to the grocery about 3 km away (so a 6km return trip)-- it's after 8pm so it's quite dark already. Headlights were needed for safe operation. - about 5 or 6 people had only DRL on (or very low power head lights) - 4 people had their full beams on (high beams) - 3 people had no lights at all (head light or tail lights) - numerous people didn't even signal anything - one blew right through a red signal at speed Let's not forget how many have their phone in their hand on "speaker" since they think that's hands free. Or how many have it in their lap fiddling around with text messages. There's not 10 minutes that goes by that I don't see someone with a high mounted phone obscuring their vision out their windshield. Personally I put my hazards on if I'm quickly decelerating toward a traffic jam on the highway and I know people behind me are coming at full trot. I also put it on if I'm stopping due to emergency vehicles, even if I'm already stopped at an intersection. I put them on if I'm stopped due to a school bus. I put them on if I'm stopped at a mid-block or uncontrolled (no stop sign) zebra crossing letting pedestrians by. Driving school/education in the US is quite a joke I believe. It gives you a lot of book knowledge but to pass the driving test, just get behind the wheel and do the speed limit, a curb parking, and you get the license. In my area, they deduct more points (almost to an automatic fail) if you don't put on the seat belt, but driving infractions: you can miss half of them and still pass.
Speed was the underlying factor to start the chain reaction, but people panicking and slamming on the brakes is what caused the majority to lose control. Hitting the brakes on ice is like putting your car on ice skates. It slides real nice and follows any contours in the road it finds. I love the guy that left his van in neutral and got out, just to watch it roll away. Lol.
The biggest contributing factor was stupid ass drivers not knowing how to drive in winter weather and too busy with that cell phone in hand. I bet if everyone's cell phone was checked for usage, at least 85% if not more, would have been on the phone.
@1:55 a driver of a mini-van gets out without putting the vehicle in park, or at the very least, parking/emergency brake, and the vehicle crosses all lanes of traffic. That person should not have a drivers license. That was sooooo bad. They were also vulnerable being outside on the overpass and who knows if they have any occupants. I understand that crashes can cause chaos, but there isn't an excuse for letting a big vehicle like that just wonder off when you decided to take ownership of it's trajectory. This is a teaching moment. I really wish people would learn how to drive cars before going on on the public roads. Me and my friends would do donuts in empty parking lots just for fun, the purpose wasn't to learn, but we learned quickly how our vehicles handled rain, and snow, etc. and it put nobody else at risk.
Really depends on angle, cause sometimes you can't see it at all. It'll look fine, but just that tiny thin layer of ice is enough to cause these kinds of pileups. People *should* know however, to slow down if they're not sure. You can feel it when a car gets on ice, it feels like your car is just floating.
@ookamikage6658 I totally agree. We are in a small town. Last Saturday night there was a water main break. They had to close the road. The speed limit is 35. It's at night. People are flying around the curve and obviously ignoring the road closed signs until they get right up to the closure. I walked the dog down to watch and overheard people bitching about how it came up so suddenly. I'm thinking, 'you should drive expecting something is going to happen and not do 50 in a 35'. Some folks could not slow in time and went through the cones and signs. I'm just standing there shaking my head.
Bridges are the worst for black ice, man I went skidding sideways the first time I hit ice on the road and the only part that was covered end to end was the overpass bridges. I always turn my cruise control off when going over them on a cold night.
Everyone has already said everything that needs to be said. The only thing left for me to say is that it takes me 10 minutes to walk to my local pub, but 35 minutes to walk home again. The difference is staggering….
It's worse... Notice the guy in the black SUV at the beginning. He gets out, leaves it in drive and the vehicle proceeds to go across three lanes with nobody in it and he just stands there cluelessly like it was out of his control.
Every time i see cars starting to pile up or slow down last minute, i brake and turn my hazards on just to let the drivers behind me to pay attention , it really does help
Hazards are a bad idea and in almost every state illegal if you're not pulled off the road. If you need to alert those behind you, you can pulse your brakes with your left foot. People are more fearful of brakes pulsing than flashers.
@@hydrocarbon82 It's illegal in some states to drive with them on UNLESS there is an emergency, and car pileups would be considered an emergency, I'd think.
@@hydrocarbon82 yeah, no. If someone in front of me slams on my brakes, I have to slam on mine but I also reach for my hazards to hopefully make the person behind me look up from their phone. I've been rear-ended 1 too many times. Is it illegal? yes. Should anyone care? no.
@@hydrocarbon82 Though it is codified in most states as Illegal, technically it is not in a situation akin to this one, as you'd be slowing suddenly down by potentially 30mph+ of the normal speed, which in the trucking world is often a case they themselves use their hazards, you know, to indicate a hazard.
@@hydrocarbon82 you'll lose your shit when you come to the roadworks on the range 20km from where they have signs "be prepared to stop for roadowrks. use hazard lights when slowing and stopping"
@@tbrownyabishI love when people drive with hazards on and then cut me off because they think their turn signal works. You don't need to warn people it's snowing we can tell.
Trucker here. If you're doing 15 under the speed limit (slowing down for whatever reason) please turn your flashers on. This goes for the fellow truckers, too.
I noticed that too...people stopping on the highway and no one put on their flashers. Not saying Id remember, but watching this video was a good reminder.
If driving has taught me anything it’s that you can be in the middle of a sandstorm in the middle of a tornado in the center of a blizzard underneath a tsunami in the middle of the night during the foggiest apocalypse and morons will still go 90MPH
As a truck driver on city and highways, there are a few things you typically look out for...1. shiney reflections on the road ahead. If you can see reflection of the cars tail lights ahead in the road, then you are probably on ice and should just coast till you get to a safe speed and turn your flashers on to help warn those behind that the conditions are bad. 2.Cross winds on ice are very bad for trucks of all sizes and even vans as they can blow you sideways. 3. If the road looks questionable and you are away from other vehicles, you can slow and do a little quick test with your brakes to see how the road feels. I usually hold straight and give a quick tap on the brakes to try and feel if the wheels lock up right away or not. Do not do this at highway speeds!!!! 4. If in doubt, pull over, get out and do a foot check on the road...if you can easily slide on the surface, just think how 4,000 or even 60,000 lbs will behave on this surface! I always say...better to get there later then not at all in these wintery situations. Be safe and remember...speed kills on roads like these!
I feel bad for the guy in that first White semi. Saw the accident in front of him, slow down and maintained control only to get rear-ended. He was almost through the worst of it and now there's lots of paperwork.
@@silimarina. Maybe. But the fact that there were two spun out cars and the semis brake light were on failed to alert the driver, then maybe it might just be the driver.
@@silimarina. Depending on location, it's illegal for to use hazards when moving, even if slower than other traffic. On another note.. if the driver was actually paying attention, they should have noticed they were outpacing the guy in front of them.
In driver's education class, yes they used to teach it in high schools, you learned to slow down on wet roads, especially in winter and guess what?! They even warned you that overpasses and bridges were likely to freeze up (especially first) in winter! But hey, keep driving as fast as you can because if you slow down, you might be late for your accident.
Then schools decided it was better to force critical race theory, gender fluid garbage and anti-Trump BS down kids' throats. Everything is woke now because of a few corrupt politicians who want to dumb down America.
@@starwindamada5313 how do you take over a nation and become its one and only ruling government party? Make sure the youth is uneducated and uninformed. Worked for Hitler. In Hitler's defense, they didn't stop teaching language, math, and science. They just readjusted history through, you guessed it, their own form of critical race theory as well as brainwashing them into a political belief of a party that had kids turning their own parents in against the government.
5:00 A big shoutout to our street workers. You guys are 0ut there everyday picking up trash, dodging horrible idiots amd drunk drivers and sometimes saving our dumbasses from doing dumbass shit. And making the environment a better place to live for our wildlife. And you are very under appreciated for what you do. So Thankyou, seriously.
Hear, hear! ...to the street workers! You keep us stress-free in times of need, you give us scenery to look at when driving through the inner cities, someone to just talk to when you need a friend and there's nobody else. And even if you charge a "fee", well so what! A girl (or boy)'s gotta make a living, and you work "hard for the money"!! It is, after all, the world's "oldest profession", and not for no reason! To the street workers!!!❤🍆
Ah, those slip'n'sliding memories pass by so quick, that & the drivers, who haven't quite mastered the skill of taking their foot of the gas pedal in such conditions! On a positive note (?), it will be just about 4-5 months until we can see new memories of those slippery, slidy speedsters!
That first trucker did a great job, also, for your own future safety: check out how quickly people lose their grip once the gap under the bridge is passed! Great example of “Bridges freeze before roads”!
The laws of physics don't apply to me. I have a constitutional right to do exactly what I want, where I want, when I want to. And how dare that Newton guy try to tell me about trivia like action and reaction. I know so much more than he ever did.
Time and time again I'm stunned by how terrible most people are at scanning ahead when driving. Scanning ahead and anticipating what's going to or could happen is apparently a rare skill...
