[redwitch]

It amazed me in California, it amazed me driving cross-country, it amazes me here -- people can't seem to comprehend that you drive according to conditions. You don't do 80 when it is pouring down rain (well, some do and that be the problem). You don't go speeding over bridges when it is cold. You slow down when you start hitting fog because you never know when it will become dense fog and you sure as heck slow down (safely, not slamming on your brakes) when you hit a patch of dense of fog. If people drove with some common sense rather than worrying about where they are going, there would be a few less accidents.

From the description of this accident, there really wasn't any warning that visibility would go from good to non-existent and the fault probably was the fire that got out of control. I do wonder why there weren't any signs up well before hitting this area warning of possible visibility problems -- doesn't the FHP, etc. know that smoke + mild fog = tule fog? Some warning might have saved a life and property damage.