Why don't they grit the highway or drive slower ?

To be fair, it's not just the US that have similar incidents due to a lack of common sense, we can be just as bad as this 2013 crash shows - Sheppey crossing crash: Dozens hurt as 130 vehicles crash - all because people wouldn't slow down in fog!

EDIT - Regarding the lack of gritters, Texas is 3 times larger than the entire of the UK and gets snow only very rarely, so you wouldn't spend all the money needed to buy/maintain 3x the number of the UK's gritters "just in case" you had a once/twice per decade snowfall.
 
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ianh said:
To be fair, it's not just the US that have similar incidents due to a lack of common sense, we can be just as bad as this 2013 crash shows - Sheppey crossing crash: Dozens hurt as 130 vehicles crash - all because people wouldn't slow down in fog!

EDIT - Regarding the lack of gritters, Texas is 3 times larger than the entire of the UK and gets snow only very rarely, so you wouldn't spend all the money needed to buy/maintain 3x the number of the UK's gritters "just in case" you had a once/twice per decade snowfall.
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Some eerie parallels with the vehicle transporter and general layout with the TX crash there - just not so many pickups, etc.
 
m4rmite said:
https://youtu.be/tTJ-FXRX-Fg
Thick fog, speed up.
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The speeds of some of those trucks is utterly staggering.

Gerard said:
I remember seeing a video on road wars before of an accident on an american motorway, even with the cops blocking off the lane with the blue lights going (this was at night) people were somehow managing to miss all this and hit into the cop cars as well. It was like something out of a carry on movie with how utterly stupid it was. Multiple cop cars all with the lights going full tilt and people slamming into them and into the accident area like they were invisible.
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Reminds me a bit of this I saw on Twitter the other day:

 
I remember back in the day driving down the Ohio highways in the winter months. It was foggy and icy so I was being extra careful. Then I look in the other lane to see a big truck approaching rapidly and passed me. He must have been going about 70mph (113kmh) i.e. the maximum speed.

There is no way he could have stopped if something unexpected appeared.
 
It's crazy when you see footage of some of these pileups. Not sure if appropriate for the forum, some swearing. Can delete if needed.

 
VaderDSL said:
It's crazy when you see footage of some of these pileups. Not sure if appropriate for the forum, some swearing. Can delete if needed.

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I was going to post this one too


Is another good example, it seems it is pretty common in the states for these pile ups but it's no surprise given the speed people are driving in such conditions, you would think they would learn to drive slower
 
Minusorange said:
I was going to post this one too


Is another good example, it seems it is pretty common in the states for these pile ups but it's no surprise given the speed people are driving in such conditions, you would think they would learn to drive slower
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Some people lucky not to be mangled in that one, why you’d stand on the hard shoulder n the middle of an ongoing pile up!
 
Rotty said:
Can't comment on this specifically but my experience of driving in the US is that their general driving standards are dire
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Having driven a fair bit in the US too, this comment doesn't convey the shocking level of average driving in the US, specifically, the lack of any sort of peripheral awareness or hazard perception.
 
Minusorange said:
I was going to post this one too


Is another good example, it seems it is pretty common in the states for these pile ups but it's no surprise given the speed people are driving in such conditions, you would think they would learn to drive slower
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Those 3 morons standing on the road whilst cars are crashing all around them!
 
another one for you:

their driving standard is rubbish because their tests are rubbish. Pretty much can you start a car and go fwd/back with a token nod to actual driving competence.
 
The standard is low. Look at the driving standard in Russia, where you can litteraly buy your licence over a counter.

Even here though people aren't taught how to react when things go wrong. Most have no idea what to do if they start to slide. They just panic, slam the brakes on and make it far worse.
 
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Having lived in a northern US state, even though they’re used to this every winter, at the start of winter there are always huge pileups and every 500m or less (no joke) there is an abandoned vehicle (usually a 4x4) in the ditch along the interstate. Driving standards are poor with little testing and the starting age very young.

I doubt they’re used to it in Texas either, would expect it nor would have snow tyres fitted as a matter of course.
 
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