I love how those people just casually get out of their car and meander around, then seem genuinely shocked and terrified that a skidding vehicle is coming directly toward them, 1:46
I had a brilliant driving instructor. The first thing he taught me was to continually scan 400 meters ahead of my vehicle. He would get me to tell him everything I saw: "Car coming up to a Stop Sign on the Left 200 meters ahead. Pedestrian stepping up to a crossing 300 meters on my Right. Car turning into side street 100 meters ahead. Car turning Right " etc etc. It saves my bacon all the time and I taught my sons to do the same. You have to know what is happening ahead, behind and to the side of you.
Reminds me of a WI snow event, one driver said she couldn't see what was ahead. And plowed into the scores of vehicles. Did you ever think to SLOW DOWN???
another great job from MNDOT. even though they know days ahead of time they wont salt until after the carnage. i swear the state has a contract with body shop owners.
Because humans are both the smartest and the dumbest animals on the planet. If anyone ever needs proof, this video should be used as the prime example. "Wow, people are crashing, I better drive faster and see if my car can slip through this space narrower than a small breed dog's anus."
I was really rooting for that first semi to make it past all the spun out cars, they almost got to continue their route before the sedan ate the back of the trailer. The driver of that first semi truck is an example for how the rest of us should drive.
1:50 upper left, a black van door opens and the driver gets out without putting it in park and it rolls away. He tried to hang on to it but it was glare ice under him.
@@huyettr black ice can sometimes just pop up if the conditions are right. There can be snow on the side of the road that melts a little because the sun shines on a particular spot during the day, then at night it freezes and you get a hockey rink for the early morning hours. I’m from Chicago and it happens here quite a bit as well as we also get a lot of snow too. I remember in 2020 there was a really bad pileup on the Kennedy Expressway because of exactly that happening
Last time I drove in conditions like this, I was in NJ and I literally made my suv crawl….. It was my first time to drive this way, but being from Florida, I know that the second it rains, drivers just lose their minds sometimes and end up causing accidents!!! The thing is just slow down….. nothing is worth a crash 🚗💥 or loss of life ✨✨✨❤️
Whoops, so much for Archie Bunker's oft-quoted frustrated remark: "Try JOY-zee!" This was absolutely ridiculous, people zooming around at such speeds in such weather like it was Sunshine Blue Skies; when somebody only watching a video clip can tell when there's about to a crash, those in the midst of it got no excuse. Won't be going any farther north than Washington in the winter on no roads - "these people are dangerous!"
Must be that cold air blowing under bridge which causes more concentrated cold, ice. I'm going to keep that in mind, although as of yet, have not encountered such an experience. 😄🤔
@@joletty1793 Search RUclips for "car wrecks on bridges". You'll live the experience without any damage to anything. You're right. Older bridges are worse; used more steel than concrete; transfers heat/cold more quickly. The ones with the metal flap at the leading edge are among the oldest.
You're probably correct. Bridges freeze faster. The time of day helps too early morning it looks like so the regular roads defrosted a bit but not the bridge.
Yes, bridges ice faster, because of the wind under the bridge. I think I learned that in the defensive driving I had to take to get out of a speeding ticket 😁
shoulda slowed down I know several idiots who insist they are good drivers, and think the "skill" is in avoiding the collision when real prevention is just not doing stupid shit
I love the title. We used to live next to a highway. It was maybe 70 yards off our backyard. Rows of trees and an upwards slope blocked some noise but in the winter we would go up there and watch the cars sliding all around. We should know better too here in the northeast how to drive in wintery conditions but either some are new at it or just totally forget year to year.
I was kinda impressed by how quickly the drivers stuck behind the accidents were able to self-organize without actually speaking to each other, and merge down to single file so they could weave through the area.
The roads are a hive mind. Everyone is a team player in a game where a 20mph bumper tap means a one-on-one encounter with every motorist's common enemy: Insurance companies.
One day 13 years ago I was driving on a major divided highway like this one in Northern Canada in mid winter. Weather had warmed up above freezing and it began to rain. For an hour of driving on wet and unfrozen road, traffic hits a cold front head on. In two miles it went from wet to glare ice. Everyone was doing the speed limit. Thing is, once someone touched their brakes, everyone was reacting poorly and before you knew it everyone was hitting the ditch. Even I was caught off guard. If your wheels spin, let off the accelerator, do not use your brakes. If you are in a slide, steer into where you are sliding and slowly correct your heading. I never lost control at any time but I was lucky that nobody was tailgating me. After six miles after the ice started, the stranded vehicles in the ditch were reminders to slow down and all was well. Weather can change without warning. Be prepared.
I'm a truck driver and they say, if you see mist coming off your wheels then it's not frozen yet. That's not always true. It can be raining still, while the rain that fell 30 minutes ago is sheet ice on the road. If the road looks shiny, I slow down and test it by giving a little small burst on the throttle foot plate. The week of 12/17/22 and 12/24/22 I was driving repeatedly on a stretch of interstate like this for about 15 miles. I was down to 35 mph in an empty semi weighing 30,000 lbs and once every mile I'd just push that throttle plate down about a half an inch and my speedo would rise to 40 mph so ease off and continue at 35 mph. As the ice thinned out it took more throttle to spin the tires so I knew I could go a little faster. Eventually the ice was gone a dry road was there. My job required me to haul coal to the boiler house of a factory, to keep it running. Usually 3 loads on days and 3 loads on nights but they've only been getting 2 loads lately because of the icy road. So the plant has been eating up their stock pile.
In all honesty some level of advanced driving courses should be a requirement to drive during the winter. Most drivers in the us are so Ill equipped to drive in these conditions that the responsibility for most of these accidents fall into the hands of the government for allowing this to happen.
@@possibleproblem479 fall into the hands of the government?? Insurance companies last I checked are the only parties involved. Government does nothing but examine statistics to derive new rules. It usually takes many deaths before authorising the maintenance, addition or modification of traffic lights, signage, painted lines or road maintenance. At least by my personal experience. Most of the changes they make these days appear to happen by individuals who only know how to use crayons. If you get my drift.. Do not become dependant on your government. They do not care about your well being. To them, you are only a number on a spreadsheet.
For a long time, I was cocky driving in the winter. Twenty-five years of driving: no accidents, no tickets. Then one winter I was driving on what seemed to be perfect driving conditions. I was doing maybe 55, 60 miles per hour in the darkness when I hit a big patch of invisible ice. Truck spun so fast and counter-steering had no effect. Spin, spin, crashed into a concrete wall over a river. Now, I’m paranoid every winter and drive like an old man.
In mainland Europe, and sometimes in the UK it is an automatic responce to put the 4-way flashers when traffic starts to dramatically slow down so that the inattentive clown behind you is woken up. Thay said in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) in very heavy rain everybody puts their 4-way flashers on, which turns your whole world orange and you still can not see anything!!
When I was a new driver in 1980 I was in this situation on Route 80 near Stroudsburg, PA, and the road went from wet to solid ice with no warning. Suddenly, if you were going 10mph, your stopping distance was over 100 feet! My ONLY option was to turn around at the nearest exit and go back home again. I'm so glad I got out of there unharmed! Say what you want, but even if all you see are brake lights 300 yards ahead of you and you're going 70, there's no way to slow down to 10 in time. If the situation in this video were as bad as what I went through, all those cars going so slowly were still going WAY too fast! Nowadays, many cars have thermometers, and if the road is wet and yours says 33, slow down way ahead of time! You will p!$$ off lots of drivers, but you will later get a good laugh when they careen out of control later.
@@TriflingToad Believe it or not, I will never move to Florida because I can't tolerate the heat and humidity. I'm glad you're happy there! To each, his own.
Like I said each state should require their licensed drivers to re-take the road test at the least every other year. I’d guarantee at least 65% would fail
Who in there right minds drive 70 MPH in those conditions they can't see the snow on the edge of the road and it's that cold to form ice they should have there licence removed becouse driving is a privilege not a right... As well in bad weather use your 4-way flashers they are brighter than your driving lights and can be seen a lot better distance from behind
If this was a normal occurrence, people in Minnesota would not be able to afford car insurance and this highway would be almost empty at all times. Obviously something very unusual is going on. Use your head.
I remember driving down I-25 from Denver into Colorado Springs and was annoyed that the traffic had slowed to 15 mph. I discovered when I got 3 mi north of Academy Blvd., it was slicker than snot. I saw no wrecked cars, no problems. And as soon as I felt my steering capability impaired, just turned on the flashers, kept my distance, and went into prayer mode.
There's a vid of a school bus driver in Finland, deliberately going into a spin on ice and then recovering. Very nicely done. Part of the licensing exam for school bus drivers there, recovery from a spin. And I mean a complete spin 360 degrees.
@@veramae4098 We need to practice to handle such conditions in safe places. I live in Norway, so here we know. The first snow may give some chaos, but then people get into it and there are normally few incidents like this.
Apparently they’re not paying any attention to the road and the cars. I’ve been driving for 50 years and I know that driving slow on cold wet roads is totally great idea! People should heed those words: “Drive Slow”!
This is the best concept. I constantly scan ahead on the road and will slow whenever there is potential for danger. Not slowing too quickly or without warning to those behind me, as that is also dangerous.
