The latest update to the I-78 crash in Berks CO.,PA

[Apostolic]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...an_50_vehicles_in_crash_on_I-78_in_Berks.html

 

[Deleted member 5115]

Currently three dead in this one.

 

[st. j vet]

Here's a different aerial shot of the scene.

Never liked 78, even on a good day.

 

[AkitaDog]

Those fedex ground boys some how always seem to be smack dab in the middle of major wrecks!

 

[st. j vet]

Look closer, the set in the bottom of screen, sitting in the median looks to be FedEx too.

 

[Sugarfoot]

Came through this spot @ 0400. Light dusting and hard blowing wind from the north blowing snow onto the hwy. from the fields. PENN dot was salting heavily from the NJ-PA state line right thru to Carlisle.
I knew it was going to be a problem, because of my 40 yrs. experience the way things happen on this hwy. I never thought it would happen during daylight @ 0900.
If you can't see, neither can anyone else,....SLOW DOWN.....FOLLOWING DISTANCE.... is your Friend !!

 

[Fly-by-night]

I remember back in the day when PENN Dot would put snow fences is spots were they had problems with the snow drifting onto the roads

 

[Sugarfoot]

I remember back in the day when PENN Dot would put snow fences is spots were they had problems with the snow drifting onto the roads

Fly-by-night, you are absolutely correct. They stopped that at least 20-25 yrs. ago. It was really bad around the 50 mm on I-81, blowing in from that Golf Course with strong gusts.

 

[Sugarfoot]

http://abc27.com/2016/02/13/a-bunch-of-mangled-metal-drivers-recount-50-vehicle-pile-up/
Another update.

 

[Fly-by-night]

Fly-by-night, you are absolutely correct. They stopped that at least 20-25 yrs. ago. It was really bad around the 50 mm on I-81, blowing in from that Golf Course with strong gusts.

I read a new article that interviewed people in or close to the crash and they all said the same thing. That the wind pickup and then there was a white out were you could not see anything.