Comcast Xfinity's repair trucks cause multiple slide offs and collision.

[Quixote1818]

These guys drive me nuts. Sometimes the required regulations are not sufficient and a little common sense and simply caring about peoples well-being can prevent this kind of escalating chaos. After the first accident had occurred a person with any kind of brain would become concerned and wonder what more needed to be done to make the situation safe. I hope these guys got fired and OSHA re-evaluates the procedures for snowy roads and blind hills.

[Johnathan146]

1. Fire him

I doubt he was following osha regulations. Even if he was common sense should have told him that regulations for a flat dry piece of road dont work on any icy road with a hill.

[cstanleytech]

3. "I doubt he was following osha regulations" According to the link provided by Archae they were.

That aside the Comcast drivers could have used a little more common sense given the weather conditions and that there had already been some other accidents.

[Archae]

2. There's more to this story than the video.

Including the black truck being a hit-and-run.

http://www.snopes.com/comcasts-car-crash/

[Quixote1818]

4. Police say they were not at fault but OSHA may beg to differ

A number of posters on Reddit have pointed out they they did violate OSHA safety regulations:

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However, several posters on a Reddit thread say it appears the conditions violated OSHA safety regulations. As a result, local CW affiliate WISH said the Indiana Department of Labor has opened an investigation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/comcast-icy-road-indianapolis_us_5852172ae4b016e9c118903a


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actually the Indiana DOT has their own specific guidelines:
https://www.in.gov/indot/files/WorkZoneTCH.pdf
but the same general sentiment applies.
edit: read the intro and page 58 of the pdf for anyone interested. tl;dr: cones must be 28 inches high, at least 40 ft apart on a 40 mph road. Flaggers must be used for this type of lane closure. One cone per 10 mph dude was full of shit.

Regardless of what the law says and if one of two of the cars was going too fast, they didn't use common sense as one car after another started going off the road. Idiots on an epic level.

[markpkessinger]

6. Buht the real issue here isn't a legal issue so much as an ethical one . . .

Just because the Comcast driver didn't do anything that was illegal doesn't mean he didn't act like a total asshole. Yes, of course, many of those drivers, for whatever reason, were driving much too fast for conditions (some of them probably simply misjudged the conditions). But since there was no way to communicate that to drivers in advance, and cars kept coming and accidents continued to happen, the Comcast was the ONE person in the situation who was in a position to do something to make the situation a little safer for all concerned. The videographer made two helpful suggestions: pull the truck into his driveway, where it would be out of the way of oncoming traffic, or set up additional cones further back, so drivers would know to slow down sooner. That a driver, having been informed of a public safety hazard that was created at least in part by his vehicle, having seen accident after accident take place, would just flatly refuse to take reasonable steps that were suggested to him, is simply unconscionable. And to cite OSHA regulations -- which concern minimum standards for worker, not public, safety, is just . . . I have no words for it. He may be completely blameless in any legal sense, but it doesn't mean he didn't conduct himself in a really shitty way.

[shadowmayor]

5. Wonder

Wonder who that Comcast buttstick voted for?