Always stay in your car. It is the safest place to be in a situation like this. AND, Keep your seat belt on! Hope that you will have police stop traffic like this one did to end it all. Look ahead of you, if people are breaking simultaneously there is a reason. Give warning by turning your flashers on and slow your lane down slowly.You can only control your lane. Amazing video and timely as we are going into winter :-D
Man this had the potential to be really bad… I was quite impressed though at the beginning 0:25 when those two cars slipped around the red car in the middle and glided past that semi like they do this every day, then a few min later the white car appeared to not even see the semi, the biggest and only thing in the middle of the road at that moment and slammed right into the back of it, perfectly squared like it didn’t even try to swerve or negotiate around it. They should have taken driving lessons from the two black cars! LOL
I think the car got a thing called "target fixation", happens a lot to motorcyclist where they see an obstacle or obstruction and know they need to avoid it but because they lock their eyes on it that's where they end up going
No! You're supposed to come to a dead stop with traffic flying up behind you! It's the only way to be safe! And to be extra safe you should get out of your vehicle and stand in the middle of the highway! No one will crash into you because it would be their fault if they did!
It never ceases to amaze me when people try to go the usual speed when there's snow and ice on the road! All of this could've been avoided by just slowing down.
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I feel bad for the drivers who actually were alert, took their time to slow down to be rammed by an idiot doing highway speeds in these conditions😭🤦🏾♂️
Yeah that's exactly what I thought too🤷🏼♀️
Exactly!
Yep. If you slow down and avoid traffic accidents in front of you, you're not done yet. Keep your eyes open. If you see fast traffic coming behind you, 99% you will, get off the road completely if at all possible. If the terrain is sufficiently steep, abandon your car and head uphill if you can do so safely. The trick is to get your body as far up and away from the pileup as possible. Hanging around in that mess is only going to get you killed.
@@bluflaam777LSA exactly, it can be hard to gauge how fast someone else is moving in traffic sometimes. Add in this is MN and you also have concentrate your n the snow, ice and glare. Flashers are there for a reason.
@@bluflaam777LSA Or, and this is obviously a foreign concept in this video, how 'bout not speeding in these conditions in the first place? It's not the people's responsibility who were involved in accidents to turn on their flashers.
Geezus, this is what's wrong in this world. Absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
Pro tip: if the road looks wet but it's f**king cold out? THE ROAD ISN'T WET, IT'S ICE.
Good tip but let's elaborate. You will probably have your heater on and don't really know when you hit below freezing temps. Use this: If the road "looks" wet but there's no tire spray, YOU'RE ON ICE!!!
You'd think, since they most likely live in this area, they'd know that wouldn't you.
In Australia we don't icey roads that mutch but water on the road is just as bad, I was taught to slow down 5-10 kph 3-6 mph to be on the safe side ice I can would be worse it would be like a skating rink so why travel at speeds in those conditions.
The issue is, here in Minnesota where this happens, we have roadways paved with asphalt that resists ice forming to well below freezing, so that wet looking road is sometimes genuinely just wet.
That said, in the video here you can see some of the signs of slushy precipitation on the road.
Yep if it's 32 degrees or less then it's frozen for sure. Although if it's windy sometimes the wind chill can freeze roads even when it's slightly above 32 degrees. And in this case it's an overpass so bridges freeze a lot easier due to the wind passing under the bridge making it easier to freeze up. Always be extra alert when going over a bridge or overpass.
It's staggering how many phenomenally Bad, Inattentive drivers there are.... 90% of those could've been avoided if people weren't driving too fast for conditions & if they actually paid attention to their surroundings.
And the bad part is they never seem to get the tickets
Can't slow down, gotta hurry and hurry everywhere for everything.
AGREED
yup 😆 idiots behind the wheels.
Agreed
Love the guy that forgets to put his car in park, gets out, and let's car cross all lanes without a driver. Friggin genius.
@frogchop, adrenalin sends blood to the muscles and not the brain.
yeah so dumb, he literally had the chance to get back in and he just stood there and threw his hands in the air... like dude wtf are you doing lmao
Idiots
Lmao why would he get out anyways
@@Wtfsazerk Because it's dangerous to stay in as other cars can crash into your car from behind, so it's best to get off the highway and behind a safety rail ASAP
It is amazing how many people immediately get out of their cars when traffic is still flying at them
Right!? I am genuinely shocked that no pedestrians were injured here. I just don’t get it. What, you think all those people behind you will slow down to avoid hitting a pedestrian…just like you did to avoid hitting the car…that you hit? Smh.
That is actually understandable because in a pileup cars normally keep coming at you and crashing behind you over and over, many people has died because they stay inside the car on those conditions, the best way is get out always looking behind you and dodging anything that may come to you and run out of the way.
When you are on a overpass bridge the safest place you can be in is that car.
@@tylerfb1Dozens of cars being smashed up but no pedestrians being injured kind of points to it not being such a stupid idea. I mean, maybe you have a fundamentally different kind of car than me, but I can generally move sideways faster on feet than on wheels.
@@rafap80 could drive their car over to the side. 🤷♂
One tip from a Canadian, I notice a habit here of when approaching something like this, a previous crash or a complete slowdown, is many folks here throw on their hazard lights. When you are looking in the distance on an urban freeway like this, you might see brake lights ahead but attribute that to just cars slowing down and by the time you realize it, it's too late to stop safely. If I see hazard lights flashing all over the place ahead, I start slowing down early and I throw mine on too and the message gets sent back in the queue.
Good point-as a Canadian myself, I was *amazed* that no one thought to do this. 😡😵💫
That and a burning chemical flare is the universal sign to slow the f down because someone up ahead really shit the bed.
That's pretty solid advice, thanks.
100% idk why so many failed to use them. Especially the TT at the start of the accident that ended up being rear ended as a result.
I've driven all over the states in all kinds of weather and I completely agree with you. I stay aware of changing situations and adjust my speed/distance accordingly. When I realize there is something going on even in a distance, the hazard lights are the first thing on. I just hoping that it will make the difference for someone(s).
As an advanced Collision investigator and reconstructionist, I have investigated 100's of collisions. Many of the collisions I've investigated were during weather with rain snow and ice. One thing I have found and 100% stand by is 45 being the magic number. During poor conditions, if you stay at or below 45 mph you stand a very good chance to not only avoid losing control but also regaining control safely if you do. A huge problem is people think they can drive normal speeds during not normal conditions.
that is what we have insurance for - if we crash - we get a new car - who cares
THANK YOU!!
@@PeaceToAll-sl1db just because we HAVE insurance doesn't mean we are required to use it.
Be safe, drive safely,, and shave those accident "points" off your driver's license. You be thankful when you're older.
~ love, Grandma
Thank you! I appreciate that information.
Didn’t know about 45 being the magic number. I have kept it at max 45 during the rainstorms in California. Also, had to cross the U.S. Mexico border. Saw a semi truck hauling a tanker car filled with who knows what tailgating a small car at a high rate of speed along their bumpy highway during yesterday’s rainstorm.
Two types of people in this situation: the guy going 70 mph on black ice until he hits someone and the guy going 15 mph waiting to collect the first guy.
The best solution would be slow to driveable speeds, drive and park safe place. If you have chains, chain your tyres it anyway breaks the ice little. Continue to work since none of them seems to have winter tyres.
The truck driver REALLLY did not need to slow down THAT much and then STAY in the middle lane i mean that is NOT helping anyone at that point he should just pull all the way over he is just being a giant obstacle. Like come on
@@chinbosschinboss2484it’s not his fault
I would like to give a big thank you to all the semi trucks that was aware of what was happening and held their lanes.
hey
Yes. I drove delivery for amazon for a while and its unbelievable how unaware some drivers are and the semi truck drivers are definately the most aware and courteous. Reminds me of that freeze in texas the other year. it sould be a lisence requirement to know how to drive in icy conditions.
@@harrisonc985 hey
That’s why they have their license, they don’t give those out to no dummies. It’s like now In days people are born with a driving license 🤦🏻♂️ no experience whatsoever….
@@alexislugo8948 hey
60% of those drivers couldn’t sense what was happening- brake lights everywhere, slow downs, congestion ahead, flashing lights, drivers outside their cars, cars sideways, ice on the ground: despite all these things, they kept their pace and drove right into it. Incredible. Incredible we made it this far as a species.
We’v only made it this far because cars were only used extensively for the last 125 years or so! And the number #1 rule is STAY IN THE CAR! Ad things happen when cars hit them.
Yeah, but this seems to be just about the end of the line.
😂don't worry I think we as a species are nearing the end
Progress for our species is pretty much only done by maybe 1% of the population smart enough and/or capable enough to achieve something new. Everybody else is just following along. Golden ages happen when you get 2% of a generation pulling their weight. 😄
Americans*
it still amazes me how many people get out of their vehicles in these situations, and on a bridge no less.... nowhere to run. The self preservation gene is clearly missing.
