I know it takes a lot longer for a truck to stop than a car, but it looked like the driver didn’t even try to stop.
If it is black ice, there is no way to stop in that distance. Bad stuff.
It only takes one cranked-up semi driver. And there are a lot more than one out there.
We had a big pile up in the Salt Lake area years ago. The weather was freezing with overnight fog creating a lot of black ice. There was highway Patrolman and a news cameraman standing there filming the cars driving by and recording the sounds of the crashes. Visibility was such that you could see maybe 100 feet. Over 100 cars piled up. You could see them fly by at 60mph in that fog, not slowing down one bit. The fog was so dense that the red/blue lights on the patrol cars couldn’t be seen far.
Idiots buy SUVs and all-reason tires and think that they don’t have to slow down in the freezing wet.
“but it looked like the driver didn’t even try to stop.”
ICE!!!!
You can hear the squeal of tires for just a split second — I would bet this guy had his brakes engaged and was just sliding across ice, but one of the locked up tires hit an ice free patch briefly.
I deal with traffic safety routinely in my line of work. Without seeing the tail lights of the FedEx truck I wouldn’t even speculate about what was happening there. If black ice was the cause then he could have been standing on his brake pedal to no avail.
Was probably texting his squeeze at the truck stop.
I’ve seen a semi at a complete stop slide sideways of the crest of the roadway unto the shoulder. You are completely helpless. In North Carolina we get warnings about black ice conditions. Most of the time they are accurate.
I know it takes a lot longer for a truck to stop than a car, but it looked like the driver didn’t even try to stop.
(Watching 10pm FW local news now)
The roadway was a solid sheet of ice. The first responders had to bring their own bags of sand and litter to use around the wreckage just to be able to walk on the ice.