He was slowing down for a curve in the road and hit a patch of black ice. He spun 180 into the ditch and his truck exploded as soon as he got out of it. Thankfully he walked away with a couple scratches.
"It's got forged pistons, a cat-back, cold-air intake, and a lift kit! I'll just power through the ice. What about my tires? All-Season tires mean All. Seasons. Duh"
People with trucks always think they’re more capable than they are. And when it comes to snow just because the truck can get going doesn’t mean it can stop. Especially since trucks are heavy which is the opposite of what you want in snowy/icy conditions.
Off road tires are also good for deep snow but are often mediocre at best on packed snow covered roads.
Where I live (in Michigan) the roads are icy more often than not for 4-5 months out of the year... hard to not go anywhere for that long. You can drive on ice, just be smart about it.
It's called "black" because you see the road surface underneath. You may or may not notice the shininess depending on the angle of the light. It could be on an otherwise dry and uniced patch of road.
Definitely doesn't seem to be the case in the photo, here.
This was either a case of tons of missing maintenance and bad driving. Hitting ice should just make you lose some amount of traction, not slide 180 into a tree and starting on fire.
Also I can only assume, given the evidence before me, that your friend is a douche.
It's always trucks with too much confidence who crash. For every 1 car or SUV that crashes, I see 3-5 trucks.
As a person who isn’t young anymore make sure you tell your friends how much they mean to you, you never know when it’ll be the last time you speak to them.
Edit :
Also this reminded me of this video, which is hilarious about ‘Black Ice’.
You have to slow very gradually to slow down when there's ice and snow on the road. Because all their weight is up front, pickup trucks have uneven weight distribution and really don't handle snow and ice well unless they've got winter tires or chains and you've got the back weighed down; if you slow down abruptly or turn too sharply, you'll just spin like this.
Always lots of pickup truck drivers thinking their big truck makes them invincible in the snow every year, here.
Your friend drove too fast for conditions. The road is packed down with snow, he didn’t have winter tires or chains, his suspension probably wasn’t new either. Sorry for the crash that was a self-inflicted one.
That road is covered in visible snow, not black ice... Looks like your friend wasn't paying attention honestly. Of course I'm jinxing myself by criticizing but he's lucky that's all that happened, coulda killed someone.
Looks more like white snow than black ice to me...
I'm glad he's okay, though.
Notes for other truck drivers: big trucks with 4 wheel drive may accelerate easy, but physics (mass, vectors, and friction) dictate whether you have control when you slow down or stop, and physics always wins. The moral of the story: Just because your 4 wheel drive can start moving easily, it doesn't mean it will stop the same way.
Yesterday? It was really bad out yesterday where I am. Most people were going about 10-15mph with their hazard lights on because it was so bad. Freezing rain followed by heavy, wet snow. Roads were completely covered and you couldn’t get traction to stop or start. I slowly braked at an intersection and started sliding. Missed a semi truck by about a foot. It was pretty terrifying.
I’m glad your friend is okay. That must’ve been really scary for him.
"Black Ice" AKA driving too fast for road conditions. See it here in Minnesota all the time. I'm in a 4x4 Bronco with winter tires, and I see trucks fly by me all the time.
ugh, i feel for your friend. my brother and his friend swerved to miss a deer in the same direction as an oncoming driver swerved to miss it and ended up in a head on collision. everyone made it out alive, some broken bones, but alive.
I was waiting for the idiot comment that said it was on fire because it was electric. Internal combustion vehicles catch on fire 62x as often as electric cars. Every electric vehicle fire makes the news and gas/diesel fires are too common to be newsworthy. Check your biases.
I also didn’t say it was electric. I said it was an electrical issue. It does not look like an F150 lightning so many Fords have terrible electrical issues. I myself have found out the hard way and I’ll never buy another one of their products again.
How would crashing it into a ditch and it catching fire be an electrical issue and not "smashed the fuel system and it caught fire cause there's lots of hot shit around the fuel"
Oh okay. I took it that way. I apologize. I’m not attempting to defend ford at all, just sick of people falling for and spreading the misinformation that EVs catch fire all the time. I have no position on Ford’s electrical quality control. :-D
Well is a ford so electric probably dude it’s a Ford. Don’t try to defend Ford. It’s like backing a politician and say he doesn’t go to strip clubs with your money.
A little heat melts ice he didn't have to torch the whole truck.
Tim The Tool Man's defroster
Can't tell if the truck is actually burning, or if this is one of those 'coal rolling' shots
A tale of Fire and Ice.
Found george rr martin's alt account. Finish the fucking winds of winner ya jerk! /s
He finished both already but people reacted negatively towards the show ending so he rewriting them
What?? Omg, he's never going to finish them!
I mean, seeing as how the last book went about branching out even more rather than winding down, yah I don’t think there’s any hope.
"Damnit George!" /s
The first book was published 29 years ago, I gave up on the series ever being finished even before the TV adaptation started.
I then spent the two years of the TV show saying "wait for it".
There is no black ice there.
Yeah that is all regular ice. Shouldn't have been driving.
