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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: albitz on 28 July 2011, 17:33:32
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Its only a little truck as well.Dread to think what 40+ tonnes could do. :o :o
http://uk.autoblog.com/2011/07/28/german-pile-up-crash-test-is-scariest-ever/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl6%7Csec1_lnk2%7C71998
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Dread to think what 40+ tonnes could do
I'm afraid a friend of mine found that out first hand about 15 years ago. RIP. :(
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that happend to a girl on the m3, think it was a 206 stopped behind a few cars waiting to get off sliproad, bigger truck looking at his mobile didnt brake at all, thinking they were just slowing not stopped and crushed her.
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that was awesome. :y :y :y
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holy break!
least it would be fast! (in that instance)
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oh dear :o
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scary :o :o :o
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I've never seen anything like that :o Hope I never have too either :(
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that happend to a girl on the m3, think it was a 206 stopped behind a few cars waiting to get off sliproad, bigger truck looking at his mobile didnt brake at all, thinking they were just slowing not stopped and crushed her.
Saw that on traffic cops a few years back. guy was on his phone i believe :(
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Im quite impressed with the braking power of the new truck (bet its empty though)
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that is very scary.... :o :o
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I was on the M25 a few months back. Everything came to a stop so I anchored up and stopped in the middle lane. In the slow lane just ahead of me was a 44 tonne artic, fully freighted with a container on the back. Next minute a guy in a new transit tipper came down the inside lane at 60+ mph and rear-ended the artic.
He actually managed to shunt the artic forward several feet and there was nothing, and I mean NOTHING left of the transit cab!! The guy behind the wheel basically popped! I had splatters of blood over my car from maybe 30 feet away!!
The policeman first on the scene said that someone had recently reported this guy for texting whilst driving. He probably never saw it coming, as there were no skid marks at all!
If your blood is now running as cold as mine does every time I think back to that day, then please, please, please don't use you phone when behind the wheel!!! And if you see anyone else doing it, do them a favour and report them! You might just save their life!!
End of rant... :-X :'(
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I saw a female come past my house today on a large scooter (probably 250cc size) who had her mobile in her hand, and appeared to be reading a text.
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Madness.
I saw a picture once of a Smart car (with their super strong steel cage etc) literally flattened between two 40t gravel trucks.. :-/
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A accident is never a pleasant sight, you could do your bit to prevent it, but as long as theres people thinking texting and driving is cool and talented!! there will be accidents! >:( >:(
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Truck, and van drivers like that should be banned from driving for life without any exceptions. Thankfully this country now has a law that dishes out instant fines for it. The only addition to that should be an automatic mandatory 10 points (never mind about 3, or 6) added onto their licence coupled with a £1000.00 fine. In really bad cases the vehicle should also be siezed whether the driver owned it or not!
With the technology there is today it should also be instantaeneous and done at the roadside, the offending vehicle then towed away with the costs piled onto its driver. Truckers and white van man (add many taxi drivers to that) do not own the roads although the vast majority of them think they do in this area and I am certain that this is not the only area either.
I can remember the days when white van man was applauded by the Sun newspaper....but since that day they have believed that they are the be all and end all it. Add truckers and their habits to that mix and you have death on the roads.
Like every other walk of life...those who drive well in trucks and white vans (other colours included) :o Oops! nearly forgot about the caravanners and dreaded mobile camper ones, there are good and bad. It is time that the good reported the bad and reclaimed their once good reputations.
I for one am sickened and tired of the bully tactics employed by them because they are in some kind of insane mad race.......usually against themselves :D
Surely that is aform of mental illness and is definitely the cause of road rage cases. :'( Those guilty of that type of act should be resticted to driving a scalextric
track!