43 Replies to “Today’s “How Not To” Video”

  1. Gets out turns his back and stands there is my favorite.
    My all time favorite character at every collision is the twenty something chick on the phone wandering around holding an invisible pizza.

    1. That guy deserves to be dead out of sheer stupidity. He does not deserve to be alive after that display of complete idiocy. Gets out of his car which is still on the road and stands next to it. As expected car comes flying in and he is simply lucky that his own car did not kill him. The other thing he did is he reversed his car back onto the road!!! So some other car could smash it to pieces!

    2. Why was virtually every one of these people driving so fu**king fast? Like, uh, they couldn’t tell it was snowing and the road was slick? Morons. It’s hard to believe any, much less all, of these people live (and thus annually drive) in a state that has winter.

  2. Always get everyone out and away from your vehicle and the road. If possible, safely get up the road to warn other drivers. The same number of people who don’t know this got injected – 85%.

    1. Exactly.
      If the car still moves drive it back ‘upstream’ on the shoulder to warn others.
      And clear an escape lane.
      No point is stopping and staying in the middle of the lane if you don’t have to.

      1. No way in hell am I driving back on the shoulder, in near zero visibility, on ice, on a busy Interstate.
        The Interstates, Trans-Canada Highway, the 400s in Ontario… all are populated by inexperienced city drivers, stressed-out truckers trying to stay on schedule, and the rest of us who know better but still go too fast.

        Into the ditch in one piece, if possible. Then run away.
        A car or pick-up is not designed to be survivable when slammed into by a big rig going 110km/hr (65mph).

  3. Notice the one dude who was going slow enough to get his car under control and avoid collision, then tried to get it up the other side of the ditch and out of harm’s way.

    1. Yep the driver in the silver Edge, was probably the only one who understood conditions and reacted properly. 0:41 OTOH was a Darwin Award in the waiting, more luck than brains.

  4. I know that area. It’s in the middle of nowhere and accidents like that are an annual occurrence. Centralia isn’t far from there either. Most of the drivers on that interstate are New Yorkers and truckers. It’s the “fast way” across Pennsylvania which means everyone is usually about 20 to 30 mph over the speed limit. State Police monitor the highway…and the nearest barracks isn’t very close.

    1. The guy in the wrecker should have known better.
      Racing to the incident scene to become part of it.
      Just to make a few quid.

  5. One thing I noticed was how fast everyone insisted on going. The road is treacherous and the visibility is low. Why drive speed limit or more?

    I noticed the same thing while driving to and from my house in B. C. this past winter. It’s bad enough to deal with leadfoots when the roads are clear and the weather’s good, but when conditions are far from ideal, why?

    1. I was thinking the same thing. I routinely break speed limits when the visibility is good, but in conditions like this, you don’t drive, you crawl. And it is not like these people get one snowfall every few years.

      1. Yup. When the road was tricky, I slowed down to well below the speed limit to where I knew I could properly keep my truck under control, even with 4-wheel drive.

        So what if the other drivers get mad at me? I let them pass while I make sure I stay out of the ditch and don’t become an accident statistic.

        1. Yep, I have been driving on 407 during the biggest snowstorm this season. Several Fast and Furious have passed me in their ricers. Then I passed them, they were in a ditch. No way I was stopping to check on them.

          1. That happened to me two months ago.

            I was driving along a stretch of divided highway that was reported to have black ice. I got behind a truck and stuck behind it like glue, doing what it did.

            A number of vehicles went yahooing along in the other lane, sometimes stirring up enough snow that I had a hard time seeing where I was going. I remember passing by one of them a few minutes after it raced by me. It was in the ditch, flipped over on its side. I didn’t stop as it wasn’t safe to do so, even if I wanted to.

            Fortunately, the truck and I got through that stretch of highway. I passed by it, flashed my emergency blinkers a few times (which I hope the driver took as a “thank you”) and the rest of the highway was bare and dry all the way into Edmonton.

            The only cost to me was that I arrived home about half an hour later that I would have liked to, but I was in one piece and I stayed out of the ditch.

          2. Yep, if I feel it is safe to stop to help I will, if it looks like a pile up in progress I will not be adding to it. The safest thing for all concerned is, in this case, to GTFO until you parked on the side is no longer contributing to car pinball.

  8. Wow, here in Nova Scotia we’ve had rain and then an ice storm out of no where and it’s plus six outside.

  11. The safest thing to do in those conditions is stay home. I’m retired, I can do that.

  12. That’s not zero visibility! I remember driving from Outlook to Regina once in a blizzard. From about Davidson to just outside of Regina I could barely see the taillights of the Semi 30 feet in front of me.

    1. TSB, I agree. That’s not zero visibility.
      Up around Canora SK, I was in snow so thick that I had to roll down my window and look at the yellow line passing under the driver side tire to stay on the road.
      Stopping and waiting it out wasn’t an option as I was lost and almost out of gas at 10PM. I just pulled into a gas station 15 minutes later but I had to be on fumes.
      Why people can’t slow down when the roads are garbage has always been a mystery to me.

