How to drive on ice: you don't
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Yeah. I can actually drive on snow even though I don't seek it out. In Ice you have no chance. We don't have near as much ice storms up here as they do in Northern Texas and Oklahoma. They have ice storms all the time and they are BRUTAL. I was in OKC 5 years ago and it iced, you couldn't really see it, it came on fast and you couldn't go over 20 mph without sliding. It was insane and the most difficult driving conditions I've ever driven in. It's more than a - they don't know how to drive in wintery conditions deal. Most Oklahoman's probably know how to drive on ice better than KC residents do because they encounter it more.
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edave-that should come with a Watch at your own risk warning. I did. just gross.

ice sucks. I also assume Tx does not do salt.
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I think they do to an extent, they don’t get ice often in DFW but often enough that they should know not to drive like normal conditions
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Texas does not salt. TxDoT typically uses either sand or sprays deicing fluid on bridges and overpasses.
Speculation is that this particular bridge was not properly treated with the deicing fluid. Time will tell.
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If it's the same shit they use here, it makes it worse rather than better, at least with snow on it.
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Welp, our forecast says a foot or more of snow starting Sunday evening, on top of the ice that's already here. Good times. :-)
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Glad I'm not somewhere out there
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Oh, sorry. Oklahoma. :-)
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I WILL be there the first week of April paddlefishing however!
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We may be thawed out by then. :-)
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JFC... and the real shitty thing is there's just no where to go. Not that I know how long that stretch goes on that highway, but I can't think of many highways like that in KC, except for 169 near downtown and maybe parts of 69 and 435 in OP, where there's very little shoulder and just no way to even attempt to get out of the way.
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From what I read, the accidents occurred on a bridge which freezes faster. Whenever I cross a bridge in those conditions, I do not press the brake. Might not have mattered.

I am not sure of the whole situation, but this did occur in TX, where people don't know how to drive on snow or ice. I am not sure if it would mattered. Crazy Germans drive on the Autobahn in dense fog at eleventy billion miles an hour and wonder why there are pile ups.
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When we went down there, we were on the bridge next to the lake south of Denton. There was a Ford LTD on the front side of the bridge facing me. He had spun completely around on the bridge and was driving the wrong way on the interstate.
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Followed a salt truck into work this morning.

It was -16. Salt rarely works and the exhaust water from cars freezes on the highway making it very slick..
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