Major crash near Leduc sends 100 to hospitals across Alberta

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Originally Posted by Est1980

There is so much ignorance in this post, I don't know where to begin.

Truckers as a demographic have a better safety record than regular citizens; that is a fact. If you want to make a safe bet, then put your money on one of the cars starting the chain reaction. Or we could wait until they release the cause.

Also, snow plows go as fast as they can, but they can only do so much until it stops snowing.

Let me guess,your a snow plows truck driver

I could care less about the "records".Having spent many years driving on highways I'll stand by my own personal experiences, In blizzards they go way too fast causing whiteouts and causeing people in cars to go off the road or freak out and stop so they get hit from behind and most of the time the trucker doesn't even know it happened...don't believe me? make a call to the RCMP and ask them how many times they have tried to find a trucker who caused a winter storm accident and just "kept on trucking".

Snow Plows,where I grew up plows were out as soon as it started snowing.not when it stopped snowing,they actually help to slow down traffic,but this day in age when everyones in a stupid hurry to go in the ditch people hate them.


As for the Leduc pileup,just as I thought. The first accident involved 5 vehicles, A B-train tanker,a semi and 3 passenger vehicles. then the pileups happened.

It's an incident Jordan Guard will never forget.

The Alberta man says he was driving in his truck Thursday on Highway 2 south of Leduc with his girlfriend and their seven-month-old son when he saw a multi-vehicle collision ahead.

Guard says as he was coming to a safe stop on the shoulder of the highway, he saw in his rear-view mirror a jack knifed semi-truck coming towards his truck. The semi had lost control on the icy highway. Guard made a split second decision to drive his vehicle into the ditch, hoping to avoid the on-coming semi. But according to Guard, the semi also went into the ditch, hitting his truck.

"He hit us so hard, I don't know how fast he was going, but he didn't slow down at all," Guard recalled. "The next thing I know, we're on an angle and there's a van underneath us."

Guard, along with his girlfriend and infant son, managed to escape the collision relatively unscathed.

However, Guard's ordeal wasn't over.

He says moments after the three got out of the truck, a second semi had lost control and crashed into several vehicles that were stopped along the highway. The collision reportedly caused a domino affect, in which Guard's truck was hit a second time. During the crash Guard's vehicle collided into him, partially trapping him underneath.


"We hear another bang and everything's moving again and my truck hits me in the back, knocks me on the ground."

Guard's pickup truck after the collision


Go figure, a cattle hauler, worst truck drivers on the planet.

Spin it any way it makes you feel better pal, fact. at least two trucks were going to fast in a winter storm, if a truck jackknifes it was going too fast for the condidions.

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Originally Posted by flameswin

Yep, that's what we're going to get from now on with social media playing such a big part in early news reporting.

The problem is the lack of filter. I don't know what it is, but as soon as someone posts something on twitter, it becomes relevant. I'm not saying everyone's stupid enough to believe everything on twitter, but people in general are willing to give anything posted on twitter the time of day, which those same people aren't willing to do in other situtations.

If a creepy looking weirdo was sitting in a coffee shop and turned to a table of people and said "I heard over 300 people were injured in that big crash by Leduc". The table of people would say "Wow, that seems high, where'd you hear that?". "Uh I don't know, I just heard it". Then those people would say "Uh yeah, that guys probably full of ****".

But if that same uninformed weirdo turns on his computer and types out that 300 people are injured on twitter, it instantly becomes "part of the discussion". It becomes a figure that is passed around the web, and becomes a figure that now has to be refuted and corrected. But why did it have to be refuted and corrected if it was just random people guessing on the internet? Because that's how powerful social media has become.

Social media is the weirdest thing in that it's become so useful and so useless at the same time, if you know what I mean.

To be fair, that 300 number was a direct quote from an AHS rep.