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 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.