50-car pileup on Ohio Turnpike leaves 1 dead, multiple injured

[marmar]

SANDUSKY COUNTY, Ohio (WCMH) — At least one person is dead and multiple others are injured after around 50 vehicles crashed on the Ohio Turnpike in Sandusky County Friday afternoon, the Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed.

Photos from a driver on the turnpike show dozens of vehicles crashed along the turnpike, including semi-trucks, pickup trucks and cars.

The OSHP responded to calls of a crash at 12:34 p.m. at mile marker 106 going eastbound, OSHP said. So far, 46 vehicles were involved in the crash. OSHP did not yet know how how many people were injured. ..........(more)

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/50-car-pileup-on-ohio-turnpike-leaves-1-dead-multiple-injured/

[marble falls]

1. That lake effect snow can be brutal.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. I don't think that's necessarily a lake effect event.

Just bloody cold and snow and ice.

All it takes is one person driving too slow or braking suddenly in front of someone else. The 2nd vehicle starts to slide and that's all there is to it.


WeatherChannel.com for Sandusky, OH;


https://weather.com/weather/today/l/c320b1d4d66d110d567f818202d5b38e7b78ba92b49187c880013a0b2d6e3a5f

[wnylib]

9. Wind effect, too, from blowing snow

causing poor visibility and whiteouts. That's especially true on the lake shore where Sandusky is. Wind blows across Lake Erie. Plus steadily falling snow can obscure where the road is by covering up prior tracks and drifting into the already plowed snow. Been there many times. (The conditions, not the mega accident.)

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Yup. Driven across that stretch of road dozens of times over the years

But I'm sure you know pileups like that can happen on a bright, sunny day as well, if the road is slick and someone panics.

And it's almost ALWAYS one person at the front that causes it. Coming up on a section that is in the shade of trees, for instance. The road goes from black to white and icy instantly. They will freak out and slow suddenly, and the vehicles behind him will have no choice but to park it in a pile!

[wnylib]

15. I am more inclined to blame the drivers behind

the first one for following too closely for conditions. I remember one time when I hit a sudden icy patch like that. In my case, it was black ice. No warning signs for me. My car did a 360 twice and then slid into the oncoming lane and stopped (miraculously) about 3 inches from a guard rail above a 12 foot drop to a river. The side of the highway next to the guard rail had about a foot of old snow piled up from plowing. The old snow had salt and sand in it, which apparently gave me some last minute traction when I literally (and desperately) stood up on the brake pedal. I know about pumping brakes, but that was useless that close to the guard rail. I counted on the snow pile to stop me if I braked hard and it worked.

Then I had to rock the car to get it out of the rut and back on the highway. Talk about scary and tense. Fortunately for me, there was no other traffic on the highway at the time. Then I had to continue for 15 more miles to get to work. I drove SLOWLY with two tires on the berm and two on the highway.

Ever since then, I've been cautious about driving slowly in bad road conditions. More than once I've driven past an impatient driver who had passed me and ended up in a ditch.

[we can do it]

8. Lake effect snow Cleveland and east.

[wnylib]

11. Oh yeah. I can see it outside my window

right now. Has been going on all day since about 10 am. Temperature here is currently -6, wind at 40 mph with gusts to 60. Wind chill -35.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Too Much Ice?

The roads don't look that bad, in terms of snow.
I know I've driven through much heavier snow. Last winter comes to mind!
But, if there was ice under that snow, anything could go haywire.

[roamer65]

6. It rained last night before the temperature dropped nearly 40 deg F.

There definitely was a layer of ice.

[wnylib]

12. Most likely ice. It was raining prior to

the temperature drop, causing flash freezing. Then snow on top of that. Plus, continual wind blowing thin swirls of powdery snow across the highway making it even more slippery.

[blueinredohio]

3. I thought there was a ban on semis

because of the high winds.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Damn human-driving vehicles! Lot of problems with the human software.

[roamer65]

5. Lake Erie snow and ice.

[TeamProg]

10. How sad and insane is this? People dying just going back and forth from place to place. n/t

[Samrob]

14. I will never understand how so many people disregard warnings to help them? Why were so many out

driving under these conditions? Same anti-vaxxer, anti-masker mentality practiced by so many.

[DFW]

16. They must think they are in Germany

I thought that only in Germany did people drive like that.

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. Video;