Morgan takes a nasty hit
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A bad judgement by the Morgan owner I'd say, but the other car appeared to make no attempt to avoid impact.
https://youtu.be/lLBuedP9rQA
https://youtu.be/lLBuedP9rQA
Wacky Racer said:
Definitely mostly the Morgan owners fault, should have waited in the central reservation for the car to pass, but the other car didn't appear to try to brake or take any avoiding action.
Watched that several times, the Peugeot clearly brakes prior to impact, it's visible on the high brake light & moves to the left, kicking up dust from the verge. Morgan at fault. No matter how nice the car might be, there's no points for marque.Not exactly the same circumstances as the Morgan but an effective message we're getting here in New Zealand.
https://youtu.be/KdOnF2v0mXM
https://youtu.be/KdOnF2v0mXM
Totally the Morgan driver's fault.
It kind of looks like the Peugeot perhaps isn't full-on with their braking, which might possibly have helped a little, but they were certainly trying to stop, and I expect they were in that situation where your brain's still processing through yes, that f
king idiot really did just do that.
Bloody good job it wasn't a biker coming along.
It kind of looks like the Peugeot perhaps isn't full-on with their braking, which might possibly have helped a little, but they were certainly trying to stop, and I expect they were in that situation where your brain's still processing through yes, that f
king idiot really did just do that.Bloody good job it wasn't a biker coming along.
mark387mw said:
Not exactly the same circumstances as the Morgan but an effective message we're getting here in New Zealand.
https://youtu.be/KdOnF2v0mXM
Powerful advert https://youtu.be/KdOnF2v0mXM
I'd say the pug was speeding and could have avoided it but bulk of blame with the Morgan.
Edited by ex1 on Sunday 16th April 02:15
Very difficult to be conclusive over this as the area shown by the video is too limited but that looks a long way from being down to the Morgan driver.
The Moggy had already gone quite a way down the road before the Pug comes into frame braking very hard. As it comes into frame, we don't know how long it had been braking but is still doing quite a speed so is likely to have been using excess speed for that kind of road.
The Moggy also starts accelerating, then pauses as if it missed a gearchange.
There just isn't enough info in the video but in simple terms, the Moggy was able to straighten up, the Pug will be deemed to have been going too fast and rear ended the Moggy.
A dashcam for the Pug might have saved his NCD although the witnesses might help.
The Moggy had already gone quite a way down the road before the Pug comes into frame braking very hard. As it comes into frame, we don't know how long it had been braking but is still doing quite a speed so is likely to have been using excess speed for that kind of road.
The Moggy also starts accelerating, then pauses as if it missed a gearchange.
There just isn't enough info in the video but in simple terms, the Moggy was able to straighten up, the Pug will be deemed to have been going too fast and rear ended the Moggy.
A dashcam for the Pug might have saved his NCD although the witnesses might help.
Shoegrip said:
Very difficult to be conclusive over this as the area shown by the video is too limited but that looks a long way from being down to the Morgan driver.
The Moggy had already gone quite a way down the road before the Pug comes into frame braking very hard. As it comes into frame, we don't know how long it had been braking but is still doing quite a speed so is likely to have been using excess speed for that kind of road.
The Moggy also starts accelerating, then pauses as if it missed a gearchange.
There just isn't enough info in the video but in simple terms, the Moggy was able to straighten up, the Pug will be deemed to have been going too fast and rear ended the Moggy.
A dashcam for the Pug might have saved his NCD although the witnesses might help.
If the Morgan driver had stopped looked to his left, when he was on the central reservation (like he should have done), he would have seen the other car approaching at some speed, and waited until it had passed. Not rocket science.The Moggy had already gone quite a way down the road before the Pug comes into frame braking very hard. As it comes into frame, we don't know how long it had been braking but is still doing quite a speed so is likely to have been using excess speed for that kind of road.
The Moggy also starts accelerating, then pauses as if it missed a gearchange.
There just isn't enough info in the video but in simple terms, the Moggy was able to straighten up, the Pug will be deemed to have been going too fast and rear ended the Moggy.
A dashcam for the Pug might have saved his NCD although the witnesses might help.
Also, I notice there was some kind of car meet going on in the field to the right, I'm wondering whether there was some element of "showing off" to the crowd, giving it a bit of welly?
WR. (A Morgan driver)
Shoegrip said:
It is easy to jump to conclusions but there just isn't enough information in the limited camera view.
What more info is required? The Morgan driver intentionally performed a dangerous manoeuvre. If they had good visibility then it was avoidable and dangerous. If they were partially unsighted it was also avoidable dangerous. I hope they get hit with at DWDCA at a minimum. It is obvious from the video that the other car was braking to avoid a collision that was not their fault. Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff