Russian Tunnel of Death

[Zoom Zoom Boy]

Yah, who needs winter tires...

The 3,150 m long Lefortovo tunnel in Russia (near Poland ) is the longest in-city tunnel in all of Europe.* It is nicknamed 'The Tunnel of Death.'
See for yourself why.* There is a river running over the tunnel and water leaks through in some areas.* When the temperature falls below 0 degrees centigrade, as it frequently does during the winter in Russia, the road freezes and becomes as slippery as ice. The result is the attached video, which was taken during a single day with the tunnel surveillance camera.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02H70ithFs

Props to the bus driver...

[cereal83]

Thats like the oldest video on utube!

[Thrizzl3]

seen it before tim..lol

[cwp_sedan]

It is pretty old but still crazy.

[Gizzmo_jr]

It's so cOLD in here...

[Unoriginalusername]

no way thats in one day, each one of those accidents would shut things down for hours at a time

[aris]

That alot in one day..lol

[Zoom Zoom Boy]

Thats like the oldest video on utube!

I'm older.


seen it before tim..lol

As shocking as this may be to you Phil, I don't post just for your own amusement. Most of the time, yes, just not this time. :)

[stevenma188]

In russian accent: "In Soviet Russia, Roads crash you......"

[b.rabbit]

Impossible that's from one day.

Either way, most of those crashes are avoidable..if they would just slow down. But then again, there were a few ppl that were cutting off the car that crashes..

But yeah, skill points to the bus driver!!

[Kappa]

car at the end craps its pants...

[omalak]

Don't forget people shouldn't be driving while drunk :chuckle :gone

[Nextmod]

car at the end craps its pants...

lol ya I saw that lol

[Nextmod]

Thats like the oldest video on utube!

lol but you can never get sick of watching that video

[Fobio]

Salt? Sand? Common sense?

[SpeedBaby]

Salt? Sand? Common sense?

the challenge is that when building a new highway across the city, they used this old tunnel, which goes all the way under a park and a river. the river is what causes the leaks... and as far as common sense goes - it's not very common, obviously.

[Fobio]

the challenge is that when building a new highway across the city, they used this old tunnel, which goes all the way under a park and a river. the river is what causes the leaks... and as far as common sense goes - it's not very common, obviously.

I read that part...but I wonder why they don't use salt or sand like we do here? I mean I udnerstand it might be too cold for salt, but it seems to be severe enough that sand would help...

[SpeedBaby]

they don't use salt, but the liquid reagent deicer. which creates slush and contributes to the slippery conditions in an enclosed environment such as this one.

im sure that a solution to this problem could've been found in more than one way, problem is finding someone who would bother looking for it.

[iconicrocket]

I guess, you're taking your chances every time you use that tunnel.

[Darkfrosty7]

yikes =\

[deandai]

:loco

[tweak_s]

Seems though that many of the accidents are avoidable except you have those morons there who cut off cars and were going way too fast.

Look at the cars that slow down and stop safely behind the crashes for example.