I remember when I was a little kid I used to think a pile up was when cars crashed so hard that went on top of each other, so a 70-car pile up would be 70 cars stacked vertically... It made a lot more sense when I found out what it actually meant
@@saladasss2092 We are notoriously bad at judging the danger level of situations unless it goes wrong. Unfortunately that includes potentially deadly situations, where only others can learn from your mistakes.
I'm always scared of driving cause of how many idiots are on the road. Imagine getting angry at someone and possibly killing yourself by accident because of that. Or worse, killing innocents.
@@Walamonga1313 yeah, I quit watching those videos on TH-cam they don't help. I don't interact with crazy, let them do whatever stupid ass stuff they want to and put as much distance between you and them as possible, it takes two to tango.
This. Personally, I'm of the general idea that I am a good driver so long as I keep in mind that I'm libel to fuck it up at any point like any other person and aim to drive accordingly at all times. Which means driving with a sense of humbleness and cautiousness at all times. In general since I'm into motor racing and the likes, I study driving to a higher degree than most would be bothered to because it's my hobby. I do all the driving for my family and stuff because it's in everyones best interest as they feel the safest when I'm at the wheel compared to either of my parents. And I generally feel safer when I'm in control too. But the general rule I give when people ask me how to drive in the safest manner I always say "assume anybody is gonna move, switch or stop at any lane at any time at any place, and drive accordingly." Essentially, drive as if everybody else are idiots and therefore practice caution with it.
Haha yeah... like my buddy said once when asked to slow down and stop driving like an idiot. "Don't worry about it, this kind of car doesn't crash". Yeah okay.
Imagine driving along on a motorway and then suddenly you're practically blind, knowing that the cars in front and behind are all experiencing the same. It's too risky to keep driving in case those in front have stopped, but it's equally dangerous to stop in case the cars behind don't.
Having driven often in fog where the visibility is best summed up as "no," the best thing to do seems to be maintain your (hopefully slow) speed and keep pace with the cars around you until you can safely pull over. The folks around you offer a bit of a buffer/known quantity. Then, once you're on the shoulder, get as far over as you can. If that means crawling into a ditch, then do it. It's better than ending up under a semi.
6:20 - Who the hell moves at 70mph in a dense fog?! Did these drivers even sit the driving theory?! Fuck, I'd void the licenses of every one involved until they can re-sit the test. If they incompetent enough to do 70 in low vis, what other extremely dangerous things are they doing behind the wheel?
Everyone driving that side of the road lived on the Isle of Sheppey - locally, the residents have a reputation for not being the sharpest tools in the shed. On a more serious note, the bridge itself is pretty high, and I think a lot of the drivers though they would end up above the fog if they reached the summit, and kept up their speed to get there, and by extension to safety, more quickly. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case.
Do you mean written test and/or behind-the-wheel test? I’d just have it so their license was completely revoked and they had to start from the beginning.
In Florida I was caught in a rain burst so severe that visibility was zero. No headlights or taillights, like a blanket had been thrown over the windows. All drivers drifted to a stop and waited it out, so there were no accidents. Dumb luck saved us. It can happen anywhere at any time. Stay safe.
Totally agree! Got caught in a hailstorm and exited the freeway at the nearest exit, pulled over and waited it out. Too scary to drive with those ice pellets hammering my windshield.
I had something similar to that recently, coming back home from Huntsville, TX. Visibility wasn’t zero, but it was definitely close. I knew it would be short, so I kept going, but the only reason I could pull it off is because the guy in front of me put his hazards on(I couldn’t see him otherwise). I did the same, the truck behind me following, and eventually we got out of it, but man, it could have been so much worse
TO BE FAIR, as you said, you were in florida. common hurricane target and summer time it rained every day at 3pm on the dot. i dont think it was dumb luck, it was local knowledge. hell, if NC rained like Florida does, we would have better drivers too XD
A guy tail gating couldn’t stop in time when he realized the guy ahead had stopped. He pulled into the other lane as I came over a hill and hit me head on. Thankfully my car (Subaru) kept me mostly safe except for a broken foot that took months to fully heal. Don’t tailgate! It isn’t worth that extra ten seconds you might gain!
I always remember what my buddy, a firefighter, told me about driving. The difference between stopping 1 second and a tenth of second at 80mph it just a fraction of the 100+ meters you still need in either situation. It doesnt matter how quick you are in other words, reaction speed will never compare with a good gap between you and the car ahead.
I remember once setting off to visit a friend, and on the way it began raining so heavily that I was unable to see where I was going and had to pull over. Everyone else just carried on at full speed as if nothing was happening. Is it any wonder accidents like this happen when people are so ignorant?
Am glad you said this, as i have often done this. Am also a bit of a wimp with sun in my eyes. Am no longer driving too and from work and taking the train, simply because i am sick of the stress driving at speed into the sun each way. Especially when there is a bit of water on the roads and the glare distorts the new and old traffic lines. I dont know how others cope. Idk may be old age, but better safe than sorry
Driving can be very dangerous because of the people who drive around you. I'm very proud of you for being a safe driver! I'm just so sick of listening to people laugh off the fact that they got pulled over for going too fast. You are responsible for the way you drive. If you drive recklessly, you have turned your vehicle into a weapon.
As much as I advocate the same sentiment of safety, slowing down and pulling over, I'm not sure it would have solved much in these situations. Perhaps a few less in the pile up? But with sudden lack of visibility, someone might smash into the rear of your car, equally you might smash into the back of another, on the road or on the side. I would slow and pull off quickly (oo-er missus) of course but anything can happen in these chaotic scenarios. Just have to hope that when it happens to you, you're not on a flyover...
I live in Ontario, Canada. I was taught to drive in fog, white out conditions (blowing snow that's worse than fog in a lot of ways), and blizzard conditions. I'm always so cautious because I never want to end up a statistic in one of these crashes.
@@eyesofstatic9641 Honestly, seeing you guys' comments makes me glad that I don't live somewhere where it snows. At all. We have enough of earthquakes and flooding, thank you very much.
well driving cautiously ( meaning slow) does not help you that much. it just means the fast drivers will back into you. or worst case scenario moving into another line and causing chain reaction from there.
I almost had something like this happen to me, when I was driving at 2am down a foggy highway, doing below the speed limit because visibility was low, even though I was the only one on the road. Suddenly there's a car crashed in front of me, totally perpendicular in my lane. I managed to swerve out of the way just in time because I was driving slower than usual. I always think about that when I hear these pile up stories.
I had similar but in snow on the motorway and came across an arctic truck that had just jackknifed across all three lanes. Shit my pants and turned my steering wheel to try and hit it sideways rather than head on. Sheer luck than management I literally came to a stop about 2ft from it but God it felt like I was sliding in slow motion forever.
Part of the problem is in certain conditions the driver feels like they are driving slower but in reality they aren’t. The visual clues to speed just aren’t there. They should be monitoring their speedometer but don’t.
My family was once driving to New York to visit family just after Christmas. We decided to take the Merritt (A parkway in Connecticut) not knowing that a recent snowstorm had left the road covered in ice. We saw over 20 cars that had slid off the ice and crashed on the side of the road. However, they were all separate accidents. Imagining what would have happened if they all crashed into each other scares me.
You should update this video or do a new one on the pileup that happened this February in Fort Worth on I-35. The de-icing didn’t work in the toll lanes causing a massive pileup because there was nowhere to go because of the k-rails and no shoulders. And there’s an amazing story of bravery there. A paramedic was heading to work in his Toyota FJ. There’s video of him managing to stop in time to not hit the pickup in front of him. But he is then hit from behind by an out of control semi. His car is crushed and thrown 20 feet in the air over the k-rail into the opposing lanes of traffic. He amazingly only suffered minor injuries and then proceeded to get out and start rendering aid to other drivers. The other rescuers who came on scene didn’t even know he had been in the accident until later.
Oh, that's the video footage that pretty much looks like the vehicle is obliterated? I don't mean to be so harsh but that's what it looks like in the video. I'm glad you posted about what happened to him, because when I see that footage, I honestly thought that person was a goner. Wow, talk about Divine Intervention! His Guardian Angel was working OVERTIME that day! 🙏💕
Your endings are always so chilling... I swear I hear your voice in the back of my head when I catch myself slacking off with anything, like, "...and it all could have been avoided, had he followed basic instructions."
The Summit Tunnel fire would be a good segment for that video! Some petrol was being transported through a railway tunnel in the UK when one of the tankers derailed and caught fire - it burned so hot that it melted the brickwork lining the tunnel, and sent pillars of flame 150ft high out of the tunnel's vent shafts. Luckily nobody died (though the locomotive crew had a pretty close shave when they were persuaded to go back into the tunnel and bring the locomotive out).
There’s a tunnel outside Seattle that I go through multiple times that has giant fans inside and exits throughout with signs tell pedestrians which way they should run and how far each exit is for them to know which is closer. My family told me there was a fire there and that’s why there’s such a safety extent. However I never knew the full story and would love to see to see him cover it!
How about the potential fire in the Las Vegas tunnel Musk built with the Boring Company. The tunnel is only a tad wider than the single lane of cars going through it and, reportedly, there are no escape exists and no sprinklers.
I once was caught in a freakish heavy rainfall and I could see nothing through the watersplashes and the low light from the clouds. That was frightening af. Couldn't even see the lines on the road anymore. As if the windows suddenly lost any transparency. I managed to feel my way off the road and stopped beside it. After a minute or two it was over, as suddenly as it began. Luckily I was the only one on that road most of the time.
I've been in a storm like that - I was in a bright yellow car at the time and the rain was so heavy I couldn't see my bonnet! Terrifyingly I was familiar with the road and there wasn't really anywhere safe to pull over where I was so I had to crawl along until I reached a place I could pull over.
Same, thank goodness I was near my turn off onto a wide dirt road in which I could pull off until the rain cleared. Everyone remember to turn on your hazards if you pull over so you aren't hit by people driving past!
Same thing happened to me, though I was on a freeway and there were many other cars. Luckily we all pulled over. It was a tornado that brought the rain. The rain was rotating on my windshield.
@grievous minded, that happened to me last April. A perfect storm, quite literally, of me forgetting my lights on overnight which drained my battery. As I went to do a job, the car wouldn't start and the wheel began to fight me. I decided to head home 13 minutes away, but I had to get on the highway in a torrential downpour. The sky was so dark but because my battery was almost dead ( I had to get a jump just to get going), I had to choose between lights, speed, and windshield wipers to get home ASAP. I chose the wipers and had to endure my belt snapping and fighting with the steering wheel just to safely get off the highway😩
Mate, your content is consistently solid. The producing and editing along with the subject matter make for compelling viewing. The pride in your work is evident and i just wanted to say that I appreciate it.
