Stubborn driver drives through dense fog without headlights - GIF

[Altair]

Stubborn driver drives through dense fog without headlights.




Previously:

Three-vehicle collision at intersection - GIF
Car driver impressive evasive maneuver - GIF
Speeding car spins out of control - GIF
Black ice causes pileup - GIF
Crash after car overtakes another on curve - GIF

[WorkerB]

She shouldn’t be allowed to drive again. Ever. A danger to herself and others. Doesn’t even know how to turn on the headlights, let alone slow down.

[TrickieDickie]

They were doomed from the start. Fog that thick there is no safe spot unless there is the option of driving waaaaaay off the road

[WorkerB]

Totally agree.

[bob_3000]

She shouldn’t be allowed to drive again.

How are headlights possibly going to help in that situation? Are you suggesting she should be looking for light switches right then?

She did the best she could, slow down gradually so you hopefully don't get hit from behind and hover over the brake pedal, if you don't know that than you shouldn't be on the road.

[bob_3000]

They were doomed from the start. Fog that thick there is no safe spot unless there is the option of driving waaaaaay off the road

Precisely, shoulder shoulder shoulder, done it many times with clenched sphincters all around.

Fog and whiteouts, driving in Canada.

[WorkerB]

Hi Bob,
I would expect a person driving a vehicle to be familiar with it’s operation, including how to operate, among other necessary items, the headlights. She claimed that she didn’t know how to turn them on!

I think it would be beneficial as along with the headlights, the taillights are illuminated assisting those behind her to identify her vehicle. Hazard lights would also help.

Did she really act responsibly? There appeared to still be quite some velocity involved at impact.
Exiting the carriageway ASAP would have been better.

Have a good day

[katy]

In dense fog one can see better without headlights, Bindardundat.

[bob_3000]

Did she really act responsibly? There appeared to still be quite some velocity involved at impact.
Exiting the carriageway ASAP would have been better.

Have a good day

Less than ten seconds passed from when they entered the fog bank to the point of the crash, there was nothing in the world (especially not turning on the headlights or looking for the switch, which is probably what she meant by "I don't know how") that was going to change the situation, blaming the driver is just wrong.

Have you been in that situation?

All we do is let off the gas, hover over the brake pedal and pray everyone else is doing the same thing while we either slow to a stop on the shoulder or come out the other side of the white out or fog out.

Claiming or thinking you can do anything else is pure folly.

[Frank S]

Less than ten seconds passed from when they entered the fog bank to the point of the crash, there was nothing in the world (especially not turning on the headlights or looking for the switch, which is probably what she meant by "I don't know how") that was going to change the situation, blaming the driver is just wrong.

Have you been in that situation?

All we do is let off the gas, hover over the brake pedal and pray everyone else is doing the same thing while we either slow to a stop on the shoulder or come out the other side of the white out or fog out.

Claiming or thinking you can do anything else is pure folly.

If you have ever traveled across Arkansas at night in a truck or car for that matter, you know that fog can appear out of nowhere Not just Arkansas but most anywhere if the conditions are right. You are absolutely correct, off the gas hover the brake pedal, try to get as far to the side as you slow. if you can warn others with Hazzard lights if you cannot see beyond the end of your hood no one else can either. Not only fog but extremely hard rain, snow, Smoke from a fire, or a dust storm. When you can't see where you are going you might as well be trying to drive using a white cane for all the good it will do you, and you don't always have time to do much of anything, let alone fumble for a switch. Try locating the correct switch in a Semi, none of them are ever in the same place from make to make or even model to model and there can be a dozen of them scattered all over