It's a law we can live with.
Posted on 03/28/2022 11:30:45 AM PDT by janetjanet998
At least 3 dead, others injured after pileup during snow squall in Pennsylvania
I haven’t seen one in person, thankfully, but I’ve seen enough of these on youtube to know that if you can get your car past the others, even if a slow roll with what momentum you have left, you need to get it the hell out of the way. If you can’t, and your car is disabled, you need to get WELL OFF the highway. The way some of these cars careen and get pin-balled around is nutz, specially when the trucks fly in. People are so attached to their cars they don’t think clearly.
A lot of times these are preventable too.
Not the weather, of course, but it’s usually the first idiot who gets hit, and doesn’t even pull their car well off to the side. They just sit there and refuse to move because they think that’s what you do until the police come. They are more worried about their insurance claim and the police report than what is actually going on around them. I saw a woman just last week who got rear ended leave here car in the middle lane of a three lane highway, and it was just a fender-bender!
I'm getting old, and don't like driving like I used to. I try to avoid driving at night, too.
There were some minor snow squalls on I-71 in Ohio yesterday... not anything like this. I typically drive about 5 miles over the 70 mph interstate limit... vehicles were passing me like I was pedaling a tricycle. I saw no police during a 4-hour trip.
It's a law we can live with.
THere are TWO clips...the YouTube clip is longer, and he does say that he is going to try to help those involved in the accident.
I think it was two versions of the same clip; one cut off sooner than the other. The guy’s language was atrocious, but I guess that’s how they teach English these days.
I almost hit some idiot woman who was standing in an open lane of the freeway next to her disabled car.
She was on her cell phone. I’m sure neither her nor the person she was talking to appreciated my horn.
Thanks for the update...
Wow!
Wife & I have driven that stretch of I-81 through snow showers, squalls, and storms many times in the past 3-decades...
Even if it was March, April, May or Sept, October, we always used to say, “we’re almost to Minersville & Frackville, watch for the snow...”
It would be almost as bad once we headed east on I-84 after Scranton... Frequent “warm-weather” snow showers & squalls...
That section of I-81 is 9n top of the mountain and has the worst weather. I’ve hit snow squalls there frequently when everywhere else is clear.
When you get down to Pine Grove it clears up.
I was running errands today.
I saw an elderly lady take a turn too wide and almost hit a bus. The bus driver was able to swerve to avoid her.
Then on the way home I had a 20-something female make an illegal left hand turn in front of me and cut me off. I was able to stop in time before a collision, but if the guy behind me had been tailgating, I’d’ve had him up my rear bumper.
I wish to God that cops still gave out tickets for moving violations.
In the last few months I have seen more illegal and just pi$$ poor driving than I have in my entire life til then.
And I ain’t a spring chicken.
I'm no spring chicken either. My night vision for driving is getting fuzzy and I work a job that has me starting at 4 in the afternoon and clocking out at 12.30 am. I travel The Garden State Parkway(NJ) and one night as I was getting on to the off ramp for my exit here comes this clown in reverse down the ramp! If I hadn't swerved to the right real quick he'd have hit me head on.
We get snow sometimes in May here in central Indiana, so I don’t think it’s climate change. Last year it was around Mother’s Day, and it snowed so hard, it took down a huge limb off our very mature mulberry tree. Luckily it didn’t hit our house.
Perfectly normal weather pattern in the Midwest.
Actually, unless it’s really necessary, remain in the car with the seatbelt fastened. Cars are designed to protect the occupant.
A few years ago, a friend had a minor crash. While he was standing on the side of the highway, another car crashed into him amputating his leg and giving him a major closed head injury. It took him about three years to die from the crash.
A few weeks ago, I was driving at night and hit a bump right at the expansion joint of a bridge. Being nighttime, I didn’t know I was on the bridge until I was on it. The bump released the energy from my shocks making the truck suddenly very light and putting the truck into a slide on the icy bridge. The people behind me go to see the side of my truck. At the end of the bridge, several cars had crashed into the guardrail after doing the same thing. The occupants were standing outside their cars and I was in an uncontrolled slide heading =right at them.
By the grace of God I was able to retain control but that was very scary.
Staying in your car works great until you’re sandwiched between 2 semis.
How often does that really happen?
Not sure, but it happened today.
There are always anomalies.
Through a previous job, my knowledge of passenger safety in vehicles is a bit above average. You are significantly safer inside your car than standing on the road completely unprotected.
Thanks for the info. I figure those folks on the side are glad they are alive despite their ill advised decision.
Sorry, I really did not think I had to mark that post as sarcasm.
You just never know do you?
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