70 to 100 Car Accident!!! WARNING!!!!!

Ken N Tx said:
In Fort Fort Texas this morning...5 dead.. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 😱😱😱
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I HATE that massive trucks use the freeways. They obscure your field of vision, they needs tons of room to come to a stop, and they can't see automobiles unless they're within specific distances and in certain areas. I know it would be a massively expensive project, but nationwide designated trucking routes would save lives.
 
Murrmurr said:
I HATE that massive trucks use the freeways. They obscure your field of vision, they needs tons of room to come to a stop, and they can't see automobiles unless they're within specific distances and in certain areas. I know it would be a massively expensive project, but nationwide designated trucking routes would save lives.
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I have been against allowing transport trucks to share roadways with normal passenger vehicles for years.
 
Drivers in places like Texas seldom see snow/ice on the roads, and consequently they have little or no skills when driving under these conditions. Slowing down and leaving extra distance between vehicles is Not part of their training and experience. Then, when a freak storm hits, they are quickly in trouble.
This huge "polar vortex" has affected almost 2/3rds of the nation, and will result in a lot of wrecks and injuries/deaths.
 
Right! I don't suppose people in Texas are used to black-ice conditions so they don't know to slow down when conditions are right to form that thin frozen coating on a black-top surface (you can't see it when approaching it). Can't imagine it's covered in the licensing tests there either. Worst feeling in the world when you step on the brakes and you actually speed up while loosing all steering control 😲

RIP to all who died and condolences to families & friends. Very sad :(
 
old medic said:
WHAT?????? what are they suppose to drive on?????... The national road system is already there...
How about we keep the amateur drivers off it and on the back roads.
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what are they suppose to drive on? What I said - designated truck routes. As there too few of those, how 'bout we keep amateur truck drivers off the freeways? That wouldn't solve the problem, either, but it's a solution that's as helpful and well-thought-out as yours.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Is everyone blind in Texas, where drivers forget what a brake in a vehicle is used for?

Where drivers keep coming full-steam ahead piling into stopped vehicles and carnage in front of them?
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Texas does not have the monopoly on stupid drivers and driving. In the UK we drive on the left. For some that means their brain is left behind when they get into their car. Our interstate equivalent is called a motorway, most are three lanes wide. When there's a hazard ahead, causing lane closure, overhead signs denote the speed to reduce by, it gets ignored. In addition, overhead signs denote lane closure with a cross like this: "X" in red. These crosses are to ease the traffic into the remaining lanes, long before the hazard, the crosses get ignored. The result is often carnage at the point of lane closure.
The traffic scene in Texas looks sickening, sadly I have seen similar over here. My wife spent thirty years as a paramedic, she is only too aware that statistics are real people, real families and very real grief.
 
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Driving speed too fast for conditions. Where the hell are the truck drivers with their CB radios??? I guess they were too busy on their cell phones or listening to music on the radio. I got off the road in 2008 after driving 16 years over the road. Truckers prevented many of these accidents when I was driving by using the rolling road block method. Trucks going in the opposite direction would report the accident ahead. Then the trucks coming up on the accident would reduce speed coming to a crawl blocking traffic to prevent the pile up.
Murrmurr said:
how 'bout we keep amateur truck drivers off the freeways?
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Now a day's buddy, There wouldn't be very many trucks on the road.
 
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ProTruckDriver said:
Driving speed too fast for conditions. Where the hell are the truck drivers with their CB radios??? I guess they were too busy on their cell phones or listening to music on the radio. I got off the road in 2008 after driving 16 years over the road. Truckers prevented many of these accidents when I was driving by using the rolling road block method. Trucks going in the opposite direction would report the accident ahead. Then the trucks coming up on the accident would reduce speed coming to a crawl to prevent the pile up.

Now a day's buddy, There wouldn't be very many trucks on the road.
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My thoughts exactly, Pro.

Failing to drive accordingly for the conditions.

Here in Canada we slow down when roads, streets and highways become slippery and/or hazardous, and when at all possible, we stay off them completely.
 
Very sad for all the innocent victims. A little sad for truckers who feel they will be penalized if their load doesn’t arrive as scheduled. Not very sad for drivers who don’t think traffic warnings apply to them but angry at the damage they can cause.
Stay the #$&* HOME!
 
Murrmurr said:
If you mean that most truck drivers are non-professional, then oof! That's not good news.
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That's one of the reasons I quit driving an 18 wheeler. Too many truck drivers are trying to drive a truck like they drive their car. Can't do it rolling down the road with 40 tons. Hell half the truck drivers now don't even use their turn signals.
 
It's too long a story to go into just now but, ...... I just missed one of those , by the skin of my teeth , in Tennessee in a spring fog. And I was on a motorcycle !


"WHAT?????? what are they suppose to drive on?????... The national road system is already there...
How about we keep the amateur drivers off it and on the back roads."

I agree here !

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Per NBC Nightly News 130 vehicles / 65 hospitalized / 6 dead
To justify this if possible I lived in Chicago for 31 years. I moved to Houston and had to travel to Dallas/Fort Worth about once a month for a couple years. Flew there then rented a car to go to my connections. "Black Ice" is the culprit. Now, I am telling you I was shocked at how many vehicles I saw sliding all over the interstates there. I was like watching the Blues Brothers police chase. The story behind Black Ice is it is difficult to see and as slick as slick can be slick. But I was able to maneuver ever so slowly without one incident in all of my travels there. you would thing residents would know better. The thing is no matter how slow you are going hitting the brakes just sends you in to a slide mode.
 

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