Nearly 200 crashes on LA freeways as rain continues (Los Angeles, San Diego: tax, bus)

[jm1982]

The city and county of LA should do PSAs telling people not to drive in the rain if they don't know how to drive in the rain . Would be a better use of tax payer money than most of their proposals

I see billboards and bus signs telling people to stop if they hit someone and to pull over to the right if an ambulance is coming and bus benches saying it's not cool to beat your spouse .

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LOS ANGELES - Nearly 200 crashes were reported in Los Angeles County freeways as a result of the rain that fell in the first of two storm systems forecast to strike the Southland, authorities said.

The California Highway Patrol said there were 191 traffic crashes from 5 p.m. Wednesday to midnight. That's more than three times as many accidents as on a dry day, said CHP Officer Dion Conley, who said 55 crashes were reported in the same time frame on Dec. 8.

Nearly 200 crashes on LA freeways as rain continues

[Mr_Geek]

It's like anything else in the world that practice makes perfect. People here don't get much practice driving in the rain.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

I see plenty of people who have zero concept of physics and stopping distances. No adjustment is made for the less ideal pavement condition.

Compounding the problem are low profile tires that are terrible for anything that is not dry pavement.

Now add mobile devices.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

San Diego just as bad. People doing 85, at least, and it's raining.

[thatguy950]

meh that's an average day in dumpy Seattle and it rains like 85% if the year, same goes for Honolulu where we see rain almost daily.

[Cream1]

We get it. No one can drive in the rain except you.

[JustMike77]

I learned to drive in Ohio with rain & snow, I think that helps. If we ever got a foot of snow in L.A. everyone would be dead. I think that happened in Atlanta a few years ago and there were hundreds of accidents.

[C_A_Braun]

Even people in snow prone states can't drive in snow.

Michigan -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg8Iec-uG_c
Wyoming -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxlvxvG8zOE
Colorado -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77vmBLf99aQ

Just search YouTube and you will find thousands of such videos. This has nothing to do with California drivers or LA Drivers etc. It seems to be all drivers everywhere.

[saibot]

Of course there are more accidents in unusually inclement weather (whatever is unusually inclement in a given location). As already stated, that is true everywhere. Not sure why that would be a surprise?

"Drivers in X location don't know how to drive in Y conditions" is as much of a cliche as "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."

[Kobe25]

The biggest problem i notice is the people texting while driving out here.It's worst enough that traffic is insane but add that in with the people cant drive and you get the picture lol