Absolutely INSANE 1st hand video of this incident on I-81 in Central PA today during a snow squall. What possesses people to drive full speed in no visibility weather is just beyond me (x-reference the autonomous driving thread...?).
(some language NSFW for obvious reasons...)

 

Aftermath footage:

https://www.pahomepage.com/news/pile...ylkill-county/

 

Yea crazy stuff. That one guy standing next to his door is insanely lucky to be alive.

 

Damn, that's some crazy ****. Just makes you appreciate California sunshine! If the roads looked that I would just stay home, I wouldn't even try to drive in that stuff

 

Wow. This is really sad. Saw the charger on the news though.

 

I was is Pa around the time alert hit, thankfully was not driving but was around the area. It got bad very very fast.

 

People just need to slow down but its hard to stop at 60 with limited visibility all of sudden

 

Nah, how quickly it accumulated and how sudden visibility decreased, I'm not surprised in the least bit with the amount of accidents. Easy to judge looking on the sidelines, but this was definitely a freak storm. I got alerts about 40 min before it made it's way to Philly but once it hit, I couldn't even see the next city block. Conditions changed extremely fast. So imagine dealing with that going 70+ on a highway, not happening. Maybe these accidents is what prompted the alert systems.

 

When I lived in SoCal (West Los Angeles area) you would run into thick coastal fog that would roll in, it would be so thick you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you, so you would look for red lights. In this case pulling over seems just as dangerous. I've had nightmares like this where I'm driving fast and I can't keep my eyes open and praying nobody is in front of me. God help anyone who got hurt

 

Just how oblivious do people have to be to drive so fast on snow covered roads, and in poor visibility conditions. Especially so for the truck drivers, seems like they hand out CDLs to idiots.

 

Yup pretty much. It was a mildly cloudy day for the most part but when I got this alert, the weather seemed to have broke and it was definitely sunny. I went outside to pick up my garbage cans during this time and said to myself "no way it's snowing within that time frame, what is a snow squall?". Literally minutes later, could barely see. Lmao

 

Sorry but on the highway you can see up ahead that conditions are changing and that there is a big cloud you are about to drive into. It's no different than driving in the summer and you can see that it's pouring rain up ahead.

 

Yes, definitely driving too fast for conditions. I think most people did not understand what the conditions were. Maybe every 5 years or so we'll get an unexpected March snow in this region, but I've never seen anything like this squall where it came up so fast and intensely. Even unexpected snows of a couple inches during the day cause chaos because the roads aren't pre-treated and are barely plowed by the time people leave work. Those who would normally stay home in snow are forced to commute back in it, and you end up with a mix of people driving way too fast and way too slow.
For me at least, because of the terrain here it's rare that I can drive and see that the weather up ahead is substantially different. There's too many hills and trees near the roads, and even highways have plenty of bends. I remember seeing a rainstorm 20 minutes before I got to it in Arizona, which was a cool experience.

 

Wow that looked like something out of a Hollywood movie. Just crazy

 

Yeah no CGI there....