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At least 5 killed in massive crash on icy Texas interstate
2021-02-11
[ABC] DALLAS -- At least five people were killed and dozens injured Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate, police said, as a winter storm dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the U.S.

At the scene of the crash on Interstate 35 near Fort Worth, a tangle of semitrailers, cars and trucks had crashed into each other and had turned every which way, with some vehicles on top of others.

"The vehicles are just mangled," said Matt Zavadsky, spokesman for MedStar, which provides the ambulance service for the area. "Multiple tow trucks are on scene. It’s going to take a lot to disentangle this wreck."

Thirty-six people were taken to hospitals from the crash, several with critical injuries, Zavadsky said.

Police set up a reunification center for family members at a community center.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  I learned to drive in northern Illinois. 20 years ago, in Dallas, I left work 10 minutes after it started drizzling. On the first bridge I came to, I started sliding and nothing could stop me until I was the fifth vehicle in a six-car collision. I could hardly stand up on the bridge, and I routinely walked on frozen lakes in Illinois.

A trucker interviewed on the teevee said, "30 miles of dry roadway, then suddenly - crash!'

The most informative signs I've seen read, "Bridges freeze before roadways". Believe it!
Posted by: Bobby   2021-02-11 22:56  

#6  Guessing the Windward, not Leeward,side.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-11 21:56  

#5  Just like Atlanta when we get a dusting not equipped nor should we pay the $$ for one or two days a year. And all the northerners who have moved here think they can drive in inclement weather ice ain’t snow
Posted by: Beavis   2021-02-11 21:17  

#4  Bridges don't dissipate the cold to the ground, like pavement on grade
Posted by: Frank G   2021-02-11 20:15  

#3  *the 3rd wreck, likely being the first wreck, which wasn't on the video I saw
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-11 20:10  

#2  Bobby, I saw some raw footage by a rubbernecker - am I right in guess that roads were wet until this overpass and it froze? One direction seemed fine, the other side had trucks going at normal D/FW speeds and just slamming into the pile-up, one truck trying to scrape the medium wall in an attempt to dodge/slow down.

Any of you first responders who have attended extrication and whispered bull-shit to the triple car stack: watch the video.

I counted at least two fk fk fk't all collisions. Nothing could be done; the cars were banged up so bad if the occupants were functional, they were trapped.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-11 18:52  

#1  I just watched the first-responders briefing with drone footage of the scene. There were at least three separate incidents, separated by 50-100 feet. Some people were maintaining an adequate separation on the freezing-rain slickened highway, and stopped short of the wreck, but the bozos behind them were following too close.
Posted by: Bobby   2021-02-11 18:31  

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