My anecdotal experience is people with trucks like that often drive a bit reckless…
I don’t think I’d call that reckless
More like wreckful
My truck can handle anything! It was made for this!!
I mean…you might be able to 4x4 back onto the road if you didn’t crash hard enough to start the fucker on fire
Nah 4x4 offroad on snow and ice will do absolutely nothing with the cheap ass mud tires you know this guy has
I'm willing to bet this was a RWD with exactly the wrong tires.
RWD with no weight/sand bags in the bed to help with traction 👌
"It's got forged pistons, a cat-back, cold-air intake, and a lift kit! I'll just power through the ice. What about my tires? All-Season tires mean All. Seasons. Duh"
People with trucks always think they’re more capable than they are. And when it comes to snow just because the truck can get going doesn’t mean it can stop. Especially since trucks are heavy which is the opposite of what you want in snowy/icy conditions.
Off road tires are also good for deep snow but are often mediocre at best on packed snow covered roads.
Snow and ice isn't super rare everywhere, this is how it looks where I live and we have snow/ice on the roads for 6+ months per year.
Hard to park the car for over half the year :)
Where I live (in Michigan) the roads are icy more often than not for 4-5 months out of the year... hard to not go anywhere for that long. You can drive on ice, just be smart about it.
That's what I was gonna say... looks like plain ol snow covered roads and dude was going too fast.
Not any longer
All I see is white ice
Where's the black part?
Looks like white ice to me.
Just as slippery as the black stuff.
Source: Colorado.
Recommended: Cooper AT3...and if it's a Dodge, get an alignment and drive the yellow marked speed recommendations in the snow.
Just get proper winter tires (not all-season) if this kind of winter condition is a yearly occurrence.
Source: Finland
While I support changing your tires to winter ones when it snows there is no tires that will prevent you slipping on ice
It's a Ford ranger and get dedicated snow tires, studs if you're allowed.
YOU CAN'T PARK THERE.
Can't park there mate.
*Ice.
Black ice is when the road looks dry then there is a patch of ice that cannot be seen.
In your post you can literally see snow and ice over the entire road.
Black ice looks wet. Like the road is just wet. You don't realize that it's frozen until you hit it.
It's called "black" because you see the road surface underneath. You may or may not notice the shininess depending on the angle of the light. It could be on an otherwise dry and uniced patch of road.
Definitely doesn't seem to be the case in the photo, here.
Americans are so racist they even think the ice is black /s
Ok fine, African-American ice.
or when youre walking and then greet the ground:/
Yup, this was probably all driver error. I don’t care how badass your truck is, learn to tiptoe in bad weather.
This may be a silly question, but why isn’t the snow on the road disturbed? Just normal traffic tire tracks…..
Kind of look like they slid in sideways from the left side of the picture.
Was wondering the same thing
Tire marks could be in the shadow of his truck.
I'm not even sure this is real, unless the truck somehow left no tire tracks.
Everyone complains about black ice but it wouldn't be there if it wasn't for all the oppressive white snow!
Judging by the road conditions, black ice wasn't the problem.
Did this happen inside of an action movie?
I cant read "black ice" without thinking of the Key and Peele skit and that oppressive white snow
Last night I was walking away from an ATM and black ice snuck up on me and robbed me of my balance
https://i.redd.it/qpsli5re3m6g1.gif
Ok but how.
It's actually really hard to make a vehicle blow up, and they certainly don't blow up from collisions like they do in an 80s movie.
I've seen a runaway diesel do it and that looks like a possibility here.
Also I can only assume, given the evidence before me, that your friend is a douche.
I can see it catching fire... Not blowing up.
Given the vehicle is intact I don't think it blew
This was either a case of tons of missing maintenance and bad driving. Hitting ice should just make you lose some amount of traction, not slide 180 into a tree and starting on fire.
It's always trucks with too much confidence who crash. For every 1 car or SUV that crashes, I see 3-5 trucks.
That sucks and I'm glad he's okay, but that picture kinda goes hard.
"Hey mom I crashed my car"
"How bad is the damage?"
Sends picture
And the truck got redemption
Directed by Michael Bay
Glad he’s ok, that’s terrifying.
As a person who isn’t young anymore make sure you tell your friends how much they mean to you, you never know when it’ll be the last time you speak to them.
Edit :
Also this reminded me of this video, which is hilarious about ‘Black Ice’.
https://youtu.be/efiW2K8gASM?si=-wXoEtKIrPcP6_-_
You beat me to the K&P skit. lol
You have to slow very gradually to slow down when there's ice and snow on the road. Because all their weight is up front, pickup trucks have uneven weight distribution and really don't handle snow and ice well unless they've got winter tires or chains and you've got the back weighed down; if you slow down abruptly or turn too sharply, you'll just spin like this.
Always lots of pickup truck drivers thinking their big truck makes them invincible in the snow every year, here.
As it has been said "you have to be smarter than frozen pavement ".
Your friend drove too fast for conditions. The road is packed down with snow, he didn’t have winter tires or chains, his suspension probably wasn’t new either. Sorry for the crash that was a self-inflicted one.