Yeah that's a bad place to be. If my car was still working I think I'd drive off the bridge to the regular road and onto the regular shoulder. On the other hand, if it were disabled, I wouldn't want to wait in my car for a deadly pileup like the I-35W one. Tough choices.
Yup, that one guy in the vid just mooching around his car wondering who to blame for his wreck when the traffic is still bearing down on him....... I had my breath held as I thought he'd be chopped Liver before too long.
They are absolutely nuts to do that.
@Kevin Johnson 'some' people are stupid
And that's a good thing!
This is in Minnesota and I have seen SO MANY of these pile-ups and you would think people would understand how to drive on icy roads that live in a state that is winter 10 months out of the year... but NOPE! It drives me crazy how people stop on the freeway when they get into a minor accident instead of continuing to the next exit! You just spun out cuz you don't know how to brake on ice and you think stopping on the same icy road with a couple hundred cars and trucks barreling down on you is a good plan?!?!?! Then you exit your only protection to stand on... YEP you guessed it... that SAME damn icy road!!! Bravo MN drivers... BRAV-O 👏👏👏
That's crazy in Minnesota. I can understand southern and western states having issues like this regularly def not Minnesota tho.
@@Ovahlls Minnesota is 31st in fatal weather related fatal crashes and the northern states do handle cold weather driving conditions better than the southern states. I only saw one small pileup in the 50 years I have lived in Minnesota, the first 20 of which were in the Twin Cities.
Do you see them in your rear view mirror, because that would explain it.
Mini-Somalia...
@@ExplorationRandomDestination The practical difference between a driver who recently immigrated from a country with no snow and a driver driving in snowy icy conditions for the first time is nearly non existent. Nothing can save you from how different it is driving on Ice than being careful. Absolutely nothing, no luck, no skill, just survival instincts and chance. Nobody wants to become a road death statistic. I saw a fucking armored car go into the ditch in South Dakota in conditions very similar to this, do you think they'd let some fresh of the boat new blood for the melting pot drive that fucking thing?
Amazing how many people barely look one car length ahead! So many drivers ignored the multiple brake lights, flashing lights, and spinning cars - and sped up to pass traffic slowing in front of them. smdh!
Looking one car length ahead is exactly why so many wrecks/ near miss happened. You're suppose to look at least 12 seconds ahead, as far as you can see, or one block ahead. Predicting one's moves will save a lot of people as well. Shout out to the truckers 💪🏽 most of us are well trained when scanning ahead!
@@latoshabrownlee4708 Exactly! At 70 mph, a vehicle travels 102 feet a *second*. It takes the average human 1 second to react and hit the brakes - ergo, you went 102 feet before you even reacted! It's going to be another 240 feet before your car comes to a complete stop, more than 3/4 the length of a football field.
@@gsdalpha1358 right!!! We were taught that it takes a length of a football field to stop in truck driving school. Scanning ahead was something I always did to look out for hazards and the first indicator of a hazard up ahead…brake lights.
@@latoshabrownlee4708 Driving a big rig is a different ball game! Good on you! I drove a DOT snowplow for years as a relief driver, Class B CDL required. 60,000 lbs and air brakes make it far different from the family SUV. Thank you for taking that on.
It amazing is how many people do not slow down in conditions like these.
Two teachable moments.
Hit your hazard lights as soon as possible. NEVER GET OUT OF YOUR CAR IN A PILE UP.
"Never" is too harsh. Don't do it unless you see that there's a break in traffic and have a safe place to run to. Staying in your vehicle can lead to you being pinned if a truck hits the pile.
@@Alex-js5lg yup
How about use your brain and assess the situation?
To be fair, if you're in a small compact car and there's a semi barreling towards you? Staying in your car is probably a death sentence at that point - especially if your car is already crammed up against a bunch of larger vehicles and yours will definitely be the one that gets completely smushed.
@SadisticSenpai61...Because your body will take the impact of getting hit by a truck, so much better than the engineered steel body and chassis of your car?
If you are ever in this situation where there is a potential for a pile up and your car can still drive after crashing, keep driving. Dont stop. Even if you pull off to the side and stop you're potentially trapping yourself in a pile up, because your car will eventually block any exits for out of control cars. Just keep moving and don't stop until you are 100% sure you are safe, or your car cant keep going.
Sometimes that can be classified as leaving an accident site though
@@pelvis_assley better than dead.
Smart thinking
This is exactly what I was thinking. Those who stopped and didn’t have to just made more traffic.
yea and also if you do stay ie as a result of your car being disabled from getting in an accident don't get out of the car. You are safer in the car than outside where you could potentially get hit and unlived. The red people in that car with the green reflector jackets is a good example of what not to do. The white car at 1:15 came close to hitting them. Thankfully the white car was able to stop in time.
Pro tip: if you get out of your car like the GENIUS at 02:47 don’t stand between stopped cars and approaching cars. You’re gonna die.
Shoutout to the guy that climbed the streetlight and filmed the whole thing.
This one is called IP camera
@touby_photos nah I'm pretty sure it's a guy up there wearing a cape swiveling back and forth recording on his phone.
@@cups9449 Ohh, i see okay
Amazing he knew ahead of time this would happen and found a good spot to record
@@touby_photosU C Doctor
The number of collisions that could have been avoided just by people actually paying attention
That's an ice covered bridge. I'd venture to say that all of those cars started braking and just slid. It's not just about paying attention. I've been In this situation before. You see multiple hazard lights on and red brake lights ahead. So you attempt to brake yourself and nothing happens. You just slide until you slam into another car ahead of you. Many commenters think this could've been avoided. In most cases it couldn't. Ice is no joke. Look at the car that slammed into the semi. Brake lights were blazing red. But they couldn't stop the slide.
My father used to say it doesn't matter if you're the best driver in the world If the guy next to you doesn't know what he's doing
@@Pol-Pot your father sounds like a smart person.
drive slower. cant expect to drive highway speeds when its snowing. you have zero traction. its a miracle that you can even drive on such bad conditions. should not be driving over 50mph.
you clearly do not know what black ice is!
It’s definitely staggering how many people should never get behind the wheel.
yeah, but if you ask them they will swear that they are excellent drivers.
Even on a sunny day!
@The Fat Controller know your right.
So funny 😂 to see cars crash and pile up!
The DMV in most states is nothing more than a revenue generator that will license anybody. Even those that can't read are given licenses nowadays. Seems like a totally safe proposition, lol.
I grew up in the midwest, so from early on our parents, but mostly dad, instilled in us safety in driving, no matter what the other kids were doing, I thank God for dad. Several years after my dad and my husband who was also an extremely good driver had both passed away. I decided to relocate to the city where my only daughter resided so I could be there for the birth of my very first grandchild. it's a 130 mile trip, when I started out it was cold, and clear, at exactly 6:01 pm (I didn't answer of course, but noted later that my neice called me) just about 1/2 mile from where I was about to round a curve where I'd been headed north, to now travel east it began to rain. I was driving a rental truck, for the very first time with a car on a trailer, so I lessened my speed even slower than I had been driving. a black sports car, I forgot the model, passed me honking, and giving me his middle finger, shortly after a pickup passed me also, he really laid on the horn. Very soon that rain turned into big snowflakes, by the time I'd reached that junction to now head east and up a slight incline which on the right was a steep hill, I spotted that black sports car with the driver just starting to get out, I could see where he'd spun out went down the embankment and was nose down in a hugh snow bank. I suppose I could have stopped to see if I could help, but, well I just didn't want to, I remembered his kind gesture at his admiration of my driving skills. Plus it was really snowing pretty hard by then. I considered pulling into a rest area that had no facilities, but I kept going, dropped my speed down even more, I figure about 10 or 20 miles later. I saw that pickup who'd blasted his horn at me, he had also spun out, but down into the median, he'd come up to the roadway, waving his arms. I waved back, but kept going. My thoughts were. I am female, no protection, alone out here in this weather. I saw there were hardly any other vehicles on the road! And no one passed me at all. Shortly after that, I broke my speed down to 20 mph, and drove the rest of the way which by then was about 99 miles more. There was another rest area, but chose not to stop. I finally blessedly arrived in the city I was headed to and stopped, it was 10:27 pm. I took a moment to thank God, and prayed hopefully that he had helped those who had passed me earlier.
Screw those other people. Karma’s a bitch.
Love this story. You handled that properly! Road and the a-hole drivers.
I had a similar experience about 8 years ago on a vacation trip. Hit a big snow storm, just kept dropping the speed more and more as the conditions got worse, saw several of the vehicles that had passed me earlier on the side of the road later. For some reason many people drive thinking if they go too slow their car will stall and drop out of the sky . . .
Cool story! ❤
It's crazy how hard it is for Сhristiаns to give themselves credit for anything
As a kid, I always loved bumper cars.
When I was a kid, I always wondered why not just make all cars bumper cars. Just bump all the way to your location, lmao.
@@user-sf9gs2pg1b Now that's just crazy-enough to work.
@@user-sf9gs2pg1b ngl you might be onto something
Bravo to those who got their vehicles out of the lane of traffic. Shame on those who get out and walk around an icy stretch of road - DOH!
