[Alberta's Child]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

If you realize that the highway is icing over it’s as much a clue to stay off the roads as high floods or standing water on a highway is.

[a fool in paradise]

Here’s some tail light footage from early in the pileup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7rxczzMSE