100-car pileup in Texas fog kills two, injures dozens

Well..they now have a reason to be thankful.

Insane that anyone would be driving @ 70 mph in FOG.

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I've been on I-68 going west of Cumberland, MD in fog so dense you can't see the front of your car... and yet other drivers (soccer Moms in suvs) - apparently driving by memory - will fly by at 70 mph.

The road will go from clear to blind fog in a matter of seconds because of the elevation I guess.

I stayed in the truck lane and followed the flashing lights, but it was terrifying.

I saw another report saying it was over 500 vehicles.

I know! The stupidity boggles my mind. Poor people though. I still feel sorry for them.

It's true, some drivers are not fazed in the least by fog. I can't even imagine why someone would drive that fast under those conditions.

SUV soccer moms are some of the most careless and irresponsible drivers in this country. I think many of them have a sense of entitlement anyway, and then they get behind the wheel of a large vehicle and they think they rule the road.

That's one of the greatest epidemics in the human species.

We had horrible fog in Toronto last night, and I was comfortably driving 100km/h + on the highway.

It's the fucking idiots that forget how to drive and are doing 60 on the highway that cause this shit.

Dumbasses

Isn't 100 km/h equal to around 62 mph?

So you're saying that others driving 60 mph cause the problems?

Where's your logic?

At any rate, it is irresponsible to drive 60 in foggy conditions.

100 km = 62 mph.
60 km = 37mph

How can you drive if you can't see?

If it's patchy fog, maybe 100 km is possible, but miles of fog.. you must be insane.

If there's a car stopped in front of you, or an accident, what do you do?

Just pray that there isn't?

Drive through it?

Assume you're the only person on the road that matters?

I meant 60km/h, my bad.

It's a 4 lane highway, and it was later at night. I could see lights from about 50 feet and was completely fine.

It's the people who are always tapping their breaks, and are going way under the speed limit who make the roads dangerous. They would cause the initial crash, and chaos ensues.

I see where you're coming from, though.

Ok, so you were driving around 35-37 mph . . . that's more reasonable as long as one can see a good distance ahead, cautiously moving along at that rate. But yes, anyone going 60 mph or certainly higher in bad fog, are taking a huge chance and risking not only their lives but others as well.

Thanks for clarifying that.

= 18 wheel semi from Mexico.

UPDATE:

Updated at 6:50 p.m. ET: Two people died and scores of people were hurt Thursday when up to 140 vehicles collided in in dense fog Southeast Texas in a pileup that left trucks twisted on top of each other and authorities rushing to pull survivors from the wreckage.

The chain-reaction collision occurred in extremely foggy conditions at about 8:45 a.m. Thanksgiving Day on Interstate 10 southwest of Beaumont, a Gulf Coast city about 80 miles east of Houston.

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