The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed at least 8 people are dead after a pileup on I-70 near Goodland. The crash involved more than 70 vehicles. https://trib.al/dZQNdVa
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8 dead after 71-vehicle pileup during dust storm in Kansas
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Who would even drive in such a dust storm with very little visibility?
My dad’s best friend pass away in this accident. The funeral is on the 22nd
looks like DARWIN had a field day…..slow down and get off the road when it gets bad
Tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms have the right to defend themselves
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Drove through this around an hour before this happened. Their was an obvious dust cloud around us but didn’t effect our vision enough to pull over. We went through this exact underpass and suddenly couldn’t see the car in front of us for a couple seconds. Can’t imagine what this felt like
Absolutely no excuse for this nonsense. Quit making driving some kind of competitive sport where the object is best the other guy on the road. Driving is transportation with the only object getting from point A to point B with the least amount of injury and loss of life possible and that means slowing down when road conditions require – you know basic things like only driving as fast as road surface and visibility allows and maintaining a safe following distance.
God Bless, all those who lost their lives and pray for the families.
They shouldn’t have been driving in that. Common sense goes a long way. News shouldn’t have to tell people the roads are closed.
On KSNTV I heard a truck driver say he "drove up on it."
Where was he coming in from? With I70 running east/west and the storm winds from the south – strange winds
Why was I70
letting vehicles onto the roadway? Could the roads have been closed & trucks stopped? And thank you to that driver who got his rig stoped, jumped out with his CB yelling to other truckers "Stop! Stop! Stop!" And if the haze was't smoke from
fires- where did all that all that dust blow in from? Are drought conditions still so bad out that way? Terrible story – all those deaths. I'm so sorry.
In this accident we have lost our friend RIP Bakhtiyar
I think it's great that the trucker warned other truckers of the dust storm but again if I was driving down the highway and I saw ahead of me a fog or a dust storm or smoke whatever and I could not see the road I would not proceed I would not enter I would not try to go into that I would stop before I got to that so why would trucks and cars drive into that I just cannot understand that that does not make any common sense why someone would drive into something that they could not see the road how can you have a brain in your head and actually do something like that I don't understand what would you be thinking
This sounds like a very horrifying event I guess what I completely do not understand is if I was driving down the highway and I saw ahead of me a terrible are fog storm or smoke storm where I literally could not see the highway I would stop I would immediately pull to the side of the road and stop immediately I would not proceed through it I don't care how big a hurry I was in or what I was doing when I saw a dust storm or absolute no visibility blowing across the highway I would immediately stop before entering so how can I understand why in this scenario someone would think to drive through that I absolutely cannot make sense of that I guess this would be the result
Thank you very much for your service °
Unfortunately, I-70 should have been shut down before this had a chance to occur. You get people who drive into zero visibility blowing dirt, then completely stop in it, others who slow down but proceed, then others who go full speed into with cars ahead that are stopped or slowed down and it's a recipe for disaster. I drove from Colby to Atwood while this was all occurring (unknowingly so), and there were a couple of times I literally could not see the highway 5 feet in front of me. It was beyond sketchy, I'll never do that again
They need to do road clousures in severe,0 visability weather ,than let people drive to their deaths..
Why the hell is not national news??
those JB Hunt and Swift trucks are running 75 miles per hour on any kind of road conditions..
they should slow down..
His CB radio has probably saved other rigs that had them CB radios from crashing, they still come in handy and are life savors.
Tow trucks, Insurance,and car dealerships are making a bunch of money off this catastrophe.
I'm sad that all vehicles are broken in Kansas.
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