The most overregulated state in the union(California) has a 100 car pileup. What the he11 ppl?

Question

Umm... When its foggy. Slow the he11 down and put some distance between you and the driver in front of you. Geez.

Good answer Noni.;)

Well..... i guess when you do it....you do it big. Geez.

Looey: That's a possibility.

Answer 1

No doubt, people forget their not watching t.v. or playing Xbox and drive like theres no consequences. Crazy!!!

"Clark, turn the t.v. off and come to bed." from the movie Vacation LOL

Answer 2

Fog can roll in quickly, and not just in Cali. There are several notorious interstate spots across the country that have had pileups due to fog. Had one in Tennessee a few years back. Too bad some drivers just use poor judgment in conditions like this. Just adding a little distance between you and the guy in front of you could save lives and damage. Common sense flies out the window again.....

Answer 3

I wonder how many of those were Mexican Truckers? I know that there were at least 9 semis involved again, which from what I understand tipped over onto cars pinning the people in the cars.

This is the worst of four recent accidents involving big rigs all in the south part of the US. Coincidence? Something tells me that it isn't. Also facts to take note that the officials REFUSED to give the nationality of the trucks involved in the other accident with 9 semis getting into an accident in the tunnel recently.

Answer 4

Some times you can be driving along at 60 or 70 mph and bam you SUDDENLY ARE IN THE FOG. Driven in that horror for 30 years. There are many days and nights when you cannot find your house on your block.

The Highway patrol was not doing their job, they are supposed to escort the traffic when the fog is that bad. Someone screwd up big time.

Answer 5

That stuff happens all over. During a trip to Virginia we saw traffic slow to a crawl for like 1/4" of snow. On the same trip, heavy blinding rain and people were driving 10 MPH over the speed limit.

It's amazing what happens to people in large groups, they all stop thinking for themselves and join a mob mentality.

Answer 6

Fog in the San Joaquin Valley comes in quick and thick. I lived in Fresno for a while. They don't get that weak stuff. They get fog on steroids. Once I was five miles away from home and it took me two hours to get home. I had to drive with my door open to just see the road. It's not as simple as you think when you're driving along in the fog just fine and you suddenly hit a thick patch. You don't see it coming. The ground is usually wet too because of the humidity and does not make for better driving conditions. They had one similar pile up to this back in the early 90s on the same stretch of freeway.

Answer 7

Uuuum....you don't live here. If you have more than an inch of clear distance, some idiot in a BMW, Hummer or lane splitter on a Harley will slide over. In the Fresno fog pileup, no one could see more than 2 feet ahead, so this was inevitable.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

So sorry, accidents will happen even in California. It is time for some new cars. I am truly sorry for the lives lost and the injuries

Answer 10

I doubt over-regulation caused any accidents.

My personal observation is that the drivers in the big rigs are higher up in bad weather of all kinds, and keep speeding at 80-90 mph because THEY have a schedule to meet, and THEY can see over the top of the weather or spray, and other drivers cannot so are slow, or even hidden in the fog, and get mushed, and thus starts the cycle as the truckers behind either cannot see the accident, or cannot stop a triple bottom extra-long going 90 mph in the assured clear distance ahead.

Coming back from Seattle last spring, in the mountains near Missoula, Montana I had two immense double-bottoms driving well over the 70 limit in a slushy snowstorm whiz by me with their long rooster-tails of slush blinding me for almost a minute...more than my wipers could cope with. They would never be caught as the cause of any accident, but had there been another car ahead of me stopping, or one behind me as I slowed to allow time for my wipers to give me a clear view of the road, neither I nor they would have been able to see, and so the accident caused by speeding BIG BIG rig truckers would be blamed on me.

Perhaps we need some effective law enforcement out in bad weather. And maybe more so in good weather when these huge rigs go swaying down the freeways at 90, way over the limit, but I have yet to see even one pulled over. Cars, yes, Pickups, yes, but never the huge long-hauls that whizzzzzzzz by me like I am standing still!!

Need some photo-radars to catch them with proof of speed, and then slam them with the biggest reckless-driving fine you can get!

But, of course, they have verrry good lawyers! Ironclad Proof is not enough anymore if you got the money for a lawyer who is good at twisting the law.

I am not prepared to say it is foreign or illegal alien drivers, but I wonder when New York passes out free driver's licenses to the illegal aliens w/o even finding out if they can read English road signs. I am sure New York has a lawyer who has figured out how to make the US citizens pay for all the alien driver's problems!

Maybe too there should be random drug testing of the big-rig drivers?? How many of the truckers in this accident were checked for excessive stimulants or illegal drugs right away? Bet none!!

My son's car was wrecked by a trucker who suddenly slowed in front of him on a freeway, and he had to ditch his car, and the trucker clipped him and went right on down the road...a collision with a car was considered insignificant!!

The investigating officer agreed the trucker was to blame, but my son got the ticket because the trucker could not be easily found, and somebody HAD to be ticketed in that state!

Anyhow, clean up the alien driver problems, sure, get rid of excessive and non-sensical regulations, sure; but clean up on the really big truckers who speed and drive recklessly, but not wrecklessly, on all our major freeway truck routes.