It’s so nice to see someone praising a person’s pride in their work. I always try to take pride in my work but I feel like most people in our culture today don’t really appreciate it.
I agree with all the praise for your work, but puzzled as to your origins. Your accent seems to be very precise British English, but some of the words you use, and pronunciations, are definitely American. Also the spellings of the subtitles are American. So are you English but aiming at the American market, or are you perhaps an expatriate Limey? ;-)
I recall a small pile-up, over a decade ago. Maybe six cars? I woke up and was inexplicably too afraid to get out of bed. Mom lost ten minutes arguing with me, before saying I had to call into school and explain why I wasn’t coming in... that made her just late enough to avoid the pile-up. All because I was weirdly terrified
I know how you feel. Cincinnati 92.5 The Fox classic rock radio station. Couple years ago the first time I heard Metallica on Classic Rock Radio station. Told myself I'm there. Getting old.
@@alanbryant8457 bro, Metallica has been putting out albums since 1980, they are classic rock…but Pearl Jam and sound garden are on classic stations now and that makes me feel old
@@beccas.7762 I was 13 when dookie came out, I can’t wrap my head around being old. I was in Starbucks jamming out to a smiths song playing in the background and none of the kids working there has any idea who morrissey is.
@@Rhubarb.and.Crustard dude I love this man's uploads. Not an annoying voice like chills. Or (top 5s) type videos. This man is actually interesting and speaks like he's fascinated by it too. Like he knows what he's talking about.
I wish this were an hourlong show. The ten minute uploads leave me wanting more. I have already watched all of the episodes. Maybe I’ll watch them a second time...
You only have to drive in an Italian city to realise that. There are two ways to drive; 1) Everyone follows the same rules or 2) No one follows the rules. This works also in Delhi and Paris, but sadly NOT in London. *Evil giggle*
Recently in Texas, with the freak winterstorm with near zero temperatures that happened in February, there was a lot of crashes all over the highways, and sadly, several dead. It sucks dying on a car accident, but it's even more tragic when your fate is absolutely out of your control. Many didn't have a chance as driving on snow/ice is a skill one can only pick up with on-hands experience.
As my husband commented, people here in the southern United States get a lot of flak from northerners about how bad we are at driving on snow and ice. Well...the thing about the northern states is, when they get snow and ice, it stays, and people remember how to handle it after the first day or so. In the south, we only ever have it those first two days, and then it's gone...so we never get the long experience!
@@PhilowenAster No, sorry, that's not an excuse. Like the one in Ft. Worth, a lot of those drivers were still going at 60+ speeds. Hello, the roads are iced over! Common sense says you slow down. And I say this as someone who lives in DFW. I remember one year I had just exited the freeway. The roads were iced over, so I went real slow. Good thing too, because down the road comes this guy at the intersection where I was exiting and because of the ice he couldn't control his car. His car spun around and skidded across the lanes. If I wasn't going slow, I wouldn't have been able to stop and would have collided with him.
while they might not have been experienced in these conditions you should ALWAYS be more careful with a reduced line of sight. it should be a given to slow down and turn on your lights if you can't see where you are and more importantly where others are
Very surprised that you missed the 2021 multiple vehicle, multiple collision event, in February in Texas. It was horrific and had many fatalities. I believe there were four separate multi-car crashes, one behind the other on the same road.
I was surprised as well, the Fort Worth pile up was the first thought when I saw the title of this video. According to Google, 6 dead and 133 cars affected.
Might be a bit too soon to include incidents that occurred this year. If you notice most of the accidents mentioned are several years gone by. I doubt he wanted to offend anyone by including something so recent
Come on the guy skipped many multiple car accidents its not like he can cover every single multi car accident that's ever happened remember he typically does stories that are in the past that either have been forgotten, are in danger of being forgotten, or there not really covered anymore. While most of the world probably heard of the recent TX accident the others are probably little known outside of the area they are from.
I'm not too far from that area and that one definitely came to mind as well. First off, I-35W in Fort Worth has express toll lanes that are privately maintained; these lanes carry a speed limit of 75 MPH (but many drivers go faster than that in good weather) whereas the adjacent free lanes carry a 65 MPH speed limit. Apparently, the express lanes were not properly treated for the winter weather and ice when this pile-up happened; combine that with high speed limits, the fact that you are paying for a higher legal speed limit (paying for the privilege to drive faster), and that people in DFW are not used to winter weather, and it is a recipe for disaster. Just to be clear, the pile-up happened in the express toll lanes.
I feel like roads should have pressure sensors, especially ones that have had accident in the past, it would track road use and be able to tell if cars are skidding or stopped suddenly, could very easier be programmed to know if an accident has happened and alert emergency services sooner, while also sending information to the screen to alert cars further down the road to prevent cars adding to an accident. They use road pressure points to track road usage already so could it be possible to use it for emergencies??
A monitoring network like that is definitely possible and it would be a nice thing to have, but the main reason I think it won't happen for most highways in the near future is because of how prohibitively expensive it would be to deploy on a large scale. Sure there are currently some sensors to monitor traffic and road usage like you mentioned, but we'd need wayyyy more to reliably detect accidents on large swaths of major highways. In the USA alone there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of miles of major highways all across the country, and already many of them are poorly maintained. Just a few days ago I drove close to two hundred miles on an interstate highway, most of which was a patchy mess that should have been repaved years ago. We already don't invest enough in infrastructure upkeep, so I don't think we're anywhere close to having such a massive upgrade. I also think the cost to install and maintain such a large network would be more than the current financial cost of the major incidents it would occasionally mitigate, which again dissinsentivises building it from an economic perspective. I just doubt the people with the power to make it happen could be motivated to do it any time soon.
@@thomasdawicki141 Are you sure? How is a rock with a wire wrapped around it expensive, tho...? Although the brain boxes used to transmit signal aren't cheap... And after...25 years or so, they start to fail. I'd guess it's the brain box that's the issue. Not thr rocks. Lol
My god that is a really smart and innovative way to use that kind of technology! Could improve and hasten emergency workers than ever before. If only we had the budget for it 😅
Yall going off about piezoelectrics not realizing installation is the main problem. Do you want me to add up the number of man hours its going to take in order to cut power lines to the middle of Timbuktu to power this damn thing? Oh you want to go solar with satellite connectivity instead? $ good $ luck $ with $ that $
This reminded me of a brief yet terrifying encounter I had once, driving along the motorway whilst on holiday in Devon, England. With me in the car were my wife, our new baby, and my in-laws. It was broad daylight, and I was driving along at around 70mph, as we approached a gentle left-hand curve in the road. Then about 100 yards ahead, I could see that there was a huge cloud of smoke billowing out from somewhere in a field, off to the left. It didn't look *that* bad as I approached, but I slowed down very slightly anyway, just to be cautious. I was still probably doing around 60mph when I entered the cloud of smoke, and my visibility dropped to literally zero for what seemed like several seconds, and the entire car was plunged into darkness. I didn't panic or slam on the brakes, but I blindly maintained my speed until I emerged from the other side of this thick, acrid smoke, mere seconds later, and just carried on as before. We all commented on how horrible & dangerous it was, as I watched it fade into the distance from my rear-view mirror. It was only later on when I replayed those few seconds of zero visibility in my head, that I considered the possibility of there being a car or something in there, and what would've happened if I'd slammed into it at that speed. The 'what if' scenarios haunted me for such a long time afterwards.
I wasn't in the pileup, but not only heard about it but was affected by it, as traffic in Lake Alfred backed up terribly. We lived only a couple of miles from our shop, but it took 20 minutes to get there. Most of the waiting was trying to make a right onto 17/92.
You'd think it'd be the same thing with seatbelts, not texting and driving, and not speeding, considering just how many incidents exist where things went wrong thanks to one of these conditions. And yet...
I think sometimes what happens is that we're talking about locals who think they know the roads a lot better than they actually do. This doesn't account for every time this happens, of course, but I'd wager it's definitely a factor.
Aussie dash cams is great! I love the dash cams that show the best of people (helping other motorists, pedestrians and animals ect). Brings back the faith in humanity 😊
@@chickenlittle5095 I helped stranded motorists until this idiot rammed me in the ass as I very mindfully and safely pulled into the shoulder. He had plenty of warning but acted like I was just going into a new lane. I stopped pulling over for others and that made me sad. Also, my car gave its life for that. I hope the terrified woman standing in the median who I'd pulled over for was okay. I don't honestly remember much other than the EMT's pulling me from my car and the massive pile-up that I was told he caused.
hi you criminally underrated legend, i've been binge watching every video in the last two days or so. i am amazed at the amount of work you put into each and every video. by far a new favorite. hope all is well, much love, please keep doing what you're doing
I grew up in New Mexico, and people are always surprised when I tell them how violent and sudden dust storms are. I often hear people ask why people don’t just do what they do in heavy snow or fog, and what they don’t realize is that most often you have absolutely no warning: you are suddenly surrounded by night and gusting winds without even a warning to pull over. I’ve never driven through one, but I would imagine it’s completely terrifying.
Driving through solid sand and following what little sliver of white line along your right wheel you can see, praying everyone else does the same. It's up either with driving in solid fog or whiteout snow. There's a portion of highway near my home that is often a wall of dirt in high winds as the farmer that owns the land refuses to sow it to keep the soil down.
I was living on the isle of Sheppey at the time and I remember the day well. The island was covered in this thick sea fog which was so heavy and thick - you stepped outside and you were wet it was so heavy. People raced to the top of that bridge thinking they would lift above the fog for a while.
I've been over that bridge since the accident and they have a sign now "Warning: Blind Summit" which I assume is a tacit admission the bridge itself was a factor
@@violenceisfun991 it was strange! I wasn’t caught up in the accident myself, but we were pretty stuck on the island until it was cleared (we have a second bridge but it was of course subject to delays). They cleared up the wreckage by the next day, and I went over it on my way to school. It was just covered in broken glass and tire marks. There was signs of damage everywhere - stretching all the way over almost. We were so so lucky nobody was seriously injured. ☺️
@@Michaeljack81sk Sounds about right! The biggest issue is that there are no streetlights and no hard shoulder - nobody had anywhere to go and pull over really. And they still haven’t reduced the speed limit! 😅
So cool seeing all different people around the world enjoying your videos as evidenced by the comments! As for me, this is perfect to watch while eating dinner :)
Way back in the 80's when I was learning to drive, I watched a documentary about the psychology behind why people tend to speed up when conditions become foggy. I can't remember much about the documentary, but it was interesting.
