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CRAZY Accident on I-95 in Baltimore

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Kitsunebaby said:
Damn. I'm about to go hit the beltway, and a part of me is rethinking that. Oh well, let's see what happens.
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It's fine right now. It's melting fast. The side streets are still slushy, but the main roads are all just wet. I did not enjoy chipping the 1/2" of ice off my car.
 
You guys putting shame on the camera man, nah shame on you. Not really sure what you expected him to do. After calling 911 before and after the video.

On the up side, his footage will definitely illustrate the dangers of how quick things can go wrong to other drivers when nature is against you.

Drive safe out there.
 
Trulyworth said:
Try to understand the situation before acting like he was in the wrong. He called 911 before and after he filmed the video. Recording the incident may lead investigators to find out exactly what happened, who was at fault if anyone, and how to prevent things in the future. Just because you don't like his commentary doesn't make him scum.
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If he wasn't commentating though, he could have jumped on the road and stopped traffic and saved everyone though!!!


Wtf at people straight driving into a fire?
 
Bad_Boy said:
You guys putting shame on the camera man, nah shame on you. Not really sure what you expected him to do. After calling 911 before and after the video.

On the up side, his footage will definitely illustrate the dangers of how quick things can go wrong to other drivers when nature is against you.

Drive safe out there.
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Maybe thingns wouldn't have gone wrong so quickly if the camera man had gotten off his ass and saved everyone instead of filming.
 
Dynamite Shikoku said:
I meant the tanker driver
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The tanker driver was beholden to the same lack of sight and friction as the other truck and car drivers. He's also probably one of the two people who died.

None of this makes him a reckless asshole. He's a victim of shitty circumstance as much as everyone else in that wreck was.
 
I live in NJ and we have winter weather every year. Why does it feel like year after year I see a tragic video just like this one showing someone driving like a complete bonehead in dangerous winter weather. How hard is to to grasp the concept that when it's snowing or icy that the roads are dangerous and you need to drive slow?
 
dr3upmushroom said:
If he wasn't commentating though, he could have jumped on the road and stopped traffic and saved everyone though!!!


Wtf at people straight driving into a fire?
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They can't stop. There was 1/2" of ice on the roads so they just keep sliding.
Also, again, people keep missing the fact that this highway is raised and divided. There is no way to get across to the other side to stop traffic - or more likely get killed by a sliding car.
 
Titanoboa said:
Maybe thingns wouldn't have gone wrong so quickly if the camera man had gotten off his ass and saved everyone instead of filming.
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If only he would've used his Caribbean superpowers to fly over there, piss out the fires and rescue the hostages with his telekinesis.
 
stop complaining about the camera man, there are many drivers with phones there.

documenting the reality of how dangerous the icy conditions served more the public, imo


Titanoboa said:
Maybe thingns wouldn't have gone wrong so quickly if the camera man had gotten off his ass and saved everyone instead of filming.
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impossible, he is on the opposite side of an elevated freeway,
the other side is yards and inaccessible from his side

it is dark but you can see from the fire that the opposote side is also another elevated stretch, the fire goes tumbling down below
 
Yeah, I can't say his commentary is really all that great, but in all seriousness, I don't know what more the dude could have done outside of calling 911 immediately after the explosion (which I could see he didn't because he wanted to see what was going to happen with those three other trailers driving straight into the flames) if he truly did call 911 right before filming.

And I hope no one posting in this topic (or anyone reading) is thinking "he could have gone over and helped them out" when a tanker was in flames, visibility was very reduce outside of a bright orange ball of fire, and multiple semis were involved in slick conditions. I mean, it goes without saying, but I have to put it out there.
 
I understand that the world has to keep moving, but I don't understand taking the risk to drive in weather conditions that aren't safe.

I might lose my job today because I refused to go out and do deliveries while there's an active winter storm warning and more snow on the way. Last time I got caught in a snow storm while driving, I really really regretted it. It's just not worth the risk.
 
Hale-XF11 said:
I understand that the world has to keep moving, but I don't understand taking the risk to drive in weather conditions that aren't safe.

I might lose my job today because I refused to go out and do deliveries while there's an active winter storm warning and more snow on the way. Last time I got caught in a snow storm while driving, I really really regretted it. It's just not worth the risk.
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From what I heard, it happened pretty suddenly. Yesterday it was just cold but today (and presumably at some point last night when this happened), there's suddenly ice/slush everywhere. People were probably returning home from work/the store/Star Wars.

There wasn't no winter storm warning, just suddenly the roads were covered in ice.
 
Hale-XF11 said:
I understand that the world has to keep moving, but I don't understand taking the risk to drive in weather conditions that aren't safe.

I might lose my job today because I refused to go out and do deliveries while there's an active winter storm warning and more snow on the way. Last time I got caught in a snow storm while driving, I really really regretted it. It's just not worth the risk.
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A lot of employers don't care, so many people feel obligated to take the risks. At my old job, at least two people were let go because they had to call out due to weather.
 
Hale-XF11 said:
I understand that the world has to keep moving, but I don't understand taking the risk to drive in weather conditions that aren't safe.

I might lose my job today because I refused to go out and do deliveries while there's an active winter storm warning and more snow on the way. Last time I got caught in a snow storm while driving, I really really regretted it. It's just not worth the risk.
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I once worked for a company that was behind on a govt contract and trying to hit bonus targets. They threatened us to get to work during an ice storm and there were a lot of wrecks. There were also a number of lawsuits against them.

On a lighter note, I don't understand why this guy can't turn his phone the right way. Portrait video sucks.

Thoughts to everyone involved in the wreck.. That was horrible. We're skipping a holiday party tonight b/c of icy conditions where I live. Lots of kids had to sleep at school last night b/c they couldn't get home and my friend doesn't understand why ppl don't want to drive on ice to his party in the middle of nowhere.
 
