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Video Shows 20-Car Pile-Up Unfold on Snowy Colorado Road
- Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Let me start by saying I lived in Colorado for a little bit. And I lived on a hill. This came close to happening on more than one occasion. Once you start watching the cars pile up on this Colorado Springs street, you just can’t stop (WARNING: Contains cussing):
For an extended version of the video, visit Jalopnik.
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Comments (110)
NE Cowboy
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:59pmMaybe they can use some of the unused stimulus money to have plows actually salt and sand roads that are KNOWN to be dangerous when snow/ice covered?? I guess they would rather spend it on new storm drains that are NOT even connected to something??? Gotta love it…..
Report Post »5410amh
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:37pmLOOK GLOBAL WARMING AT WORK!!!!!!! seriously 30 years ago we were going to freeze to death and now where going to bake too death.
Report Post »mrpips
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:22pmI need a good laugh, thank you!
Report Post »In-God-I-trust
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:19pmMy sons friends filmed this street also with their cell phones. That day our weather went from 45 degrees light rain and snow to single digit within hours and of course it turned to ice. Obviously these people just thought that it was only the others that couldn’t get up the street but that they could. Bad tires, ice sheet and no traction = ice rink. I am surprised that here in (Colorado) where this happens often, these people forgot this. Better to take a different route or wait for the sand trucks.
Report Post »Liberty_Forever
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 10:00pmI just live a few miles from where this happened myself. I thought the same thing you did.
Report Post »cstcomputers
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:10pmAAAAA Duh, Chains!!!
Report Post »wright.im
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:04pmAbsolutely Al Gores fault.
Report Post »colorado uprising
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:03pmNope, they have 4-wheel drive and think they can drive better than all the other drivers piled up together at the bottom of the hill. See it every storm. Hey flatlanders, know your skills before venturing out.
Report Post »smorningstar
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:01pmThat is why I dont drive when it snows.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:58pmi would not wont to be the officer that had to write all of this up!!!!!! what a bummer,,just think of all the paper work that had to be done. man,what a bunch of idiots who we’re out trying to go some where in that bad weather,where are all these people going at a time like this.
Report Post »boy,that gallon of milk just cost a lot more than expected. i really don’t think the guy has ever had a bar of soap to suck on,i think he should have to learn the english dictionary,or at least some thing other than s–t!!!!!!!!!!
Eraty Bab
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:27pmBlame it on all that Global Warming
Report Post »J.Hawk
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:24pmThat must be a pretty good hill. When you take a look at the white Ford PU, he came to a complete stop, then he started slidding backwards.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:29pmAl Gore’s next scientific discovery? Global warming causes gravity!
Report Post »Col. HawK
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 10:41pmI think, you have to know the roads well when you travel in your city, and avoid them, especially in the winter after i‘ts snowed and especially when it’s really cold. We have our problems here too with hills, which I avoid at all costs if the roads are slick in winter.. Our city used to ‘Gravel’ everywhere, and then sweep up in the spring. Now, they use what we call ‘Pea Salt’, but it’s worse than ever, because it works to a point and then just freezes, causing the roads to be even more slippery. I wish they would go back to the good ole days of pea gravel, it may cost a little more, but the savings in insurance costs to drivers would be worth it. Cheaper is not always better in the long run.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:23pm“Hey! There are out of control trucks and cars sliding down the hill. Let’s go play in the street!”
Report Post »That incline doesn’t look that steep… This is why I avoid driving in the snow as much as possible. Then again, there are people who HAVE to be out in weather like this… not because they need anything, but to figuratively swing their junk around. These are usually the same people who have truck nuts and believe that being out in dangerous road conditions makes him/her a cut above. Well, be prepared to be made another insurance statistic.
Ha! Man-made global warming and climate change… we will alway be nature’s bitch. Left or right, there are times when the planet reminds us we are at its mercy (or lack thereof). What was learned here? Yakety sax makes anything funnier!
chips1
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:22pmIt costs about $100 to ride something like this at an amusement park. Free in Colorado because of the Stimulius Package.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:12ama new cash for clunkers program?
Report Post »Paul_in_Ukraine
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:14pmI am from Colorado, and I would wager that at least half of those nincompoops were immigrants from California. We used to say often that the most dangerous thing in Colorado was a Californian in a four-wheel drive.
Report Post »DeadFred
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:22pmAbsolutely!!! I live on the Western Slope of Colorado, and we just prefer that idiots like those in the video just stay home and off the roads. My belief is that “a steady foot will get you there”. Slow down and stay off the breaks. I’ve lived here 45 years, and I’ve never been involved in something like this….Praise the Lord….
Report Post »aragona
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:30pmI agree. I especially love it when idiots tailgate you in these types of driving conditions. So dangerous!
Report Post »JoeySocal
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:57pmFunny I never see videos of californians like this. Try using chains dummies.