The videos of the pileup in Texas earlier this year are some of the scariest things I've ever seen. Cars and huge semi trailers ploughing into the crush, completely unable to stop or slow down. I can't imagine the horror you'd feel being stuck in the middle of that, it would be a nightmare.
If you know the roads and the design of the highways in Texas, most HOV lanes are now considered “Paid Express Lanes” and are often independent of the other travel lanes to prevent crossover (people jumping in and out) and to control the tolls paid. That accident happened in a two lane Express Lane that had a concrete wall divider. A) people use it to go faster than they should. B) They had no way to avoid a collision because there was no shoulder. If you noticed in the pictures, there were about 4-5 travel lanes in the same direction, on the other side of the wall, that were clear of traffic and accidents.
Yeah, I don't usually yell at the telly but footage of pile-ups in motion get me shouting "no, no, no, stop, why are you speeding into a fog bank, you clown, oh god you've hit him!". It's couch cadio 😞
In my 10th grade driver's education class, the teacher taught us to always leave enough room to stop between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you. That amount of space changes based on speed and road conditions. This very simple rule has served me well.
Yes. This is all fine until you realise that many drivers will pull into your safety buffer and expect you to slow down. Tailgating is also an issue. I watch Aussie Dashcams every time a vid drops and there are so many people who ignore basic safety rules. Common sense isn't common.
The way you structure these is not only very informative but also helps ease my anxiety about certain scenarios. It took me a week or so to watch this because I didn't want to induce an anxiety attack next time I am in traffic. Knowing the root causes and statistics helps ease my mind.
When I was in middle school a massive pile up on the highway happened due to heavy fog that basically covered the entire city. After the crash was reported they let us out of school, with most of us walking home and even at the time we thought that was pretty dumb since it was still foggy and you could maybe see 20-30 feet at max and here we were bouncing through intersections.
in 2003-2005 aka when i was really young, I was travelling with my grandparents when we came across a thunderstorm that lasted for a few hundred miles. When we got to the worst part, a lightning bolt had either struck the car itself or the ground near the car because everything for a few minutes around us suddenly turned a bright white color. It felt like I was dying tbh. That's part of the reason why I hate going through thunderstorms flying or driving. you never know how bad it'll be or where lightning strikes.
Supposedly, that happened to my family when I wasn't even a year old. I don't know what exactly happened, but there was a lightning strike and then the car that had been driven stopped working the next day.
If there's a thunderstorm, I pull over & start wondering when it's gonna end. I just can't drive in thunderstorms or snowstorms or icy conditions. Or bad fog! I have and that's why I refuse to do it anymore. Just can't.
A car is the safest place to be if you're outside in a thunderstorm as it's a faraday cage by design, your biggest danger is flying glass if the boom takes out a window. Your car won't like it very much to be fair, it would need new electrics, new tires and a new paintjob.
Professional driver here. I hold a Class A Commercial Driver’s License which, here in the United States, is required to operate combination vehicles (tractor-trailers). I believe you call them articulated lorries in the U.K. I pull sets of doubles for FedEx Ground (a truck pulling two 28-foot trailers coupled together). I’ve been driving professionally now for nearly four years and so far I’ve never been involved in an accident. I attribute this to following the fives keys of the Smith System. I was taught the Smith System in driving school and the five keys are: 1. Aim high in steering. In other words, you should look as far ahead as you can see, not just at the tail lights of the vehicle in front of you. 2. Get the big picture. In other words, be aware of your surroundings at all times. Try not to just stare straight ahead. 3. Keep your eyes moving. In other words, you should constantly be looking back and forth, both near and far as well as left and right in addition to checking you mirrors on a regular basis. 4. Leave yourself an out. In other words, try not to allow yourself to get boxed in. 5. Make sure THEY see YOU. In other words, never assume that other drivers are aware of your presence. Don’t be afraid to use your horn and/or lights to get the attention of another driver or pedestrian to make sure they know you’re there. Also, if traffic ahead of you slows down or stops, turn on your hazard lights (four-way flashers) to warn traffic behind you who may not be able to see the slow or stopped traffic ahead. Finally (this isn’t part of the Smith System but I think it’s still worth mentioning), maintain a safe following distance. The formula I use is one second for every 10 mph (or approximately 20 kph). For example, If you’re traveling at 70 mph, your following distance should be seven seconds. You can calculate your following distance by taking note of when the vehicle in front of you passes a fixed object such as a tree by the side of the road or a road sign or an overpass and begin counting 1001, 1002, 1003 etc until you reach the same object. I believe if all drivers (professional drivers as well as the motoring public) followed these guidelines, serious accidents such as the ones described in the video could be largely avoided.
Usually, I get sad about these, but this one made me angry. I'm from Utah and we have inversion and snow on a regular basis in the winter, yet people who are natives here all of the sudden don't know how to drive and it's infuriating. I admit I have a lead foot, but I drive slow in these conditions and Utah driver's favorite past time is cutting people off. You would not believe how many people are going beyond the speed limit in these conditions, plus they cut off police and snow plows. A while back we had a 65 car pile up and I can't remember if there was one or zero fatalities, but I remember that they said it was 100% preventable and I know it was due to the inversion. I just shake my head. I remember growing up my parents told me over and over that I would have to be a defensive driver, but I didn't realize how much I would have to be.
People should be to required to have much higher standards of mechanical sense than at present, and all people who fail to prove them should be banned from driving. But that's too politically difficult.
This is literally one of my biggest fears. I hate driving with low visibility; it really freaks me out because it takes just one car to start off the chain reaction. And I never thought of the fear of being trapped in your car, unsure of whether or not it’s safe to exit or if you might be collided with again. Glad to have added that extra layer of fear on my mind now 🙃
All of these accidents had one thing in common: drivers who failed to react appropriately to changed conditions and reduced visibility. No matter how fast conditions change, there is always a period of time in which drivers have a chance to notice and react to the potential threat -- unless they are tailgating or not paying attention.
Agreed, altough there will always be the once in a million literal "wall of dust" that appears behind a hill or something like that, but for the most part, inattentive drivers is the cause.
@@jg6551 BuT iT's ThE yOuNg KiDs WhO tExT aNd DrIvE. Swear to god they're such hypocrites. Just because you've been driving for as long as I've been alive doesn't mean you're any good at driving. My aunt yelled at me for driving 10 over the speed limit, and yet was offended when I called her out for messing with her phone while driving. Yes I admit I speed but I never eat or mess with my phone while driving.
@@atavoidirc5409 Slowing down with hazard lights is what everyone should do, thus nobody should hit you from behind, and if they do.. well.. that's why insurances automatically favor you over them. 99.9% of the cases if you get hit from behind it's because the other guy wasn't being safe and it's his fault. This is a perfect example of that.
@@atavoidirc5409 In the Philippines, the rule of thumb is to go to the rightmost lane and park yourself there if you have low visibility or other issues(car trouble or heart attack etc) and cannot safely continue. That lane is also the pickup and drop off lane for the snakes--ahem--kings of the road a.k.a. public transport jeepneys. Everyone learns to drive defensively against those menaces.
Here in AZ you have to pull off the road and turn off lights during dust storms , but I refuse to stop. I’m not letting a semi driver hit me when I’m stopped
You could do a whole video on Tule Fog. It forms in the Central Valley of California and is distinctly visible from space. It is responsible for some of the worst pile ups in US history.
I've been in a dust storm, those things are terrifying! Most meteorologists don't really predict them, either, so there was no way to know in advance that it was coming and people shouldn't be out and about. Thankfully, I wasn't on a busy road at the time, but I definitely had to pull over and wait it out.
Another intriguing video....You have an excellent narrative voice for these particular tales of yours--I thought of this channel when visiting Poe’s two graves (the original, average grave in which he was first buried, and the gaudy, “monumental” grave to which he was moved and in which he is now buried with his wife AND *mother*) in that beautiful little churchyard in downtown Baltimore...Spending all of eternity decaying alongside one’s mother: now THERE’S a true tale of FASCINATING HORROR!!!
Hwy 400 Near Barrie, Ontario Canada always has at least one multi vehicle crash every winter. It's a very open Highway with fields on either side. Highway 401 near Kingston Ontario is also a bad spot. It all comes down to people driving way to fast in bad weather conditions.
I don’t know how well this fits the theme of your videos, but the Batavia shipwreck and mutiny is really interesting and would be cool to hear with your way of storytelling. Love these vids!
The Mont Blanc tunnel accident is a pretty interesting story. This video reminded of that. Well done, as always. I really enjoy them (especially the Kings Island ones, simply because that's my home park and I used to work there)
As someone who lives near Barrie Ontario i can tell you that when the wind gets blowing in the winter the snow blows up over the road and makes it pretty much disappear
As an Ontario resident myself, I have seen idiots who turn 2 lane highways into 4 lane highways in snowstorms because they can't see the lines, but they still just have to get where they're going...RIGHT NOW!!!
I only recently found out about my friend going through a highway incident. In 2016, there was an accident on the I95 toward Baltimore, in which a tanker truck slid on black ice, crashed over the bridge edge and then exploded on the road below it. There had already been several people pulled over due to the icy roads, a video showing many cars and trucks driving the normal speed limit despite icy conditions late at night. The whole road was engulfed in fire from the tanker below, but my friend drove straight through it with his gf (who was able to vouch that yeah he actually did that) saying it was either the giant fireball, or end up in a pile up that happened soon after from other trucks not breaking in time. Needless to say, it seems he made the right decision. Fellow drivers, remember that in rain, fog, ice, or dust, use your headlights, and for fucks sake drive SLOWLY and CAREFULLY.
Interesting topic. As a multi-vehicle UK pile-up victim myself, I much appreciated this presentation. In my case, my vehicle survived and so did I without so much as a scratch, but I put it down to getting across the emergency lane and 1/3 the way up the embankment, out of the way. I sat on the bank watching vehicles slam into the pile, there was no way for me to run back to warn other drivers, viz was zero and we’d been in a thick blanket of fog for some 5 miles or more before the crash site. Not a good day for many. Thank you 🇷🇴🇬🇧👍🏻
Another great episode. Interesting to watch! Little side note: The event described from 2:50 onwards happened on the Autobahn 19, but the description and the title marker in the video refer to Autobahn 9 (where in fact another mass pileup happened in November 1990)
@@ElaAusDemTal stimmt. Ich frage mich eigentlich nur, ob das in der Beschreibung ein reiner Tippfehler ist oder ob die A9 in irgendeiner Form für dieses Video mit recherchiert wurde, um sie dann aber nicht mit aufzunehmen
There was also the 99-car accident in 1990 that happened in Tennessee due to fog. They did an episode of Forensic Files on it - the cause is thought to be from the Bowater Paper Plant, and its settling ponds that ran along the highway. Now they have all kinds of precautions in place that will automatically close the highway and redirect traffic if fog is detected.
i LOVE the way you end your videos. it's always an eerie statement that hangs for many seconds, giving the viewer a moment to ponder the horror of the situation, before the music swells back in. fantastic.
