Pickup driver picks an inopportune time to lose control on icy highway
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The Minnesota Department of Public Safety this afternoon released this video, shot from the dash of a State Patrol cruiser, to remind people to slow down in icy conditions.
Pick-up trucks, with little in the payload area, are notoriously unstable in conditions like those depicted.
Also, it takes a certain flair to pass a State Patrol cruiser.
We'd give anything to hear the conversation that followed.
[Update 4:12 p.m.]-- The State Patrol also posted this picture of what happened to a car when ice flew off a truck at I-694 and Highway 36.
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