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 Wiggo  Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 25682 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 
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Car vs. truck, inattentive driver vs. red light runner. Footage of car slamming into side of truck at Western Sydney intersection divides viewers. Cheers. |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13323 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Car vs. truck, inattentive driver vs. red light runner.Truck driver completely at fault. It's not like the truck was tailing the other vehicles that were going through on the amber. All well and good saying the car driver needed to be more attentive- as it was they waited for the cars that were still turning across their lane even though the light had turned green. Once those cars were gone, they moved out. Why would you even suspect another vehicle would come through so late in the cycle & a couple of seconds after all the other vehicles had cleared the intersection? How far do you have to take it? Sit there for 5, 10, 15 seconds after the lights change before going through in case one one is a total @r$hole decides a red light doesn't apply to them? That's the whole point of the lights- if it's green you can go. If it's red then you don't. Grant Darwin NT |
W-K 666  Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17341 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 
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That's the whole point of the lights- if it's green you can go. If it's red then you don't. If it is like the junction near my eldest son, the lights for the truck only get a cancellation of the turn right green. Meaning he has to follow the normal rules for turning across traffic, and as they haven't started moving then he might think wrongly he can continue his move. At the junction near my sons, if you are in the cars position you frequently have to either jump a few meters forward or creep forward to signify to those turning right that you now have a green. It's made worse by the lights having movement detection, and therefore if the car doesn't move quickly enough then the lights think there is no traffic there and go through to the next phase of operation. |
Dr Who Fan  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 2470 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 
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You just can't fix stupid people! Federal Government Warns Americans Not to Fill Plastic Bags with Gas During Fuel Shortage The safety board posted their warning after an unverified video of a woman walking away from a gas pump with a plastic bag recirculated on social media.  
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13323 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Sometimes, people are lucky. Pilots and passenger walk away from midair collision in United States that almost ripped plane in half. Grant Darwin NT |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17341 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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‘We need to get people off the bridge immediately’: Hear the 911 call that brought traffic to a halt Inspectors were conducting the first day of inspection of the Hernando de Soto Bridge when they spotted a crack in one of the beams that help keep that bridge standing.  The Hernando de Soto Bridge is outside Memphis, crossing the Mississippi River and straddles the Tennessee-Arkansas line. |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13323 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Inspectors were conducting the first day of inspection of the Hernando de Soto Bridge when they spotted a crack in one of the beams that help keep that bridge standing.Looks like it's gone well beyond being a crack. And regardless of how long it takes to repair that fracture, that bridge is going to need one hell of a close inspection all over before it can be cleared for traffic again. A very good thing it was found when it was. Grant Darwin NT |
kittyman     Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51445 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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Looks a bit rusty, seems like it's been hangin' that way for a while before they found it. Meow "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17341 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Sirius B  Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24331 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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Interesting report. Sadly it highlights a worldwide problem. It takes a major disaster before necessary action is taken. |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24331 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Picked up a copy of the Metro on way home this afternoon. Spotted a "lovely" photo with just a caption. A lorry & a van became wedged under a railway bridge following a collision in Epsom, Surrey.Pretty sure I recognised the bridge so searched for the photo on Metro online. Sadly they split into the print & online versions some years ago. So, googled Epsom bridge strike as nothing about it on the online edition. Sure enough it was reported yesterday.  However, that van looks like a Mercedes Sprinter, but the report that photo was taken from states that it was just a lorry with the cab jacknifed & on the A24 in Epsom. Nope, pretty sure that it was a B road so checked via Google Maps.  Yep, B284 in Epsom (Hook Road). Quote from today's edition of Metro. Photo from Daily Mail's report yesterday. You gotta love modern journalism. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 15762 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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... You gotta love modern journalism. Underpaid, over-rushed, with expectations of global writing yet uneducated for anything local or detailed. All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?... Keep searchin'? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24331 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?...Does that include Surrey Police? |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 15762 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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All lost in the mush of 'social media' snippets?...Does that include Surrey Police? Very likely for their deskbound minimum wage PR 'communications facilitator'... Note the adage about being promoted up to a level of incompetence?... There has to be better ways... Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24331 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7
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Stupidity at its worst
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14456 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874
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As a student (so nearly 50 years ago), I remember borrowing my parent's Volvo estate for a student houseparty. I think we got 10 into that... but only for a couple of miles on quiet roads. |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 15762 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20
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There is the old student game of seeing how many people can be crammed into an old-style mini... A variation of that by the hiking club was for how many people can stand at the same time on top of a trig point... See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 25682 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489
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We use to do that a lot here back in the days before seat belts and seat belt laws. ;-) Oh the days of sitting in the back of the ute while going down the highway. LOL Cheers. |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17341 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13323 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304
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Tesla vs insecure loadTalk about lucky. If the load had come off just a fraction of a second later i don't think he'd be around to talk about it. Grant Darwin NT |
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