Me, making my food and wondering how I am going to entertain myself while eating TH-cam: how about a Brief History of Multi-Vehicle Collisions? It was a great time =)
We don’t get snow, sandstorms , or heavy fog in my part of the world. It’s mainly sunny and clear during the day. However, when the slightest bit of water falls from the sky, some drivers panic and drastically reduce their speed. This creates a situation more dangerous than necessary. It only takes a few panicked motorists to have a chain reaction effect on hundreds of follow on vehicles. Even if you’re not a tailgater, that won’t prevent you from being tailgated. I find myself in these precarious situations from time to time. I wish people would realise the effect their actions are having on others.
Your voice is so very soothing, you may as well be reading me a bedtime story lol Dark humor aside, I very much enjoy your channel. You not only do your homework but you've got much respect for the deceased. 👍💗
Back in 2015 I was trapped in my car following a head-on wreck. My vehicle's fuel system ignited instantly. The occupants of the other vehicle were unconscious. Other drivers began inching past through the debris, sounding their horns and cussing because of the inconvenience. I reckon that a sheer lack of selflessness is responsible for many deaths.
I love when I’m working and there’s an upload cause then I can pop in my headphones and listen. When I first stumbled across this channel, I actually binged watched about nine videos at work. Thank you for the effort you put into these videos! I always look forward to them
I grew up in an area in the Netherlands which was notorious for very sudden small dense fog moving from the fields next to motorways into the motorway (causing a few multi car pile ups). You would be driving in full sun and, without warning (then, now there are fog warning systems), you would not be able to see the end of your bonnet/hood. Like mentioned in other comments, there is no safe way deal with it, except for maybe stop as far on the hard shoulder as you can - drive to fast, you might crash into someone, drive to slow and someone might crash into you.
I remember seeing the Sheppy Crossing accident on the news. Hearing the audio from one of the 999 calls in a documentry after the fact and the fact no one died when seeing all those vehicles was almost surreal
Great vid as usual my friend! (I lived in a place in Manitoba Canada which every winter had larger and larger pileups, even witnessed a few...thankfully in all those case I was not actually part of said pileup haha)
And this is why when it is raining super hard or I can't see, I pull over off the side of the road. Missing an appointment or being late somewhere isn't worth your life.
I've driven a lot of miles (I'm old and will leave it at that) however there are two incidents that cause freak pile ups. Between Forest, Ontario to London, Ontario this strip of the highway is just termed "white out". I had my daughter in the hospital in Oakville and did numerous trips. There are no wind stops (trees planted to help block some wind) and *semitrucks*. Very fine snow, high winds across the highway. I usually follow a semitrucks lights. But then there will be a lot of asshole trucks barrel down the passing lane and and then ALL of that fine snow will go swirling around your car. Second is getting blinded by the sun DURING a massive rain. Sounds strange but that is what happened.
Can't believe you missed the pile up during Snowvid outside Fort Worth TX this year. There's terrifying footage of semi trucks crashing full speed into crashed cars, a guy who'd escaped was barely missed by flying debris
This is why I always move over for speeders or tailgaters. Forget about your ego as a safe driver, forget about "enabling" their behavior (as if you could influence it either way, which you can't), you do not want an aggressive driver BEHIND you. Let them pass. Stop hogging the fast lane, even if you're going above the speed limit, and move over.
I'm a slow driver in general. Occasionally someone would pass by and flick me off. Onetime a guy honked and flick me off then ran into a ditch. I pulled over and offered him help. Dude blamed me for him running into the ditch and he got even more mad when I started smirking.
Aaaaw that was your chance to honk back and flick him off as you glided passed him by 🤣I rigidly stick to speed limits, if someone drives right up my backside, I just drive a bit slower 😉Its great when they can’t overtake, they soon get the message.
Just two days ago I was driving home from a family reunion, keeping to the speed limit. Many behind me were not, racing past me at blazing speeds. Then, a blinding thunderstorm rolled in. I could hardly see the road and stayed at a 6-second (U.S. recommended time-lapse) interval behind an Amazon van ahead. We were going @ 5 mph lower than the posted speed limit of 70--still quite fast. Other vehicles--many 18-wheelers, as well as cars, trucks, & vans--roared past as if we were standing still. Mercifully, there wasn't an accident...that I saw.
What I find interesting that on many occassions, when the conditions are adverse, cars drive in formation - it only takes 2-3 drivers each in their own lane, staggered. This improves forward visibility for both (all three cars), and increases the change they're seen from behind. If approaching drivers see red lights of three cars on a three lane road, they WILL slow down as it means there's nowhere to go. It happens spontaneously and I experienced that in many EU countries.
This. In bad visibility what organically happens here is that you drive at a distance where you can just barely see the tail lights of the car in front of you (and thus see if he presses the breaks) and the one behind you also keeps to similar distance. there are, of course, those who have a habit of being unsafe.
I remember when I was a little kid I used to think a pile up was when cars crashed so hard that went on top of each other, so a 70-car pile up would be 70 cars stacked vertically... It made a lot more sense when I found out what it actually meant
same here lol
i feel you
It can happen, one wreck recently last winter in Texas because of ice had semis climbing over cars
LOL
@@gizzmo952 DAAAMN
lol tho
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I love how in all of these videos the moral of the story is "follow safety guidelines and no one has to die in a horrible fashion."
I'm here for it.
"The history of regulations and safety gidelines are written in blood"
Pretty much what this series could be summed up by xD
You'd think it is common sense but apparently most people lack it
Slow the F down!!!
@@saladasss2092 We are notoriously bad at judging the danger level of situations unless it goes wrong. Unfortunately that includes potentially deadly situations, where only others can learn from your mistakes.
Right but this is how safety guidelines improve at the same time... it's just evolution in progress.
This guy's voice is perfect for this type of content calm, emotionless, and slightly eerie
That is because he has been dead for years...
I'd pay if he explained how to peel and eat a banana with hands with the same tone.
Correct!!!! 🤗🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Like a mortician.
He has a great taste in music aswell
People don't take driving seriously enough and let their egos and emotions run wild, I see it all the time.
I'm always scared of driving cause of how many idiots are on the road. Imagine getting angry at someone and possibly killing yourself by accident because of that. Or worse, killing innocents.
@@Walamonga1313 yeah, I quit watching those videos on TH-cam they don't help. I don't interact with crazy, let them do whatever stupid ass stuff they want to and put as much distance between you and them as possible, it takes two to tango.
It does and I don't dance 😅.
I drive in Miami. Every day I save lives, including my own.
and depending too much on things like automatic headlights
You forgot to mention the "I know what my car can do" and "I'm a good driver" syndrome.
This. Personally, I'm of the general idea that I am a good driver so long as I keep in mind that I'm libel to fuck it up at any point like any other person and aim to drive accordingly at all times. Which means driving with a sense of humbleness and cautiousness at all times. In general since I'm into motor racing and the likes, I study driving to a higher degree than most would be bothered to because it's my hobby. I do all the driving for my family and stuff because it's in everyones best interest as they feel the safest when I'm at the wheel compared to either of my parents. And I generally feel safer when I'm in control too. But the general rule I give when people ask me how to drive in the safest manner I always say "assume anybody is gonna move, switch or stop at any lane at any time at any place, and drive accordingly." Essentially, drive as if everybody else are idiots and therefore practice caution with it.
Haha yeah... like my buddy said once when asked to slow down and stop driving like an idiot. "Don't worry about it, this kind of car doesn't crash". Yeah okay.
@@Jupa You know that’s exactly the advice my mum gave me about driving, drive like everyone else’s is an idiot she said.
I do know what my car can do, which is why i never exeed speed limits.
libel 💀
Imagine driving along on a motorway and then suddenly you're practically blind, knowing that the cars in front and behind are all experiencing the same. It's too risky to keep driving in case those in front have stopped, but it's equally dangerous to stop in case the cars behind don't.
Having driven often in fog where the visibility is best summed up as "no," the best thing to do seems to be maintain your (hopefully slow) speed and keep pace with the cars around you until you can safely pull over. The folks around you offer a bit of a buffer/known quantity. Then, once you're on the shoulder, get as far over as you can. If that means crawling into a ditch, then do it. It's better than ending up under a semi.
This is why I drove 4wheel suv. Shit looks sticky? I leave the road.
That’s called driving in Alaska during a whiteout. Common sense and slow speeds is all that’s needed.
@@tuxedo-fish3148 You have uncommon "common sense" my friend. Get out of the way and let the idiots crash without involving you.
@@FeedMeSalt Difficult for those ones on the bridge to leave the road...
6:20 - Who the hell moves at 70mph in a dense fog?! Did these drivers even sit the driving theory?! Fuck, I'd void the licenses of every one involved until they can re-sit the test.
If they incompetent enough to do 70 in low vis, what other extremely dangerous things are they doing behind the wheel?
Everyone driving that side of the road lived on the Isle of Sheppey - locally, the residents have a reputation for not being the sharpest tools in the shed.
On a more serious note, the bridge itself is pretty high, and I think a lot of the drivers though they would end up above the fog if they reached the summit, and kept up their speed to get there, and by extension to safety, more quickly. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case.
Whaddup Soviet, funny to see you here
Ask commercial semi truck drivers this as many of these crashes in the US are started by them driving too fast for conditions
Do you mean written test and/or behind-the-wheel test?
I’d just have it so their license was completely revoked and they had to start from the beginning.
Hi womble
In Florida I was caught in a rain burst so severe that visibility was zero. No headlights or taillights, like a blanket had been thrown over the windows. All drivers drifted to a stop and waited it out, so there were no accidents. Dumb luck saved us.
It can happen anywhere at any time. Stay safe.
I've had that happen to me before, some seriously scary sh*t..
Totally agree! Got caught in a hailstorm and exited the freeway at the nearest exit, pulled over and waited it out. Too scary to drive with those ice pellets hammering my windshield.
Rainouts in Florida are no joke.