Report Post »wright.im
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:13pmWe have those problems in Georgia with just a little freezing rain.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 8:26amGot news for ya- – it doesn’t HAVE to be freezing, alyhough is does help. No sense in adding weight, or traction chains. Laffed a lot at the big Ford! Just keep listenin to radio, slow down, s l o w down, s l o w down, and one more time s l o w d o w. . .
Report Post »Galt wanna be
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:06pmI think audio from inside the sliding cars would have been interesting. Can we work on that?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:10pmThat is where the REAL profanity was! lol
Report Post »chips1
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:25pm“First you say it, then you do it.” Bill Cosby.
Report Post »MBA
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:56pmReminds me of when my husband found out that you cannot drive 60 mph on ice with a 4-wheel drive. We were two lucky flatlanders and the rancher, being the nice guy he was, only charged us $25 to fix the fence. I did love Colorado though.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:54pmthe commenter was raised by wolves. No class.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:49pmI’ve heard some pretty classless language from polar bears as well.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:51pmA lot of these people could have driven on through if they had KEPT OFF THE BREAKS. When the wheels stop turning you lose ALL control.
Report Post »ProudTeaPartyMember
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:50pmAn anchor. If they had an anchor they could throw it out and stop the vehicles. Is Keith Olbermann an anchor?
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:46pmBilliards, any one…, any one?
Report Post »fan-of-glenn
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:37pmReminded me of an old pinball machine.
Hope none of the passengers or folks standing by got hurt.
Sometimes stupid is contagious!!!
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 11:16amCome to Seattle. This happens everything we get and good snow fall.
Report Post »Alex
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:45pmCome on, isn’t anyone else offended by the language? Couldn’t you have zapped that out? Really.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:55pmNO! Read the warning label (WARNING: Contains cussing):
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:11pm101 is right .
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:11pmYour computer does have a mute – you were warned…
Report Post »PerazziRay
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:14pmYou were warned. Quit trying to tell the rest of us what we can hear.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 10:42pmWe are supposed to be adults.
Report Post »debkk9
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 1:56amyou were warned before you started watching….personally I was laughing my a$$ off…the music was great. I hope no one was hurt. but seriously if I’m at the bottom of the hill and I see vehicles sliding down at me, I think I’d go another way…duh :)
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:52amGet real Alex.
It won’t KILL you to hear a little off color language on occasion.
Do you ever leave your house, by chance?
You were just kiddin’ right?
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:58amI try really hard not to cuss, but the words they used are exactly the words that would have come
Report Post »from my mouth if I had been there watching. No other words seem to express the feeling in a case
like this.
Choctaw25
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 10:57amAlex must live a sheltered life, like most liberals I know. The real world and it’s language is a distant land to them.
Report Post »As you view this, don’t ever forget, these are VOTERS. God help us.
AmericanSoldier
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 1:47pmNo one here is down with your censorship ideals! Unless it has to do with Axe and their friggin’ Balls Detailer innuendo advertisements!
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:44pmCrazy! Just stay home!
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:41pmAs you can see, the increase in heat due to manmade climate change has left winter as nothing more than a memory.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 11:45pmGlobal warming strikes again………
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 11:14amPeople never heard of chains or studs?
Report Post »Zai
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 2:04pmThis is the main reason I left Colorado Springs.
Oh they do not allow chains. Studded tires yes. They also do not use salt. It took me one time of getting stuck for a minute (I only had a rear wheel drive truck from California) to know I should leave.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:33pmBush stop it !!!!!!!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:38pmIt was the EVIL doers
Report Post »http://www.infowars.com/colorado-engineer-questions-911-explanation/
101
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:42pmGov. Bill Ritter prepare your statement, the political snow blowers “CNN & Ed Rollins” will attack you next!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 7:43pmThe problem with brakes is that they only stop the wheels. Somebody needs to invent brakes that stop the car too, so that people can drive as fast as they want in this kind of weather.
Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:04pm101..
That’s pretty funny.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 8:14pmWhat amazes me is that the drivers drove past cars that had obviously slid back down the hill, ignoring the fate that was obviously one tap of the brakes from happening to them…
Oh to own an auto body shop in this town!
Report Post »Trouble2
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:14pmJust because you live in Colorado doesn’t mean you know how to drive—4 wheel drive just means you know how to get in trouble quicker.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 1, 2011 at 9:30pmSo sorry for the cars damaged but that was a good video – I think the music was the best!!!
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Cemoto78
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 9:22amCommonsense is out the window. When these clowns see one car can’t make it up the hill they just keep on trying, stupid is as stupid does. Where were the police to stop this, where was the government to tell the drones what to do? What a sad example of people with no independent thinking or ability to use any type of common sense.
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 10:25amIt’s that evil global warming again.
Report Post »tweaker
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 11:30amBUSH??? This is Al Gore’s doings!!
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on January 2, 2011 at 6:35pmThis is what happens when you have Capitalism. Socialism would only be 1 bus with all those on it.
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