Posted on 03/13/2022 7:42:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Wintry weather made travel difficult in parts of the Northeast on Saturday, including in central Pennsylvania, where more than 70 vehicles were involved in a crash along State Route 581.
The crash forced troopers in Cumberland County to shut down the roadway for hours to allow crews to clean up the wreck. Buses were also brought in to transport people involved in crashes to the local fire department.
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Plus high winds...40 to 60 mph gusts yesterday in South Central PA.
—> Despite having the second highest fuel taxes in the nation
… and siphoning (stealing) billions from the turnpike fund.
“Drivers should have learned by now that high speeds on slippery roads lead to crashes.”
It also doesn’t help when you’re in the middle of a long, tail-gating train of cars going 80 mph in the left lane.
“Electric cars are immune to any hazardous road conditions?”
Of course they are! EVs can do anything and innately avoid all danger, risks and accidents.
(PS — your sarcasm detector needs work today. It’s broken)
Don't forget tailgating, which is a huge factor. Nobody seems to think following one car length behind another vehicle at 70 mph or more is any big deal, but it renders your reaction time completely useless.
Ev’s automatically re route themselves to Florida in the winter
Illinois is no different. There is perpetual construction on the Northeast Illinois highway system (Chicago). The democrat politicians keep the unions busy with high-paying construction jobs repairing roads that are built with substandard materials. I can go on and on…
In North Dakota the temps would be 17 degrees andbit would be raining.
It was fun to play the licence plate game of the cars in the ditch.
Texas.
Oklahoma
Arizona
Amazing that 73 vehicles with 43 of them being damaged would result in only 10 people being injured and no life-threatening injuries.
While far from perfect cars today are much safer than from years gone by. Also since SUVs are more and more popular they also offer greater protection than sedans and coupes.
Thank liberal governors for this.
I drove through Virginia and it was hell’s blizzard, and when I reached West Virginia so called inbred, the roads were spitting clean of snow, all sanded and salted, no pile ups!
Depends. A roll over with a heavy SUv frame crushing you from under has been a problem. That being said my side airbags and the strong frame on my NIssan Titan saved my life. The truck ran sideways out of control at 70mph and ran into a tree line at about 40 mph sideways and 20 mph forward way. It cut a huge tree, huge limbs fell from the tree it impact rested on, crushing the cab and nearly crushing me in the process. I had zero injury, except for when I crawled on glas getting out and cut my hand.
One or two days each year Atlanta has ice on the roads. Just stay home, lest you die.
It’s a long rural state with a lot of highways.
According to Comrade Buttigieg, if everybody drove electric self-driving cars without steering wheels and brake pedals, this would never happen.
I-81 is terrible even in good weather. A trip that should have taken me 4 hours took 7 traveling on 81. Summer construction is brutal - you sit in traffic for that. So next trip I went North off Interstates and took just 4 hours.
Read about a similar pile up out west sometime last week where a woman was charged a $9,000 tow bill to extract her vehicle from the mess.
Lots of hills too.
Even so, if these cars were going at high speeds, there would have been more serious injuries. The picture indicates that the accidents happened on a downhill stretch of highway. I suspect that most vehicles were going slow but could not stop due to the road conditions, and the majority of accidents were low impact.
My daughter got in a fender bender with her SUV (common Chevy model) and it was five weeks to get parts. Let’s go Brandon!
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