Speeding driver crashes directly into plow while trying to pass a semi on snowy NY road, wild video shows

NY Post ^ | 01/19/2024 | Katherine Donlevy and Patrick Reilly

[ChicagoConservative27]

There’s snow reason to speed during winter storms.

Chilling dashcam footage captured the moment a driver in upstate New York crashed nearly head-on into a snowplow after trying to pass another truck.

The plow was driving along a two-lane road in the North Country region when the semi-truck’s headlights appeared ahead with a black sedan riding alongside it.

The passenger car — squarely in the plow’s path — desperately tried to speed up and overtake the semi-truck, but couldn’t gain enough space in the slush and snow on the narrow roadway.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I don't get these people who thing they can speed in snow.

[z3n]

not “directly”

They got clipped in the back quarter. It almost looked survivable depending on what happened to the car after the collision. If it had been a direct hit, or if the edge of the plow blade had hit any farther forward the driver probably would have been dead instantly.

[SaveFerris]

(I don’t get these people who thing they can speed in snow)

Physics - prudence - caution

These things are so old-fashioned.

It worked in the video game and in the movie!!

[SaveFerris]

I should have fixed that to “think”

[Boomer]

The snowy version of the Vanishing Point movie?

[fuente]

License should be permanently suspended.

[Red Badger]

That’ll buff right out...................

[MtnClimber]

Too Fast and Too Furious

[z3n]

[AnglePark]

Dang, you beat me to it!

[texas booster]

Link to the video:

Sedan verses snow plow in NY

You are correct ... not smart on the part of the sedan driver. Other than a totaled car ...

[FamiliarFace]

It even looks like the driver was trying to pass going on an incline.

Proof that people can be dumbasses.

[1Old Pro]

Some young kid in one of those little cars with a loud muffler thinking he’s a race car driver. He’s not, he’s just stupid.

[gundog]

“Vanishing Point” meets “Runaway Train.”

[know.your.why]

Physics - prudence - caution

F=MA can be a tough one for some people.

[Steely Tom]

Vanishing Point was one weird-ass movie.

[SaveFerris]

👍

[Darksheare]

“The commercials show the vehicle doing it!”
“I have 4 wheel drive!”
That’s two reasons why they do it.
And slamming into plows seems to be getting more common.
Listened to the scanner awhile back to an exchange between “Plow 1” and “Plow 2” where some idiot passed Plow 2 flying on County Route 22 here in Orange county ny, Plow 2 starts yelling for Plow 1 to lookout for an idiot as “he’s headed your way.”
Plow 1 goes “You mean this guy” and you heard a thud.
The speeder met Plow 1 head on near Mills urg road on a curve.

Next couple of things were people rear ending plows because they just didn’t pay attention to how much faster than the plow they were going.

[gundog]

Very well done, though. I grew up in a cable TV test market in the early ‘70s. Watched it at least a dozen times

[metmom]

And there are lots of those idiots.

I’ve seen it far too often when we lived in Upstate.