Winter driving - extra stupid edition

[masraum]

Wow, an amazing amount of stupid in this vid.
I'm guessing it's mostly Russian?

I've driven in snow some, and I've ridden with my father in snow a bit when I was younger. I understand that at times, stuff can happen, but most/much of the stuff in this vid is pure stupid.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Snow is in the forecast for us this week, guaranteed I'll see plenty of stupid. Amazing how it snows every year but people still forget how to drive in it.

[dewolf]

Vodka....it'll get ya everytime.

[Tervuren]

From my experience at the local indoor kart track - its not that they forget how to drive in snow, its that they never understood momentum and basic driving physics in the first place.

Plenty of grip, plenty of handling, and they still plow smack into walls at street car speeds on a small race track.

[pavulon]

W t f.

[Brian 162]

Can you believe the first crash. The guy literally followed the tracks of an earlier accident and landing right beside the other vehicle.

[pete3799]

Yup.....lots of stupid there.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by Brian 162

Can you believe the first crash. The guy literally followed the tracks of an earlier accident and landing right beside the other vehicle.

Frozen bridge ... but still funny he does the exact maneuver on a straight road. Frozen bridges are an issue. In the US they usually are marked. Not in Russia.

Overall, much of what's shown on that video could have been avoided by just slowing down. In poor weather, you just plan on a longer drive.

G

[LakeCleElum]

I've gotta get me a Dash Cam.....They are dirt cheap, most under $30

[93nav]

Which dashcams would you consider good value. Nothing fancy, but, yeh, they could be interesting.

[Scuba Steve]

You figure with the long winter they have in Russia drivers would have figured out by now to slow the f*k down already!

That one with the big truck towards the end - I don't see how anybody could have survived that one.

[DaveE]

We use a lot more salt in PA


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[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by aigel

Frozen bridge ... but still funny he does the exact maneuver on a straight road. Frozen bridges are an issue. In the US they usually are marked. Not in Russia.

Overall, much of what's shown on that video could have been avoided by just slowing down. In poor weather, you just plan on a longer drive.

G

This.

I remember poking along at a safe and slow speed along one of the long interstate bridges. The doofus behind me in his 4WD SUV decided he did not need to go that slow and pulled into the lane that was covered in more snow. He hit a large hunk of ice that likely fell off of a simi. It spun him around and he drove right into the concrete wall. and ended up facing backward with the front end mangled and the side of his Suburban beat up as a bonus. He was getting out to survey the damage as I drove past pointing and laughing.

[Crowbob]

That video had my heart racing and my head ducking. A good reminder that even when driving cautiously and appropriately for conditions on a two-lane road, some idiot going in the other direction may not be.

[ckelly78z]

Somehow, I have driven through 36 straight Northern Ohio Winters without a bad accident, or even a trip into the ditch. I have gotten stuck a coupla times, but in foot deep snow in a parking lot.

You have to leave plenty of room on slippery roads, and just not be in a huge hurry, I always lift off the throttle over bridges, and have good tires on all the cars.....it's not rocket science.

In really ugly weather, I take my 4x4 diesel F-250 (7100 lbs) and stay off of the main roads where all the commuters in thier bald tired, Hondas and self important douchebags in the SUVs, like to see how fast they can drive.

[Steve Carlton]

What do they do there? Issue dash cams to everyone who hasn't got a license yet?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

You figure with the long winter they have in Russia drivers would have figured out by now to slow the f*k down already!

Yeah, that's the part that REALLY gets me. Clearly, a freak snowfall in Florida would end in calamity, but someplace that gets plenty of snow EVERY YEAR, come on people. The people that performed the passes in oncoming lanes at high speed were supremely stupid.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I remember poking along at a safe and slow speed along one of the long interstate bridges. The doofus behind me in his 4WD SUV decided he did not need to go that slow and pulled into the lane that was covered in more snow. He hit a large hunk of ice that likely fell off of a simi. It spun him around and he drove right into the concrete wall. and ended up facing backward with the front end mangled and the side of his Suburban beat up as a bonus. He was getting out to survey the damage as I drove past pointing and laughing.

People with trucks and/or AWD think that they can do whatever they want, but it doesn't work like that. It also wouldn't surprise me if those folks were running crappy all season type tires.

[motion]

Perhaps not so much vodka as male bravado. You have to understand the Russian male. What gets me is that they barely get worked up vocally, as if they crash like this all the time, LOL.

[VincentVega]

Unreal how fast some in the video were driving.

In MD we get just enough ice/snow to be an issue but not enough to warrant snow tires. One of the favorite tactics here is to drive ~20 mph on the highway with your flashers on, blocking as many lanes as possible. I usually drive my truck in bad weather and usually in 2wd. The few times I've used 4wd its safe at ~50+ except for the knuckleheads that are more an issue than the road conditions.

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by pete3799

Yup.....lots of stupid there.

Been telling my young driver in training that most accidents are caused by people doing stupid stuff. This video is good proof of that.