The severe and long-lasting cold spell across Europe has led to many deaths and has been blamed for hundreds of motorway accidents around the continent including a massive pileup that took place on the Lahti highway located close to Helsinki in Finland, this past weekend.
According to media reports, the Lahti incident involved around 100 vehicles of all kind of sizes and resulted in many injuries, but thankfully, no fatalities.
In the video that follows, the passengers of one of the vehicles that lost control and ended up on a snow bank on the Lahti highway filmed some of the pileups. You can check it out after the jump.
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I'm the guy who filmed this. I wrote a blog post about the Lahti crash a couple of days ago. There was a lot going on. Out of context, it's hard to understand, but the main point I want to make is that it could have been so much worse.
Seems a lot of stupid driving considering the conditions - people driving well beyond what the visibility and road surface would have dictated. That includes the driver driving the cameraman. You should be able to stop within the length of the road visible to you.
That is just scary. I live up in snow country and am always amazed how people forgot how to brake in the snow every time it snows. And crazy why people stand next to there car when other cars are coming.
You don't seem to realize that the whiteout came on suddenly, like, 5 seconds, you can't slow down that quickly and safely in those conditions
nope, that's what was going on already with the finnish drivers. in canada they would have been going twice as fast and killing each other
exactly, this literally just swooped down instantly. I turned on the camera because it was so sudden and different. When we left it was blue sky and clear. Context is everything.
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