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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Stay safe people
Looking at the video before the crash appears, fog lights seem missing here.
Poor 3 series
Yeah, perhaps fog lights would help?
That just show car/driving culture in my country. Nobody use fog lights in a fog… and people drive 130km/h in that wheather. The fastest in this crash was driving around 170km/h.
but most idiotic thing is everybody now blame someone else. If you’r so stupiid or blind you can’t see a fog (which was there couple of km before a crash) and unable to turn on a fog lights, slow down and make more space between cars, you should be banned from driving for ever.
“Drive for the conditions”
I was lucky as hell. I was on that section of highway only 15 minutes before that happend and i can tell you that people was speeding and i am amazed that this isn’t hapenning a lot more here in SLO.
That one guy at 57 seconds… he definitely did that on purpose. Dogpile!!
Really sorry to hear about those who lost their lives. Night Vision camera with thermal imaging is what could’ve helped in this situation.
Are there NO FU?ING SIGNALS ON THE HIGHWAY ? Even we in Bosnia have them. They say slow down this, 60 that etc. Even trafic lights troughout. This is the goverment to blame.