Aw, (sniff) looks like they filmed it from in front of the building my late father lived in. Montanita repreSENT.

Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

Its amazing how few people in Seattle understand how to drive in the snow - yet still they try...

Didn't we see videos from the same street in December 2008?

It boggles my mind that people will park on these streets or remain parked there in the snow. I'd hide my car!

Hint: If the sidewalks are lined with people and their cameras watching the demolition derby, choose a different route.

A more thoughtful individual would have parked at the bottom of the hill and walked home.

In other news, it was 15 degrees CELSIUS (59 F) in Toronto today. Something is seriously wrong.

Two more cars from the QA derby last night:
http://suitep.tumblr.com/post/1661060694…

@6 is correct: the moment you see people lining a street with cameras, find a different route or walk home.

During the 2006 (?) ice/snow storm, I had driven to work, and left when I saw what was going to happen. I made it all the way up to 12th Ave from downtown (thinking I could get out of downtown and stay ahead of the storm) when it really hit, and people started sliding everywhere.

Rather than add to the mayhem and slaughter, I parked my car on a side street off Yesler Way, far from the manic and fatalistic, and walked home.

When I got home, The Colonel, who had been napping, made all sorts of manly noises about how I should have called him, and how remarkable it was that I could just leave my car (an '89 Volvo wagon, which is perhaps the most unglamorous car ever produced) parked "like that", but I directed him to the window, where the din from Rainier Avenue made it abundant that there was a problem out there.

The next day, after everything had calmed down and cooler heads prevailed, I went back and got the car. Everything was fine.

@3 - not understanding and knowing you don't understand are two different things, as this driver demonstrates.

@7: Yes. Seattle drivers think every problem large or small can be fixed by jamming a foot down upon a brake pedal. Merging into traffic? Jam the brakes! A little windy on the bridge? Jam the brakes! Sliding on a snowy hill? Jam those brakes! So goddamn irritating.

Snow tires, not all season tires, are a good investment.

@15 take your foot off of the brakes and coast down the hill as there is no stopping with that amount of momentum. you'll notice that keeping the brakes on caused the back end of the car to spin off to the side (it's all down hill from there).

to maintain control you should steer lightly into the direction that the back of the car is heading...but again the back end wouldn't have spun if they would've let off the brakes. all you can do is hold on tight to the wheel and try not to slide into anything and hope you don't run into a red light (same method, steer into the direction you are sliding). it's ok to tap on the brakes ever so slightly to try and gain traction.

@15,
...and downshift.
-use the engine's friction to keep the tires from getting too fast as you go downhill.

@15 there really wasn't much hope though, by not locking the wheels he might have been able to steer into a curb before he built up speed, but he was pretty much fucked the moment he tried going up the hill.

Gotta admire his balls though. Reckless and dangerous though it is, it has to take a ton of dumb courage to look at that hill and thing "yeah, yeah I can do that!"

Still, he's lucky he hit that car where he did.. He would've built up an incredibly dangerous amount of speed if he slid down the whole hill. People *really* could have been hurt.

Listen to these fucking hipsters narrate a car crash!

She's lucky she hit that car, actually.