I had something similar to that recently, coming back home from Huntsville, TX. Visibility wasn’t zero, but it was definitely close. I knew it would be short, so I kept going, but the only reason I could pull it off is because the guy in front of me put his hazards on(I couldn’t see him otherwise). I did the same, the truck behind me following, and eventually we got out of it, but man, it could have been so much worse
TO BE FAIR, as you said, you were in florida. common hurricane target and summer time it rained every day at 3pm on the dot. i dont think it was dumb luck, it was local knowledge. hell, if NC rained like Florida does, we would have better drivers too XD
A guy tail gating couldn’t stop in time when he realized the guy ahead had stopped. He pulled into the other lane as I came over a hill and hit me head on. Thankfully my car (Subaru) kept me mostly safe except for a broken foot that took months to fully heal. Don’t tailgate! It isn’t worth that extra ten seconds you might gain!
My driving instructor always pressed on us "there are two types of tailgaters; those who have been, and those who will be in accidents"
It doesn't gain you anytime, it's just dumb. Lol
woah look at mr money bags with a subaru
@@faiths.4971 it was a gift from my mom when she got a new one.
@@kimhohlmayer7018 did I ask
I always remember what my buddy, a firefighter, told me about driving. The difference between stopping 1 second and a tenth of second at 80mph it just a fraction of the 100+ meters you still need in either situation.
It doesnt matter how quick you are in other words, reaction speed will never compare with a good gap between you and the car ahead.
I remember once setting off to visit a friend, and on the way it began raining so heavily that I was unable to see where I was going and had to pull over. Everyone else just carried on at full speed as if nothing was happening. Is it any wonder accidents like this happen when people are so ignorant?
Am glad you said this, as i have often done this. Am also a bit of a wimp with sun in my eyes. Am no longer driving too and from work and taking the train, simply because i am sick of the stress driving at speed into the sun each way. Especially when there is a bit of water on the roads and the glare distorts the new and old traffic lines. I dont know how others cope. Idk may be old age, but better safe than sorry
Driving can be very dangerous because of the people who drive around you. I'm very proud of you for being a safe driver! I'm just so sick of listening to people laugh off the fact that they got pulled over for going too fast. You are responsible for the way you drive. If you drive recklessly, you have turned your vehicle into a weapon.
Did you waited until the storm was calmer?
@@MaQuGo119 Yes, then pulled over again when it worsened further and turned back!
As much as I advocate the same sentiment of safety, slowing down and pulling over, I'm not sure it would have solved much in these situations. Perhaps a few less in the pile up? But with sudden lack of visibility, someone might smash into the rear of your car, equally you might smash into the back of another, on the road or on the side. I would slow and pull off quickly (oo-er missus) of course but anything can happen in these chaotic scenarios. Just have to hope that when it happens to you, you're not on a flyover...
I live in Ontario, Canada. I was taught to drive in fog, white out conditions (blowing snow that's worse than fog in a lot of ways), and blizzard conditions. I'm always so cautious because I never want to end up a statistic in one of these crashes.
There was that huge accident due to fog in September on the 401between Windsor and London...
@@chickapey I remember that one. I heard that people died in the ensuing fire. So incredibly sad.
Dude the whiteouts suck. I can't even tell if i was ascending or descending when it's like a dang snowglobe.
@@eyesofstatic9641 Honestly, seeing you guys' comments makes me glad that I don't live somewhere where it snows. At all. We have enough of earthquakes and flooding, thank you very much.
well driving cautiously ( meaning slow) does not help you that much. it just means the fast drivers will back into you. or worst case scenario moving into another line and causing chain reaction from there.
I almost had something like this happen to me, when I was driving at 2am down a foggy highway, doing below the speed limit because visibility was low, even though I was the only one on the road. Suddenly there's a car crashed in front of me, totally perpendicular in my lane. I managed to swerve out of the way just in time because I was driving slower than usual. I always think about that when I hear these pile up stories.
I had similar but in snow on the motorway and came across an arctic truck that had just jackknifed across all three lanes. Shit my pants and turned my steering wheel to try and hit it sideways rather than head on. Sheer luck than management I literally came to a stop about 2ft from it but God it felt like I was sliding in slow motion forever.
Part of the problem is in certain conditions the driver feels like they are driving slower but in reality they aren’t. The visual clues to speed just aren’t there. They should be monitoring their speedometer but don’t.
My family was once driving to New York to visit family just after Christmas. We decided to take the Merritt (A parkway in Connecticut) not knowing that a recent snowstorm had left the road covered in ice. We saw over 20 cars that had slid off the ice and crashed on the side of the road. However, they were all separate accidents. Imagining what would have happened if they all crashed into each other scares me.
@@YeahNo It should all be on the black box in the car if you were that curious. They've had them on Honda Accords since 1997.
You should update this video or do a new one on the pileup that happened this February in Fort Worth on I-35. The de-icing didn’t work in the toll lanes causing a massive pileup because there was nowhere to go because of the k-rails and no shoulders. And there’s an amazing story of bravery there. A paramedic was heading to work in his Toyota FJ. There’s video of him managing to stop in time to not hit the pickup in front of him. But he is then hit from behind by an out of control semi. His car is crushed and thrown 20 feet in the air over the k-rail into the opposing lanes of traffic. He amazingly only suffered minor injuries and then proceeded to get out and start rendering aid to other drivers. The other rescuers who came on scene didn’t even know he had been in the accident until later.
Oh, that's the video footage that pretty much looks like the vehicle is obliterated? I don't mean to be so harsh but that's what it looks like in the video.
I'm glad you posted about what happened to him, because when I see that footage, I honestly thought that person was a goner.
Wow, talk about Divine Intervention! His Guardian Angel was working OVERTIME that day! 🙏💕
Your endings are always so chilling... I swear I hear your voice in the back of my head when I catch myself slacking off with anything, like, "...and it all could have been avoided, had he followed basic instructions."
It might be interesting to do a video on tunnel fires, to be honest. Up to you, of course, but it's a pretty terrifying topic, really.
The Summit Tunnel fire would be a good segment for that video! Some petrol was being transported through a railway tunnel in the UK when one of the tankers derailed and caught fire - it burned so hot that it melted the brickwork lining the tunnel, and sent pillars of flame 150ft high out of the tunnel's vent shafts. Luckily nobody died (though the locomotive crew had a pretty close shave when they were persuaded to go back into the tunnel and bring the locomotive out).
That does sound interesting, but Id have to skip that one. I'm already terrified of tunnels. XD
There’s a tunnel outside Seattle that I go through multiple times that has giant fans inside and exits throughout with signs tell pedestrians which way they should run and how far each exit is for them to know which is closer. My family told me there was a fire there and that’s why there’s such a safety extent. However I never knew the full story and would love to see to see him cover it!
thought the exact same thing after this video
How about the potential fire in the Las Vegas tunnel Musk built with the Boring Company. The tunnel is only a tad wider than the single lane of cars going through it and, reportedly, there are no escape exists and no sprinklers.
I once was caught in a freakish heavy rainfall and I could see nothing through the watersplashes and the low light from the clouds. That was frightening af. Couldn't even see the lines on the road anymore. As if the windows suddenly lost any transparency. I managed to feel my way off the road and stopped beside it. After a minute or two it was over, as suddenly as it began. Luckily I was the only one on that road most of the time.
I've been in a storm like that - I was in a bright yellow car at the time and the rain was so heavy I couldn't see my bonnet! Terrifyingly I was familiar with the road and there wasn't really anywhere safe to pull over where I was so I had to crawl along until I reached a place I could pull over.
Samesies!
Same, thank goodness I was near my turn off onto a wide dirt road in which I could pull off until the rain cleared. Everyone remember to turn on your hazards if you pull over so you aren't hit by people driving past!
Same thing happened to me, though I was on a freeway and there were many other cars. Luckily we all pulled over. It was a tornado that brought the rain. The rain was rotating on my windshield.
@grievous minded, that happened to me last April. A perfect storm, quite literally, of me forgetting my lights on overnight which drained my battery. As I went to do a job, the car wouldn't start and the wheel began to fight me. I decided to head home 13 minutes away, but I had to get on the highway in a torrential downpour. The sky was so dark but because my battery was almost dead ( I had to get a jump just to get going), I had to choose between lights, speed, and windshield wipers to get home ASAP. I chose the wipers and had to endure my belt snapping and fighting with the steering wheel just to safely get off the highway😩
Mate, your content is consistently solid. The producing and editing along with the subject matter make for compelling viewing. The pride in your work is evident and i just wanted to say that I appreciate it.
You and me both!!!👍👌😎
@@mauricedavis8261 Ditto.
It’s so nice to see someone praising a person’s pride in their work. I always try to take pride in my work but I feel like most people in our culture today don’t really appreciate it.
I agree with all the praise for your work, but puzzled as to your origins. Your accent seems to be very precise British English, but some of the words you use, and pronunciations, are definitely American. Also the spellings of the subtitles are American.
So are you English but aiming at the American market, or are you perhaps an expatriate Limey? ;-)
@@AK-jt7kh This whole superficiality that is commonplace in social circles here in California is so draining that I barely go out anymore.
"Drivers must leave a gap between cars."
BMW drivers: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.
😆
Why is it always the BMW drivers that are the worst lmao
Because we have to get there. Quickly!🙂
@@68walter no you don't, it's just bloated ego.
BMW should save on costs and just dont install turning signals. Its not like the drivers use them.
I recall a small pile-up, over a decade ago. Maybe six cars? I woke up and was inexplicably too afraid to get out of bed. Mom lost ten minutes arguing with me, before saying I had to call into school and explain why I wasn’t coming in... that made her just late enough to avoid the pile-up. All because I was weirdly terrified
sounds like some final destination shit omg
"Even in 1990" That really hit me, I feel old
I know how you feel. Cincinnati 92.5 The Fox classic rock radio station. Couple years ago the first time I heard Metallica on Classic Rock Radio station. Told myself I'm there. Getting old.
@@alanbryant8457 bro, Metallica has been putting out albums since 1980, they are classic rock…but Pearl Jam and sound garden are on classic stations now and that makes me feel old
@@Dunkaroos248 Green Day, too.
@@beccas.7762 I was 13 when dookie came out, I can’t wrap my head around being old. I was in Starbucks jamming out to a smiths song playing in the background and none of the kids working there has any idea who morrissey is.
@@Dunkaroos248 Eh, name checks out.
I love working night shift because I’m always wake for uploads :}
I watch when i wake up :)
just move to europe.
:)
@@jkr9594 will you pay for my move? Lol
We get them at like 10am(ish) here in the UK
@@Rhubarb.and.Crustard dude I love this man's uploads. Not an annoying voice like chills. Or (top 5s) type videos. This man is actually interesting and speaks like he's fascinated by it too. Like he knows what he's talking about.
