As I understand it, towing a car with the driven wheels on the road is a good way to do a lot of damage to it. It also, apparently, lets people steal your tow truck.

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Dear non snow drivers,

In the absence of a winch, preferably a tow truck winch, this a great example of how to get unstuck.

- Keep the wheels straight, or as straight as possible. The more the wheels are turned the more difficult it is to extricate out of the stuck position.
- DON'T spin tires. They guy in the video didn't even have the car on. The more you spin, the more you dig, the more you dig the "stucker" you get. As soon as you hear tire spinning back off and try again.
- Rocking is good. The more you can gain momentum from rocking the better. It will let you spin the tires less and avoid digging the car deeper into the snow.
- Dig a trench for the tires if you can. The deeper the snow the better chance you have of catching the car on excess snow which then makes it even harder to get out. Digging trenches for the path out will help not build up snow on the way out. Foot, shovel, anything you can get to help the car out.
- Sand or kitty litter will help the drive wheels get some traction on the way out. Better yet chains will get you out of most anything, but you only usually see chains in mountainous areas or back country scenarios.
- Two words... Snow Tires (but they only make sense if you live in a temperament climate that receives snow fall, but man do they make a difference).

From the video it looks like first snow fall of the year. The tire tracks expose leaves and dirt underneath. First snow fall in my city means about 80-100 accidents in one day, its horrible. Changing mindsets from non-winter driving to winter driving is an exercise in observation and patience.

The point being that the tow truck drivers are essentially running a scam. They can only tow a car (in the UK) if the car is obstructing traffic(and the owner isn't there to move it). Since it's their word versus the owner's, and because the cops get paid whenever someone wants their car out of impound, the cops tend to believe the tow truck drivers.

I think at that point I would just be satisfied with the guy in the tow truck not winning. Although it would probably be easier to kill him.

different country = different rules. That being said... Tow truck drivers are allowed to tow your vehicle even if you are there as soon as they at least hook the tires.

After doing a bit of research, it sounds like the tow truck is doing something illegal, as they aren't allowed to tow a car if the driver is there to move it.

There's no question who's at fault. The tow truck had a red light for 6 FUCKING SECONDS before it entered the intersection and got t-boned.

I severely hope the person in the small car was uninjured.

Totally agree. 100% tow truck's fault.

I just witnessed the exact same type of accident today from nearly the same vantage point. Little Honda or Acura ran a red and T Boned a little Ranger pickup that had the green.

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Title makes it seem like it was the garbage truck's fault but it wasn't. Everyone was stopping for a red light but the tow truck ran the light, swerved when the garbage truck was trying to turn left, and fell over..

I think it rammed the car, which spun the tow truck over.

Since when do tow trucks use a crane - Bad idea from inception.

I had a tow truck driver flip my car the wrong way and then literally drag it across the ground and then told us at impound that it was totaled. Bunch of fuckers that ran that tow truck place, but this was just incompetence.

Crazy that they hadn't set up some warning system further up the highway. There was already a tow truck at the scene so it had happened some time ago.