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The icy incline Toronto cars just wouldn't stop trying to climb

Watch video of drivers trying, and repeatedly failing, to climb this icy hill in Toronto's west end after Wednesday's snowfall. The result is a 20-car pileup.

Neighbours watch as car after car heads up the hill, starts slipping, then skids back down

Pileup on icy Toronto hill

10 years ago
Duration 2:06
A hill in the city's west end was the site of a multi-car pileup after Wednesday's snow

Wednesday's commute was a headache for many Toronto-area drivers as a little snow caused big trouble during the outbound commute.

But driving problems weren't limited to the city's major roads.

This shot taken just before 10 a.m. Thursday shows a group of abandoned cars at the bottom of Humbercrest hill. During Wednesday's snowfall, cars repeatedly tried to climb the icy hill, only to slide back down and collide with other abandoned cars. (Don Pittis/CBC)

CBC reporter Trevor Dunn found a hill in a residential area in the city's west end where drivers kept heading up, then sliding right back down. Even neigbhours pleading with drivers to not attempt a run at the hill on Humbercrest Boulevard and Langmuir Crescent were ignored.

The result was a 20-car pileup of vehicles at the bottom.

Click on the image above to watch Trevor's story about the icy west-end hill that drivers just would not stop trying to climb.