"Sneakier than a German sandstorm" is my new catch phrase.
Stealing
Or, "Sneakier than an Oklahoman dust storm."
Straight in my pocket
Get your phrases you wanker
@@chrismarquez9659 get your OWN phrases? ... you wanker 😂
I wish this were an hourlong show. The ten minute uploads leave me wanting more. I have already watched all of the episodes. Maybe I’ll watch them a second time...
"It's not speed that kills; but the differential in speed.". - - My Dad
Similar to, "It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end."
You only have to drive in an Italian city to realise that. There are two ways to drive; 1) Everyone follows the same rules or 2) No one follows the rules. This works also in Delhi and Paris, but sadly NOT in London. *Evil giggle*
It’s not texting and driving that kills it’s texting and crashing
He meant the variation of kinetic energy. You double the the speed you have four times the energy.
“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you” - Jeremy Clarkson
Fascinating horror: Uploads
Everybody driving to work today: 😬
Good reason to stay at home!
Recently in Texas, with the freak winterstorm with near zero temperatures that happened in February, there was a lot of crashes all over the highways, and sadly, several dead.
It sucks dying on a car accident, but it's even more tragic when your fate is absolutely out of your control. Many didn't have a chance as driving on snow/ice is a skill one can only pick up with on-hands experience.
As my husband commented, people here in the southern United States get a lot of flak from northerners about how bad we are at driving on snow and ice. Well...the thing about the northern states is, when they get snow and ice, it stays, and people remember how to handle it after the first day or so. In the south, we only ever have it those first two days, and then it's gone...so we never get the long experience!
@@PhilowenAster No, sorry, that's not an excuse. Like the one in Ft. Worth, a lot of those drivers were still going at 60+ speeds. Hello, the roads are iced over! Common sense says you slow down. And I say this as someone who lives in DFW.
I remember one year I had just exited the freeway. The roads were iced over, so I went real slow. Good thing too, because down the road comes this guy at the intersection where I was exiting and because of the ice he couldn't control his car. His car spun around and skidded across the lanes. If I wasn't going slow, I wouldn't have been able to stop and would have collided with him.
YOU ARE ALWAYS IN CONTROL!
while they might not have been experienced in these conditions you should ALWAYS be more careful with a reduced line of sight. it should be a given to slow down and turn on your lights if you can't see where you are and more importantly where others are
Very surprised that you missed the 2021 multiple vehicle, multiple collision event, in February in Texas. It was horrific and had many fatalities. I believe there were four separate multi-car crashes, one behind the other on the same road.
I thought the same thing. I even looked up the information to provide details for him. :)
I was surprised as well, the Fort Worth pile up was the first thought when I saw the title of this video. According to Google, 6 dead and 133 cars affected.
Might be a bit too soon to include incidents that occurred this year. If you notice most of the accidents mentioned are several years gone by. I doubt he wanted to offend anyone by including something so recent
Come on the guy skipped many multiple car accidents its not like he can cover every single multi car accident that's ever happened remember he typically does stories that are in the past that either have been forgotten, are in danger of being forgotten, or there not really covered anymore. While most of the world probably heard of the recent TX accident the others are probably little known outside of the area they are from.
I'm not too far from that area and that one definitely came to mind as well. First off, I-35W in Fort Worth has express toll lanes that are privately maintained; these lanes carry a speed limit of 75 MPH (but many drivers go faster than that in good weather) whereas the adjacent free lanes carry a 65 MPH speed limit. Apparently, the express lanes were not properly treated for the winter weather and ice when this pile-up happened; combine that with high speed limits, the fact that you are paying for a higher legal speed limit (paying for the privilege to drive faster), and that people in DFW are not used to winter weather, and it is a recipe for disaster.
Just to be clear, the pile-up happened in the express toll lanes.
I feel like roads should have pressure sensors, especially ones that have had accident in the past, it would track road use and be able to tell if cars are skidding or stopped suddenly, could very easier be programmed to know if an accident has happened and alert emergency services sooner, while also sending information to the screen to alert cars further down the road to prevent cars adding to an accident. They use road pressure points to track road usage already so could it be possible to use it for emergencies??
A monitoring network like that is definitely possible and it would be a nice thing to have, but the main reason I think it won't happen for most highways in the near future is because of how prohibitively expensive it would be to deploy on a large scale. Sure there are currently some sensors to monitor traffic and road usage like you mentioned, but we'd need wayyyy more to reliably detect accidents on large swaths of major highways. In the USA alone there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of miles of major highways all across the country, and already many of them are poorly maintained. Just a few days ago I drove close to two hundred miles on an interstate highway, most of which was a patchy mess that should have been repaved years ago. We already don't invest enough in infrastructure upkeep, so I don't think we're anywhere close to having such a massive upgrade. I also think the cost to install and maintain such a large network would be more than the current financial cost of the major incidents it would occasionally mitigate, which again dissinsentivises building it from an economic perspective. I just doubt the people with the power to make it happen could be motivated to do it any time soon.
Noble goal but the required pizoelectrics for each stretch of required sensors would make it unfeasable
@@thomasdawicki141 Are you sure? How is a rock with a wire wrapped around it expensive, tho...? Although the brain boxes used to transmit signal aren't cheap...
And after...25 years or so, they start to fail. I'd guess it's the brain box that's the issue. Not thr rocks. Lol
My god that is a really smart and innovative way to use that kind of technology! Could improve and hasten emergency workers than ever before.
If only we had the budget for it 😅
Yall going off about piezoelectrics not realizing installation is the main problem.
Do you want me to add up the number of man hours its going to take in order to cut power lines to the middle of Timbuktu to power this damn thing?
Oh you want to go solar with satellite connectivity instead? $ good $ luck $ with $ that $
This reminded me of a brief yet terrifying encounter I had once, driving along the motorway whilst on holiday in Devon, England. With me in the car were my wife, our new baby, and my in-laws.
It was broad daylight, and I was driving along at around 70mph, as we approached a gentle left-hand curve in the road. Then about 100 yards ahead, I could see that there was a huge cloud of smoke billowing out from somewhere in a field, off to the left. It didn't look *that* bad as I approached, but I slowed down very slightly anyway, just to be cautious. I was still probably doing around 60mph when I entered the cloud of smoke, and my visibility dropped to literally zero for what seemed like several seconds, and the entire car was plunged into darkness.
I didn't panic or slam on the brakes, but I blindly maintained my speed until I emerged from the other side of this thick, acrid smoke, mere seconds later, and just carried on as before. We all commented on how horrible & dangerous it was, as I watched it fade into the distance from my rear-view mirror.
It was only later on when I replayed those few seconds of zero visibility in my head, that I considered the possibility of there being a car or something in there, and what would've happened if I'd slammed into it at that speed. The 'what if' scenarios haunted me for such a long time afterwards.
I was actually involved with that crash on Interstate 4 in Florida, my towing company I worked for cleaned up some of the cars from it.
I wasn't in the pileup, but not only heard about it but was affected by it, as traffic in Lake Alfred backed up terribly. We lived only a couple of miles from our shop, but it took 20 minutes to get there. Most of the waiting was trying to make a right onto 17/92.
Damn
I don't understand how people don't reason that not being able to see the road means you should slow down...?
You'd think it'd be the same thing with seatbelts, not texting and driving, and not speeding, considering just how many incidents exist where things went wrong thanks to one of these conditions. And yet...
@spirals 73 slowing down could mean getting hit by the person behind you, which could start the collision
I think sometimes what happens is that we're talking about locals who think they know the roads a lot better than they actually do. This doesn't account for every time this happens, of course, but I'd wager it's definitely a factor.
@@atavoidirc5409 Which is why you slow down, not stop abruptly lmao
fog is deceptive. literally one minute you can see fine and the next you can't.
I remember as a kid watching California pile-ups on TV, and now as an adult when millions of motorists have dashcams, TH-cam provides tons of footage.
Aussie dash cams is great! I love the dash cams that show the best of people (helping other motorists, pedestrians and animals ect). Brings back the faith in humanity 😊
@@chickenlittle5095 Yeah, Dash Cam Owners Australia never ceases to entertain.
@@BadDriversOfTheIllawarra That’s it! Love it.
@@chickenlittle5095 I helped stranded motorists until this idiot rammed me in the ass as I very mindfully and safely pulled into the shoulder. He had plenty of warning but acted like I was just going into a new lane. I stopped pulling over for others and that made me sad. Also, my car gave its life for that. I hope the terrified woman standing in the median who I'd pulled over for was okay. I don't honestly remember much other than the EMT's pulling me from my car and the massive pile-up that I was told he caused.
Ah.. good ole *CHiPs*
hi you criminally underrated legend, i've been binge watching every video in the last two days or so. i am amazed at the amount of work you put into each and every video. by far a new favorite. hope all is well, much love, please keep doing what you're doing
Well I never thought listening to someone talk about random car accidents would actually be interesting but you did it.
I grew up in New Mexico, and people are always surprised when I tell them how violent and sudden dust storms are. I often hear people ask why people don’t just do what they do in heavy snow or fog, and what they don’t realize is that most often you have absolutely no warning: you are suddenly surrounded by night and gusting winds without even a warning to pull over. I’ve never driven through one, but I would imagine it’s completely terrifying.
Driving through solid sand and following what little sliver of white line along your right wheel you can see, praying everyone else does the same. It's up either with driving in solid fog or whiteout snow. There's a portion of highway near my home that is often a wall of dirt in high winds as the farmer that owns the land refuses to sow it to keep the soil down.
And there's never an overpass or anything when you REALLY need one for 25 friggin miles, lol.
I was living on the isle of Sheppey at the time and I remember the day well. The island was covered in this thick sea fog which was so heavy and thick - you stepped outside and you were wet it was so heavy. People raced to the top of that bridge thinking they would lift above the fog for a while.
Wow, that must have felt really surreal to experience?
I refuse to drive in fog, at least anymore.
I've been over that bridge since the accident and they have a sign now "Warning: Blind Summit" which I assume is a tacit admission the bridge itself was a factor
@@violenceisfun991 it was strange! I wasn’t caught up in the accident myself, but we were pretty stuck on the island until it was cleared (we have a second bridge but it was of course subject to delays).
They cleared up the wreckage by the next day, and I went over it on my way to school. It was just covered in broken glass and tire marks. There was signs of damage everywhere - stretching all the way over almost. We were so so lucky nobody was seriously injured. ☺️
@@Michaeljack81sk Sounds about right! The biggest issue is that there are no streetlights and no hard shoulder - nobody had anywhere to go and pull over really. And they still haven’t reduced the speed limit! 😅
So cool seeing all different people around the world enjoying your videos as evidenced by the comments! As for me, this is perfect to watch while eating dinner :)
And even further afield, I am so thankful I found your human TH-cam here on Fapsilon 6.
