This Horrific Pile-Up Shows The Dangers Of Speeding In Foggy Conditions
The video’s description - provided by the Associated Press - sheds some light on this terrifying pile-up:
“A massive pileup involving dozens of cars and trucks in dense fog killed four people on Saturday and injured 30 on a highway in western Slovenia, police said.
The accident took place on a key motorway connecting the capital of Ljubljana with the Adriatic coast. The area was wrapped in thick fog and police say this was the likely cause of the pileup.
Eyewitness photos published by local online media showed dozens of crumpled cars, some of them lodged under trucks. Police said some 70 various vehicles were caught in the crash near Senozece, some 70 kilometers (42 miles) southwest of Ljubljana.
The motorway remained closed for traffic as emergency crews, firefighters and police struggled to provide help and clear the scene.
State STA news agency said the pileup was one of the biggest ever in the small EU country.”
It can be all too easy to push on in dodgy conditions, something I’m sure we’ve all done at one time or another. But this video is a clear reminder that very few people actually drive to the prevailing conditions. Ultimately, if your visibility is reduced to a matter of feet, you can’t expect to maintain your normal cruising speed safely.
Stay safe CTzens.
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A little update on this accident:
Here is the reconstruction of the crash http://www.24ur.com/novice/slovenija/animacija.html#video
All started with a van driver who crashed into the rear end of the truck (driver from Bosnia was thrown out of the van and was dead right away).
After that some vehicles successfully stopped, minor rear bumps. Than 2 trucks arrived.
A driver from Romania crashed into the right truck - full throttle (passenger dead right away).
Than again few vehicles stopped successfully with a minor rear bumping here and there.
After that the worst part comes. A truck driver from Romania crashed into this stopped vehicles - full throttle. This killed another person of Slovenian nationality (and this crash is on the video in the post). Later on another Slovenian driver crashed into the truck and killed himself.
So yeah.. The driving culture in Slovenia is bad - but even more than that, ppl are not ‘present’ on the road while driving. They have no feeling for speed and what can happen if sth goes wrong. I can see ppl holding phone (I guess text messaging) on highway daily. But even worse that Slovenians are drivers from Bulgaria, Romania and other South-East countries (those are involved in a car crashes very often on our roads).
KR, Nejc
same thing happened some days back in india too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DknMDkH7zoU
poor guy the bmw owner after the silver car hit
No rear fog lights on… might have at least given some people a chance to slow before impact.
all those people stand right there and do nothing.. they could go 100 meters before the pile up and inform drivers, they could put triangle signs that every body should have in their cars to inform that there is obstacle on the road.. jesus.. the stupidity is intense..
Stupidity is a) the wrong word and b) accused by you to the wrong people. Without foglights driving at assumably 100+ km/h is dangerous, as you can see, and the bystanders are not what’s causing cars to pile up.
I was in that crash in my s2000, almost nobody turned their freaking fog lights on. When i saw the fog i knew something is going to happen, i drove and drove then suddenly i see something flashing like the indicators, i come close and see cars pilled on each other. I parked the car on the side turned front towards the traffic and turned everything on fogs,indicators and high beams i got out got to the people on the hill and then a car flys straight on one audi landing on mine. Helped him and his family. then everything calmed down, the police,firefighters and the ambulances arrived. The funny thing is my honda was still running even when it had the Audi on its head.They wanted to take the Honda but i called my bud he towed it to his garage and im now fixing it, its gonna cost but who cares that was my first car ever and i want to keep it. When i came home my kids came rushing to me crying including my 16 yr. old daughter.
People stay safe and drive carefully.
This is what terrifies me. One moment you’re driving and the other moment you’re hurt, inside a car laying on another car’s bonnet.
The two biggest motoring accidents in the UK in recent memory were both because of fog. The 1991 M4 motorway crash is of particular note because of how it all unfolded.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/zloty/fog1991013.jpg
http://hml.walcat.ac.uk/Play/443