Comments on: PZ Myers Car Wrecked in Accident: Myers Suffers Minor Injuries (updated)

By: Richard Smith

Richard Smith — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:12:18 +0000

Driving in snowy weather is quite dangerous as the roads are not clearly visible. When the forecast predicts snow, the best way to avoid accidents is to avoid driving at all, at least until the roads have been cleared. However, if you must drive in the snow and ice, it is important to keep certain safety precautions in mind to reduce the risk of accidents.

If you skid do not attempt to brake; instead steer into the direction of the skid whilst gently releasing the accelerator pedal.
– Always drive slowly and carefully in particularly cold conditions; even if the road doesn’t look icy there may be black ice on the road’s surface.
– Leave plenty of distance between you and the car in front. The usual 2 second gap should be changed to at least a 10 second gap in icy conditions.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:41:32 +0000

Cheers guys!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:55:18 +0000

Danny, click the caption.

By: Danny McLaughlin

Danny McLaughlin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:50:55 +0000

Hey Greg

How about giving the reconstruction artist (me) some credit for this extremely popular picture that has been on the Flickr website since me and the kids created it in August 2005. Nearly 100,000 sick bastards have viewed it since then!

🙂

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:19:35 +0000

was there really 6 people that were in the car at the time of the crash or was those dummys because they don’t look real

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:15:08 +0000

That artist’s impression is obviously fake – where are the cephalopods? Oh – maybe PZ already cooked and ate ’em.

The artist did get one tiny detail wrong though: where’s the ice?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:39:52 +0000

Toby, I appreciate what you are saying, but a similar thing could be said in many different contexts about many different things. Yet we continue to have humor and tragedy right next to each other all the time. There is, in the end, very little that I could every say about anything if I accounted for every possible sensibility by keeping silent.

By: toby

toby — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:36:25 +0000

To anyone who has lost a loved one in a road accident the faux-jollity of Greg’s piece may not be very amusing.

Relieved and delighted that PZ is ok.

Many others are not so lucky. In particular, we could do without that photograph of bodies draped over a car.

By: conrac

conrac — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:57:58 +0000

I believe it was ice covered with a layer of dusty snow.

By: Jadehawk

Jadehawk — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:06:09 +0000

Based on PZ’s description, I don’t think that was snow, AKA “Evil White Stuff”. This sounds like the work of black ice, perhaps with a smattering of snow on it, but it’s the ice that makes things go bad.

oh, I bet there was snow! unless of course all that stuff just fell over my place and didn’t make it no Minnesota :-p

Snow? Almost April? Why do people live in this region, what did they do that caused them to be sent there?

that’s nothing. last year, we had snow all the way through May.