Way back in the 80's when I was learning to drive, I watched a documentary about the psychology behind why people tend to speed up when conditions become foggy. I can't remember much about the documentary, but it was interesting.
To try to get out of it faster I’m sure
I was recently in my first car accident, and it was pretty bad. I'm glad my family and I are alive. Its been a week since the pain is horrible.
The videos of the pileup in Texas earlier this year are some of the scariest things I've ever seen. Cars and huge semi trailers ploughing into the crush, completely unable to stop or slow down. I can't imagine the horror you'd feel being stuck in the middle of that, it would be a nightmare.
If you know the roads and the design of the highways in Texas, most HOV lanes are now considered “Paid Express Lanes” and are often independent of the other travel lanes to prevent crossover (people jumping in and out) and to control the tolls paid. That accident happened in a two lane Express Lane that had a concrete wall divider. A) people use it to go faster than they should. B) They had no way to avoid a collision because there was no shoulder. If you noticed in the pictures, there were about 4-5 travel lanes in the same direction, on the other side of the wall, that were clear of traffic and accidents.
@@SandrA-hr5zk The express lanes do have a full right shoulder, but obviously that is insufficient space to maneuver around a pile-up.
Yeah, I don't usually yell at the telly but footage of pile-ups in motion get me shouting "no, no, no, stop, why are you speeding into a fog bank, you clown, oh god you've hit him!". It's couch cadio 😞
Me: *Has driving anxiety*
Also me: Watches video as soon as I see it
Yelp
Lol
If you ride a bicycle, know it's a lot more dangerous than being in any car :)
In my 10th grade driver's education class, the teacher taught us to always leave enough room to stop between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you. That amount of space changes based on speed and road conditions. This very simple rule has served me well.
Yes. This is all fine until you realise that many drivers will pull into your safety buffer and expect you to slow down. Tailgating is also an issue. I watch Aussie Dashcams every time a vid drops and there are so many people who ignore basic safety rules. Common sense isn't common.
Yeah, it's a simple rule until you happen to drive in perfect conditions that turn really bad in a matter of seconds.
@@shannonpincombe8485 Thus defensive driving. I am definitely going to slow down to maintain my distance.
Wasn't it the 10-second rule?
Do they not teach the two second rule America? Are we in the UK the only ones to do that?
The way you structure these is not only very informative but also helps ease my anxiety about certain scenarios. It took me a week or so to watch this because I didn't want to induce an anxiety attack next time I am in traffic. Knowing the root causes and statistics helps ease my mind.
When I was in middle school a massive pile up on the highway happened due to heavy fog that basically covered the entire city. After the crash was reported they let us out of school, with most of us walking home and even at the time we thought that was pretty dumb since it was still foggy and you could maybe see 20-30 feet at max and here we were bouncing through intersections.
in 2003-2005 aka when i was really young, I was travelling with my grandparents when we came across a thunderstorm that lasted for a few hundred miles. When we got to the worst part, a lightning bolt had either struck the car itself or the ground near the car because everything for a few minutes around us suddenly turned a bright white color. It felt like I was dying tbh. That's part of the reason why I hate going through thunderstorms flying or driving. you never know how bad it'll be or where lightning strikes.
Supposedly, that happened to my family when I wasn't even a year old. I don't know what exactly happened, but there was a lightning strike and then the car that had been driven stopped working the next day.
I think this has happened to me when I was driving too. Everything around was white for a second and it was SO LOUD.
If there's a thunderstorm, I pull over & start wondering when it's gonna end. I just can't drive in thunderstorms or snowstorms or icy conditions. Or bad fog! I have and that's why I refuse to do it anymore. Just can't.
A car is the safest place to be if you're outside in a thunderstorm as it's a faraday cage by design, your biggest danger is flying glass if the boom takes out a window. Your car won't like it very much to be fair, it would need new electrics, new tires and a new paintjob.
@@krashd Well, that's only if you have no open doors or windows so the rubber on the tires will act as a grounder.
Oh god I'm being rewarded with a video for not going to bed till 6 am. Well what's 10 more minutes...
Just another few minutes then bed
Are ya sleeping yet?
@@lucaschneider1613 unfortunately not
4 O'Clock for me lol
@@reese8397 knew it
Go to bed you bastard :p
Nothing beats waking up in Burgerland with a cup of coffee and a new fascinating horror
Good morning, from the USA. Have a great day. 🙂
Morning from Southern Ontario, Canada
Morning from hell, hell.
@@LispedGonk hey I live in hell what layer do you live on? I find myself on the 4th layer.
That's exactly what I did, pause the video got some coffee and then sat down and enjoyed!!!
“Don’t worry no one died on impact”
*”the fire did that for them”*
Professional driver here. I hold a Class A Commercial Driver’s License which, here in the United States, is required to operate combination vehicles (tractor-trailers). I believe you call them articulated lorries in the U.K. I pull sets of doubles for FedEx Ground (a truck pulling two 28-foot trailers coupled together). I’ve been driving professionally now for nearly four years and so far I’ve never been involved in an accident. I attribute this to following the fives keys of the Smith System. I was taught the Smith System in driving school and the five keys are:
1. Aim high in steering. In other words, you should look as far ahead as you can see, not just at the tail lights of the vehicle in front of you.
2. Get the big picture. In other words, be aware of your surroundings at all times. Try not to just stare straight ahead.
3. Keep your eyes moving. In other words, you should constantly be looking back and forth, both near and far as well as left and right in addition to checking you mirrors on a regular basis.
4. Leave yourself an out. In other words, try not to allow yourself to get boxed in.
5. Make sure THEY see YOU. In other words, never assume that other drivers are aware of your presence. Don’t be afraid to use your horn and/or lights to get the attention of another driver or pedestrian to make sure they know you’re there. Also, if traffic ahead of you slows down or stops, turn on your hazard lights (four-way flashers) to warn traffic behind you who may not be able to see the slow or stopped traffic ahead.
Finally (this isn’t part of the Smith System but I think it’s still worth mentioning), maintain a safe following distance. The formula I use is one second for every 10 mph (or approximately 20 kph). For example, If you’re traveling at 70 mph, your following distance should be seven seconds. You can calculate your following distance by taking note of when the vehicle in front of you passes a fixed object such as a tree by the side of the road or a road sign or an overpass and begin counting 1001, 1002, 1003 etc until you reach the same object.
I believe if all drivers (professional drivers as well as the motoring public) followed these guidelines, serious accidents such as the ones described in the video could be largely avoided.
Usually, I get sad about these, but this one made me angry. I'm from Utah and we have inversion and snow on a regular basis in the winter, yet people who are natives here all of the sudden don't know how to drive and it's infuriating. I admit I have a lead foot, but I drive slow in these conditions and Utah driver's favorite past time is cutting people off. You would not believe how many people are going beyond the speed limit in these conditions, plus they cut off police and snow plows. A while back we had a 65 car pile up and I can't remember if there was one or zero fatalities, but I remember that they said it was 100% preventable and I know it was due to the inversion. I just shake my head. I remember growing up my parents told me over and over that I would have to be a defensive driver, but I didn't realize how much I would have to be.
People should be to required to have much higher standards of mechanical sense than at present, and all people who fail to prove them should be banned from driving.
But that's too politically difficult.
I can't wait until self driving cars become inexpensive enough to be the norm. The roads will be so much safer without humans doing the driving.
This is literally one of my biggest fears. I hate driving with low visibility; it really freaks me out because it takes just one car to start off the chain reaction.
And I never thought of the fear of being trapped in your car, unsure of whether or not it’s safe to exit or if you might be collided with again. Glad to have added that extra layer of fear on my mind now 🙃
All of these accidents had one thing in common: drivers who failed to react appropriately to changed conditions and reduced visibility. No matter how fast conditions change, there is always a period of time in which drivers have a chance to notice and react to the potential threat -- unless they are tailgating or not paying attention.
my mom looks at her phone more than the road. She has her phone in her hand before even putting the car in drive
Agreed, altough there will always be the once in a million literal "wall of dust" that appears behind a hill or something like that, but for the most part, inattentive drivers is the cause.
@@jg6551 BuT iT's ThE yOuNg KiDs WhO tExT aNd DrIvE. Swear to god they're such hypocrites. Just because you've been driving for as long as I've been alive doesn't mean you're any good at driving. My aunt yelled at me for driving 10 over the speed limit, and yet was offended when I called her out for messing with her phone while driving. Yes I admit I speed but I never eat or mess with my phone while driving.
@@jg6551 That is terrifying.
@@GrumpyIan thank you for summing it all up
"I can't see anything, I should continue going 65, no big deal."
slowing down could get you hit from Behind
@@atavoidirc5409 What's worse, getting crashed on from behind or crashing head on
@@atavoidirc5409 Slowing down with hazard lights is what everyone should do, thus nobody should hit you from behind, and if they do.. well.. that's why insurances automatically favor you over them. 99.9% of the cases if you get hit from behind it's because the other guy wasn't being safe and it's his fault. This is a perfect example of that.
@@atavoidirc5409 In the Philippines, the rule of thumb is to go to the rightmost lane and park yourself there if you have low visibility or other issues(car trouble or heart attack etc) and cannot safely continue. That lane is also the pickup and drop off lane for the snakes--ahem--kings of the road a.k.a. public transport jeepneys. Everyone learns to drive defensively against those menaces.
Here in AZ you have to pull off the road and turn off lights during dust storms , but I refuse to stop. I’m not letting a semi driver hit me when I’m stopped
You could do a whole video on Tule Fog. It forms in the Central Valley of California and is distinctly visible from space. It is responsible for some of the worst pile ups in US history.
in germany we call multi vehicle collisions: MASSENKARAMBOLAGE
Send da KRAMFENWAGEN
@@andy86i... Krankenwagen...
@@ElaAusDemTal close enough :D
Spanish has the word "carambola" for crash pileups. Small world!
Yes, traffic jams and accidents on motorways are your tradition in Germany.
I've been in a dust storm, those things are terrifying! Most meteorologists don't really predict them, either, so there was no way to know in advance that it was coming and people shouldn't be out and about. Thankfully, I wasn't on a busy road at the time, but I definitely had to pull over and wait it out.
Always find a safe place to wait out the dust storm unless you really want to "go home"...