That's asking for Darwin to visit.
doh dead on highway
Hell yeah... It should be required in the driving test that you should know what to do and what not to do in situations like this.... I absolutely beat it in my kids and nieces and nephews.... Get as far off the highway if a accident occurs and don't be out there wondering around in a still live lane of traffic
@@bryanking8202 Absolutely. GTF off the traffic lanes and onto shoulder asap. WITH SIGNALS!
Agreed. Watching that person walk around and into the road by that black car through this whole video was crazy-making.
WOW. Do drivers not know to slow down on icy/wet roads?
Uh yeah ! ! ! They jam on their brakes ! ! !
Driving in conditions like this many years ago, I slowed down to about 20 / 25 mph. Expressway. Cars would whip past me going 65 / 70 mph.
One or two miles later I'd see them in the ditch.
They to stupid ‼️
Brain won’t work for such drivers. They need a booster shot to realize how dangerous it would be to drive recklessly on an icy wet road.
Except that black van!!! Just drifted through
lot's of skilled drivers weasling their way through without even crashing so that's very impressive
I clocked that! Some where slipping and sliding and managed to not crash 👍 all the comments saying people wasn’t paying attention….driving like idiots ect, soo what I’m glad because then we wouldn’t get videos like this 😂😂
They're not skilled at all. They're reckless.
@@mikevo3974Not really. In these conditions, you could get away with good quality all-season tires. When places don't face ice often, lots of people use old all season or just summer tires and think that will suffice. The skilled drivers can use the road because they know they have tires that are able to handle the conditions.
I usually pass trucks doing five under the car speed limit on the freeway, but when the temperature is near freezing, I assume that the truckers know something that I don't know.
@@PaulBrower-bw4jwSmart thinking. Cdl drivers are trained to drive safely for themselves and all the idiots around them
1) Drive for the conditions and beware of bridges in cold weather. 2) If you have an accident, especially on a freeway (especially an icy one), get your car out of the right-of-way as soon as possible. 3) Stay buckled up in your car until it's safe to get out and then get yourself outside the crash barriers. People meandering around in the middle of the icy freeway where they and several other cars just wrecked is practically suicidal.
Some people just want to be pancakes I guess
Yeah. If your car is drivable. Get it somewhere out of the way. Don't add to the chaos there
People just want Darwin awards
@@MolkoKillStyleDarwin isn't a thing anymore. The boomers fired him.
I'm seriously impressed at the 2 cars (camera pans to follow them in the beginning) that saw the cars in front of them sliding on the black ice, and began sliding themselves, but managed to slide between the semi on the left & a car on the right before emerging on the other side unscathed. Nice!
Actually, the front black car hit the side of the semi truck taking a big chunk out of the side skirt.
first one was stupid, they should have taken their foot off the gas, not cut the other off trying to get over last minute, because they can't look past their own bumper
played it back 5 times bro Tokyo drifted that shit😭
I'm not impressed. These assholes needed to slow down.
That was just plain dumb-luck on their part.
It never ceases to amaze me how fast people drive in icy weather. I know experience matters some, but this video, like many others, proves that reaction time is decreased the faster you drive.
here its the speed that matters..... not even 40 mph would be a safe speed as much as everyone was sliding around just trying to stop....
Of course you have less time to react the faster you go, that's not something that needs to be proven anymore than the need to prove that there's an increase in energy in a collision the faster you go.
"reaction time is decreased the faster you drive" If that was true, you should drive faster in order to be able to react in a shorter amount of time. The more likely effect is that your raction time is the same, but since you're traveling faster, in that reaction time you've traveled a farther distance. To compensate, you need to react to trouble sooner in time (and distance) in order to be able to stop in time.
It also has to do with what's happened in society. People are distracted, unskilled and worst of all super selfish. I see it all the time with drivers in my area who couldn't care less about anyone else on the road. They left late for work, so it should be OK for them to run red lights, cut people off etc. I call them assh*les... but thats just me lol
@@muzzcovw7674 Because they can piggyback off insurance, drivers without insurance drive safer
People see this and think or say "Oh, that will never happen to me, I know how to drive in anything and my car has traction control and ABS, I have been driving 70 MPH in this weather my whole life and nothing has happened to me". And that is EXACTLY why this kind of thing happens. People refusing to slow down when the conditions are marginal at best. It is a curse to have a better than average understanding of physics, because I see glossy roads and temperatures around the freezing point or less, I automatically assume all glossy surfaces are slick and drive accordingly. If other people would LEARN to SLOW DOWN, stop rushing and pay attention!... We would have a lot less, of this....
I think what’s going on here is an area where it doesn’t get cold very often. The drivers are obviously not aware that the bridge will ice over before the rest of the road. The state obviously didn’t salt the bridge. None of the cars have adequate ice tires. And the ground isn’t cold enough for the road to freeze over. I grew up in the very north and this situation wouldn’t have occurred for all those reasons.
1. Drivers know that in early fall and late spring it’s possible for bridges to develop ice when the road is still just wet
2. The state salts the heck out of the bridges at the first sign of cold weather
3. Everyone is running tires with at least decent ice traction
4. 99% of the time when it’s cold enough for ice, it’s not just the bridges, it’s everywhere, so people wouldn’t have been flying 70 mph in the first place.
Rule 1: don’t drive on ice
Rule 2: go VERY slow on ice
Rule 3: don’t drive on ice
Rule 4: observe Newton's law of momentum and you'll do fine
Rule 5: minimize all unnecessary breaking and apply brakes gradually if needed.
Rule 6: disregard posted speed limits and follow the flow of traffic going no faster or slower than the cars around you.
Rule 7: if you can't handle rules 4 through 6, observe rules 1 through 3 and leave the driving to the pros who've done this winter thing more than a few times; it's overcautious break-happy drivers who cause more winter weather accidents than reckless drivers.
I drive on ice all the time in Michigan. It's a skill that can be learned and having snow tires helps a ton.
I ain’t EVER driving on ice. I don’t give a fuck if work still wants me to come in, I’m staying my ass HOME.
@ViPER5RT10 what if you're at work and it's icy at quitting time? You staying there?
What amazed me more than anything about this incident was that not a single vehicle put on their warning hazard lights (or whatever you call them in the US) as soon as they seen the incident unfolding in front of them as would happen in Britain. It's a highly visible warning to the traffic behind that there is an issue ahead even before the brake lights come on. It gives drivers way back plenty of time to react. People brake for many reasons, nobody puts on their hazard lights without a very, very good reason👍👍
Because Americans are stupid. They made it a law in every or almost every state that it's illegal to drive with hazards on. It's only to be used when vehicle is stopped, or certain exceptions for semis going up hills.
well you see, we aren't very smart in America
I've actually never heard of that before.
@@volgax2 The American governments weird, ass backwards logic for not allowing hazards while driving is "hazard signals cancel turn signals so other drivers can't tell if your changing lanes." Pretty sure warning other drivers that traffic is slowing down/stopping or there is a major problem ahead is MORE important than signaling the occasional lane change. Turn signals aren't a magic pass making lane changes safe, you still have to look and change when safe to do so. Once traffic speeds up or you're past the problem hazards turned off and turn signals work. It's not like people are constantly changing lanes back and forth, plus with slower traffic it's easier/safer to change safely even without turn signals because with everyone having hazards on people are actually paying really close attention to their driving and what others are doing.
I'd be interested to see how many Americans even KNOW where the hazard switch is.
Just tonight I went to the grocery about 3 km away (so a 6km return trip)-- it's after 8pm so it's quite dark already. Headlights were needed for safe operation.
- about 5 or 6 people had only DRL on (or very low power head lights)
- 4 people had their full beams on (high beams)
- 3 people had no lights at all (head light or tail lights)
- numerous people didn't even signal anything
- one blew right through a red signal at speed
Let's not forget how many have their phone in their hand on "speaker" since they think that's hands free. Or how many have it in their lap fiddling around with text messages.
There's not 10 minutes that goes by that I don't see someone with a high mounted phone obscuring their vision out their windshield.
Personally I put my hazards on if I'm quickly decelerating toward a traffic jam on the highway and I know people behind me are coming at full trot.
I also put it on if I'm stopping due to emergency vehicles, even if I'm already stopped at an intersection.
I put them on if I'm stopped due to a school bus.
I put them on if I'm stopped at a mid-block or uncontrolled (no stop sign) zebra crossing letting pedestrians by.
Driving school/education in the US is quite a joke I believe. It gives you a lot of book knowledge but to pass the driving test, just get behind the wheel and do the speed limit, a curb parking, and you get the license. In my area, they deduct more points (almost to an automatic fail) if you don't put on the seat belt, but driving infractions: you can miss half of them and still pass.
Speed was the underlying factor to start the chain reaction, but people panicking and slamming on the brakes is what caused the majority to lose control.
Hitting the brakes on ice is like putting your car on ice skates.
It slides real nice and follows any contours in the road it finds.
I love the guy that left his van in neutral and got out, just to watch it roll away. Lol.
That guy who let his van roll needs to go to jail !
