As the car gets warm, the snow at the bottom melts. Then the idiot parks it to do his groceries or whatever so it cools back down and freezes into a 2 inch thick block of ice. Then they drive on the highway. That block of ice breaks free, flies up in the air, catches in the wind while tumbling which gives it an unpredictable trajectory and smashes the windshield of a car that was unfortunate enough to be further back at that time.
I know because it happened to me. Had to get a windshield replaced in the middle of a road trip. The dipshit who caused it didn’t even realize what happened and kept driving. The police should absolutely crack down on this instead of all the other petty bullshit they tend to harass people over.
(This is invidious, a yt proxy, if you don’t recognize the URL. Content (no audio): A car’s dashcam captures an incident where a seemingly small bit of ice comes loose from a car ahead of the driver and destroys the windshield. It’s hard to notice if you aren’t looking out for it, bit of a jumpscare.)
Idk I had several people warning me about that when I lived in Quebec, and I very rarely saw people driving with snow on their roof, so I assumed it was enforced quite seriously
I live in a place where it is illegal and can get you a ticket but the cops never pull anyone over for it so a lot of people don’t bother. Every winter /r/Connecticut is about 25% pictures of people with piles of snow like this on top of their suvs
Had similar things happen too. It’s why I hate driving. Some moron doesn’t even realize how amazingly selfish and idiotic they are being, and come this close to killing someone, meanwhile they just keep driving like nothing happened
As the car gets warm, the snow at the bottom melts. Then the idiot parks it to do his groceries or whatever so it cools back down and freezes into a 2 inch thick block of ice. Then they drive on the highway. That block of ice breaks free, flies up in the air, catches in the wind while tumbling which gives it an unpredictable trajectory and smashes the windshield of a car that was unfortunate enough to be further back at that time.
I know because it happened to me. Had to get a windshield replaced in the middle of a road trip. The dipshit who caused it didn’t even realize what happened and kept driving. The police should absolutely crack down on this instead of all the other petty bullshit they tend to harass people over.
They do, in some communities, fwiw. I’ve gotten a warning contingent that I remove the snow RIGHT NOW.
Don’t want to doxx myself, so I’ll just say “in the northeast US.”
You mean one of the same parts of the country.
I was just looking for a video to say exactly what you did, people should see it happen in real time:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ZA8HB6ZpVRY
(This is invidious, a yt proxy, if you don’t recognize the URL. Content (no audio): A car’s dashcam captures an incident where a seemingly small bit of ice comes loose from a car ahead of the driver and destroys the windshield. It’s hard to notice if you aren’t looking out for it, bit of a jumpscare.)
Canonical yt link: https://youtu.be/ZA8HB6ZpVRY
That shit can get you a nasty ticket in Canada. They know how dangerous it is
It can get you a nasty ticket just about anywhere, but the cops have to enforce traffic law for that to happen
Idk I had several people warning me about that when I lived in Quebec, and I very rarely saw people driving with snow on their roof, so I assumed it was enforced quite seriously
I live in a place where it is illegal and can get you a ticket but the cops never pull anyone over for it so a lot of people don’t bother. Every winter /r/Connecticut is about 25% pictures of people with piles of snow like this on top of their suvs
Had similar things happen too. It’s why I hate driving. Some moron doesn’t even realize how amazingly selfish and idiotic they are being, and come this close to killing someone, meanwhile they just keep driving like nothing happened
Just the snow blowing off into the windshield of the person behind them is dangerous enough to cause a fatal accident.