Gray County, KS Numerous Crashes on Ice Covered Roads – 11/12/2018

Heavy snows across southwest Kansas overnight lead to extremely icy conditions in the snow’s wake. While over 5 inches of snow fell, the main problem was the freezing surfaces on area highways. US-50 between Garden City and Cimarron was completely covered in ice for the entire 30 miles between the towns. This lead to numerous spin outs and a near triple drive time. This drive, which normally takes 30 minutes, took an hour and a half.
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GARDEN CITY

Scene 1: Snowplow driving by an SUV that spun off the highway.

Scene 2-3: SUV trying and failing to get on the road, spinning tires and sliding sideways through the ditch.

Scene 4-5: A pickup truck on the other side of the highway spinning tires in the ditch. Includes tight shot of tires spinning.

Scene 6: Panning shot of the two pre-sunrise spin offs.

GRAY COUNTY WEST OF CIMARRON

Scene 7: Wide shot of two vehicles that spun off the highway near Cimarron with another vehicle with flashers on parked on the side of the road.

Scene 8: Tight shot of the two spin outs.

Scene 9: A pickup with front end damage with flashers on sits stuck on the side of the highway as vehicles drive by.

Scene 10-12: White car that slid off the highway pointing nose down into the ditch.

Scene 13-14: Red car the crashed into a barbed-wire fence off US-50.

Scene 15: Black pickup struggling to maintain control on the icy US-50 drive.

Scene 16: POV driving shot of the coating of ice along US-50.

Scene 17-19: Various shots of traffic slowly navigating the icy US-50.

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