The biggest contributing factor was stupid ass drivers not knowing how to drive in winter weather and too busy with that cell phone in hand. I bet if everyone's cell phone was checked for usage, at least 85% if not more, would have been on the phone.
One commentor said it drove better when he got out lolZz
More like, having a freeway with 100% PURE ICE. Where's the salter?
Thanks to ABS brakes slamming on your brakes is what you want to do. No more pumping the brakes, let the ABS do the pumping.
@1:55 a driver of a mini-van gets out without putting the vehicle in park, or at the very least, parking/emergency brake, and the vehicle crosses all lanes of traffic. That person should not have a drivers license. That was sooooo bad. They were also vulnerable being outside on the overpass and who knows if they have any occupants.
I understand that crashes can cause chaos, but there isn't an excuse for letting a big vehicle like that just wonder off when you decided to take ownership of it's trajectory. This is a teaching moment. I really wish people would learn how to drive cars before going on on the public roads. Me and my friends would do donuts in empty parking lots just for fun, the purpose wasn't to learn, but we learned quickly how our vehicles handled rain, and snow, etc. and it put nobody else at risk.
I can't get over how shiny the road is you can tell it's a solid sheet of ice
Out here it's called black ice. Beware.
Really depends on angle, cause sometimes you can't see it at all. It'll look fine, but just that tiny thin layer of ice is enough to cause these kinds of pileups. People *should* know however, to slow down if they're not sure. You can feel it when a car gets on ice, it feels like your car is just floating.
@ookamikage6658 I totally agree. We are in a small town. Last Saturday night there was a water main break. They had to close the road. The speed limit is 35. It's at night. People are flying around the curve and obviously ignoring the road closed signs until they get right up to the closure. I walked the dog down to watch and overheard people bitching about how it came up so suddenly. I'm thinking, 'you should drive expecting something is going to happen and not do 50 in a 35'. Some folks could not slow in time and went through the cones and signs. I'm just standing there shaking my head.
Bridges are the worst for black ice, man I went skidding sideways the first time I hit ice on the road and the only part that was covered end to end was the overpass bridges. I always turn my cruise control off when going over them on a cold night.
So is this what is called black ice?
Everyone has already said everything that needs to be said.
The only thing left for me to say is that it takes me 10 minutes to walk to my local pub, but 35 minutes to walk home again.
The difference is staggering….
😂 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
This needs investigating
I think the difference is acceptable. I know a guy who never gets back from the pub! The difference here is a knockout 😂
Something tells me this is a regular thing... 🤔
Bahahaha bahahaha bahahaha ~ I bet you are the life of the pub!!
getting out of the car on a busy road after an accident is literally the worst thing you could do lmao
Unless you can completely get away from the roadway…yes…very dumb idea, especially on a bridge hemmed in like this with black ice.
It's worse... Notice the guy in the black SUV at the beginning. He gets out, leaves it in drive and the vehicle proceeds to go across three lanes with nobody in it and he just stands there cluelessly like it was out of his control.
No, the worse thing you can do is drive 70 when the roads are icy!
I would not want to be a sitting duck on a freeway with black ice
We need more cowbell! 🤣
Every time i see cars starting to pile up or slow down last minute, i brake and turn my hazards on just to let the drivers behind me to pay attention , it really does help
Hazards are a bad idea and in almost every state illegal if you're not pulled off the road. If you need to alert those behind you, you can pulse your brakes with your left foot. People are more fearful of brakes pulsing than flashers.
@@hydrocarbon82 It's illegal in some states to drive with them on UNLESS there is an emergency, and car pileups would be considered an emergency, I'd think.
@@hydrocarbon82 yeah, no. If someone in front of me slams on my brakes, I have to slam on mine but I also reach for my hazards to hopefully make the person behind me look up from their phone. I've been rear-ended 1 too many times. Is it illegal? yes. Should anyone care? no.
@@hydrocarbon82 Though it is codified in most states as Illegal, technically it is not in a situation akin to this one, as you'd be slowing suddenly down by potentially 30mph+ of the normal speed, which in the trucking world is often a case they themselves use their hazards, you know, to indicate a hazard.
@@hydrocarbon82 you'll lose your shit when you come to the roadworks on the range 20km from where they have signs "be prepared to stop for roadowrks. use hazard lights when slowing and stopping"
Pretty amazing that flashers/hazard lights are not being used, which is pretty standard where I live ...
Do you live in an area with heavy snowfall? It's pretty standard practice in New England as well
People on the West coast can’t find the turn signal. Hazard lights?? What are those?? 😂
@@Inmatesixdoublefive321 This appears to be Minnesota, though.
@@jovetji get that. It was an observation on where I live. Duh
@@tbrownyabishI love when people drive with hazards on and then cut me off because they think their turn signal works. You don't need to warn people it's snowing we can tell.
Trucker here. If you're doing 15 under the speed limit (slowing down for whatever reason) please turn your flashers on. This goes for the fellow truckers, too.
I noticed that too...people stopping on the highway and no one put on their flashers. Not saying Id remember, but watching this video was a good reminder.
That's really smart thank you for that tip good sir
how about take sevice roads, especially on 2 lane highways. 55 in a posted 70mph causes backups, car crashes and road rage.
@@onetransam1998not in conditions like those. The speed limit is dependent on conditions not a posted sign.
Heavy trucks are very difficult to stop, especially when the roads are slippery
If driving has taught me anything it’s that you can be in the middle of a sandstorm in the middle of a tornado in the center of a blizzard underneath a tsunami in the middle of the night during the foggiest apocalypse and morons will still go 90MPH
As a truck driver on city and highways, there are a few things you typically look out for...1. shiney reflections on the road ahead. If you can see reflection of the cars tail lights ahead in the road, then you are probably on ice and should just coast till you get to a safe speed and turn your flashers on to help warn those behind that the conditions are bad.
2.Cross winds on ice are very bad for trucks of all sizes and even vans as they can blow you sideways.
3. If the road looks questionable and you are away from other vehicles, you can slow and do a little quick test with your brakes to see how the road feels. I usually hold straight and give a quick tap on the brakes to try and feel if the wheels lock up right away or not. Do not do this at highway speeds!!!!
4. If in doubt, pull over, get out and do a foot check on the road...if you can easily slide on the surface, just think how 4,000 or even 60,000 lbs will behave on this surface!
I always say...better to get there later then not at all in these wintery situations.
Be safe and remember...speed kills on roads like these!
Okay, Johnny boy
One time it was extremely windy in the winter and I saw like 3 semis that had been blown over on I-80
I like how when the conditions improved just a little, everyone went right back to tailgating. 😄
IKR.
I feel bad for the guy in that first White semi. Saw the accident in front of him, slow down and maintained control only to get rear-ended. He was almost through the worst of it and now there's lots of paperwork.
well, he should have put the hazard lights on. The truck and the first cars that saw the accident. Slowing down without hazard lights on is dangerous.
@@silimarina. Maybe. But the fact that there were two spun out cars and the semis brake light were on failed to alert the driver, then maybe it might just be the driver.
@@billmcmahon5454 Yes. It wasn’t the semi’s fault.
@@silimarina. Depending on location, it's illegal for to use hazards when moving, even if slower than other traffic.
On another note.. if the driver was actually paying attention, they should have noticed they were outpacing the guy in front of them.
Very dought full his bumper was damaged
Nothing happens after 3:00. Save your valuable time and stop watching there.
Thank you, saint.
Nice try diddy that’s what you’d want us to do lol. Weak attempt fool
In driver's education class, yes they used to teach it in high schools, you learned to slow down on wet roads, especially in winter and guess what?! They even warned you that overpasses and bridges were likely to freeze up (especially first) in winter! But hey, keep driving as fast as you can because if you slow down, you might be late for your accident.
Then schools decided it was better to force critical race theory, gender fluid garbage and anti-Trump BS down kids' throats. Everything is woke now because of a few corrupt politicians who want to dumb down America.
@@starwindamada5313 how do you take over a nation and become its one and only ruling government party? Make sure the youth is uneducated and uninformed. Worked for Hitler. In Hitler's defense, they didn't stop teaching language, math, and science. They just readjusted history through, you guessed it, their own form of critical race theory as well as brainwashing them into a political belief of a party that had kids turning their own parents in against the government.
Very true.
Yes, you must drive as fast as possible, before you have an accident!
"if you slow down, you might be late for your accident."
I'm stealing that!
🧠🧠🧠 You were very smart to come up with that.
5:00 A big shoutout to our street workers. You guys are 0ut there everyday picking up trash, dodging horrible idiots amd drunk drivers and sometimes saving our dumbasses from doing dumbass shit. And making the environment a better place to live for our wildlife. And you are very under appreciated for what you do. So Thankyou, seriously.
