Nasty situation - not easy to avoid?

[motco]

Yahoo News

I respectfully suggest that most/many drivers in this situation would have been caught out. It's one thing to leave a safe distance on the assumption that the car ahead cannot stop dead, but in this case it effectively did just that. Captions required for the first words out of the mouth of the bloke getting out of his car at the end...

[motco]

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.

[motco]

Leins said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

also it looked like the polo at the back of the queue did indeed have hazards on

Watched it a number of times and it just looks like brake lights to me

You need to know where they are in the appropriate rear light cluster. The strobing effect of a video and possibly LED lights can be misleading. If they're filaments then there's no strobing.