Footage Emerges Of How The Massive Pileup At Fort Worth Highway Started – At Least 5 Dead So Far

Right Journalism ^ | 02.11.2021 | Natalie Dagenhardt

[lepton]

We get winter all the time in Edmonton, but we don’t get pileups like I see in the States.

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And what I am saying is that ice storms in the south and Great Plains are an entirely different animal. I have spent years in the north with a great deal of snow (up to nearly 4’ in a day), and regularly drove through heavy snows and even blizzards, so I know what you are saying. Wet ice with no snow inclusions is very different - especially when it presents as just light rain...until you hit the ice.

[Zhang Fei]

[The two-second rule translates to a roadway lane capacity of 1,800 passenger cars per hour, not 2,000+ ...]

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That apparently translates to 1 vehicle length every 5 mph. Funny thing is, I adhere to the less conservative 1 vehicle length every 10 mph rule and just about everyone else is following far closer than that. I routinely see cars going 70 and following a vehicle length behind trucks. They must be Jayne Mansfield fans.