How can people be so freaking STUPID?

On Saturday Rick and I were north-bound on I35, heading for KC. It was about 4 p.m., and we were encountering patches of fog (we’ve been have the strangest weather, but that’s another question..) Suddenly we passed a set of those temporary orange diamond signs they set out on the highway. Usually they say “Road work ahead,” or something. These, however, said, “Accident ahead.” Rick and I looked at each other like, “WTH??” because neither of us had ever seen anything like that.
Sure enough, about three miles later, an entire mile (according to the later news reports) of the southbound lane of I35 was littered with what turned out to be a freaking 25 car pile up.
I said, “There’s only one thing can cause a wreck like that, and that’s idiots driving in fog like there’s nothing wrong….”
Sure as hell, earlier that morning it had been densely foggy. A tow truck was pulling a car out of the ditch and when he was backing out, onto the highway, a car hit him, and the chain reaction began.
What floors me is…were all of those people just bonsaing along, 50, 60, 70 miles an hour when they couldn’t SEE??? Were they?? Because I’ve seen them do it. Last night, coming back, we kept hitting dense fog, and people just….plowed right through it without slowing down like, “Well, it’s not like the fog is gonna hurt the car! Doy!”

A three year old was killed.

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