Do Not Drive Anywhere This Holiday 'Till You Watch (and Share) This!

You’ve GOT to See This Video BEFORE You Travel for the Holidays

We’re in full holiday mode here in America. There’s a lot of traveling going on and a lot of accidents waiting to happen.

Trish and I were chilin’ out the other day and we have these news apps on our phones that alert us to breaking news. This alert came up about this 69 car pile up in Virginia and I’m sitting there wondering how that heck can this possibly happen. You’d think after the first 5 or 10 cars got mangled the late-coming motorists would catch on and slow down way ahead of time and avoid a collision. But somehow they just kept coming adding to the wreckage to the point where 51 people were seriously injured. I’m gonna play a couple news clips about it….but you’ll wanna stick around because I’m gonna show you exactly how something like this happens. (clip)

So…as kind of a public service announcement I wanna show you how dangerous icy road conditions can be for drivers…and how fast catastrophe can befall you. Even if you’re paying attention it’s the other people driving 3 thousand pound pieces of metal down the road, that you’ve gotta worry about. In this pile up that occurred in February of 2018 near Ames, Iowa, 70 vehicles were involved, resulting in 7 fatalities including two teenage sisters.

But I wanna point out that the initial accident has already happened…and even from this birds-eye camera view it’s difficult to see. So as these two initial cars approach the wreck… it looks like they’re going full speed and by the time they see the accident, it’s too late for them to stop… they become part of the pile up.

And now a semi and two more cars and another semi add to the wreckage. Now, everything you’ve seen so far is at regular speed. If I continue to let this play at regular speed, the collisions continue happening for 4:56 seconds.

And As I speed this up I just wanna make a couple quick comments. If you don’t have to travel in icy foggy, low visibility conditions… don’t. You may be the best driver in the world…nothing can protect you from the carelessness or inexperience of other drivers behind you when you’re socked in with a wreck in front of you.

I’m sure there were a lot of people who got out of their cars thinking the worst was over only to find that for almost 5 solid minutes the collisions just kept happening.

If you have to drive in this stuff it’s probably a good idea to slow down….slow way down…give yourself plenty of time to make appropriate adjustments in case somebody does lose control ahead of you.

Anyway guys…from my family to yours…happy holidays and, if you’re traveling, be safe out there. Don’t underestimate the power of stupid people in large crowds.