This Is Why You Don't Forget To Use Snow Chains In Canada
If you didn’t know already, it gets pretty cold in the Canadian winter, with snow and ice guaranteed. Road salt is a valuable commodity at this time of year and from this evidence it seems the gritting teams around Montreal’s busy Côte du Beaver Hall need to up their game.
When the footage starts, four cars have already crashed into each other on the slippery, unsalted side of the road, with one facing the wrong way. A bus decides it wants to hug it all better, careering into the back of the stranded cars.
A taxi driver narrowly escapes getting caught up in it before a pick-up… errr, doesn’t. It smashes into the back of the first bus before a second bus joins the fray, crushing the pick-up and punting it out into the roadway.
But the fun doesn’t stop there, kids, because the Montreal PD turns up to sort everything out. Naturally the police Charger simply pirouettes slowly down the road with no grip at all, before lightly bumping into the back of the second bus.
Even better, a gritter truck finally arrives on the scene (better late than never?) before losing control and smashing into the police, catapulting the front end up the Charger into the air.
Best to use snow chains, then…
Comments
Not again… Guys, just make my post an editors pick, or even give me credit. What’s the point of me always looking for news articles and being the first to post them on this site if you guys are just going to repost them without credit?
Well, you are not the author of this article or included photos/video. This is your exclusive news or what? They probably didn’t even see your post
settle down everyone…this is just Quebec…. they think they’re in France. the rest of the country is smart.
With what you just wrote, your IQ must really be as high as a turkey.
Looking at that cop Charger be like:
Haha snow chains won’t help F** all mate and especially not on ice you would be tearing up the road wherever you go.
But really. Go leafs go.
I guess they did not have winter tyres.
Charger be like “what is going on”
I love the way chargers look. So aggressive
In Canada we don’t use snow chains, they wreck roads, we use winter tires and semi trucks with specific licences can use chains only.
Can’t use snowchains on a paved road.
The law says everyone needs winter by december 15th, so the buses most likely didn’t have Then.
The cop most likely had them.
It is a steep hill in Montreal, we’ve had warmer temperatures then colder ones and snow which created black ice covered in snow.
Chains would have unefficient in that case anyways.
What was really needed: better planning from the city and studded tires for the poor souls who took that route.
Source: I’m from the area.