Snow plow driver stops drunk driver going into oncoming traffic at 65 mph

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote]SYLVANIA -- When Ohio Department of Transportation driver George Seambos started a midnight shift, he expected a standard night of salting and plowing area streets. But that all changed a couple hours into the shift.

"I was heading up towards the Michigan line. And all of the sudden I see headlights coming at me," recalled Seambos. "We were both in the same lane, doing opposite directions."

The ODOT veteran positioned his large salt truck so that drivers behind him would be safe from a man driving the wrong way on US-23. The wrong-way driver was travelling at 65 miles per hour.

"I knew I couldn't let this guy get behind me and hit somebody head-on behind me," said Seambos. After he blocked the northbound lanes, the wrong-way driver used a turn-around to get back on the southbound side and continue on in the correct direction.[/quote]

[url]http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=854922&hpt=ju_bn5#.UQ8rxx071Rx[/url]

[CubeManv2]

For a second I thought the article was going to say they collided, Thankfully they didn't.

[valkery]

I don't want to think what would have happened if a guy going 65 had collided with the plow on a salt truck.

[imptastick2]

[QUOTE=valkery;39466969]I don't want to think what would have happened if a guy going 65 had collided with the plow on a salt truck.[/QUOTE]

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[JennyC6]

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That type of plow generally isn't used except in the most extreme climates. the sweeping majority of snowplows use a straight blade tilted to one side or the other, which would react more or less the same way as another car when struck headon.