Bountiful Utah 1/21/2012, VERY SLICK ROADS. Meyhem caught on camera

[OutHouse]

Note: Whoever said to pump brakes is an idiot.

did you drive before ABS?

 

[Gooberlx2]

if its weather like that you just plain stay home.

100% this. Still, the community could have helped out a little by blocking access at the top of the hill after, say, the first dozen or so accidents.

Some of those idiots were obviously going way too fast for conditions though. Wow.

On another note: Skiing yesterday was fucking awesome!

 

[SpatiallyAware]

+1 on most of that being issues with speed. There was an older truck who was seriously flying... and very very lucky he didn't hit anything worse than a fence.


Also lots of $50k+ new SUVs going WAY too fast, with idiots driving them. That red benz in particular..

 

[T_Yamamoto]

stupid americans

 

[trmiv]

Man that car at the end smacked the shit out of that truck. Good thing no one was on the passenger side.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Hey shit for brains, stay in the car!

I don't understand the mentality to get out of the car when this starts going on. In another video, people were jumping from their vehicles once they started sliding downhill. WTF!?

 

[masterxfob]

so that's what they do for fun in Utah...

 

[Dulanic]

lol auto Parallel parking.

this is why i run studs during the winter.

LOL the parallel parking job at 2:45 is hilarious.

 

[randomrogue]

That snow is awesome!

However, those people are assholes. How about getting the triangles and flares out of your cars and shutting the damn road down!?

 

[OutHouse]

That snow is awesome!

However, those people are assholes. How about getting the triangles and flares out of your cars and shutting the damn road down!?

we are not required to carry those items in our cars.

 

[ElFenix]

LOL the parallel parking job at 2:45 is hilarious.

was that car struck by another? no lights on it

 

[randomrogue]

Like everyone else the snow started here about 2 days ago. Although definitely not as cool as that. However I've had a shovel and gravel in my car for months, triangles, flares, a blanket, and all the good stuff. This is just common sense.

Besides, they could have figured out another way to shut the road down. I wonder if they called the cops immediately.

 

[Phoenix86]

A lot of it is having most drivers being experienced on driving with ice or snow. Go to some Southern States that rarely get ice or snow, and even a inch paralyzes them. While a thousand miles to the North, six inches of snow is handles by those drivers with little problems.

But it only takes a few nuts driving way too fast for the conditions to really screw things up for everybody.

The southern states don't get snow, we get "wintery mix". What that really means is whatever precipitation falls (sleet/rain/snow), melts, and re-freezes during the evening=thin layer of ice over everything.

One of the worst days here in the DFW area recently was 1/4 in. precip. when it was ~33-34 degrees, then it dropped to the 20s. You don't see that up north.

No amount of experience will let you drive on sheets of ice. Then you have to factor in the lack of experience and it's a clusterfuck. :awe:

 

[bruceb]

I was expecting to see a lot more carnage based on the title. All things considered, about 4-5 vehicles with signifigant damage. A few spin outs, a couple 360's and some curb hits. Could have been much worse.

 

[BoomerD]

We used to live just a few miles north of Bountiful. There are some fairly steep hills there...and in the winter, they become treacherous as hell.

 

[Dulanic]

The southern states don't get snow, we get "wintery mix". What that really means is whatever precipitation falls (sleet/rain/snow), melts, and re-freezes during the evening=thin layer of ice over everything.

One of the worst days here in the DFW area recently was 1/4 in. precip. when it was ~33-34 degrees, then it dropped to the 20s. You don't see that up north.

No amount of experience will let you drive on sheets of ice. Then you have to factor in the lack of experience and it's a clusterfuck. :awe:

I remember when I lived in Flower Mound and I couldn't leave work because of one of those evenings... sucked so bad. I spent an hour trying to get up the on ramp to the freeway before I gave up until they sanded it some.

 

[96Firebird]

One of the worst days here in the DFW area recently was 1/4 in. precip. when it was ~33-34 degrees, then it dropped to the 20s. You don't see that up north.

LOLWUT

That happens all the time, we just salt the roads in preparation...

 

[Dulanic]

LOLWUT

That happens all the time, we just salt the roads in preparation...

You have to realize they see this once a year if that. They don't use or have salt. Yeah we can see spots of black ice but we don't see full roads of nothing but ice. I've lived in both areas.

 

[JimmiG]

I woke up at 3:40 a.m. this morning by the snowplough... which was a bit annoying.. But that would have been worse...

Are even basic services collapsing over there now?

 

[Rage187]

That is an obscene amount of white cars.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pump your brakes you stupid morons.

I'd be willing to bet that nearly all of those cars had ABS brakes. It didn't matter, those people were just along for the ride.

 

[96Firebird]

You have to realize they see this once a year if that. They don't use or have salt. Yeah we can see spots of black ice but we don't see full roads of nothing but ice. I've lived in both areas.

I realize that, but saying we don't get that weather is just wrong.

And some of the side streets around here are like hockey rinks when it happens, luckily the main roads get attention.

 

[Phoenix86]

LOLWUT

That happens all the time, we just salt the roads in preparation...

That's another thing that has nothing to do with experience with driving on snow/ice which was kinda my point.

Tires, salt (lolwut), sand, different conditions, etc. Everyone always points to experience, because clearly the people in this video reek of experience...

I have never lived up north but just about everyone I talk to who has, and then moved down here always comments "we don't get this crap back home". So while I'm sure you do see those weather conditions your -road- conditions simply aren't anything like what we get here. Perhaps I should have clarified.

 

[Gibson486]

Reminds me when my car had Eagle RSA tires.... I am not kidding either...

 

[drebo]

Words cannot begin to describe how utterly pissed off I'd be if some dickshit came by driving in weather he obviously doesn't know how to drive in and hit my car.

I'd be out there with a fucking rifle shooting out people's tires.