I had to post this....Really Bad Accident...Wake up call to all of us.

[MasseyWV]

Is there any more information about the video? Where was it taken? When did it happen? Etc...

 

[shortthrow50]

it was me. im ok. i drove in the slush on lost control while not adjusting my driving conditions for the way the roads were that day. Im an idiot i know. Never mind the truck diver who probably had a really bad day as well becuase of my stupidity. :thumbsup:

 

[SPIKER]

Last weekend, (8 days ago) I almost took out a bridge abutment due to a young girl merging onto the 60MPH highway I was on. Girl cut right in front of a woman driving in the low speed lane who swerved into/@ me. If I had held my ground and not taken the median she would have pitted herself on the front of my low slung T-Bird (she was driving exact same type SUV, same color as the video) mid 2000's Tahoe. the girl didnt look and the woman didnt look. Left me with the choice of putting her over the bridge as I'm 90% sure she would have rolled over the top of the bridge or maybe bounce off the guard rail & bridge. I managed to not hit anyone only because of being aware of people around me. I've been in the ditch 3 or 4 times in my 30 years of driving never hit anyone (been hit in parking lots & at stop lights where other drivers ran into my car.) (ya knocked on some wood.) Stuff happens though and a split second is all it takes for things to go wrong. 8 or 9 yrs back similar road conditions watched a Pontiac Grand Prix take out a guard rail I was in same spot as the camera car in the video with woman & 3 kids in car with me. said watch this girls this guys is going to wreck... he did too t-boned the rail... he got into the slush on side of the road (55 zone 4 lane) Pulled him right into the rail dead center of his rather new car... I managed to dodge all the parts of the car flying off & stopped in plenty of time.

the SUV got out of the driving path into the slush which pulls a car/tuck pretty bad the wide tires on SUVs makes it worse than. The driver being inexperienced then yanked the wheel and let up on the gas onto the brake slightly all beginners mistakes or someone not experienced/paying attention enough to keep themselves out of danger.

Some people drive TOO slow and back up a dozen cars behind them which also creates issues. This leads to more wrecks than running the @ speed limit proven often in many cases. There is an slightly off balance guy who drives around our area with a bunch of fake cats glued to his car flashing lights and cameras on it his max speed is about 40MPH in 55+ zones. in town he does 20 MPH and has been stopped for creating issues and has tried to file law suits against "aggressive drivers" does all he can to provoke people... He has several cases against cops too due to him getting stopped for impeding traffic. I have not seen him in a while so hopefully some judge took his driving privileges away.

Mark

 

[The Haymaker]

I am a commercial driver and not ten minutes ago posted this on a coworkers FB page:

"Bottom line is the driver will have to live with that for the rest of his life. Slow the flick down people, my clean conscience depends on it."

 

[Pettrix]

it was me. im ok. i drove in the slush on lost control while not adjusting my driving conditions for the way the roads were that day. Im an idiot i know. Never mind the truck diver who probably had a really bad day as well becuase of my stupidity. :thumbsup:

I don't understand. What do you mean it was you?

 

[Pettrix]

Undivided highways like that are VERY dangerous, even when dry. Divided highways are much safer as it prevents head-on collisions which almost always result in fatalities.

 

[shortthrow50]

I don't understand. What do you mean it was you?

was just a statement about the " poor people" that caused the accident. I say poor truck driver

 

[The Haymaker]

was just a statement about the " poor people" that caused the accident. I say poor truck driver

Word!

 

[yelbike]

Sad, very sad. Don't blame the SUVor the tires, could have been a car with blizzaks with same result. Their time was up. I don't know why they got sucked into the slush but that was the begining of the end. Their luck went down hill from there. Unlucky they clipped the cube van, from all traction was lost (4wheel skid) and their fate was seal. No driver training would have saved them.

Yes they could have slowed down, or stayed home, who knows the roof could have collasped.

I just find people are quick to pass judgement. Their time was up.RIP.

 

[Reg]

Is there any more information about the video? Where was it taken? When did it happen? Etc...

While I share your curiosity on those details, I remind myself that those details don't really matter.
It can happen anytime, anywhere under similar conditions with similar driving behavior.
Lets not stereotype "SUV drivers who are all too confident about their AWD/4WD transmissions (and all weather tires, ABS, whatever_all_else)".
We really can't determine if that was the case in this instance, however much experience we have of what appears to be behavior by people in similar vehicles under similar conditions.

You can hang back, you can go WAY slow, but if you in the position of the truck driver coming the other way there is little/nothing you can do about it.

Undivided highways are inherently more dangerous than divided, not that divided are "safe", just have a better chance of a less bad outcome when accidents do happen.

 

[dmccarty]

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Even deciding to floor it can save your life, as once happened to me when I was stopped at a red light. I happened to look in the rearview mirror and saw a semi coming up behind me with smoke coming off his tires and his trailer starting to jackknife. I floored it and blew through the light, causing him to miss me by what seemed like a fraction of an inch as we both went through the light rather quickly.

Spending quite a few years in South FLA you learn to drive in REALLY bad rain. We had a rain storm last year that reminded me of the downpours that were common in South FLA. What was so dangerous about these heavy rain is that sometimes people would just stop in the road. Even pulling off the road is dangerous because of the traffic behind you.

If I have to pull of the side of the road I always look for a long straight away with no hills. If I am in the truck, which has 4x4, I look for an overpass to park BEHIND if the ground looks ok. So many of the bad accidents are from smoke, fog or heavy rain causing traffic to stop or slow down which is not seen by oncoming traffic.

In heavy traffic that suddenly has to slow down, I always watch behind me to see what is happening. A couple of times I pulled off the road to keep from being hit since the oncoming vehicle was not going to stop in time.

So many idiots follow way too close.....