Hear, hear! ...to the street workers! You keep us stress-free in times of need, you give us scenery to look at when driving through the inner cities, someone to just talk to when you need a friend and there's nobody else. And even if you charge a "fee", well so what! A girl (or boy)'s gotta make a living, and you work "hard for the money"!! It is, after all, the world's "oldest profession", and not for no reason! To the street workers!!!❤🍆
@@johnpinion8033I don't think that was the kind of street worker that Chevy was referring to....🤔
@@RodneyAvery-o2qwell, yay to both! 🤪
Ah, those slip'n'sliding memories pass by so quick, that & the drivers, who haven't quite mastered the skill of taking their foot of the gas pedal in such conditions! On a positive note (?), it will be just about 4-5 months until we can see new memories of those slippery, slidy speedsters!
😁😂😂🤣😂😂😁
its more when fast meets slow that's a problem and the people that slow refuse to move over
Only two seasons in Michigan..Winter and going to be winter 🥶 ☃️
It's called drive to the conditions.. glad I live in the tropics
or maybe you quite literally can't stop...
And none of the involved vehicles turned on their hazards. Neat
Why turn on the hazards when you could be a hazard!
I can't believe how fast those people were driving in those conditions 😳
I can !
It's all fine and dandy till it happens to you.
People in Minnesota drive stupid as hell, especially on I694
But I always drive this speed to work.
Amazing how the person in the black van at 2:00 gets out and the van is still in drive and rolls off while the driver just watches.
No flinch at all...brain cells on vacation
It drove much better once he got out.
Hahahahahah^
Sorry that was me
1:50 gray Honda drives to another car 😂
As the owner of an auto body repair shop, I approve of this video! /Sarcasm
Wow! Look at all the carnage! And all the trucknage, too! And even some busnage!
That first trucker did a great job, also, for your own future safety: check out how quickly people lose their grip once the gap under the bridge is passed! Great example of “Bridges freeze before roads”!
“I demand to go whatever speed I want, regardless of road conditions, the number of drivers on the road and their distance in front of me”
This is so true It is my right to drive not a privalige !!!
The laws of physics don't apply to me. I have a constitutional right to do exactly what I want, where I want, when I want to. And how dare that Newton guy try to tell me about trivia like action and reaction. I know so much more than he ever did.
Co-signments up ahead from guilt tripping friends😂
“ I’ve got to up to 70mph, that’s what speed limit said”
Are you quoting Albert Einstein? Not the scientist, I mean the famous race car driver Albert Einstein
What boggles my mind is the fact that these people have lived there for years and still can't figure out how to drive in the winter
That light snow on Saturday says everything, hell even light shower rain
Just boggles the mind. Like being in a hypnotic trance.
Time and time again I'm stunned by how terrible most people are at scanning ahead when driving. Scanning ahead and anticipating what's going to or could happen is apparently a rare skill...
I love how those people just casually get out of their car and meander around, then seem genuinely shocked and terrified that a skidding vehicle is coming directly toward them, 1:46
I had a brilliant driving instructor. The first thing he taught me was to continually scan 400 meters ahead of my vehicle. He would get me to tell him everything I saw: "Car coming up to a Stop Sign on the Left 200 meters ahead. Pedestrian stepping up to a crossing 300 meters on my Right. Car turning into side street 100 meters ahead. Car turning Right " etc etc. It saves my bacon all the time and I taught my sons to do the same. You have to know what is happening ahead, behind and to the side of you.
The first things my dad taught me about driving, drive ahead and keep your eyes moving. That was 67 years ago. It’s served me well. Thanks Dad.
Everyone did a fantastic job keep up the good winter driving this year
Reminds me of a WI snow event, one driver said she couldn't see what was ahead. And plowed into the scores of vehicles. Did you ever think to SLOW DOWN???
another great job from MNDOT. even though they know days ahead of time they wont salt until after the carnage. i swear the state has a contract with body shop owners.
How can you see people having trouble, sliding around and just keep speeding along? Insane.
Because humans are both the smartest and the dumbest animals on the planet. If anyone ever needs proof, this video should be used as the prime example. "Wow, people are crashing, I better drive faster and see if my car can slip through this space narrower than a small breed dog's anus."
They don't see it. Most drivers only look right in front of their car and not further down the road.
Drivers licences are so easy to get that 16 year old Americans can handle doing it. 😅
yep and that is the problem.......and when it is icy like this........STAY HOME if ya can.@@AJourneyOfYourSoul
Seeing people never slowing down despite the cars clearly stopped in front of them is so unreal.
I was really rooting for that first semi to make it past all the spun out cars, they almost got to continue their route before the sedan ate the back of the trailer. The driver of that first semi truck is an example for how the rest of us should drive.
IKR!? I figured the trucker was gonna make it through like a champ...
@@MagesseT1 He could go....all the way.....
na f that guy. He was driving way too slow at that point. He needed to keep driving 10 mph rather than 2 mph.
@@wishywashy1153 Let me guess, you were driving too fast that day and you ended up involved.
@@Tankerpaul223 na, but if i was there i prob would have been lol
Well that's how they drive... and vote...
1:50 upper left, a black van door opens and the driver gets out without putting it in park and it rolls away. He tried to hang on to it but it was glare ice under him.
good eye
Thanks!
Wow, I watched the whole 20 min vid, and I missed that completely. That is why I'm not a detective.
Might be the biggest idiot of the day. Slowly watching his driverless car creeping away
I used to live here. It's inspiring to see the drivers haven't changed.
Where is it?
@@edgarcayce2.02it’s the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul)
@@joejonas3684 ahhh, okay, thank you
Minneapolis?? Then why weren’t the roads treated??
@@huyettr black ice can sometimes just pop up if the conditions are right. There can be snow on the side of the road that melts a little because the sun shines on a particular spot during the day, then at night it freezes and you get a hockey rink for the early morning hours. I’m from Chicago and it happens here quite a bit as well as we also get a lot of snow too. I remember in 2020 there was a really bad pileup on the Kennedy Expressway because of exactly that happening
That’s a lot of damage!
"Bridges ice before road." People don't read the signs, huh?
Too busy on thelr phones...
Last time I drove in conditions like this, I was in NJ and I literally made my suv crawl….. It was my first time to drive this way, but being from Florida, I know that the second it rains, drivers just lose their minds sometimes and end up causing accidents!!!
The thing is just slow down….. nothing is worth a crash 🚗💥 or loss of life ✨✨✨❤️
Whoops, so much for Archie Bunker's oft-quoted frustrated remark: "Try JOY-zee!" This was absolutely ridiculous, people zooming around at such speeds in such weather like it was Sunshine Blue Skies; when somebody only watching a video clip can tell when there's about to a crash, those in the midst of it got no excuse. Won't be going any farther north than Washington in the winter on no roads - "these people are dangerous!"
My guess is the bridge was icy when the rest of the roadway may not have been as slippery. At least I've seen it happen that way as the temps drop.
That may be so - but, any driver with experience should know that bridges ice - over before the roadway does. He should've slowed down, regardless. 😉
Must be that cold air blowing under bridge which causes more concentrated cold, ice. I'm going to keep that in mind, although as of yet, have not encountered such an experience. 😄🤔
@@joletty1793 Search RUclips for "car wrecks on bridges". You'll live the experience without any damage to anything. You're right. Older bridges are worse; used more steel than concrete; transfers heat/cold more quickly. The ones with the metal flap at the leading edge are among the oldest.
You're probably correct. Bridges freeze faster. The time of day helps too early morning it looks like so the regular roads defrosted a bit but not the bridge.
Yes, bridges ice faster, because of the wind under the bridge. I think I learned that in the defensive driving I had to take to get out of a speeding ticket 😁
The two car drivers at 0:22 were obviously going too fast for the conditions but they both did insanely well given the circumstances.
Pure luck.
shoulda slowed down
I know several idiots who insist they are good drivers, and think the "skill" is in avoiding the collision
when real prevention is just not doing stupid shit
Lesson: you guys need two cameras facing both directions
I love the title. We used to live next to a highway. It was maybe 70 yards off our backyard. Rows of trees and an upwards slope blocked some noise but in the winter we would go up there and watch the cars sliding all around. We should know better too here in the northeast how to drive in wintery conditions but either some are new at it or just totally forget year to year.
I was kinda impressed by how quickly the drivers stuck behind the accidents were able to self-organize without actually speaking to each other, and merge down to single file so they could weave through the area.
They were lucky, not skilled.
yep props to them
The roads are a hive mind. Everyone is a team player in a game where a 20mph bumper tap means a one-on-one encounter with every motorist's common enemy: Insurance companies.
@@AlastorTheNPDemonLmfaoao this is perfectly put
Those drivers that came speeding down the road surely they could see brake lights ahead and slow down !
What??? And take their eyes off their phone??????
@@61rampy65Hi , yes suppose your right on that . Here in the UK it's banned thank God , there's enough idiots on the road as it is . Take care 🇬🇧
I don’t understand how I couldn’t stop. I was tailgating while texting at 70 mph. Just like I do everyday. My cars brakes must be broken.
I would NOT be getting out of my car and walking around with cars sliding all over the ice like that. Not smart, & definitely risky!
Pretty impressive how quickly the rest of the traffic was rerouted.
You could tell when Siri and Google Maps clued in, for sure.
