Your basic 50-car pileup

Wow. On the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Slick-Roads-Cause-Multiple-Accidents-Snow-Philadelphia-234960741.html

 

And people make fun of Southerners not being able to drive in winter weather?

 

About 70 cars involved in this one in Milwaukee, 1 fatality with it.

DOT camera footage: http://bcove.me/mu9yo09a

 

Good gosh, how do those people not see a dozen cars piled together in the middle of the highway? Are they coming over a hill or something because based on the cam footage it didn't look like the snow was that thick.

 

They were busy texting.

 

The problem was that it was really cold, so the snow got heated by the cars going over it, melted, then froze the instant the car was off it. So the snow wasn't that deep, but the roads were super-icy. (At least that's what they said on the news. Also said that the one fatality was someone who wasn't wearing their seat belt.)

 

Southerner living in Boise. All I hear is "we grew up here, we know how to drive on icy roads." Then the first snow/ice of the season comes, and crashes and slide offs everywhere. Because the dumb asses drive like it's sunny and 75. Because they know how to drive in it. Slow. Down.

 

Whole lotta people driving too fast for conditions in that weather.

 

I meant the snow wasn't so thick that they shouldn't have had trouble seeing the wrecks from enough distance to slow down - even on ice.