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.
In Slovenia people don’t know when to turn on their fog lights or how to drive in the fog.
Everybody turns it on when there is light drizzle and 1km visibility. They especialy like to turn it on when there is someone right behind them. But when it is really needed they just forgot about it and instead press on the gas…
Poor 3 series
Poor you
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.
Last time I had my fog light on (it was foggy and at night) a douchebag in BMW behind me, was so anoyed that he turned on his high beams and blinked at me for about ten minutes.. I didnt turned it off :) Our driving culture is just horrible
@MarkZero:Nobody use fog lights in a fog…
And everybody turns it on when there is light drizzle and 1km visibility. They especialy like to turn it on when there is someone right behind them….
105mph in fog that is not stupid that’s just plain suicidal.
“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.
They aren’t, 4 dead one is only 19 years old girl. Died when she left car and than truck hit her. It was a sad day but I do not agree speeding was the biggest problem. Even if you drove 80 you wouldn’t stop since you can’t see anything. And neither was the safety distance, which you can’t keep if you have so much cars on a road
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.
why would you blame the goverment? if you as a driver aren’t able to slow down when you see there is a fog, even hundred signs wouldn’t help.
We have signals and weather warnings, it does not help, if drivers are stupid and careless, driving 150 km/h in snow, fog, heavy rain….with no safety distance. It’s a miracle that somethning like this does not happen more often
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