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The dangers posed by the icy winter weather were captured in this compilation of videos by storm chaser Brandon Clement, where no fewer than 12 vehicles can be seen slipping and sliding on the I ...
A snowplow clears snow from a road, as a winter storm hits the Midwest, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., January 5, 2025, in this still image obtained from video. ... The sliding vehicle then ...
Drivers struggled with icy road conditions in Washington’s Issaquah Highlands on Friday, February 8, after the second storm in a week dumped several inches on the state.This video, filmed by ...
A winter storm moved into New England on Thursday afternoon after delivering a messy combination of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain in the Midwest and Northeast.
An automobile skid is an automobile handling condition where one or more tires are slipping relative to the road, and the overall handling of the vehicle has been affected. Subtypes of skid include: fishtailing, where the vehicle yaws back and forth across the direction of motion. spin or spinout where a vehicle rotates in one direction during ...
A small change in road slipperiness can have a drastic effect on surface friction: decreasing the coefficient of friction from 0.45 to 0.35, equivalent to adding a dusting of wet snow, increased the accident rate by almost 1000%. [2] As such, road agencies have a number of approaches to decreasing road slipperiness.
Hundreds of car accidents were reported in Virginia, Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky, where a state trooper was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after his patrol car was hit on Interstate 65.
(Photo credit: Plainfield Fire Territory/Facebook) Two people were rescued from a precarious situation after their pickup truck skidded off an icy road and plunged into a retention pond in Indiana ...