This was filmed in Portland, OR yesterday. It was the snow/freezing rain storm they never saw coming. So one guy took his camcorder up to the roof top in one of the steeply hilled areas and caught the real life bumper cars on tape! Since it was filmed nearly straight down, it is hard to tell just how steep it really is, but if you look to how the retaining walls and buildings step down as they go down the hill you might get a sense of it.

Here is a direct link to the video (http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/makeASX.php?title=www.king5.com/kiraw_011607portlandhomevid.wmv)

I've never seen anything like that in my life. The first moron kept hitting the freaking throttle....even after he took out like 5 cars! He couldn't have hit more cars if he was aiming.

Every single one of them stood on their brakes the whole way. when will they learn that locking up the tires just doesn't work.

WOW!!!

Driver fine, reticent after SUV's slalom
Slick - A 38-second video of a pirouettes and smashups proves to be a preview

The West Hills driver who helplessly skidded into seven cars during Tuesday's snowstorm -- a drama caught on video and aired nationwide -- would just as soon stay out of the spotlight.

Broughton Bishop, the driver of that Volvo sport utility vehicle, however, is doing perfectly fine, his wife reports. His only injury? A gash to the head that required a few staples.

"He feels very fortunate to have walked away from it," said Mary Bishop, who added that her husband would rather not be interviewed. "And he feels very fortunate that no one was hurt, besides a few cars."

Broughton Bishop, 79, declined an ambulance ride and even made his way to the office at Pendleton Woolen Mills, his family's business.

"I think he's just that kind of person," Mary Bishop said. "He doesn't make a big deal of things."

The 38-second video clip was recorded shortly before 9 a.m. by Derek Porter, a Southwest Portland resident and Beaverton instructional assistant, from the rooftop of his apartment building.

It shows Bishop's Volvo spinning 630 degrees and sliding hundreds of feet down Southwest Salmon Street and then 20th Avenue, next to the Multnomah Athletic Club and PGE Park. It starts as the Volvo bounces off a vehicle, spins in the center of the street and then sails through a four-way stop. The SUV hits a utility pole, another parked Volvo, a retaining wall and then rolls backward down the hill into five cars that appear to have already crashed into each other.

The videotape also captures the sound of one loud bang after another.

While Bishop's wild ride may have made Portland's snowstorm famous, it by no means was the only one that morning at that steep, icy intersection.

In the minutes that follow, two other cars roll down the hill and crash into Bishop's Volvo... source (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1169180739240520.xml&coll=7)

The guy is 79yo and doing just fine.

This was filmed in Portland, OR yesterday. It was the snow/freezing rain storm they never saw coming. So one guy took his camcorder up to the roof top in one of the steeply hilled areas and caught the real life bumper cars on tape! Since it was filmed nearly straight down, it is hard to tell just how steep it really is, but if you look to how the retaining walls and buildings step down as they go down the hill you might get a sense of it.

Here is a direct link to the video (http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/makeASX.php?title=www.king5.com/kiraw_011607portlandhomevid.wmv)

Im so glad we dont have that weather here. The way the idiots drive here we would all be dead. We have icy days but dont really have to many ice issues. This last winter there was a solid few days though where everyone was off work and they where doing all the could to our freeways. We just wherent ready to handle that type of weather in our city. Houston is know for hot and humid not cold and icy. It snowed one winter and it was only enough to put a bit on cars, and cover the grass with a small layer of white. It didnt even stick to the roads. We do however have our share of area wide flooding around town. You cant ever escape all forms of mother nature backlash. Your allways cought in something.

dang , i live in anchorage , alaska and i never seen some thing like that happen before mabe cause we usually have studs and abs on most of the cars we sell , but then again lower 48 is more hilly then the ak.

living in so cal.....it was sad, but kinda funny to watch. i think id take the 100 degree summers over that any day!!!!!! scarry. id probably have hit the fire truck!!!!!! lol

i use to live in dultuh MN and have seen this happen live and in person. lucky for me i was just watching

I bet he wishes he had just stayed home that day! Yikes!!