Snow tires seems to be the need of the hour in Montreal as the icy conditions in the city has led to a massive traffic pile up in the city. Several vehicles piled up on a snowy morning including a police vehicle, several busses, cars and a snowplow truck.
Even though the pile up did not have any serious damage to any but cars piling up even with such advancement in engineering is weird thing to watch.
CBC Montreal tweeted this which caused widespread reaction
City buses, police vehicle and salt truck collide on slippery roads in Montreal this morning. Submitted by Willem Shepherd. pic.twitter.com/1tXTnE37ew
— CBC Montreal (@CBCMontreal) December 5, 2016
Some were definitely concerned:
This is awful, but hilarious https://t.co/FMKmoyyUdl — Mitesh Patel (@MiteshRPatel) December 5, 2016
While other took the collision in a humorous way:
when curling is life https://t.co/Z6sEWHbNV3
— lo (@asap_pocky) December 5, 2016
This is mesmerizeing. In slow motion, it just keeps on unfolding. https://t.co/6539gykRmG — Edward Keenan (@thekeenanwire) December 5, 2016
BREAKING NEWS: winter weather in December is occurring in Canada. https://t.co/1YmSZKOXrg
— wini (@winiw) December 5, 2016
Crazy pileup just outside my office. Drive safe everyone pic.twitter.com/Xl9RiV2TdT — Tetsuro Takara (@t3tchi) December 5, 2016
Colin Creado works on Viger Street at the corner of Beaver Hall where the collision took place. He said, "A bus, full of people, which couldn't stop & crashed into the other bus. I could see the cop car literally jump in the air. It was pretty powerful."
He continued, "You would have thought ... they (municipality) would have salted the area or at least cordoned it off, because that road is pretty steep."
All cars in Quebec, by law, are required to have snow tires to avoid such collisions but this law is for a brief time period from December 15 to March 15 when the entire country is under a quilt of thick fog.
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