Winter driving - extra stupid edition
 

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.

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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.

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

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.

W t f.

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

Yup.....lots of stupid there.

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.

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

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

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.

We use a lot more salt in PA


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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.

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.

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.

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

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.
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.

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.

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.

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

Good thought. Ideally, you slow up before the bridge, and then be on maintenance throttle over the bridge (i.e. not accelerating, not de-accelerating). If you were at the limit of traction on the bridge and then let off the gas, the additional drag on the drive-wheels could induce a skid on those wheels.

Growing up in a ton of snow and back roads taught me to watch the hell out for bridges. The worst are the ones that you can't even tell are bridges. Usually there are signs, but sometimes those signs are under snow banks already.

The best was my dad putting studded snows on the front wheels of my mom's car. He left all-seasons on the back. Oversteer all day long. Was fun, but certainly not a good idea IMO.

Why the fk people continue to live in places like that is totally beyond me.

This is one of those "don't even need to watch the video" threads.

The one at 3:05 is brutal.

I doubt there were survivors.

Every Driver's Ed should require hours of this stuff.
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Yup. Last Friday coming home in some significant snow we were putzing along at 30mph on a four lane along with everyone else but there were a few in the ditch and we saw probably half a dozen cars that could not make it up a hill. Just sat and spun. Why don't they stay off the road or get good tires.

The amount of speed these people were carrying in that video was unbelievable.

I wondered that too. There wasn't anything left of the vehicle. Another case of too much speed. Slower and he wouldn't have crossed the median.

I used to think that, but after viewing my own GoPro-as-a-dash-cam footage, I've noticed that my travel speed seems to be exaggerated, especially at higher frame rates.

Was told that almost everyone has one there... it's the only evidence there is for accident cause.

Of course it's not good for the one that causes it.

It seems a lot of those accidents are proof positive of driving too fast irregardless* of GoPro frame rates, about which I know nothing.



*still not a word, I think

Some of those clips could be played in slow motion and it would still look like they were driving WAY too fast for the conditions.

Not easy to leave if you are Siberian. But you can leave if you are in Minnesota, North Dakota etc. etc. - and there are MILLIONS of people that don't. That's what's crazy to me.

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LOL

The high rate of dash cams is due to fraud. People causing accidents and trying to collect on insurance. I.e. by getting in front of your vehicle and slamming the brakes, then claiming you rear-ended them. Even putting it in reverse at intersection to end up with a claim. Pretty bad sign for the state of your society if such behavior is widespread ...

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I remember living in Texas when there were sub freezing temps that lasted about a week, maybe 1995. There was a long bridge by the Lake Conroe dam on 105. I think the speed limit was 65 mph, but I slowed down to about 25 before I got to the bridge. Guy flew by me in a brodozer F-250 in the left lane, hit the bridge, did a perfect 990* spin, put his grill into the guard rail, did a 270* spin and put the driver's side into the rail, ground to a halt pointing the wrong way. Still had the window sticker on it, too new for license plates.

Good lord, how many people got killed in that video?
That would have been a "faces of death" video 20 years ago. Now it's just "ouch...whatever...."

The accident took place on February 24, 2012 near the village of Omutischi Petushki in Russia's Vladimir Region. The driver of the SUV was killed. Reports indicate that the SUV driver probably lost control after his wheel hit a furrow of wet snow.

Yep, I was here for that. It was winter of 95 or maybe 96. At least in Houston the guy could say "but I've never driven in cold conditions like this," but it was mostly due to "This truck is bad-arsed, it doesn't have to slow down for anything."

That happens a lot on a race track especially in the rain 😀

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