Grapevine I-5 accident
Posted by thesheepthatwent_moo@reddit | Truckers | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Hopefully everyone involved is okay I just passed by it as soon as it happened there was a car on its side and another one with his whole front part missing. Pretty sure there was a semi involved in not sure it was on the shoulder but I didnt see any damage to it I could be wrong. Maybe theres someone here that saw it happened.
ConsequenceSweaty241@reddit
Hello Friday 😎
NaturalFlan5360@reddit
Probably someone driving way too fast.
You have trucks in the right lanes crawling up the hill at 25mph and people in the left lane doing 80 and then you have the people who cut over and fly up the 2 right lanes trying to go even faster than the people already in the left lane. Can only last for so long before someone gets seriously injured.
I drove to LA in my car last year to pick up a jetski and coming back over the Grapevine at night was crazy. So many people flying up behind me only to swerve over at the last second. I’ve never been scared driving anywhere. I was scared that night.
thesheepthatwent_moo@reddit (OP)
This was going northbound though, when ur going down the hill heading to bakersfield. But i get what you mean still. Both sides are dangerous I see cars driving too fast almost side swiping the trucks.
J-Rag-@reddit
Same thing. If you're pulling a load out of SoCal and you're going down the grapevine, you're keeping that truck nice and slow going down. And assholes are still flying by at 80 and weaving in and out of the slow truck lanes. The only thing that makes the grapevine so bad is the cars
NaturalFlan5360@reddit
Yea, and everyone follows so close too. Driving out of LA was like being trapped in a nightmare lol… at one point when I was at an interchange getting onto one freeway from another it was a super narrow curved 2 lane exit and I had a guy on my bumper and a car right next to me and here comes this what appeared to be a rolled up yoga mat or something rolling across in front of me… had to hit it head on and thank goodness it didn’t get dragged or rip anything under my car. Had to keep reminding myself that I had already started insurance on the jetski I was towing and everything would be ok.
Boy I breathed a breath of fresh air when I finally made it to the 99/i5 interchange on the other side. So many people driving with no lights too! Holyyyyy
rdwolfe2000@reddit
Chp says that 2 cars involved 1 18-wheeler involved 1 person trapped in the car
thesheepthatwent_moo@reddit (OP)
Thanks for the information.
scottiethegoonie@reddit
North or South? What section?
NaturalFlan5360@reddit
South
thesheepthatwent_moo@reddit (OP)
southbound right before the hill ends