CaCl over-application produces slickness, crashes
Ten crashes in Ft. Wayne, IN have been blamed on an IN DOT anti-icing application of calcium chloride with a rust inhibitor which the agency confesses caused rather than prevented slickness. Four crashes caused injuries according to a sotry in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette .
Tragic, of course, but agencies are simply responding to public concerns that they find some "alternative" to using tried-and-true sodium chloride and such incidents are the inevitable result of experimentation with new materials and techniques. Let's be clear, however, anti-icing itself wasn't the problem here, nor was salt (sodium chloride) involved in any way.