Is Black Ice a fire wizard?
Exploded? Holy shit glad everyone is ok. I wonder how that happens, like gas line breaks and catches?
It was right underneath my old car, by the brake line, not protected.
Or how else would it catch on fire right away I wonder?
Poor maintenance may have been involved, some of those trucks have no place on the road. But in this case we don’t really know.
That road is covered in visible snow, not black ice... Looks like your friend wasn't paying attention honestly. Of course I'm jinxing myself by criticizing but he's lucky that's all that happened, coulda killed someone.
Looks more like white snow than black ice to me...
I'm glad he's okay, though.
Notes for other truck drivers: big trucks with 4 wheel drive may accelerate easy, but physics (mass, vectors, and friction) dictate whether you have control when you slow down or stop, and physics always wins. The moral of the story: Just because your 4 wheel drive can start moving easily, it doesn't mean it will stop the same way.
Looks like a good old boy was driving too fast for the conditions and got his comeuppance.
Glad they're okay. Looks like they were going too fast for conditions
Well at least he stayed warm until help arrived.
Looks like he hit fire
Melted now…
Looks like black ice hit back
This is why I never want to voluntarily live anywhere that ices over like this for months out of the year.
Not the 5.9 😭 my condolences
Hopefully friend got out of truck
yo... shit's on fire...
Friend’s boss: That sucks, but I’m still gonna need you to be here by 9am.
Sounds like the name of a metal album with a killer cover picture to be honest.
He didn’t have to sit there with the truck running .. 😂
Crazy that an air freshener can do that much damage
https://i.redd.it/2y5k9txf3m6g1.gif
Is it a dodge? It kinda looks like a ford from the window but ass looks like a dodge
Yesterday? It was really bad out yesterday where I am. Most people were going about 10-15mph with their hazard lights on because it was so bad. Freezing rain followed by heavy, wet snow. Roads were completely covered and you couldn’t get traction to stop or start. I slowly braked at an intersection and started sliding. Missed a semi truck by about a foot. It was pretty terrifying.
I’m glad your friend is okay. That must’ve been really scary for him.
All that looks like regular ice/snow
A/T tires are useless on snow and ice.
Trying to spot the “black ice”.
"Black Ice" AKA driving too fast for road conditions. See it here in Minnesota all the time. I'm in a 4x4 Bronco with winter tires, and I see trucks fly by me all the time.
ugh, i feel for your friend. my brother and his friend swerved to miss a deer in the same direction as an oncoming driver swerved to miss it and ended up in a head on collision. everyone made it out alive, some broken bones, but alive.
Album cover material
https://preview.redd.it/u68y0sf6jm6g1.jpeg?width=479&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a9c95ed9d21d2ddfc0a1e3d15d8b4a268a65745
Damn black ice strikes again! No neighborhood is safe whenever black ice shows up. It’s a shame.
maybe that guy in the very bright pickup can help him.
Black ice always wreaks havoc.. damn those black ice...
I don’t understand the picture
The snow tracks on the road and off doesn’t matches the description of what happened…
Maybe I’m still not awake but🤷🏽
Not the FORD FUCKIN RANGER
The snow caught fire and then the truck started burning it was fucked
Yeah, with those conditions, who could have guessed the road was slippery?
Magical black ice appeared.
He's lucky as hell that he got out.
I'm pretty sure he just "hit ice" and snow. Nothing looks black to me. Black ice is so dangerous because it looks like the road is bare.
When every inch of the road is covered in snow you are pretty well warned there might be slippery bits out there.
Spun 180 degrees then went into the ditch forwards? Were they driving in reverse?
Bro, you can't start a campfire over there.
This is snow not black ice lol.
Show him this skit from Key and Peele about black ice.
https://youtu.be/efiW2K8gASM?si=uEvuFY79zpu9Pwbk
Can't park there mate!
Was it black because of crude oil or something?
White truck, big surprise!
Can we still call it Black Ice?!
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I was waiting for the idiot comment that said it was on fire because it was electric. Internal combustion vehicles catch on fire 62x as often as electric cars. Every electric vehicle fire makes the news and gas/diesel fires are too common to be newsworthy. Check your biases.
I also didn’t say it was electric. I said it was an electrical issue. It does not look like an F150 lightning so many Fords have terrible electrical issues. I myself have found out the hard way and I’ll never buy another one of their products again.
How would crashing it into a ditch and it catching fire be an electrical issue and not "smashed the fuel system and it caught fire cause there's lots of hot shit around the fuel"
Been doing too much drinking this early bubba.
Oh okay. I took it that way. I apologize. I’m not attempting to defend ford at all, just sick of people falling for and spreading the misinformation that EVs catch fire all the time. I have no position on Ford’s electrical quality control. :-D
Thank you, i really do appreciate it not everyone understands how i say things. It can be very hard to express myself sometimes
My name is comedian glass laugh a little bit
Well is a ford so electric probably dude it’s a Ford. Don’t try to defend Ford. It’s like backing a politician and say he doesn’t go to strip clubs with your money.