A pileup involving roughly 200 vehicles killed two people and injured dozens of others on Autoroute 15 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada on Wednesday. According to the CETAM ambulance service, about 100 people were taken to three local hospitals, CNN reported.
Sudden whiteout conditions with blowing snow severely limited visibility in the area likely caused the major chain reaction, Quebec's Transport Minister François Bonnardel said at a news conference.
Bonnardel also later added that the area of Highway 15 where the massive pileup happened wasn't particularly prone to accidents.
“The pileup was likely the result of a snow squall that moved through between 7 and 9 a.m. [Wednesday] morning. Similar to a squall line in the summertime, winds can pick up quite dramatically and snow can fall heavily in a short period of time,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Brett Rossio said.......
Poster Comment:
Actually makes me feel sorry for those liberals. Can't get that video to work -- this one does but doesn't show much -- it simply won't link for me:
http://weather.com/news/news/2020-02-19-montreal-pileup-cars-injuries-weather- snow-wind
#1: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
When I worked for State of Illinois, I was out on Night Patrol.
A snow squall blew in off the lake and turned everything white. So I called for back up. The foreman lived way south in Skokie. When he came out he called on radio and says, "Where is the snow?".
I told him, "It's up north. C'mon up here!"
I took two of us to lean up that crap overnight. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-20 10:55:45 Reply Private Reply
#2: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#1)
This earth is a marvelously hospitable, benign place -- when it wants to be. Then there's the other 9/10 of the time. I really don'think we were ever intended to live above the Georgia and North Africa level.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-02-20 11:08:33 Reply Private Reply