One day 13 years ago I was driving on a major divided highway like this one in Northern Canada in mid winter. Weather had warmed up above freezing and it began to rain. For an hour of driving on wet and unfrozen road, traffic hits a cold front head on. In two miles it went from wet to glare ice. Everyone was doing the speed limit. Thing is, once someone touched their brakes, everyone was reacting poorly and before you knew it everyone was hitting the ditch. Even I was caught off guard. If your wheels spin, let off the accelerator, do not use your brakes. If you are in a slide, steer into where you are sliding and slowly correct your heading.
I never lost control at any time but I was lucky that nobody was tailgating me. After six miles after the ice started, the stranded vehicles in the ditch were reminders to slow down and all was well.
Weather can change without warning. Be prepared.
Yes - the switch from wet road to black ice is nearly instantaneous. Coasting doesn't help.
I'm a truck driver and they say, if you see mist coming off your wheels then it's not frozen yet. That's not always true. It can be raining still, while the rain that fell 30 minutes ago is sheet ice on the road. If the road looks shiny, I slow down and test it by giving a little small burst on the throttle foot plate. The week of 12/17/22 and 12/24/22 I was driving repeatedly on a stretch of interstate like this for about 15 miles. I was down to 35 mph in an empty semi weighing 30,000 lbs and once every mile I'd just push that throttle plate down about a half an inch and my speedo would rise to 40 mph so ease off and continue at 35 mph. As the ice thinned out it took more throttle to spin the tires so I knew I could go a little faster. Eventually the ice was gone a dry road was there. My job required me to haul coal to the boiler house of a factory, to keep it running. Usually 3 loads on days and 3 loads on nights but they've only been getting 2 loads lately because of the icy road. So the plant has been eating up their stock pile.
In all honesty some level of advanced driving courses should be a requirement to drive during the winter.
Most drivers in the us are so Ill equipped to drive in these conditions that the responsibility for most of these accidents fall into the hands of the government for allowing this to happen.
These are basic things you learn in Driver's Ed before you even get your permit. Some people have short memories.
@@possibleproblem479 fall into the hands of the government?? Insurance companies last I checked are the only parties involved. Government does nothing but examine statistics to derive new rules. It usually takes many deaths before authorising the maintenance, addition or modification of traffic lights, signage, painted lines or road maintenance. At least by my personal experience. Most of the changes they make these days appear to happen by individuals who only know how to use crayons. If you get my drift..
Do not become dependant on your government. They do not care about your well being. To them, you are only a number on a spreadsheet.
For a long time, I was cocky driving in the winter. Twenty-five years of driving: no accidents, no tickets. Then one winter I was driving on what seemed to be perfect driving conditions. I was doing maybe 55, 60 miles per hour in the darkness when I hit a big patch of invisible ice. Truck spun so fast and counter-steering had no effect. Spin, spin, crashed into a concrete wall over a river. Now, I’m paranoid every winter and drive like an old man.
Dude in the White Pickup and the Truck driver were completely innocent.
And so was OJ ! ! !
I don't know becuase the truck basically stopped on the interstate withou turning on his 4 ways
Yet no one in the opposing traffic flow puts on hazard flashers.
In mainland Europe, and sometimes in the UK it is an automatic responce to put the 4-way flashers when traffic starts to dramatically slow down so that the inattentive clown behind you is woken up. Thay said in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) in very heavy rain everybody puts their 4-way flashers on, which turns your whole world orange and you still can not see anything!!
When I was a new driver in 1980 I was in this situation on Route 80 near Stroudsburg, PA, and the road went from wet to solid ice with no warning. Suddenly, if you were going 10mph, your stopping distance was over 100 feet! My ONLY option was to turn around at the nearest exit and go back home again. I'm so glad I got out of there unharmed! Say what you want, but even if all you see are brake lights 300 yards ahead of you and you're going 70, there's no way to slow down to 10 in time. If the situation in this video were as bad as what I went through, all those cars going so slowly were still going WAY too fast! Nowadays, many cars have thermometers, and if the road is wet and yours says 33, slow down way ahead of time! You will p!$$ off lots of drivers, but you will later get a good laugh when they careen out of control later.
I'm so glad I live in florida, that sounds like hell 😭
@@TriflingToad Believe it or not, I will never move to Florida because I can't tolerate the heat and humidity. I'm glad you're happy there! To each, his own.
I'm seeing this a year after. And, was still impressed as hell with the response times. Well Done
Thank God that crazy bridge had good edge rails 🙏🙏🙏
Like I said each state should require their licensed drivers to re-take the road test at the least every other year. I’d guarantee at least 65% would fail
Who in there right minds drive 70 MPH in those conditions they can't see the snow on the edge of the road and it's that cold to form ice they should have there licence removed becouse driving is a privilege not a right... As well in bad weather use your 4-way flashers they are brighter than your driving lights and can be seen a lot better distance from behind
People from Minnesota
They think it’s just raining and don’t realize that it’s freezing on contact.
Using your flashers is illegal in many states.
If this was a normal occurrence, people in Minnesota would not be able to afford car insurance and this highway would be almost empty at all times.
Obviously something very unusual is going on. Use your head.
@@kmat31 never heard of this, their designed purpose is to warn others of your presence?
Looks like icy conditions. Why are they driving so fast in the first place? Unbelievable
It blows my mind how many people got out of their cars and stood in spots where they just slid through.
I remember driving down I-25 from Denver into Colorado Springs and was annoyed that the traffic had slowed to 15 mph. I discovered when I got 3 mi north of Academy Blvd., it was slicker than snot. I saw no wrecked cars, no problems. And as soon as I felt my steering capability impaired, just turned on the flashers, kept my distance, and went into prayer mode.
Ah, prayer mode, how well I know thee.
That's because coloradans typically know how to drive. At least, the ones born here. Not the ones from out of state
Ya think? We had a pileup a few weeks ago from Hy. 6 going onto I-25. It's a crap shoot.
They just give a license to anyone and everyone nowadays. Driving on icy roads safely should be a licensing requirement in Minnesota.
There's a vid of a school bus driver in Finland, deliberately going into a spin on ice and then recovering. Very nicely done. Part of the licensing exam for school bus drivers there, recovery from a spin.
And I mean a complete spin 360 degrees.
@@veramae4098
We need that kind of testing here. I grew up around Finnish folks, they're pretty cool headed in stressful situations in my experience.
@@veramae4098 We need to practice to handle such conditions in safe places. I live in Norway, so here we know.
The first snow may give some chaos, but then people get into it and there are normally few incidents like this.
Common sense tells you to drive slow I’m icy/snowy conditions, but as seen in this video, most people greatly lack common sense.
You know what doesn’t have this problem? Trains.
Sacrifice my personal mode of transportation to get stuffed into a boxcar? No thanks.
Apparently they’re not paying any attention to the road and the cars. I’ve been driving for 50 years and I know that driving slow on cold wet roads is totally great idea! People should heed those words: “Drive Slow”!
This is the best concept. I constantly scan ahead on the road and will slow whenever there is potential for danger. Not slowing too quickly or without warning to those behind me, as that is also dangerous.
and putting away the cellphone helps greatly. Nana does NOT need to know you're in heavy icy traffic...
Always stay in your car. It is the safest place to be in a situation like this. AND, Keep your seat belt on! Hope that you will have police stop traffic like this one did to end it all. Look ahead of you, if people are breaking simultaneously there is a reason. Give warning by turning your flashers on and slow your lane down slowly.You can only control your lane.
Amazing video and timely as we are going into winter :-D
For real why tf would you get out the car 🤦🏻♀️
This road is obviously a sheet of ice and people are flying down this highway. What the freak is the matter with people?
Man this had the potential to be really bad… I was quite impressed though at the beginning 0:25 when those two cars slipped around the red car in the middle and glided past that semi like they do this every day, then a few min later the white car appeared to not even see the semi, the biggest and only thing in the middle of the road at that moment and slammed right into the back of it, perfectly squared like it didn’t even try to swerve or negotiate around it. They should have taken driving lessons from the two black cars! LOL
I think the grey Camry clipped the red sonata there, the Aztec or whatever cleared without any damage unless it clipped the Jersey barricades
I think the car got a thing called "target fixation", happens a lot to motorcyclist where they see an obstacle or obstruction and know they need to avoid it but because they lock their eyes on it that's where they end up going
Stay on Target Stay on Target loosen up. Bam.
I'm not going to lie, I saw that too
Tokyo drift shit right there. Lmao
Wow, the vast majority of those crashes could've been avoided if those guys ACTUALLY drive and be aware of the hazard...
No! You're supposed to come to a dead stop with traffic flying up behind you! It's the only way to be safe! And to be extra safe you should get out of your vehicle and stand in the middle of the highway! No one will crash into you because it would be their fault if they did!
@@amorphousblob2721I…I can’t tell if this is serious or not…
@@AAFBNC It's sarcasm, although I can see why it's hard to tell.
@@amorphousblob2721 haha, I thought so, but you never can tell with people nowadays.
It never ceases to amaze me when people try to go the usual speed when there's snow and ice on the road! All of this could've been avoided by just slowing down.
The mechanic and tinsmith they are doing well here. Amizing