      1. Same here. Our farm was 3-1/2 miles outside of town. Usually a 4 minute drive. More than once there was a blizzard and/or ground storm so bad I held the door open to see the yellow line passing by. Days like that, the trip took a half hour or more. Had to count the intersections to orient yourself. And, no staying overnite in town. The beef cattle, hogs & chickens couldn’t feed themselves and the milk cows needed milking.

    2. I seem to recall a story many years ago of a driver smashing into the back of a rigs trailer out in the Prarries during such a storm at night.
      Got dragged by the rig for several hundred miles before the truck driver pulled into a stop.
      Didn’t even know the car was there until it was pointed out .
      I think the car driver survived but was severely frost bitten from all the snow and slush being dumped into his wrecked car along the way.

    3. Agreed. Zero visibility is when you cannot see the front of your car hood .. it is truly terrifying .. been there.

      1. Yup. That happened to me as I described in my earlier comment. I was blinded for a few seconds by snow stirred up by drivers in the next lane.

        I had no idea where the truck I was following was during that time. I didn’t want to reduce the chance of running into him, so I took my foot off the pedal and let my truck slow itself down. By then, the other vehicle had moved far enough ahead that I could see where I was going.

  13. I’ve driven, as I’m sure maybe BA can confirm, From Jasper to Prince George…in dead of winter..and after McBride it gets mountainous.

    When it snows HEAVY there in the mountains..??..and I mean freaking heavy..?? 15-20 km MAX, or you’re a dead man…been there n done that, and I can tell ya, it’s White Knuckle driving at best.

    These clowns on summer times are complete Fking Imbeciles…(Especially the big rig tow truck – INSANE..!!)

    RIP to those who lost their lives..needlessly – sadly.

    1. Fortunately, I’ve never driven the Yellowhead from PG to Jasper in winter and, yes, the roads was tricky even the summer I made that run more than 40 years ago.

      Similarly, there have been frequent highway advisories for the Pine Pass this past winter. It, too, was a tricky road when I last drove that road in the late 1970s.

      I’ve had my fun with winter highway driving. One Christmas, it took me 10 hours to drive from Edmonton to visit my parents in Fort St. John because I ended up going right into the soup, complete with heavy snow and reduced visibility. There was a reason why I was the only one on the highway from Valleyview to Grande Prairie during that trip, which included crossing the Kiskatinaw River over the old curved wooden trestle bridge…. at night….. at near -40…..

      Then again, I was in my mid-20s at the time.

      Similarly, I had fun going to Edmonton from Saskatoon during a blizzard, which, fortunately, had ended by the time I refuelled in Lloydminster.

    2. I meant to say …… on SUMMER TIRES.
      Mind you at the speed these imbeciles were travelling, it likely would not have made a difference whatsoever.

      Cannot believe folks doing 60-70mph in those conditions…unreal

      1. In B. C., it’s illegal to drive without winter or all-season tires between October 1 and April 30. Then again, what do you expect from a province with a capital in a region where it hardly snows?

  14. The problem is how fast is the right speed? Too fast and you run into the back of somebody. Too slow and you get nailed from behind by somebody who thinks they can see better than you can. Usually somebody in a tractor trailer. You get sardined either way.

    I remember driving in similar conditions on the prairies in summer before farmers went to zero tillage. A big wind storm and there would be a total brownout from blowing dirt. It wasn’t quite as bad because every second quarter section would be seeded and wouldn’t have blowing dirt. And if you stopped you didn’t freeze to death.

    Both situations are dangerous and scary.

    1. My house is just down the alley from a trucker. I called him a few weeks ago and thanked him and his colleagues for the convoy.

      I also mentioned the story about the truck I followed, which I mentioned in some of my earlier comments, as it was belonged to his company. I then told him of some of the cowboys I encountered and he acknowledged that they’re a pain in the proverbial even to his firm.

  16. Yes stand there and just record, do nothing and complain about your car

    That is the mentality today

    Record
    Do Nothing
    Complain

    It was all about him

    Go for your 7th booster now

    You know everyone at my work who have two or more shots are not the same people anymore.

    Mistakes, forgetfulness and horse blinders on…

    There is Only two of us left and thank YAHWAY (God) he’s there or I’d go insane

    That is the correct spelling btw and not to many know it

    Everything is collapsing

    That was the plan

    There is no build back better

    That’s for who servies this

    Let’s make sure it’s not the ones who did all this harm

    They deserve what’s coming

    And come it will

    Thy will be done…

    Amen

  17. Was driving across the UP in Michigan years ago and encountered true white out conditions. Even going slow I almost rear-ended a car. Maybe 20 foot visibility. Had to look out the window to see because of the snowfall. At one point I realized I was on the wrong side of the road and I was only going about 30mph. Pulled over in the next town. Stayed at a motel with the wife and kids. We had a great time with other stranded travellers. Thankfully the bar was open!

    1. I’m on a group plan through my profession, even as a retired practitioner. When I switched over from the provincial motor association about 25 years ago, my premium went down by at least 40%.

      And, no, government insurance isn’t better. I’ve lived in two provinces which had that abomination inflicted upon them by the ruling socialist parties some 50 years ago.

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