Careful Driving

[Sidewinder]

There was a massive accident on the 401 heading out of Toronto today. I was reading the news report and noticed something rather crazy in the pictures.







That's a Pontiac Wave Sedan underneath that truck. I drove home through the snow today and this was a sobering reminder of how careful I should be. Drive safe this winter guys.

[Aveo5_boy]

I heard it was something like a 60 car pile up.

[Shakatu]

True that. I'm usually good with snow, but I spun off the road earlier this winter and needed towed out. Luckily nothing was hurt except my pride. Now I drive like an old man when it's snowing. Remember getting there a few minutes sooner isn't worth your or anyone's life.

[NYChevoo]

Holy ****! Scares the crap out me!

[Sidewinder]

Thankfully no one was killed in that pile up, at least since I last heard a report about it. Makes me not want to follow a transport truck ever.

[serega12]

Dang... That sucks. Good thing it doesn't snow here that often...

[DailyDriverMark]

Wow, same color as mine. We've had similar snow here..(just south of the same lake) and I actually ended up going into a spin, but luckily was able to drive away. Traffic missed me, and I stayed on the roadway. Lucky me. How did I manage to get into the mess? I knew better. But I got impatient behind a car in clear lane that seemed to keep going slower. Desided to try to sneak into a greasy lane and almost learned an expensive lesson about trying that with crappy rear tire tread. I felt the rear begin to break loose, and immediately tried to back off and ease back into my lane but I set the car off balance and went into what I call "the death pendulum" where the car begins to fishtail at speed.

I rode it as long as I could, breaking the speed down so that when it finally snapped around I was under 40mph, which is somewhat stoppable with the brakes. Stopped just short of going off the shoulder and being stuck in the snow. Lucky lucky lucky.

[MetroMPG]

We had another big snowstorm on Friday - someone died in a crash on the 401 near here. They closed the highway both directions for most of the day.

Not a bad idea to remind ourselves to take it easy.