30 Second Video on why you need to keep your eyes on the road:This shows a fatality. Caution!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Last edited Sun Jan 6, 2013, 01:55 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=328964517158847

[babylonsister]

1. omg! I knew it would be

bad, but didn't think it'd be 'that' bad.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I had to make myself look.......it was really hard.

As a nurse, I've seen people die......just not like that.

[malaise]

2. Damn

One bad decision and life is over

[handmade34]

3. Oh no!

that is memorable... especially given the time of year and road conditions

[Oilwellian]

5. Just shared on Facebook

Cringe worthy.

K&R

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Thank you, my dear Oilwellian!

Facebook is where I found it....

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. That's horrible but how do we know the driver took his/her eyes off the road?

Looked like they slid on a slick spot to me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I think you're right...

After I posted this, I read the Facebook comments from the original posting, and it seems that the driver hit a spot of snow (i think).

So perhaps this accident was unavoidable.

However, the lesson remains: This kind of accident can happen if you take your eyes off the road.

[yardwork]

14. Not snow, probably ice. I grew up driving in conditions like that.

One minute you are driving down the road and the next minute your vehicle is completely out of control. It's a terrifying feeling. The brakes don't work. The steering wheel doesn't work. Nothing you do works. The car is sliding on ice and nothing the driver does makes a difference.

I will never forget going right through an intersection. I was paying close attention because of the bad conditions. I approached the intersection carefully and slowly. When I braked to stop nothing happened. I lightly pumped the brakes - nothing. I thought, well, I'm going to have to make a hard right turn at this stop sign and hope for the best. When I turned my steering wheel nothing happened except that my car continued going straight through the intersection. If there had been a truck there I would be dead. Fortunately I just ended up in the ditch on the other side.

This driver had extremely bad luck.

[Ikonoklast]

16. Departed the lane left into the slop in the middle, over-corrected and then went into a slide.

Watch the first slight drift left into the middle, then the lane departure.

Watch for the tire tracks in the slush on the left as the state trooper goes by the spot in the exact same lane...no ice for the trooper.


I wish I had a nickel for every time I've seen that happen.

This is a truck driver's nightmare.

We spend most of our time trying to avoid situations such as this, but sometimes there is just nowhere to go.

Depending on whose statistics used, between 65% to 80% of all automobile/non-commercial and commercial vehicle traffic accidents are the fault of the car driver.

The number goes up if there is a fatality involved.

[kiva]

9. Peggy, could you consider putting something

in the subject line indicating this involves a driving fatality? Maybe it's just too early in the morning but I wasn't ready to deal with that, guess I was expecting something to pop out from the trees or something, not that violent crash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I sure could......sorry!

[kiva]

13. Thanks!

[emmadoggy]

11. OMG, that is horrific.

It appeared the vehicle just shattered into a million pieces. How awful. Other vehicles impacted and affected too. Imagine how that person saw themselves heading right into the path of that truck in their last moments.

Makes you realize just how tenuous life is.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Imagine is right...my thought exactly.

And I'm going to be on the road today.

At least I won't be dealing with snow or ice, thank goodness...

[freshwest]

18. I remember years ago that in my daily commute there was always a burnt out car somewhere on I-10.

Not in bad weather, but every single day, in a large city without fail. It was just part of what I came to regard as the neverending concrete nightmare.

One always guesses what the driver did wrong, sometimes they didn't do anything wrong at all. Finally my day came and I lived through it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. I am glad you lived through it, my dear freshwest...

What a scene to have to see every day.

[freshwest]

20. Yes, rolled over, burnt, usually oil sludge covering about a dozen yard circle.

Fools driving with their dogs in the back, thrown on the road when they made sudden stops, with their bodies in pieces. A daily apocalypse and I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

And if I had passed like they said I should, I would have never had the chance to live on my beloved 'left' coast. Life if good. And thanks for the hug.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Hugs anytime!

[mokawanis]

12. Need to keep your eyes on the road

That simple statement cannot be over-emphasized. There's so many distractions and it only takes a second of inattentiveness for things to go horribly wrong.

[aikoaiko]

17. But for the grace of luck go I.

I think the driver drifted out of the rut just a bit, hit the slushy ice pile along the side of the road which jerked the steering wheel, the driver over-corrected and then fishtailed. I've done it when I lived in the northern latitudes.

Put that together with the driver passing a panel truck on the the uphill when a semi was heading in the other directions.

Most of the time it just ends up in the ditch. It could have been me.

[HereSince1628]

21. MANY of us I suspect.

For many years I drove 500 miles to keep my wisconsin residency while working in Minnesota.

That stretch of road reminded me a lot of Highway 2 between Ball Club and Cass Lake