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Sunday, January 29, 2012

At least 10 people died in crashes that occurred after 3 a.m. Sunday when smoke from a fire blanketed Interstate 75 in north Florida. Many of the crashes occurred because drivers plowed into stopped cars. "It was happening on both sides of the road, so there was nowhere to go," said Steven Camps of Gainesville, who survived after pulling over and jumping out of his vehicle following a collision. "It literally looked like someone was picking up cars and throwing them."

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waiting for pat robertson's take....

Well thank God you're all right, Rogers.

People driving too goddamn fast for the conditions.

People driving too goddamn fast for the conditions.

I remember driving through a white out on a divided highway. It was one of those lake effect things with pretty well defined edges. We were heading one way at about 15 mph and getting near the end of the storm belt watching the cars coming in the other direction hitting the snow covered section at about 70 mph. They just kept sliding off the road into the ditch, bumper to bumper. Well, bumper to trunk, anyways.

You don't really have to be driving fast for you to get into an accident like that. Though a lot of times its like 1 or 2 drivers that freak out and all of a sudden come to a complete stop when they realize they cant see shit. Sort of why I always avoid groups of cars at whatever cost.

I really hate things like this, its so fucking unnecessary to die this way.

Tule fog. I-5. Google it.

LOL hope they were republicans.

Well thank God you're all right, Rogers.

Thanks, Chairman. I've driven into smoke before on Florida interstates, but never that affected much visibility, and have encountered some thick nighttime fog.

What gets me about this story is that there's nothing you could do, once in the no-visibility smoke, to make sure you were safe. At most you could pull off the road and hope there was flat ground over there.

LOL hope they were republicans.

#6 | Posted by jackass

What an ASS!!

This is what a compassionate Democrat has to say. What an appropriate name you have.

There needs to be a system in place to let people know to slow the F*k down, because some people will STOP, get out and get killed.

What gets me about this story is that there's nothing you could do, once in the no-visibility smoke, to make sure you were safe. At most you could pull off the road and hope there was flat ground over there.

#7 | Posted by rcade at 2012-01-30 09:33 AM

Why wouldn't a person see the smoke ahead and start slowing down before getting into it? I'm having trouble visualizing a situation where you keep going full speed into a cloud of smoke...

The road should have been never re-opened. There was a dense fog alert on top on the smoke. I have travelled I-10 and I-75 often where they closed it due to fog and or smoke.

LOL hope they were republicans.

#6 | Posted by jackass

Wrong again. They were all jackasses.

Why wouldn't a person see the smoke ahead and start slowing down before getting into it?

It happened at 3 a.m.

It happened at 3 a.m.

#12 | Posted by rcade at 2012-01-30 12:46 PM

Wouldn't they have seen the cloud ahead of them? I have encountered fog but nothing like this, so I'm not sure what they would have saw, but it seems anytime you see a cloud of anything ahead of you, you should slow down.

Why the fuck would you come to a complete stop? Did it not cross their minds that cars would be coming up behind them?

A few years ago I was driving to South Bend Indiana. In Chicago it was sunny, in Gary it got cloudy, past LaPorte it was whiteout conditions, caused by lake affect snow. I couldn't see anything in front of me, and I knew I couldn't stop.

Talk about white knuckle driving.

Just before reaching South Bend, the skies cleared.

On the way home, there were so many cars and trucks, that had rolled over in the median.

.

This is what a compassionate Democrat has to say. What an appropriate name you have.

#8 | Posted by Marty at 2012-01-30 09:50 AM | Reply | Flag

True... he left out, "too bad only 10."

"It literally looked like someone was picking up cars and throwing them."

Sounds like a bad Micheal Bay movie.

/Sorry that's redundant, isn't it?

In Chicago it was sunny, in Gary it got cloudy, past LaPorte it was whiteout conditions

Driven in a whiteout once.

Once was enuff.

Sad story.

RIP.

Be Well.

Wouldn't they have seen the cloud ahead of them?

They would have been in it before they could slow down much.

Why the fuck would you come to a complete stop?

Only takes one guy slowing down to bring traffic to a stop. But the plan, if you're going to stop, is to get the f**k off the road, put your hazard lights on and walk away from your car. The odds are, it's going to get rearended, but you don't need to be in it. If morons can hit a lit up police car in broad daylight, they can hit anything.

I couldn't see anything in front of me, and I knew I couldn't stop.

Just hope the tire tracks you're driving in belong to somebody who knows what they're doing.

#17 | Posted by dethspud
"Sounds like a bad Micheal Bay movie."

Redundancy flag. Sorry, Spud.

Redundancy flag. Sorry, Spud.

Spud already apologized for that.

Sounds like a bad Micheal Bay movie.
/Sorry that's redundant, isn't it?

Be Well.

need to invent/patent some kind of wifi in cars that let you know of other cars positions and speeds? Car to car comm? what a mess////RIP

seems like every year coming back from Maine we hit the thunderstorm of the century just west of Buffalo....put on the hazards and sometimes just exit off and wait it out....

And that Lake effect snow in NW Indiana in the winter is kooky - one time I had to pull over and crap cause my gut was so wrecked from white knuckling...it was very quiet since WB I90 was devoid of all traffic (found out it was closed)....

Trains are awesome - no need to steer! "restricted speed" signalling (be able to stop within half of the sight distance of an obstruction) but even they suffer from human failings and rear end each other time to time.

need to invent/patent some kind of wifi

Mercedes Bbenz was showing it off at the NAIAS about 5 years ago.

Ya I remember that but we all would need to convert to those Nazimobiles then (they took over Chrysler for a bit though) - I am talking about a smart phone app or something more universal...I am sure it's being worked on...

Wiki has a compilation of pileups throughout the last decade across the globe....

I remember being on I-75 a day before the semi hit plowed into the traffic that was stopped for Clinton's motocade just south of Flint MI in the nineties....

therefore,,,,

Democrat's cause pile ups!

(had to make this political but sheesh it's already post #25 - THe DR usuals are getting rusty....)

And that Lake effect snow in NW Indiana in the winter is kooky - one time I had to pull over and crap cause my gut was so wrecked from white knuckling...

Damn man. I've driven through some nasty lake effect but never like that LOL

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