Road cycling does expose you to incompetent and dangerous drivers. I passed this particular spot on my road bicycle less than an hour before this serious crash. I noted that there was so much frozen crap on the road that much of the time I was out in the lane, the shoulder was not rideable. I turned off 100 meters before the exact place where this collision occurred, there is a main road there (the Craigville Road mentioned in the article) that's in the sunlight and just past that intersection there's a .25 mile section of deep shade (the ridge above the road means the sun never hits that section). I was wary of how bad the road surface would be in the shady spot on Route 17M where the minivan lost control and slid into this bus. The road was so encrusted before that I figured the shady section would be even worse, and apparently that was the case.

That storm was mostly ice here, the ice was resistant to the road salt on some of the back roads to the point where I had to turn around twice and find alternate routes because the ice had not melted on the tarmac by noon, and it was still in the low 20's at that point, so the ice lingered. Should be better today.

Obviously the 17 year old driver of the mini-van learned a lesson about winter driving that day. Too bad he almost killed himself (and others) in the process. I'm sure that had I been there I could have been involved. Glad I missed it. I will stay off that main road after a snowstorm, the shade from the ridge of Goosepond Park keeps the ice on the road on the shoulder there for a day or two. With that wide shoulder when the road is dry 17M is very safe. After a storm, forget it. Duly noted. Different post-storm route next time for sure, one where cars aren't going 50 mph.