Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong
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deezler
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Less funny situation in Texas yesterday, 9 dead. Might have mostly had their loads secured properly, but driving this fast on ice is insane.
Video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1359893638617174019
Scary stuff.
Video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1359893638617174019
Scary stuff.
BigBlue1
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That's awful... just awful. In the video it didn't show what the road was like approaching this area but it seemed like the incoming traffic wasn't slowing down at all. Was it a sharp corner or a downhill or why didn't they have a chance to slow before coming to the giant pileup? And if it was that slippery that they could see the pileup but not slow down for hundreds of yards they sure shouldn't have been driving that fast. Sad for everyone involved.
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Rack 'em and stack 'em... Looks like lots of freight won't get delivered as promised. Must be Texas don't know what road salt is...
Sad but totally preventable.
Sad but totally preventable.
dodge man
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Anybody who has seen it ice up knows how fast it can happen. I little mist or drizzle makes it happen fast, plus in Texas that aren’t equipped like northern states.
Travelover
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Coming from Michigan, I've seen the road go from dry to pure ice over a stretch of a quarter mile. It is hard to believe unless you've experienced it and when it happens it is like someone turned off the friction machine, because when you touch the brakes you get nothing.
DavesTractor
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Kind of harsh? Quite a few people died in this crash.
Timely... a discussion in another thread touches base on the need to always say what you think, with no regard about the consequences.
Black ice is tricky... you don't know it's there until you are sliding sideways. That accident looks like it was on a bridge, they tend to freeze first.
Black ice is tricky... you don't know it's there until you are sliding sideways. That accident looks like it was on a bridge, they tend to freeze first.
A few thoughts on that TX pile up. DFW area is full of elevated highways, with a maze of ramps etc. Sometimes if feels like miles of snarled highways all elevated. They do little if any salting, and rely on minimal sand use. Most times I swear they just wait for the sun to melt it which it does by 10;00am on many ice and snow days. This coming Sunday-Tuesday will be a mess there with temps near zero for a couple nights and several inches of snow coming. I've been there with snow and ice at levels I would say are just another winter day up here, but there everything closes. After driving in that weather there I realized it isn't the roads that are dangerous, its the drivers who know nothing about driving in it. The locals who do drive on those days drive at normal speeds, 75 - 80 mph on a sheet of ice, weaving around cars until they wreck. But the black ice that caused the massive pile up was not wide spread. Areas just minutes away had no ice, so I'm sure the traffic was flowing fast and heavy, unfortunately.
