Nasty situation - not easy to avoid?
Discussion
Evanivitch said:
So jump on the brakes everytime someone moves into the gap you've left? Because that would be the only way to constantly maintain a distance.
Did I say 'jump on the brakes'? Taking your foot off the accelerator pedal will suffice in most situations.Evanivitch said:
You eventually find yourself backiioff so much you're not making progress past lane 2.
Then so be it. If traffic's that dense, you're not going to be making much 'progress' anyway...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zkrXZ7mM8
The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
swerni said:
If the driver has been paying attention they wouldn't be in that situation in the first place.
Easily avoidable.
I said what happened in the video.Easily avoidable.
I.e. You are in the same situation as the camera car from the point the video starts and go from there. Then it is unavoidable
NiceCupOfTea said:
I think the real issues are:
1. middle laners meaning that you get a procession of frustrated cars queueing in the outside lane to get past.
I'd agree with that. Lane 3 usually carries far more traffic as a result of poor use of 1 and 2.1. middle laners meaning that you get a procession of frustrated cars queueing in the outside lane to get past.
People really need to look further ahead than the car in front though.
drdino said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zkrXZ7mM8
The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
WTF did he think was at fault? He hit a stationary car (or three)...The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
TooMany2cvs said:
drdino said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zkrXZ7mM8
The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
WTF did he think was at fault? He hit a stationary car (or three)...The original upload. From the description:
"Me, my wife and one more passenger are all good! We ended up catch 1 car only.
Update: 12/09/2016 my insurance company put fault on me and advice us to take independent solicitor. From they words, they wouldn't be able to win this case in a court."
drdino said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zkrXZ7mM8
The original upload. From the description:
"... We ended up catch 1 car only. "
Remarkable that he only hit one car. I wonder if he ran the offside of his car along the Armco?The original upload. From the description:
"... We ended up catch 1 car only. "
I also didn't realise until someone commented that the car ahead of caught the corner of the rear-most vehicle - the people in that that car had a lucky escape as the did the swerving driver, he could so easily have spun and been t-boned by the van.
I think the dashcam probably narrows the field of vision a bit - I'm rarely completely unaware of traffic several cars ahead as it looks like this guy was. However, as others have said, he was too close, as would 99% of other drivers be.
The bloke in the car in front may have been not looking where he was going, but all credit for a spectacular save - he must have missed the stationary car by a few inches at high speed. He did well not to spin it.
The bloke in the car in front may have been not looking where he was going, but all credit for a spectacular save - he must have missed the stationary car by a few inches at high speed. He did well not to spin it.
rxe said:
I think the dashcam probably narrows the field of vision a bit - I'm rarely completely unaware of traffic several cars ahead as it looks like this guy was. However, as others have said, he was too close, as would 99% of other drivers be.
The bloke in the car in front may have been not looking where he was going, but all credit for a spectacular save - he must have missed the stationary car by a few inches at high speed. He did well not to spin it.
He didn't miss it, stop the video and you can see the damage to the back of the car.The bloke in the car in front may have been not looking where he was going, but all credit for a spectacular save - he must have missed the stationary car by a few inches at high speed. He did well not to spin it.
The camera car was even closer to the car ahead as they approached the shed on the truck in lane 2 (which should never have been out of lane 1 anyway), and he drops back to about a one second gap from about three quarters of a second. Even two seconds would probably not have prevented the collision though. Motorways lull drivers into a sort of semi-torpor and reactions are dulled. The bottom line is that the camera car was at least twice as close as he ought to have been, and the car driver that swerved was utterly negligent in noticing the stationary car (with hazards on!) only at the very last fraction of a second. All that being said it is an occurrence that could happen any day on any motorway. It's only luck that stops it.
If you're in the outside lane you have the ability to position yourself over to the right to keep sight of the vehicles ahead of the one immediately in front of you. If you can't do that because the vehicle in front is too large for example, then you need to adjust your following distance accordingly.
EazyDuz said:
I said what happened in the video.
I.e. You are in the same situation as the camera car from the point the video starts and go from there. Then it is unavoidable
That was completely avoidable, if only the drivers concerned were driving using the minimum of appropriate observation and anticipation skills. I.e. You are in the same situation as the camera car from the point the video starts and go from there. Then it is unavoidable
t, ignorant, drivers.TooMany2cvs said:
jmorgan said:
Some comments on the youtube clip are say not at fault.
Oh well.
...and the rest of the comments are the media asking for permission to use it. So that's how "journalism" works today...Oh well.
Wonder if the papers will say "look mate, want to borrow this for our newspaper, it will show you the tool as you are and it gets us a shed load of money for the ads as we snare people"......
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