Ohio Turnpike snowplow damages at least 40 vehicles, injures 12

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Ohio Turnpike snowplow damages at least 40 vehicles, injures 12

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ERIE COUNTY, Ohio — Video taken Sunday by a truck driver traveling on the Ohio Turnpike in Erie County shows a snowplow on the opposite side of the road throwing massive amounts of slush and snow across the highway and onto passing vehicles, causing several vehicles to swerve and one to drive off the road.
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Michael Lemon was traveling on the Ohio Turnpike near milepost 114 when his video captured the shocking moment.

"I've never seen anything like that," Lemon said. "I didn't know how to react, I was just dumbfounded that somebody could be so reckless."

The Ohio Turnpike is managed by an independent company, not the Ohio Department of Transportation, and one of the plow trucks was seen on video traveling the same speed as surrounding cars, around 70 mph, as it cleared snow from the road.

Because the truck was traveling at such a high speed, the snow was thrown to the other side of the highway, landing on cars driving in the opposite direction.

"A lot of them didn't even know what to do, they just they kind of tried to stay in their own lane and hope to weather it," Lemon said.

As the snow hit the cars, they lost control of their vehicles, with one car driving off the side of the road. That car, Lemon said, had a hole the size of a beach ball in the front windshield.

Lemon said he pulled over and talked to victims of the crash, some who had arm and shoulder injuries, others who had "blood all over their faces."

The incident damaged Lemon's truck as well.

"I had to go up 30 miles and turn around to find the Ohio State Highway Patrol because I didn't realize there was any damage to my vehicle until I went to change lanes afterwards," Lemon said. 'It literally blew out the entire headlight out of the hood of the car no longer attached to the truck."

Lemon said that while the roads were dangerous and everyone makes mistakes, sometimes people are just reckless—which he how he described the driver of the plow truck.

"The roads are dangerous, even the professionals make mistakes and then some of them are just flat out reckless, he should not have been plowing at 70 miles an hour," Lemon said.

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That brainless SOB should lose his qualification and his job. Better yet keep him and put him in the washbay cleaning vehicles and lose his certification. Make him quit.
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I've never seen anything like that," Lemon said. "I didn't know how to react, I was just dumbfounded that somebody could be so reckless."
In Sweden women tried to do the snow plowing for a while... You know because of "affirmative action". Everyone was just dumbfounded that they could be so useless, we've never seen anything like that.

My guess is that it was a woman behind the wheel...
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