Archive for January, 2014

Semi Wreck

On the rather infamous I-215/I-15 southbound connection, a semi loaded with quite a few giant steel beams hit a Utah DOT truck. It’s not the most exciting clip in the world, but if you pause it, you can get a decent view of what happened.
For more information, the wreck also earned an article on KSL.


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Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 Videos No Comments

BMW Race

While driving south on I-215 today, I glanced in my rear-view mirror and noticed a pair of cars coming quickly down the road behind me. I wasn’t driving too slowly (as you can tell from the video, I was passing traffic relatively quickly), but they both flew by me.
Up ahead there was a car driving slowly in the fast lane, and they both had to brake hard in order to avoid rear-ending him. They both ended up going around him on the right side, then continuing their race of sorts.


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Saturday, January 18th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Merging Trouble

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about the I-215/I-15 interchange. It’s rather terribly designed, and that has given me a good deal of stuff to post here.
For today’s video, I was driving right at the point where three lanes merge to become two lanes. The left lane disappears into the center lane, but for some reason, people just keep driving in the left lane almost off the side of the freeway.
A lady in a dark SUV came speeding up on the left side. She tried to pass “just one more” car (the one in front of me), but unfortunately didn’t give herself enough time to do so. She ended up slamming on her brakes after it became evident that she’d shortly end up in the median, dropped back, and scooted over in front of me. Had I decided to press the issue, she’d have been clean out of options.


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Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Crazy Repair Workers

While driving this morning, I passed a pair of construction workers doing an incredibly dangerous job of patching the road in darkness, while it was in full use (though the traffic was light due to the hour).


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Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Snow Driving Fun

This morning it was just cold and cloudy, but this afternoon it started snowing. This is a montage of driving through that snow for a good 20 miles or so.


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Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 Videos No Comments