Man gets hit by car
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140311/Th...
Could happen here too, sitting in a traffic jam a few weeks ago on the M25 people started getting out of their cars and loitering and milling around (as the tend to after a while.)
Man in suit gets out of his car (E60 BMW 530d if you are interested) decides to stand about in the hard shoulder, back to the traffic, ipod plugged in. Ambulance comes up down the hard shoulder rather fast, sirens, lights on, man is oblivious, ambulance has to come to a screeching halt, man still standing there. Finally realizes when ambulance is about 2ft behind him hooting away.
Could have ended badly if the ambulance driver wasnt as alert, or the ipod man just stepped out into hard shoulder without looking as ambulance went past.
Some people.
Could happen here too, sitting in a traffic jam a few weeks ago on the M25 people started getting out of their cars and loitering and milling around (as the tend to after a while.)
Man in suit gets out of his car (E60 BMW 530d if you are interested) decides to stand about in the hard shoulder, back to the traffic, ipod plugged in. Ambulance comes up down the hard shoulder rather fast, sirens, lights on, man is oblivious, ambulance has to come to a screeching halt, man still standing there. Finally realizes when ambulance is about 2ft behind him hooting away.
Could have ended badly if the ambulance driver wasnt as alert, or the ipod man just stepped out into hard shoulder without looking as ambulance went past.
Some people.
12gauge said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140311/Th...
Could happen here too, sitting in a traffic jam a few weeks ago on the M25 people started getting out of their cars and loitering and milling around (as the tend to after a while.)
Man in suit gets out of his car (E60 BMW 530d if you are interested) decides to stand about in the hard shoulder, back to the traffic, ipod plugged in. Ambulance comes up down the hard shoulder rather fast, sirens, lights on, man is oblivious, ambulance has to come to a screeching halt, man still standing there. Finally realizes when ambulance is about 2ft behind him hooting away.
Could have ended badly if the ambulance driver wasnt as alert, or the ipod man just stepped out into hard shoulder without looking as ambulance went past.
Some people.
Err, shouldn't the headline be 'Man nearly gets hit by ambulance'??Could happen here too, sitting in a traffic jam a few weeks ago on the M25 people started getting out of their cars and loitering and milling around (as the tend to after a while.)
Man in suit gets out of his car (E60 BMW 530d if you are interested) decides to stand about in the hard shoulder, back to the traffic, ipod plugged in. Ambulance comes up down the hard shoulder rather fast, sirens, lights on, man is oblivious, ambulance has to come to a screeching halt, man still standing there. Finally realizes when ambulance is about 2ft behind him hooting away.
Could have ended badly if the ambulance driver wasnt as alert, or the ipod man just stepped out into hard shoulder without looking as ambulance went past.
Some people.
Edited by sidicks on Sunday 6th May 20:19
This is the result of the stupidity of the human race.Guy bumps into the back of a BMW in the middle lane , they both decide to get out in the middle of a busy motorway to exhange details by the looks of it, and both drivers ended up hit by oncoming traffic.Duh! no sympathy whatsoever, they both literally had it coming! 
allnighter said:
they both literally had it coming!
Or alternatively the drivers approaching the stopped vehicles were not paying attention to the road ahead and failed to stop.I don't think its within the law in any country to simply drive in to vehicles and people just because they are on a highway.
Not saying the pedestrians on the highway were not partially to blame, but the majority of the blame surely rests with the vehicles not paying attention to what's in front of them. IMO of course.
heebeegeetee said:
What effect did cameras have on this incident?
Not as a deterrent for knob behavior, that wasn't what he was saying. It would help in traffic incident disputes I would imagine. They have a lot of them in Russia and with the prevalence of folks jumping onto car bonnets to claim compensation it sorts out the chaffe. I think some of the insurance companies mandate it.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff