How Portlanders Drive In Winter

[kathyp]

http://www.king5.com/

this is a news film clip.  almost put it in humor, but it's not funny if it's not you.  click on amazing....video....portland.  this was today.

[reinbeau]

Yea, this was posted in the General Beekeeping forum, too.  Absolutely amazing.  It's been conjectured that the driver of the first car was knocked out, that's why the car kept going.

[kathyp]

he wasn't knocked out.  that was more of a hill than it looked like on the film.  once he got sliding, there was no stopping.  poor guys was 79.  got out of it with just a cut on the head.

[reinbeau]

Well, then, he should have taken his foot off the gas!  Thankfully no one was seriously injured in it all.

[Jerrymac]

He could have been riding the brake. It is a hill and the sled affect comes into play.

[kathyp]

ya, he could have been.  could have been stunned a bit when the air bag deployed.  that tape is pretty long and it's one car after another doing about the same thing.  his was just the most spectacular.