The dude is on a separate highway with a vertical drop between the two, he indicates he called the police before filming AND is going to call a 2nd time after ending the video, and people on here are complaining he isn't helping. The fuck else is he supposed to do?????
 
Some of my family just came back from a day of errand running (Massachusetts). Said they personally witnessed five different accidents while on the roads. Stay safe out there fam
 
The road is literally on fire and 'professional drivers' are still driving too fast....but is that because it was so slippery?
I guess if you are going to crash, let it be controlled, instead of slamming brakes and sliding everywhere.
 
I bet dollars to doughnuts that all of the people ITT going "why didn't he help tho" would piss their pants like a bunch of little boys if this happened to them. Y'all need to get some perspective.
 
Pluto said:
Are most of those drivers morons? Several drive straight into the smoke and fire, then when a few stop someone else crashes into them? WTF?! He wasn't even going fast so that one could argue he didn't have time to react especially when there was a giant fucking fire signalling that something's gone horribly wrong.
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The roads were icy as fuck this morning. I spun out four times on my way to work, and I never went above 20mph. These people doing 50+ on the highway were fucked.
 
Snaku said:
The roads were icy as fuck this morning. I spun out four times on my way to work, and I never went above 20mph. These people doing 50+ on the highway were fucked.
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Drove to the store in Atlanta during the first newsworthy "Snowpocalypse," and going down a hill at only 5-10 mph had us lose control. At that speed, it's a fun slippy-slide. But if you're going even just 40 on a highway overpass, where visibility is probably low due to an incline, then yeah; you're fucked. Even if you see the fire you can't stop in time. Besides, what of the people behind you? How do you know that if you stop before the mess, the people behind you will do so as well?

Seriously, for all of the talk of how the actual victims and helpless bystanders are somehow assholes, I don't see anyone offering a realistic solution for how this could've been avoided. Only thing is not having the initial wreck in the first place that caused the back up. =/
 
Breads said:
Should I bring up the part where he is hopelessly yelling at an onslaught of vehicles to stop, the part where he begs the lord for help, the part where he says he is going to cry, the part where he starts crying, or the part where he says he is going to end the recording to call 911 AGAIN?

I get having a gut reaction and posting before finishing the video. Hell I did that.

But doubling down and quoting the first few seconds of the video with the obvious inability to discern nuances of the accent while pretending you watched the whole thing isn't a good look for you.
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I was going to post this. People watch the whole video. He called 911 already. There's not much he could do without risking his own life. So many gaffers with short attention spans posting. They hear "yo" in the video and post -_-

Nepenthe said:
Seriously, for all of the talk of how the actual victims and helpless bystanders are somehow assholes, I don't see anyone offering a realistic solution for how this could've been avoided. Only thing is not having the initial wreck in the first place that caused the back up. =/
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I bet they'll say "run into the flames"
 
This thread shows how moronic human beings can be for no fucking reason. All some of you had to do was pay attention to the video like the sensible people in this thread did, but no; lets hurry into the thread to shit on the camera man who, after calling 911, was clearly helpless and distraught throughout the whole ordeal.

Some fucking people.

Symphonia said:
So rather than helping or calling 911, he stands there and simply records it.

Welcome to the new generation of society.
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You mean the same generation that has the attention span of a 3 year old?
 
Trulyworth said:
A lot of employers don't care, so many people feel obligated to take the risks. At my old job, at least two people were let go because they had to call out due to weather.
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Weevilone said:
I once worked for a company that was behind on a govt contract and trying to hit bonus targets. They threatened us to get to work during an ice storm and there were a lot of wrecks. There were also a number of lawsuits against them.
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What a sad reality we live in.

Titanoboa said:
It happened pretty suddenly. Yesterday it was just cold but today (and presumably at some point last night when this happened), there's suddenly ice/slush everywhere. People were probably returning home from work/the store/Star Wars.

There wasn't no winter storm warning, just suddenly the roads were covered in ice.
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Yeah, not much you can do in that case, I guess. :(
 
Symphonia said:
So rather than helping or calling 911, he stands there and simply records it.

Welcome to the new generation of society.
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Ah yes; the new generation, where people can't be bothered to read or watch a 5 minute video.

Here, here's the news story that actually interviews the man recording (the one in the OP, I might add). Since the text is probably a bit dense for you, I'll pull out the important parts:

He called 911 to describe conditions and report multiple vehicles, some of them trucks, colliding on the highway. That's when Amasiatu started recording the scene on his cell phone.

"Cars and trucks were coming in at 50 and 60 miles an hour," he said. "They were sliding and slamming, and I stayed on the line with 911 and had the video on for about five minutes."
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Now, let's assume we didn't have this particular article and he never said anything in the video in order to justify yours and others' righteous indignation due to a failure to engage in basic news media.

Why would you assume he hadn't called 911 already in the first place?
 
Can you just imagine the 15-20 seconds when he realized that he might get into a shitty accident, going that fast sliding on thick ice, through the darkness? THEN, the 1-3 seconds going through his mind after falling off the cliff in total darkness? Holy....
 
Crazyorloco said:
I was going to post this. People watch the whole video. He called 911 already. There's not much he could do without risking his own life. So many gaffers with short attention spans posting. They hear "yo" in the video and post -_-
I bet they'll say "run into the flames"
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If you watch the video, you'll see that he saw the tanker before it went up in flames and did nothing.
 
Titanoboa said:
It happened pretty suddenly. Yesterday it was just cold but today (and presumably at some point last night when this happened), there's suddenly ice/slush everywhere.
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This happened a few years ago in Atlanta and Birmingham during rush hour. Roads iced up suddenly during evening rush hour. People just abandoned their cars and walked.
 
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