This Is Why You Don't Forget To Use Snow Chains In Canada

If you didn’t know already, it gets pretty cold in the Canadian winter, with snow and ice guaranteed. Road salt is a valuable commodity at this time of year and from this evidence it seems the gritting teams around Montreal’s busy Côte du Beaver Hall need to up their game.

When the footage starts, four cars have already crashed into each other on the slippery, unsalted side of the road, with one facing the wrong way. A bus decides it wants to hug it all better, careering into the back of the stranded cars.

A taxi driver narrowly escapes getting caught up in it before a pick-up… errr, doesn’t. It smashes into the back of the first bus before a second bus joins the fray, crushing the pick-up and punting it out into the roadway.

But the fun doesn’t stop there, kids, because the Montreal PD turns up to sort everything out. Naturally the police Charger simply pirouettes slowly down the road with no grip at all, before lightly bumping into the back of the second bus.

Even better, a gritter truck finally arrives on the scene (better late than never?) before losing control and smashing into the police, catapulting the front end up the Charger into the air.

Best to use snow chains, then…