A 100-car crash on the I-90/39 interstate in dense fog near Madison,Wisconsin, resulted in at least two deaths, critical injuries, and numerous minor injuries yesterday. Reports indicate that the accident scene looked and sounded like a war zone.
That's the good news.
It could have been much worse.
That's the good news.
It could have been much worse.
Lt. Lauri Steeber of the State Patrol was quoted: "What I want to emphasize over and over again is that you need to slow down. ..."
And the reports of people driving over 70 mph without their lights on in dense fog? All too believable.
What is it about cars that makes normal, sane people act like idiots in dangerous weather?
From the Capital Times:
Town of Blooming Grove (Wisconsin) Assistant Fire Chief Jay Salvo admitted that it's a cliche, but he said it looked like a bomb went off. ...
Many people, injured or just stuck, left their vehicles and tried to flee the carnage by walking into fields and medians, sometimes walking in waist deep snowbanks, Salvo said.
"They were scared. They kept hearing these crashes in the fog and didn't want to get injured. That's why they left their cars," he said.
One of the first scenes he came upon were two vehicles T-boned into a semi-trailer. A number of people waved the fire trucks down and alerted them to a car that was severely damaged and contained one of the fatalities. It was in a ditch by itself with other vehicles around it, he said.
Officials have not released the names of the dead. ...
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