Colorado Driver Captures Subaru’s Wild Near-Crash on I-70
There are close calls. Then, there are close calls.
Michael Walsh, who runs a mobile ski and snowboard tune shop, captured the latter on Colorado’s I-70, a famed freeway that connects Denver to a slew of popular ski resorts.
In Walsh’s video, a Subaru whips up behind a group of slower-moving cars, then loses traction and veers off the road. That’s when things get interesting.
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There’s a lot we can’t know just by watching this video. Was the car equipped with snow tires? Did the Subaru blaze past the speed limit? All possible. Another line of questioning: Should they have been moving more slowly, given what appeared to be slick driving conditions? Probably.
What you don’t need to deduce, though, is how incredible the Subaru driver’s save was. On one side, they were flanked by a group of cars. On the other side, there was a snowy ditch that gave way to trees. Colliding with either obstacle wouldn’t have ended well.
Yet, after swerving left, right, and through the snow, the Subaru popped back onto the road as if nothing had happened. One comment below the video summed up a feeling anyone who’s almost gotten into a wreck can relate to: “Radio was turned off for the rest of the drive after that one lol.”
Stunned silence, sometimes, is all you can manage after tempting fate.
It wasn’t the first time I-70 has seen snowy shenanigans. The road has a reputation for spinouts and crashes, particularly during blizzards—that’s when skiers hit I-70 in droves on their way to their favorite resort. That reputation spawned @i70things, an Instagram page that chronicles the best and worst of I-70.
In an effort to make I-70 and other roads in the state safer, Colorado debuted a change to its traction law ahead of this ski season.
Namely, drivers who don’t have an AWD or 4WD car equipped with the required tires (winter tires, all-weather rated tires, or mud and snow tires) must have chains or an approved alternative traction device, like EasySox, where traction laws are in place.
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