Holy Shit!!!! Video From the 193 CAR PILE-UP In Michigan

fluoride and gmo foods are dumbing down the masses....

The warning is you can't see anymore...pretty much like when we get the hard summer rains here. Slow down, lights on, even hazards when it all comes to a stop.

This just goes to show you, that even when you live in a state where you would expect drivers to know how to drive in the snow, people are actually selfish dickwads who are the best drivers around and really have somewhere important to get.

You see these morons anytime you're out driving in the snow, but jesus christ michigan. Jesus fucking Christ.

I have seen the dumbest shit like this in foreign countries where it's normal.

It has nothing at all to do with 'knowing how to drive in this stuff' just like talking on your cell phone and pulling into a motorcycle's path does. It's about selfishness and being unaware of your surroundings.

There is no job, no bill paying or grocery store list buying or any reason on this earth that makes travel on bad weather days sensible to me.

I have asthma, I wouldn't even drive to the Emergency hospital for an asthma attack in that kind of weather.

WTH is wrong with people! Nothing is worth that risk!
Stay home and stay safe and live to see another day.

I used to live up North (New Hampshire) and now I live in Texas. I won't even drive down here when the streets are wet as the other drivers are nuts! They tend to speed up when it rains.

Not worth getting my car mashed up or risking my car insurance over bad weather driving.

If I did still live up North, I'd have me an old run down car to drive during the winter, not my good car.

^^

From SE Michigan: The skies here today were wild. It would go from squall to sun and then huge ridges of clouds that looked like they were skimming across the ground moved in later.

That corridor along where this happened has alot of interstate traffic, also it is prone to high winds. It was ridiculously cold here though too and just changing a car battery out yesterday with my daughter I thought I had frostbite thru 2 layers of gloves after 10-15 minutes outside, absolutely brutal. I am surprised no one froze to death.

The first video was intense, I cringed thru the whole thing.

I didn't see tailgating but I did see driving too fast for conditions. The one truck who was driving at safe speeds (there at the end of the video) was able to come to a safe stop and not crash into someone in front of him. Unfortunately, some idiot will probably plow into him from behind. In this situation I think I would get out of the cab or car and run like heck.

only brain damaged fools would drive that fast in those weather conditions.

Michigan here.
In the video of the semi, it looks like the semis that crash are going pretty fast but I doubt they were going over 30. It's impossible to slow them that quickly, and the visibility is low so you might think there is nobody in front of you. Even if not, there is still no way to tell if you have 20 or 100 feet between the vehicle in front of you.

In the harshest of conditions I usually see cars going 30 on the highway and SUVs 40-45, with the occasional redneck in a lifted truck safely doing 55 or 60. With the exception of this pileup, a majority of the winter "accidents" are at near stop speeds at lights and stop signs, and into parked cars because you've stopped accelerating but are sliding at 4 miles per hour into an object.

The rest of them are slideoffs, where vehicles slide off the side of the road, safely into a snowbank.

I was driving about 15 down what I would barely call a hill, and I started fishtailing even when it barely seemed like I was moving. I gained speed gradually and managed to keep my car on the road until my car was full on sliding left then right, until i was up to about 45 miles per hour. And this was a hill of maybe 5 degree angle. No more than 10 for sure.

I realized I was going to slide off into the thick trees on either side of the road (no shoulder), so I waited until there was a clearing, and steered myself off into that snow bank. I didn't collide with anything but snow, and my car was on it's side, but a truck with a winch pulled me out and there was no damage to my vehicle. But I did have to wait for 8 hours in the snow trying to get service and find someone to tow me, and could barely feel my hands.

OP if this comment here:
Just wanted to say the storm was over and that's why I was driving in the first place, to get home before the next storm. (Which I was inevitably stuck in)

Indeed they are. I had a friend who had a narrow escape some 30 years ago when 20 or so people dies in a huge pile up in thick fog in the UK.

My ex sister in law showed me her 'weapons of mass destruction' (her quote) picking up my ex and my 1 year old at the airport in Munich and doing 135mph on the autobahn in dense fog...I wouldn't have driven more than 45mph in that non visibility.

Luckily there weren't any stopped cars.

Holly

They do it in Colorado too. Going 80-90 when black ice has been announced on the interstate. Its insane lol...

That´s insane

Thank god none of those trucks was hauling Hydrogen Sulfide, amonia, or other gaseous forms of pure evil.

don't get hit by any cars while doing so

Hopefully thousands died as a result of this, and their stupidity

I'm sure this has been said but why aren't they walking up the road and warning people instead of filming?

Genuine question. Is it a safety concern that they aren't?

I'm in Oz so we don't get snow like this in our towns and cities. So I really don't understand why they're not trying to warn people.

Only 1 dead. That's amazing!

I'm surprised too... 1 dead and only 16 injured.

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1) wow are people fucking dumb driving that fast in those conditions

2) by thirty seconds into the video, I would have been going down my side of the road, flashing high beams and laying on the horn to warn the others on the opposite side

3) fuck the retarded cameraman at :40 when he says - OH NO WATCH OUT - like THAT IS GOING TO HELP ?!?! nice non action warning fukktard. I stopped watching at :45

OMG!!!

I saw the same thing in the UK up North. Freezing fog and snow conditions, 20 meter visibility. I was white knuckle driving at 40mph and there where people blatting past me at 70-80 like it was a sunny day. I literally shouted at my window, "WTF are driving by? Sense of smell??"

LOL....do NOT do this! Get the hell out of the way.

Are you trying to get people killed?

Yeah there is nothing worse than waiting for a tow truck in the freezing cold. Especially when you said ahh fuck it I don't need a jacket I'm only gonna be outside for a second. But that's when you thank God you were at least smart enough to have a survival bag in the car with some extra warm clothes.

Every 6 months I adjust the bag for the climate. It has paid off more than once. One time I broke down on rt.80 on a sunday morning with a trailer and quad in tow the temp was 9. That sucked it took hours to find someone to tow me.

Another time that same trailer caught fire. Thank God some guys with a fire extinguisher stopped to help. Now I keep one of them in every car too.

Some people will never learn...

Jesus Christ that's horrible....


Watching that made me sick.