Think Minnesota winters are bad? Watch this icy Canadian car pileup

Things go from bad to worse in this video of Canadian drivers sliding down an ice-covered street in Montreal.

December 6, 2016 at 6:44PM
Screen grab from a viral video edited by Montrealer Ara Pehlivanian, and posted on Facebook Live.
Screen grab from a viral video edited by Ara Pehlivanian, and posted on Facebook and YouTube. (Tom Horgen/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Minnesotans know their icy roads. But even this video of a wild car pileup in Montreal will make most cold-weather admirers pause.

Scary? Yes. Mesmerizing? Definitely.

The viral video was posted Monday morning on Facebook and has already been viewed 18 million times.

In the edited clip, a hilly Montreal street becomes a downhill bowling alley for multiple vehicles taking turns crashing into each other.

It begins with a couple cars and quickly escalates. First a bus comes hurling down the strip. Then a truck with ladders(!). Then another bus. A police car. And finally, a plow truck -- salting its way to oblivion.

Reportedly, no one was seriously injured. A group of office workers shot the various angles, edited together by Ara Pehlivanian, and posted by Facebook user Willem Shepherd. Take a look:

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