On my way home from practice coming down Dimond (& that is how it's spelled for the non-anchorageans) someone spun a 180° turn across our lanes. There was a huge gravel truck to my right and I thought for sure this car was going to get smashed. But it was the calmest un-accident I've ever been a part of. The entire cohort of cars split to the sides of the road and stopped. No one even honked. No contact at all between any vehicles. There was 5 seconds of stillness and then the backwards facing car finished his circle and we all moved back into the traffic lanes and continued on. I was pretty impressed with my fellow Alaskans (and very grateful that my parents bought me new tires for Christmas). Impressed with everyone except for that one dude that probably tried to change direction abruptly through snow at pretty a fast speed and spun out of control.