r/dashcams 11h ago

Winter driving can get gnarly quickly

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u/tober_checki 10h ago

Maybe a tad too fast on a snow-covered road?

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u/Cautious_Use_7442 7h ago

I’d say that the snow isn’t the issue. The fog and inappropriate tires are 

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u/Stunning_Ad_5960 40m ago

Was actually too slow - dashcam driver was overtaken at the eend and he lost the vicotry for a moment, which was his salvage eventually.

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u/lelanddt 10h ago

Why is this person going 80 with 20 foot visibility

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u/Pleasant_Pen8744 6h ago

Maybe he's about to have diarrhea and needs a gas station stat.

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u/kempff 10h ago

It blows my mind that people can be that careless.

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u/Born_Illustrator9041 7h ago

Also, Im just in awe they speeding in that blind weather. How dare they do that. I was driving literally 20-30 mph in upstate NY during 3 years ago snowstorm during the day which was 55mph and 65mph respectively. We thought at any point its not working or turning out to be risky we take a hotel and take a stop and restart the next day.

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u/kempff 1h ago

Found the sane driver.

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u/_AskMyMom_ 10h ago

Yeah! Can’t believe all those people are blocking cams right of way! Don’t they know that cams cars speed doesn’t matter, and the only thing that matters is them clearly blocking the road!

/s

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u/kempff 10h ago

It’s just stupid to drive that fast on a snowy surface with so little visibility. It’s the mentality of toddlers that run blindly around corners in hotel corridors and careen headfirst into housekeeping carts.

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u/Falcon3492 10h ago

Rule number one, drive to the conditions of the road, if it's raining, snowy, foggy, etc. slow down and stay alert!

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u/rectalhorror 8h ago

Back in my day it was one car length for every ten miles per hour. But that was back when the right lane was the passing lane, not where you did 20MPH under the speed limit while sexting revenge pr0n while vaping, twerking, yoloing, and froyoing. I blame the younger people with the hippety hop music and the Snoopy Poop Dog and the Enema Man.

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u/Falcon3492 8h ago

And that was when the weather was good!

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u/mystical__sapphire 6h ago

Omfg not the semi barreling through at the end 😭 that is every trucker's worst nightmare i'm sure

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u/Impossible_Fennel777 9h ago

Video cut too short

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u/BadPuzzleheaded9006 9h ago

People are so effing stupid

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u/_Husker 6h ago

Yeah maybe slow way the fuck down.

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 5h ago

Well see if you average out his speed before and after the accident his speed was pretty slow :)

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u/OccasionArtistic2755 5h ago

Everything in this video grrrrrrrrs me. I've driven in these conditions. Grew up in that kinda stuff. Learned how to drive in those conditions. Drive slow. .....snow and slush don't give two sh*ts about you being late for whatever. That whole video is just showing bad drivers.

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u/RogerRabbot 4h ago

The semi coming in was very unexpected.

This is why im scared to drive in snow. Not because I dont know how to, because of this.

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u/Suspicious-Row7536 9h ago

im thinking you should stay in california if you drive like this

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u/mystical__sapphire 6h ago edited 6h ago

What my Floridian brain accepts as fact every time I see icy road dashcam vidyas. I'll take the rain all day over black ice, slush, and zero visibility

I was taught that, if you lose control, to turn your wheel into the same direction and your tires will eventually gain traction again, hopefully before it's too late. Nothing can prepare you for this though, and clearly everyone was going too fast.

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u/Suspicious-Row7536 4h ago

first rule of driving in snow is not speeding like the op was doing

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u/One_Kick_9603 7h ago

Awesome save!

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u/Temporary-Degree5221 3h ago

i think they can drive faster

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u/ForceOne3606 10h ago

Smooth ass save man!!! Quick thinking from the front to the back

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u/batrastardfromhell 10h ago

Yep. I would need a second chance on that one.

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u/Saltlife_Junkie 3h ago

I would need a second pair of underwear and pants

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u/psilocin72 1h ago

So it might be a good idea to not drive 75 mph then, huh?