Another intriguing video....You have an excellent narrative voice for these particular tales of yours--I thought of this channel when visiting Poe’s two graves (the original, average grave in which he was first buried, and the gaudy, “monumental” grave to which he was moved and in which he is now buried with his wife AND *mother*) in that beautiful little churchyard in downtown Baltimore...Spending all of eternity decaying alongside one’s mother: now THERE’S a true tale of FASCINATING HORROR!!!
Hwy 400 Near Barrie, Ontario Canada always has at least one multi vehicle crash every winter. It's a very open Highway with fields on either side. Highway 401 near Kingston Ontario is also a bad spot. It all comes down to people driving way to fast in bad weather conditions.
I don’t know how well this fits the theme of your videos, but the Batavia shipwreck and mutiny is really interesting and would be cool to hear with your way of storytelling. Love these vids!
The Mont Blanc tunnel accident is a pretty interesting story. This video reminded of that. Well done, as always. I really enjoy them (especially the Kings Island ones, simply because that's my home park and I used to work there)
A horrible one. I mentioned it in a reply to someone else on this page suggesting tunnel fires as subjects for future videos.
Quite glad I decided to randomly open youtube rn.
As someone who lives near Barrie Ontario i can tell you that when the wind gets blowing in the winter the snow blows up over the road and makes it pretty much disappear
As an Ontario resident myself, I have seen idiots who turn 2 lane highways into 4 lane highways in snowstorms because they can't see the lines, but they still just have to get where they're going...RIGHT NOW!!!
Just north of Barrie can get pretty bad too with the storms. Like up Hw 11 towards Orillia
I was in Barrie, really liked it there
@@milkgxng walls wouldnt stop multi vehicle collisions. In fact it would probably make it worse
I only recently found out about my friend going through a highway incident. In 2016, there was an accident on the I95 toward Baltimore, in which a tanker truck slid on black ice, crashed over the bridge edge and then exploded on the road below it. There had already been several people pulled over due to the icy roads, a video showing many cars and trucks driving the normal speed limit despite icy conditions late at night. The whole road was engulfed in fire from the tanker below, but my friend drove straight through it with his gf (who was able to vouch that yeah he actually did that) saying it was either the giant fireball, or end up in a pile up that happened soon after from other trucks not breaking in time. Needless to say, it seems he made the right decision.
Fellow drivers, remember that in rain, fog, ice, or dust, use your headlights, and for fucks sake drive SLOWLY and CAREFULLY.
Whoa. I saw the video of that crash.
I really dont get this. You use your headlights every time your driving. No matter the conditions. Its literally the law.
@@StrazdasLT No it isn't. In many states the law requires headlights on between sundown and sunrise.
@@FRLN500 What you mean is that some states are still 50 years behind on basic pedestrian safety.
He got lucky
Interesting topic. As a multi-vehicle UK pile-up victim myself, I much appreciated this presentation.
In my case, my vehicle survived and so did I without so much as a scratch, but I put it down to getting across the emergency lane and 1/3 the way up the embankment, out of the way. I sat on the bank watching vehicles slam into the pile, there was no way for me to run back to warn other drivers, viz was zero and we’d been in a thick blanket of fog for some 5 miles or more before the crash site.
Not a good day for many.
Thank you 🇷🇴🇬🇧👍🏻
I remember me and my family are on our way to visit our relatives and we went through a thick fog through a mountain pass. It was crazy.
There are so many things I never knew to be afraid of until this channel taught me about them! Haha already thinking about my morning commute today!
Another great episode. Interesting to watch!
Little side note: The event described from 2:50 onwards happened on the Autobahn 19, but the description and the title marker in the video refer to Autobahn 9 (where in fact another mass pileup happened in November 1990)
Komisch - er spricht doch von der A 19 (3:08)?!
@@ElaAusDemTal stimmt. Ich frage mich eigentlich nur, ob das in der Beschreibung ein reiner Tippfehler ist oder ob die A9 in irgendeiner Form für dieses Video mit recherchiert wurde, um sie dann aber nicht mit aufzunehmen
There was also the 99-car accident in 1990 that happened in Tennessee due to fog. They did an episode of Forensic Files on it - the cause is thought to be from the Bowater Paper Plant, and its settling ponds that ran along the highway. Now they have all kinds of precautions in place that will automatically close the highway and redirect traffic if fog is detected.
i LOVE the way you end your videos. it's always an eerie statement that hangs for many seconds, giving the viewer a moment to ponder the horror of the situation, before the music swells back in. fantastic.
I don’t normally appreciate it when my body wakes me up at 5:30 am, but today I’ll let it slide lol
Me, making my food and wondering how I am going to entertain myself while eating
TH-cam: how about a Brief History of Multi-Vehicle Collisions?
It was a great time =)
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
(the upload, not the accidents...)
My biggest annoyance when driving in bad weather, is other drivers being completely oblivious to the fact their headlights are off
We don’t get snow, sandstorms , or heavy fog in my part of the world. It’s mainly sunny and clear during the day. However, when the slightest bit of water falls from the sky, some drivers panic and drastically reduce their speed. This creates a situation more dangerous than necessary. It only takes a few panicked motorists to have a chain reaction effect on hundreds of follow on vehicles.
Even if you’re not a tailgater, that won’t prevent you from being tailgated. I find myself in these precarious situations from time to time. I wish people would realise the effect their actions are having on others.
Listening to this before working on my homework at two in the morning. Love your videos
Your voice is so very soothing, you may as well be reading me a bedtime story lol
Dark humor aside, I very much enjoy your channel. You not only do your homework but you've got much respect for the deceased. 👍💗
Back in 2015 I was trapped in my car following a head-on wreck. My vehicle's fuel system ignited instantly. The occupants of the other vehicle were unconscious. Other drivers began inching past through the debris, sounding their horns and cussing because of the inconvenience.
I reckon that a sheer lack of selflessness is responsible for many deaths.
I love when I’m working and there’s an upload cause then I can pop in my headphones and listen. When I first stumbled across this channel, I actually binged watched about nine videos at work. Thank you for the effort you put into these videos! I always look forward to them
I grew up in an area in the Netherlands which was notorious for very sudden small dense fog moving from the fields next to motorways into the motorway (causing a few multi car pile ups). You would be driving in full sun and, without warning (then, now there are fog warning systems), you would not be able to see the end of your bonnet/hood. Like mentioned in other comments, there is no safe way deal with it, except for maybe stop as far on the hard shoulder as you can - drive to fast, you might crash into someone, drive to slow and someone might crash into you.
I remember seeing the Sheppy Crossing accident on the news. Hearing the audio from one of the 999 calls in a documentry after the fact and the fact no one died when seeing all those vehicles was almost surreal
I live up the road from there and was astonished that nobody was killed, especially considering there weren't any street lights on the bridge.
Closest I ever was to being in a multi car accident is also the closest I have been to a tornado.
Great vid as usual my friend! (I lived in a place in Manitoba Canada which every winter had larger and larger pileups, even witnessed a few...thankfully in all those case I was not actually part of said pileup haha)
Check out mini bus taxi accidents in South Africa, having anywhere between 15-50 fatalities at a time. This happens a bunch of times each year.
And this is why when it is raining super hard or I can't see, I pull over off the side of the road. Missing an appointment or being late somewhere isn't worth your life.
Love waking up to your videos, it's become a little ritual to watch them before getting out of bed :)
I've driven a lot of miles (I'm old and will leave it at that) however there are two incidents that cause freak pile ups. Between Forest, Ontario to London, Ontario this strip of the highway is just termed "white out". I had my daughter in the hospital in Oakville and did numerous trips. There are no wind stops (trees planted to help block some wind) and *semitrucks*. Very fine snow, high winds across the highway. I usually follow a semitrucks lights. But then there will be a lot of asshole trucks barrel down the passing lane and and then ALL of that fine snow will go swirling around your car. Second is getting blinded by the sun DURING a massive rain. Sounds strange but that is what happened.
There's some gnarly videos from winter pileups in WY. All across the Midwest, blowing snow and frozen road makes for mind blowing wrecks.
Can't believe you missed the pile up during Snowvid outside Fort Worth TX this year. There's terrifying footage of semi trucks crashing full speed into crashed cars, a guy who'd escaped was barely missed by flying debris
This is why I always move over for speeders or tailgaters. Forget about your ego as a safe driver, forget about "enabling" their behavior (as if you could influence it either way, which you can't), you do not want an aggressive driver BEHIND you. Let them pass. Stop hogging the fast lane, even if you're going above the speed limit, and move over.
I didn't have a fear of fire before this channel.
Nothing makes me happier than a new video from this guy 😁
This stuff reminds me of Final Destination 2, and it happens for real. 👀
The logs DO NOT bounce. They're boring. They just calmly roll off the convex roadway...(for rain runoff)
My uncle was involved in the crash in 2011. He lost his leg while trying to escape his car. He is in therapy till today
I'm a slow driver in general. Occasionally someone would pass by and flick me off. Onetime a guy honked and flick me off then ran into a ditch. I pulled over and offered him help. Dude blamed me for him running into the ditch and he got even more mad when I started smirking.
Aaaaw that was your chance to honk back and flick him off as you glided passed him by 🤣I rigidly stick to speed limits, if someone drives right up my backside, I just drive a bit slower 😉Its great when they can’t overtake, they soon get the message.
Just two days ago I was driving home from a family reunion, keeping to the speed limit. Many behind me were not, racing past me at blazing speeds. Then, a blinding thunderstorm rolled in. I could hardly see the road and stayed at a 6-second (U.S. recommended time-lapse) interval behind an Amazon van ahead. We were going @ 5 mph lower than the posted speed limit of 70--still quite fast. Other vehicles--many 18-wheelers, as well as cars, trucks, & vans--roared past as if we were standing still. Mercifully, there wasn't an accident...that I saw.
I wonder if that six second is regional. Where I am in the US, it’s two seconds.
@@gracejordan110 in the uk we have 2 seconds too. “Only a fool breaks the 2 second rule”
Nothing like some Facinating Horror B4 work!
love the way he says collisions, it just sounds nice
Clissions
What I find interesting that on many occassions, when the conditions are adverse, cars drive in formation - it only takes 2-3 drivers each in their own lane, staggered. This improves forward visibility for both (all three cars), and increases the change they're seen from behind. If approaching drivers see red lights of three cars on a three lane road, they WILL slow down as it means there's nowhere to go. It happens spontaneously and I experienced that in many EU countries.
This. In bad visibility what organically happens here is that you drive at a distance where you can just barely see the tail lights of the car in front of you (and thus see if he presses the breaks) and the one behind you also keeps to similar distance. there are, of course, those who have a habit of being unsafe.
man this channel is amazing. ive been watching this stuff every afternoon for the past 3 or 4 days. keep it up