One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2

[Cliftonite]

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

This must surely have been the last seconds of the car occupants' lives.

[Dalto123]

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

Jesus. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a fatal/near fatal crash. Horrible!

[Blown2CV]

TVRJAS said:

Blown2CV said:

i quite like them! Nowhere near as bad as these fkers:

Yeah when i was looking at a web page about them it appears they are a love hate thing... They don't work for me

No idea what that is called you have posted... Does in go in Indian food? Don't recognize it.

Star anise, another asian food ingredient. Crunch through one of those bad boys and it's like a thousand sambucas.

[telecat]

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

Looked like Kids bags and cups not good at all.

[masermartin]

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

Holy st - that's pretty sobering

[karma mechanic]

Thankfully the driver actually survived:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a4a_1413310556&...

I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.

[Blown2CV]

karma mechanic said:

Thankfully the driver actually survived:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a4a_1413310556&...

I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.

and a lot about luck considering the car was mashed.

[Johnnytheboy]

Oh great, and there's me about to drive a Focus through Belgium on the E40.

As for knobs, I'd like to nominate everyone on the M27 this am that caused an enormous jam and made me late for an appointment by rubbernecking a fairly mundane accident on the other side of the road.

[Cliftonite]

masermartin said:

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

Holy st - that's pretty sobering

Another car doing a broadly similar trick also got hit by a truck - look further up the queue in the video!

[Mike_Mac]

Blown2CV said:

karma mechanic said:

Thankfully the driver actually survived:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a4a_1413310556&...

I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.

and a lot about luck considering the car was mashed.

She's lucky it was Europe and a LHD car - if that was in a RHD car she'd have been in bits!

[Willy Nilly]

Mike_Mac said:

Blown2CV said:

karma mechanic said:

Thankfully the driver actually survived:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a4a_1413310556&...

I am actually incredulous that anyone could have survived those two major impacts, it says a lot about modern car designs and construction.

and a lot about luck considering the car was mashed.

She's lucky it was Europe and a LHD car - if that was in a RHD car she'd have been in bits!

A RHD car would likely be driving on the other side of the road so would have still hit the passenger side of the car.

[Cliftonite]

Mike_Mac said:

She's lucky it was Europe and a LHD car - if that was in a RHD car she'd have been in bits!

Can't argue with the second sentence, but surely the first is deserving of a parrot?

[yellowjack]

masermartin said:

g3org3y said:

You know how sometimes people moan about last second motorway exit sweepers...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=3534576581620...

Holy st - that's pretty sobering

Yup. A lesson in why it's ALWAYS a good idea to plan ahead and move over early, not try to beat queues and cut in last minute. Perhaps it wouldn't have happened if she "drove so as to be able to stop in a controlled manner, in the space she could see to be clear, and which might be reasonably expected to remain clear".

I get sick of the terminally retarded doing similar things on UK motorways, despite the fact that signage for upcoming junctions starts at a mile away, counts down in quarter mile reminders, and allows plenty of space to make early moves to get across to the correct lane before the three final countdown boards. If you are not in the correct lane before those countdown boards, you are doing it wrong. Simple as.

[DavidJG]

yellowjack said:

I get sick of the terminally retarded doing similar things on UK motorways, despite the fact that signage for upcoming junctions starts at a mile away, counts down in quarter mile reminders, and allows plenty of space to make early moves to get across to the correct lane before the three final countdown boards. If you are not in the correct lane before those countdown boards, you are doing it wrong. Simple as.

This. +1. I can't understand why people find it so difficult to position their vehicles for where they're actually intending to go, and not just on motorways. See it a lot in Birmingham, usually where the 'right turn only' lane is fairly clear - some cretin will use that lane and then do anything but turn right. It's certainly most dangerous on motorways though, where I've lost count of the number of people I've seen move over so late that they don't actually make the exit lane, and cut across solid white lines to get the exit.

Makes me wonder if these people have ever actually passed a driving test.

[mikal83]

WOW. I also note that the lorries gave plenty of room b4 pulling back in. Love to know why when travelling around the EU this summer, several lorries pulled in 3 ft infront of me and so close I had to brake several times!

[JuanGandini]

I thought of this thread this morning when walking from the station to work and I spotted a specific vehicle that I've noticed a few times. Can't help but be prejudiced against the driver (probably wrong of me, but can't help it!)

A BMW X6
Wrapped in matte blue
DIY black painted wheels (badly scuffed)
Personalised number plate

[silverfoxcc]

Juan

pic reqd please

[Cliftonite]

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Maybe not everyone noticed the second, albeit much more trivial, shunt a bit further down the exit lane in the major crash video above?

[JuanGandini]

silverfoxcc said:

Juan

pic reqd please

Ah ok I'll try to take a snap of it when I next see it but it's always on the move - must be doing the school run or something. I'll have my phone at the ready!

[csd19]

Cliftonite said:

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Maybe not everyone noticed the second, albeit much more trivial, shunt a bit further down the exit lane in the major crash video above?

Are you meaning the grey audi estate and the white small truck in front of the camera truck? Or is it further down?

Grey Audi has pulled in presumably as they've just witnessed that from the outside lane and been peppered with shrapnel? It doesn't appear to contact anything in the exit lane?

Edited by csd19 on Thursday 16th October 12:41