Melbourne conditions were icy this morning - roads were extremely treacherous. I was driving with great caution, but the car in the right lane in front of me on the Eastern Freeway wasn't so careful. He lost control, and slid straight into the car in front of me. Both cars totalled. - I stayed to give my details and my account of it, and both drivers were conscious and not bleeding, with the ambulance and tow trucks on their way...
Not so lucky (assuming those two drivers really were relatively okay later) were the occupants of two cars that collided on my way BACK. Half of the red car/van/thing which was one of the vehicles in the accident was literally cut in half; the other car was embedded in the metal railing, crushed. Police, freeway cordoned off, paramedics, the lot. I could hear one obvious occupant actually screaming or howling in unbearable grief - he was a 16-17 year old... He may have been the driver, and I had the impression his passengers had died. There were fatalities.
Please, please, PLEASE be careful. Drive more slowly than the speed limit. The glacé-like conditions are unbelievably slippery; to avoid losing control, drive with far, far, far more care than you'd normally take. Slow down... Please slow down... and be careful.
