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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 8:05am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Two years ago, but holy $&@#!

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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 9:02am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Oh my gosh-- that out of control truck must have plowed through those stopped cars like a wrecking ball.
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

What's particularly terrifying in the people in front probably had no idea it was coming until it hit. Altho there is one car scurrying up the right side of the road, suggesting that maybe the driver had glanced in his rearview mirror!
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 10:26am | IP Logged | 4 post reply



To just be bowled over without warning while at a dead stop?  I’ve had that nightmare!




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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 10:31am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Does anyone else have those dreams where you are hitting
the breaks but still moving forward slowly ... into
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 10:33am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Well, I will now...!!!
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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 10:53am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

JB: What's particularly terrifying is the people in front probably had no idea it was coming until it hit.

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Absolutely the first thing that went through my mind. How many of them were in the middle of a conversation (or cursing the weather) when a jack-knifing truck smashes them and the four cars ahead of them?
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 11:23am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

I was there in the immediate aftermath of that pileup.  I produce a show for Discovery (Canadian version) about the big highways in southern Ontario.  The 401 is the busiest in North America.  My crews covered the cleanup and recovery operations -- including that notorious yellow truck in the video.  We were there well into the night until the road maintenance team made the final preparations to get traffic rolling again.  I'll never forget the eerie feeling of driving the wrong way down a closed highway in the dead of night and stepping out into that empty wasteland.  This video is the perfect example of an avoidable collision.  The driver should have been adjusting for the conditions and focusing on the road ahead. We were all just grateful that it didn't turn to tragedy.
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 11:37am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

For some reason I feel particularly sorry for the people in the white van, at left. They saw all this happening in front of them, and still couldn’t stop.

I’m reminded of driving on the Trans-Canada highway in the middle of winter in my 1971 Beetle. I was what I thought was a safe distance behind a pickup truck when it suddenly slammed on its brakes. I ended up plowing into the back of it, and ending up with its license plate about a foot from my windshield. I was able to back out, and got out to assess damages. The trunk lid was completely caved in. It looked like the Hulk had sat on it. The driver made sure I was okay, then got quickly on his way. No talk of calling the cops or exchanging insurance info. Since I’d backended him it was technically my fault, but I suspect he realized he’d stopped WAY too suddenly for those winter highway conditions.

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Larry Gil
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I was in that mess ...just farther behind ...it was a 5 hour delay getting home
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Posted: 12 February 2019 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

What happens when an irresistible force meets an immova -- oh, never mind.
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Craig Markley
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It pisses me off to no end the number of people driving
in those conditions without their headlights on.
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