Unbelievable multi vehicle pile up

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Amazingly nobody was killed

Just when you think it's over , it's not

It's the speed they're driving at given the road conditions that gets me

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Reminds me of the coin machines in the arcade where they eventually give way, very idiotic.
 
Good thing the lorry drivers were not driving like some of them. Some of those cars seemed to either go over the side of the rod or hard into whatever barrier was there, either way didn't look good for those involved.
 
Great! Very funny, like the Blues Brothers but without the music. Couldn't beleive the idiots were still walking around in the middle of the road while it wa still happening.
 
Agreed - i don't think I'd have been walking amongst it.

I was surprised nobody had their lights on although it may just be that they don't show up on camera given I saw no brake lights either.
 
Some people will always drive like the conditions are normal...that said if these are your normal conditions I've friends that have snow and ice for half the year sometimes more then you get prepared for it
 
A good representation of how the majority of people drive and expect to live on a daily basis - without any regard for road condition the speed they are moving or their driving talent. Just life - as we know it, nothing out of the ordinary. sad to say....
 
It really is scary how some people seem to think they they've become invincible when they climb into a motor vehicle. :eek:
 
Wow, talk about a chain reaction...

I guess at least they were probably all equipped with snow tyres, hence the higher speeds?
 
ACW said:
I guess at least they were probably all equipped with snow tyres, hence the higher speeds?
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That was my thought especially where cars were steering around into the snow trying to avoid the carnage and making good progress but only to find no where to go in the end.
Fairly sure there is someone on foot get sent flying when hit by one of the cars in the latter part of the video.
 
numpty's!!! the roads are full of them, not much pleasure in driving anymore. :eek:
 
ACW said:
Wow, talk about a chain reaction...

I guess at least they were probably all equipped with snow tyres, hence the higher speeds?
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It depends on what kind of snow tyres they have maybe- here you can have studded or non-studded (or you could have the uk ones you brought with you from the UK that are actually rubbish!). Studded tryes are fantastic and allow you to drive on sheet ice with no problems almost!
 
When will people understand that that big bit of glass in front of the driver/front seat passenger is there to look through. Not so they can admire the end of their bonnet!

Snow tyres are neither here nor there, you should drive at a speed that you can stop if something happens in front of you. That relies on 2 things. Driving at a sensible speed and looking beyond the end of your bonnet. Neither of those 2 things were on show in that video.
 
I cant believe the people standing in the road as the cars keep on ploughing in !!! madness
 
Idiots.... how fast, oh look its snowing and icy lets do 80mph and then stand in the road as other idiots do the same :confused:

I could not see any hazard lights either which MIGHT have warned the others behind...

I remember a few years back I was heading down the motorway and it was so foggy you could not see more than a few feet ahead and I was actually watching the acts eyes at the side of the road to find my turn off and people were hammering past me like I was standing still. NO WAY would they be able to stop if something happened ahead.
 
I could simply say "only in America" but I think the problem here is cruise control and lack of awareness. It happens every year and its not just America. People just sit back, cruise control on and dont have time to react when something bad happens up ahead.

In icy conditions I wouldn't dream of doing it.
 
Brainless. As other's have said, you should drive at a speed according to the conditions. It's plainly obvious that a good majority were not prepared for when things go wrong.

Bonus point for those cars that made it into the field though!
 
It's the lack of anticipation that does it.
The 'Oh that won't happen' mentality. Same happens when it's bucketing down and everyone is sat up the backside of the car infront at 80mph.
All it takes it one reason to anchor up and you're looking at a multi-car pileup.

Stupidity, sheer stupidity.

I'd love to be a traffic cop. I'd give out tickets for stupidity all day long....and enjoy it
 
Steve Smith said:
I would ban cruise control. How can you be in control when the car is controlling its own speed?


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Because when you touch the brake pedal, regardless of whether cruise is on or not, the result is the same, the car slows or stops which ever is your intention.
 
Steve Smith said:
I would ban cruise control. How can you be in control when the car is controlling its own speed?


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I'm sure it's an urban myth, but I love the story that Winnibago (in the US) had to put warning notices in their vehicles after a lady set the cruise control to 55MPH on an Interstate then went to the galley and started making coffee.
Camper wagon crashed! (surprise) She took the company to court and got compo! (No, I don't really beleive it either but it's a good pub story:))
 
I read that too. Wouldn't surprise me if it was an urban legend.

Mind you, it equally wouldn't surprise me if it were true!
 
Definite urban myth, I heard it was a bloke who did it.
 
August bank holiday weekend on the motorway at 6am, it was lashing it down , bouncing off the road it was that hard

You couldn't see far, the road had lots of standing water

I was doing about 50 when a BMW m3 came past me doing at least 80 if not more

About 10 minutes later the traffic slowed because there were bits of BMW all over the motorway , a m3 smashed to bits facing the wrong way on the hard shoulder and a guy with his hands on his head looking at it in disbelief

Looked to me like he'd aquaplaned , hit the central reservation barrier and spun a couple of times

Luckily it was a 1 k******d incident

Edit , why when I typed gentlemans appendage and head did it change it to fracster
 
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Somewhat in contrast, I was pleasantly surprised by the absence of 80+ idiots westbound on the M4 during the storm on the Monday before Xmas.

Based on my previous experiences on British motorways in rough and very wet weather, I had been fully prepared to pull of the motorway if they had appeared, but they did not, even after the traffic got a bit lighter beyond Reading. I pinned my speed to no more than 50 mph, and was being passed at a quite leisurely pace by relatively few vehicles.

By the time we got a bit past Membury and the full force of the storm hit, everyone was down to barely 30 mph, which endured to just outside Swindon when the weather improved and I turned off toward Gloucester.
 
About ten years ago, I was driving from Carlsbad to Los Angeles, in heavy rain/sleet in a hired Ford Focus. The driving conditions were atrocious, yet folks were driving way too fast and there were dozens of crashes, including a couple of large pileups. I was glad to get to the end of the journey unscathed, because I have never witnessed another driving experience like it.
 
wack61 said:
Edit , why when I typed gentlemans appendage and head did it change it to fracster
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I think that you may have incurred the wrath of the anti-swearing nanny app Darren:) So when you type in d******d it reads d******d :runaway:

Edit Mmmm...... so it wasn't gentleman's lower appendage and head, perhaps it was dick-head?
 
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I think it more likely the mods are having a laugh
 
I've seen a few times where I've come to gantry signs on the M6 just out of the Variable Speed section around Brum it says FOG! the car that has been alongside me pulls ahead sticks his fog lights on and zooms off at 90! :eek: and it was foggy - as if the fog lamp will save him... just like those BABY ON BOARD things....:mad::mad:
 
welshwizard645 said:
I've seen a few times where I've come to gantry signs on the M6 just out of the Variable Speed section around Brum it says FOG! the car that has been alongside me pulls ahead sticks his fog lights on and zooms off at 90! :eek: and it was foggy - as if the fog lamp will save him... just like those BABY ON BOARD things....:mad::mad:
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Yes those baby on board stickers on rear windscreens WTF ?:mad:
 
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