A couple of years ago I was a bit late from leaving work. A sudden rain storm hit. I just got on the highway when the traffic STOPPED. I could see quite a few cars up ahead that had wrecked. It took a good 90 minutes for one lane to clear. As I drove down that one lane, there was carnage for a couple of miles. I lost count of the number of wrecked cars at 40-50. Most of them had been following too closely when a car braked or slowed down. Then boom. Chain reaction crash and there would be 3,4,5, or more cars just stacked up.

That rain storm and bad driving did hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.

If I had left work on time I would have been in that mess but likely not hit since I put put down the road and try to maintain 3-4 seconds between the car in front of me.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

I am a commercial driver and not ten minutes ago posted this on a coworkers FB page:

"Bottom line is the driver will have to live with that for the rest of his life. Slow the flick down people, my clean conscience depends on it."

Yeah, I thought of the truck driver too. If he survived.

Later,
Dan

 

[jymbee]

Is there any more information about the video? Where was it taken? When did it happen? Etc...

The closest I've seen to what seems to be a reliable source was posted on a Russian news site. A rough Google translation from that page (http://www.vladimir.kp.ru/daily/25841.5/2813489/):


Visitors to the Internet in full to discuss an accident that occurred Feb. 24 at the village Omutischi Petushki area. Off-road "Nissan" wagon collided with a counter: pickup shattered into small pieces, the driver was killed instantly. Video of the accident, written subsequent to the DVR, "Nissan" car traveled around almost all the online forums. "Tin" - so dubbed some of its users. Official sources of information, in particular, the Office of Traffic Police of the Vladimir region expressed not so emotional.

- February 24, about 18 hours and 20 minutes on the 109-kilometer highway M-7 Volga car driver ｫNissan Navaraｻ - Moscow resident born in 1980 lost control and performed on a collision with a motor vehicle "GAZ", - said Mikhail Maslov, an inspector Traffic Police Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir region. - As a result, ｫNissan Navaraｻ drove into oncoming traffic and collided with a Freightliner truck and a car "VAZ 21723". From his injuries SUV driver died at the scene. In addition, the driver suffered "Lada." With numerous cut wounds a person was hospitalized. Now the traffic police department investigation Petushki district conducted investigation verification.

- Driver "Nissan" was named Alexander. He was a good guy, an experienced driver. I was driving home to his wife and children - he has two of them ... - A message on one of the sites put a familiar victim. - The funeral will be held February 28 in Balashikha ... For us it is a tragedy ... It's such grief. No one understands how it all could happen. "

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I am just posting this because a friend of mine emailed this link to me to show me just how fast it can happen. I thought by posting this everyone could see how devastating and fast this crash happened and those of you that have young drivers ...it might be good to sit them down in front of your computer and let them see this....just might save their lives...

Vidvir

I had to watch it three times to see everything that happened. It was about 4 seconds from the time the driver drove into the slush and overcorrected until the head-on. I think his air bags popped when he sideswiped the van, you can see the white through the driver's window. He probably couldn't see the semi coming, and may not have even been able to reach his steering wheel.

 

[MasseyWV]

I had to watch it three times

Only 3?

I've lost count of how many times I watched it, while trying to fathom the massive sudden impact and how that vehicle came apart, as if it were made of balsa wood. It's almost unreal, yet all too real.

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Years ago I witnessed the extended-cab PU in front of me cross the median and go head-on into a tractor-trailer carrying an 80k lb load at 70 mph on the Interstate. The PU exploded as in the video, and took out the front axle on the big rig. The only recognizable PU truck part left was the engine block.

It occurred in daylight, 7:00 am, perfect weather and road conditions, but a tire blew out on the PU. No survivors in the PU, and the big rig driver couldn't let his 7-year old daughter come out of the tractor because of the visible carnage. It happened as he was approaching an overpass so there was nowhere the big rig driver could go to avoid the collision.

 

[dmccarty]

Years ago I witnessed the extended-cab PU in front of me cross the median and go head-on into a tractor-trailer carrying an 80k lb load at 70 mph on the Interstate. The PU exploded as in the video, and took out the front axle on the big rig. The only recognizable PU truck part left was the engine block.
...

There was a very bad accident on I40 last year between a semi, a PU, and a couple other cars. There was quite a bit of confusion over who was at fault but the last I read the semi driver was arrested and charged. The semi hit the rear of the PU at a very high speed yet kept on driving. It was hard to tell the PU from the semi. The PU driver died.

Decades ago I saw a small station wagon, I think it was a Toyota, that was hit in the rear by a semi. It looked like a giant had picked up the station wagon and put it rear first into a garbage disposal. The "shredding" stopped just behind the front seats. The semi went off the side of the highway so I think the semi driver was ok. Not sure about the driver of the station wagon. I THINK they might have been ok but if there had been any passengers behind the driver's seat I don't think they could have survived... I hope there were no kids back there....

Later,
Dan

 

[ruffdog]

I grew up on a state highway that was known for bad accidents. One was during similar road conditions as the video when the car lost control in the center slush and was hit by a oncoming semi. We called for help and I went down to help(unfortunately experienced by now). The car was tore in two and one guy was laying on his back in the roadway. I don't remember seeing any injuries but he was shivering really bad. I layed my coat on him to keep him warm and stayed with him till emt's came. I later learned he died.

The jeep doing a head-on with a grayhound bus was very bad too.....the highway is now divided......less people die now.........

 

[ruffdog]

We would be outside working or inside the house and hear tire screeching and would wait for the big bang. Many times we would call the sheriff just from the sound.

 

[Blast Chamber]

We would be outside working or inside the house and hear tire screeching and would wait for the big bang. Many times we would call the sheriff just from the sound.

Just curious, what highway was that?