car vs lorry

challengersteve · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject: car vs lorry

here is a video of a crash outside aberdeen last week on a90

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was a curtainsider full of cement bags

Yellow Disco · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:55 pm Post subject:

Jesus! what on earth was the car driver doing?
he only just missed the first wagon wich could have been a lot worse!

Stal1878 · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:01 pm Post subject:

I wonder why he rolled it, shock I suppose.

scut44 · Guest

Its going north into Aberdeen & its the slip road off the A90 towards Aberdeen Harbour.

The car driver has come down the slip road & if had continued would have gone up the dual carriageway in the wrong direction.

A woman dids the same recently at Forfar recently but drove miles up the wrong way & killed herself having caused a 5 car crash. . Sad

george

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challengersteve · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:39 pm Post subject:

it is a long sweeping corner though so i am trying to figure out how they went wide enough into the wrong lane and continue Think

scut44 · Guest

I just looked at it on google earth,
the car came over the flyover & has come down the wrong lane & has missed going on their own lane to slip into the inside lane to Aberdeen.

Every time i go up the slip road & continue towards the harbour i end up in the wrong lane near the Loch, the road markings are terrible.
They are nearly invisable after the winter.

Twice motorbikes have ended up coming out a junction & been inside me & in my blindspot.
My fault. Embarassed

george

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challengersteve · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject:

know what you mean about the markings it is tragic
i normally go the marywell pipe yard back road in the morning not as busy

ben_moto501 · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:09 pm Post subject:

Were the drivers ok?

Ben

challengersteve · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject:

aye they were both fine

Lil Beastie · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:30 pm Post subject:

I lived in Inverness a while, traveling to the west coast atleast once a week.
More in the summer I saw loads of near misses of cars coming off junctions heading the wrong way, the foreigners forgetting theyre in Britain.

cornish redneck · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:12 am Post subject:

very lucky for both parties to walk away.
atleast the roadhawk shows the car is in the wrong and not the lorry.

Scrooge, E. · Guest

Something similar happened in Leicestershire a fortnight ago.

Only on this occasion there was a fatality.

The driver who caused the accident blamed his satnav... Rolling Eyes

Driver on wrong side of carriageway report

cynic-al · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:11 am Post subject:

Ouch! Thats not fun! The impact with the corsa didn't even slow it down.

If the artic was full the lorry driver probably couldn't get it back under control after swerving right, especially once it was on the grass.

Like the technology though

maadmaan10 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject:

The truck driver didn't stand a chance -- just clipping a Corsa like that at 60+ ---could have been a LOT worse. He's lucky it went over on grass , and hooray for the roadhawk -presumably fitted by insurers.
Poor road markings or not, there is NO excuse for going the wrong way-it's iether lack of attention or sheer stupidity.

ally 19j90 · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject:

Hat off to the lorry driver for not wiping out the car, many a driver would have saved there own bacon.

johnniehec · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:34 pm Post subject:

The 20 year old female driver of the Corsa has been charged with driving the wrong way on the dual carriageway. She was lucky, didn't get through without hitting anythig and ended up wedged under the other,I think, artic.

There was another one there this Monday, a 4X4, if you can call it that, (Ssangyong/Daewo Rexton) overturned after the driver lost control towing a trailer with "metal posts", which looked remarkably like fairly substantial H beams from a portal frame building to me.

johnniehec · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject:

Here's the video of the aftermath courtesy of the EE. Don't know how they cleared op the cement, you can't just wash it down the drain!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYUBtwR8Fc&...related[/youtube]

And here's the Rexton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL4mjFMzInA&NR=1