Just a hint kiddies......

[kels]

It is now 15 degrees and the freezing rain is still falling.
If you slide of the road and your car wont start, you
are gonna be darn cold by the time we get there.
Max speed on the side roads is 25 mph.

[DreamOfPhoenix]

Our driveway, porch, and sidewalk are covered with ice...just about killed myself when I stepped outside earlier to take out the trash.

[MikeG]

It is now 15 degrees and the freezing rain is still falling.
If you slide of the road and your car wont start, you
are gonna be darn cold by the time we get there.
Max speed on the side roads is 25 mph.

I know. I had to put the trash out. I debated whether shorts and a t-shirt were warm enough. They Were! It's 56 F right now at 10:30 pm and that's just borderline "shorts are comfortable" weather.

[ChesCopPodz]

It is now 15 degrees and the freezing rain is still falling.
If you slide of the road and your car wont start, you
are gonna be darn cold by the time we get there.
Max speed on the side roads is 25 mph.

People tick me off in that kind of weather. If I go to a crash, the FIRST thing I ask is why are you out driving in this? If the answer is anything other than something mandatory like work (if I had to drive to work in it, I can cut them some slack) or an emergency, you get a ticket. Going to a birthday party, to a movie, or out to dinner on icy roads and bad weather will get you no sympathy from me, who had to drive over those same roads to help your dumb @ss. Automatic ticket.

[cntryboy0531]

It's 80 degree's right now and I'm sweating. been outside laser mapping fatality scene's all day.

[MikeG]

People tick me off in that kind of weather. If I go to a crash, the FIRST thing I ask is why are you out driving in this? If the answer is anything other than something mandatory like work (if I had to drive to work in it, I can cut them some slack) or an emergency, you get a ticket. Going to a birthday party, to a movie, or out to dinner on icy roads and bad weather will get you no sympathy from me, who had to drive over those same roads to help your dumb @ss. Automatic ticket.

They had a nice video on the local news of Pittsburgh with multiple care pileup at the bottom of a hill. Cars looked like they got up to about 30 mph just slipping. I don't understand why they would go out in it. Secondly, I don't know why people get out and stand next to their wrecked car. Apparently, they were too lucky not to get injured in their crash so they are doubling down.

[seeking]

It was 72 here when I got off work. Makes me appreciate living in FL when everyone back home posts about how icy the roads are. But all you stuck out in it, stay warm and be safe. And cntryboy0531, hope you stay cool

[greg72982]

They had a nice video on the local news of Pittsburgh with multiple care pileup at the bottom of a hill. Cars looked like they got up to about 30 mph just slipping. I don't understand why they would go out in it. Secondly, I don't know why people get out and stand next to their wrecked car. Apparently, they were too lucky not to get injured in their crash so they are doubling down.

You Tube

This is the video ^^^. That stuff is horrible. Nothing worse that all four wheels being stopped yet the car isn't. Terrible feeling.

I'd be curious how to handle that as the responding officer. I'd imagine at least one of those cars is not drivable, making it a reportable accident. But do you lump all ten or so cars into one accident report, or do several reports?

[MikeG]

Crews, Residents Take Precautions After Icy Mess On Fallowfield Avenue In BeechviewCBS Pittsburgh

Video is in the middle of the page...

That's the one. Scary stuff.

[greg72982]

That's the one. Scary stuff.

I edited my post with the full video. That link was more about people bitching. How do you expect a slt truck to get up or down safely?? People are so unreasonable sometimes...

[MikeG]

I edited my post with the full video. That link was more about people bitching. How do you expect a slt truck to get up or down safely?? People are so unreasonable sometimes...

That video is much better. You get to see mroe double-downs.

Did you see how God left just enough room between the suburban and the tree to let the driver out and tempt him? He was about 3 feet from being crushed against the tree when he got out and the next car came down.

I didn't see the kids getting out in the first video. That was scary. Note to parents: the downhill side of the car on an iced over hill is a bad place to put your kids.

[MikeG]

I'd be curious how to handle that as the responding officer. I'd imagine at least one of those cars is not drivable, making it a reportable accident. But do you lump all ten or so cars into one accident report, or do several reports?

Give everyone a bunch of citations.
1. Failure to control
2. unsafe lane change
3. speeding above reasonable and prudent for condition.
4. reckless driving involving accident.
5. For the suburban, 4 illegal U-turns.

Then forget the accident report, that would be nasty diagram. Call in an airstrike and start over.

[greg72982]

Give everyone a bunch of citations.
1. Failure to control
2. unsafe lane change
3. speeding above reasonable and prudent for condition.
4. reckless driving involving accident.
5. For the suburban, 4 illegal U-turns.

Then forget the accident report, that would be nasty diagram. Call in an airstrike and start over.

I had one last year on a hill, about that steep, where one vehicle went into a tree and the other in the guardrail further down the hill. It was the same conditions. Both were not drivable and I believe I did a reportable accident form for each. That took some time, reportable accident report forms are ridiculously long here.

[cntryboy0531]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6249iHSJsKo

This is the video ^^^. That stuff is horrible. Nothing worse that all four wheels being stopped yet the car isn't. Terrible feeling.

I'd be curious how to handle that as the responding officer. I'd imagine at least one of those cars is not drivable, making it a reportable accident. But do you lump all ten or so cars into one accident report, or do several reports?

Thankfully in Florida, we don't have ice that bad (we had it last year on the roads, and it caused accidents). But, for us, that would be several individual crashes. If the cars were driveable, give everyone copies of a drivers report of crash and let THEM deal with the paperwork.

Oh yes, and many many citations.

[greg72982]

You could cite but I don't see any judges here convicting. With ice you are at its mercy regardless of the speed you are going.