ONLINE EXTRA: Germantown Hwy. 41/45 pileup [WI interstate hwy]

YouTube ^ | Dec 9, 2013 | WLUK-TV

[Stalwart]

Traffic cam video of 50-car pileup on a snowy Wisconsin interstate. 5 minutes.

[Stalwart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzs4Twa-GVY

[bramps]

Generally a bad idea to be texting while driving in a blizzard.

[driftdiver]

lotta idiot drivers up there

[1rudeboy]

Jeepers. What a bunch of lemmings.

[Paine in the Neck]

Generally a bad idea to be texting while driving in a blizzard.

I'm thinking standing in the middle of the highway in a blizzard while vehicles wreck all around you is also not a great idea.

[SMARTY]

People pulling off on the right or else, sliding off on the right ... was that water or a snow bank they plowed into?

[MaxMax]

Some of those cars were clearly going 50+ on icy roads. And I'm certain most of them
didn't have snow tires or 4x4. Same here in Dallas, people were hauling ass on ice
and ending up in the brush. I wanted to give the bird out the window but I care
more about the temp of my middle finger than their stupid asses.

[Star Traveler]

Talk about a CONTINUOUS WRECK ... it just kept on wrecking for five minutes ... yeoww!

[Darksheare]

Anyone we know anywhere near this Charlie Foxtrot?
I expect this kind of thing here in NY.
Matter of fact, I might see something like it in a few minutes as I head out to work.

[Darksheare]

Here in NY that kind of thing would be titled “Highway gods demand the flesh harvest”.

[The Cajun]

Some of those cars were clearly going 50+ on icy roads.

How can people up there not know to slow it down in those type of conditions?

[trisham]

They eventually learn. :)

[Colonel_Flagg]

Couple observations: first, check out the car in the right lane ten seconds into the video whose driver manages to swerve to the shoulder and get through unscathed. Heck of a piece of winter driving.

Second, what do some of these people do after they get hit? They get out of their cars AND STAND IN THE DRIVING LANE. Then, a couple of minutes later after they’ve done the sensible thing and go to the shoulder, some of them go BACK.

It’s a minor miracle people weren’t killed here.

[The Cajun]

I've had some experience on icy roads, but long before anything bad happens, the car or truck tells you that traction is barely there just by the feel.
A little drifting/shimmy on the front end, constantly having to correct.

To me it's comparable to when a car begins to hydroplane on water.
Common sense tells you to slow it down.

[Proud2BeRight]

That time of day on Sunday? They were probably watching the Packer game on the TV on the dash.

[who knows what evil?]

Too fast for conditions...

[trisham]

I know. Why people don’t pay attention to those sensations of lack of traction, I don’t know. It could be that some of them are distracted or under the influence of something. Some people simply can’t drive. Some panic.

[thackney]

I'm thinking standing in the middle of the highway in a blizzard while vehicles wreck all around you is also not a great idea.

Especially after a few cars have already plowed through the first wreckage. Were those folks trying to get run over?

[bmwcyle]

Dumb people who get out of their car and walk towards the center of the highway.