Four Lorry Crash, M1 Northbound

[pacman1]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshi...

Fog again. A pretty lucky escape by all, despite some suffering serious injury.

[Cock Womble 7]

fking Stobart's.

[pacman1]

Is that just a general criticism? The Stobart truck was the fourth one involved, the initial accident being nothing to do with him.

I do hope this forum ain't going to turn out like the lounge.

[Panda76]

fking idiot drivers I reckon not fking [insert company here].

I was up and down the A38 this morning around 1am-4am and the fog in places was pretty thick,the layby hunt for a break was interesting.
You were,if being sensible down to some 40mph in places because you really couldn't see very much at all.
Didn't stop drivers of all types of vehicles going way too fast for the conditions imo.

From the sounds of it talking at the fuel pumps the M1 wasn't much better either so it's not surprising a shunt happened.

[italianjob1275]

According to out local BBC news:

Police believe that it was caused by a slow moving red CAR :furious which drove off "possibly not knowing anything had happened" and are appealing for the driver to come forward.... Fat chance.

[italianjob1275]

According to out local BBC news:

Police believe that it was caused by a slow moving red CAR :furious which drove off "possibly not knowing anything had happened" and are appealing for the driver to come forward.... Fat chance.

[mybrainhurts]

I passed southbound at 02.00, Sheffield to Lunnun, before that happened.

About 150 miles in dense fog and zero degree temperature. Deep joy. Never seen so many lorries out at that time before. They were almost wall to wall the whole way. Very unusual.

[GC8]

Police said:

a fifth vehicle, believed to have been a car, was involved but was not damaged and left the scene

How can they not have known what happened behind them?

[GC8]

See what I did there?

[italianjob1275]

Yeah I left ilkeston, at 3am so must have passed the seen minutes before it happened. Thick fog all the way to southampton, freezing in parts I had thick frost forming on the mirror backs and arms!

Miracle no one was killed seeing the wagons on the news.

[mybrainhurts]

GC8 said:

Police said:

a fifth vehicle, believed to have been a car, was involved but was not damaged and left the scene

How can they not have known what happened behind them?

Thick fog. Couldn't see anything going on behind.

[italianjob1275]

You would have heard that even if you didn't see it...

[mybrainhurts]

Doubt it...

[GC8]

It was my assumption. I doubt that you can cause a two or three articulated lorry collision and not see or hear something, even in heavy fog.

[italianjob1275]

Ok then, a good driver would have been looking in the mirrors regularly and seen the unfolding carnage.. BTDT

[mybrainhurts]

In that fog, looking ahead was more of a priority last night.

[italianjob1275]

IIRC it wasn't that bad around trowell, visability was maybe 100-150m if the car was close enough to be involved it was close enough to see something. In my opinion of course.

[mybrainhurts]

Very likely. Don't know what the fog was like when it happened. I was just offering up a possible scenario.

I had to detour round Derby on the way back from Lunnun. Not pleased...

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pacman1 said:

Is that just a general criticism? The Stobart truck was the fourth one involved, the initial accident being nothing to do with him.

I do hope this forum ain't going to turn out like the lounge.

Why do you say that, do stobart drivers get stick on the lounge, or are you refering to some of the dicks on this forum, are you a stobart driver, if so how come all their trucks have speed up recently, theyve all got decent limiters now.

[pacman1]

No Stobart drive meself. I was referring to the 'lounge' style of posting you latterly mentioned. CW clearly didn't read the article, or he wouldn't have posted the comment he did.

The accident had nothing to do with the Stobart driver.