80 vehicle pile up
Jan 25th 2013, 10:25 pm
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80 vehicle pile up
On the 401 East of Oshawa near Newcastle. Snow and white out conditions, no mention of Asian drivers though 
No fun if you need to go east or west as the Highway has been closed both ways.
Close for me, i was driving through there just as it started snowing, an hour before the accident, driving back from Port Hope.
http://www.northumberlandnews.com/ne...-in-clarington
No fun if you need to go east or west as the Highway has been closed both ways.
Close for me, i was driving through there just as it started snowing, an hour before the accident, driving back from Port Hope.
http://www.northumberlandnews.com/ne...-in-clarington
Jan 26th 2013, 2:44 am
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Re: 80 vehicle pile up
Took me two hours to get from Whitby to Bowmanville lol took hwy 2 though. I hope the ones badly injured will be ok.
Jan 26th 2013, 3:08 am
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Re: 80 vehicle pile up
Two serious but thankfully no one was killed
Jan 26th 2013, 3:10 pm
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Re: 80 vehicle pile up
Crazy. It didn't even snow much where I am in Port Hope. How just a little distance to another area can bring in such different amount of snow fall conditions.
Jan 26th 2013, 7:32 pm
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Re: 80 vehicle pile up
Loving some of the comments on the CBC article about it.
"Canadians used to know how to drive in winter conditions. Not so much anymore. I think we all know why, don't we?"
"I could understand it if was a freak storm in say, Texas."
Coming from a part of the UK where it's almost impossible to find any road that is 3 lanes in each direction it's a bit of an education when you come to Canada and get handed a full G licence and told to "GET TO IT!". There are some lunatics on that road though. I've found that often the only way to tackle that road is to be more aggressive. Otherwise you'd never even get to your exit. I've started calling the stretch near Pearson "The Racetrack" because it always seems to be particularly white knuckle but I guess you could apply that name to any part of the highway.
I'd imagine the cause of this will be some drivers doing 70 and some doing 120+ as per usual and meeting in the middle.
"Canadians used to know how to drive in winter conditions. Not so much anymore. I think we all know why, don't we?"
"I could understand it if was a freak storm in say, Texas."
Coming from a part of the UK where it's almost impossible to find any road that is 3 lanes in each direction it's a bit of an education when you come to Canada and get handed a full G licence and told to "GET TO IT!". There are some lunatics on that road though. I've found that often the only way to tackle that road is to be more aggressive. Otherwise you'd never even get to your exit. I've started calling the stretch near Pearson "The Racetrack" because it always seems to be particularly white knuckle but I guess you could apply that name to any part of the highway.
I'd imagine the cause of this will be some drivers doing 70 and some doing 120+ as per usual and meeting in the middle.
