Dnk Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 The owner was changing a wheel on the A1 when a truck ploughed into the back of it. The guy managed to jump clear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurgen-Jm-Imports Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 wow very lucky and a child seat aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Close one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-_-b Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 One lucky driver to avoid that! End of the car and would have been end of him : ( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 God, I can't even recognize what car it was :O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 wheres the other car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 God, I can't even recognize what car it was :O According to the news report it was a Mazda 323 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 What a mess...happens so often also!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Unbelievable IMO there needs to be a campaign to point out the dangers of the hard shoulder on a motorway. All too often I see people at the side of the road sitting in their cars waiting on assistance etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz6002 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Unbelievable IMO there needs to be a campaign to point out the dangers of the hard shoulder on a motorway. All too often I see people at the side of the road sitting in their cars waiting on assistance etc. It'll be an average of 21 minutes before a vehicle parked on the hard shoulder gets hit by another vehicle. Shocking but true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 A surprising amount of people suffer target fixation issues, and the number of cars flying past means a large amount of them will be veering towards you - only takes a slight lack of concentration for them to not swerve out of your way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Unbelievable IMO there needs to be a campaign to point out the dangers of the hard shoulder on a motorway. All too often I see people at the side of the road sitting in their cars waiting on assistance etc. When I wrote off the saxo and rolled it onto the hard shoulder I got out and stood up the embankment behind my car. After watching police camera action, interceptors etc I know the dangers of sitting in your car waiting for assistance. But many people are ignorant to this, if you take a moment to think about the fact a few feet away cars are hurtling past at 70+ and could lose control at any moment you wouldn't hesitate to get as far away as you could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 The hard shoulder is a scarey place to be, even if your 20 ft up the embankment, that picture i posted just shows what can happen and with little or know warning. I can't begin to imagine the horror if the guy had got passengers in it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I was once guilty of this! It was a freezing night on Dec 16th (My birthday hence I vividly remember). The clutch died on the car & I had to pull over, I managed to park the car hugging the fence so was a good 2 metres away from the hard shoulder line & fell asleep in the car waiting for the AA to come out who got caught in traffic on the other side of the motorway. I was young 18, so naive about the possible dangers & always thought it would never happen to me. Only found out how lucky I was when I saw some program about car accidents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 I don't get it when people have a puncture and feel they have to IMMEDIATELY stop and change the wheel no matter how ludicrous the position of the car, (inside double white lines on a blind bend, outside lane of dual carriageway, middle of a busy one way street, blah blah). I always limp the thing to somewhere safe and relatively quiet, and sod the tyre. If it meant limping to the next exit or police patrol "thing" on a motorway I'd shred the tyre and be damned. I saw a people carrier full of Asians who spoke no English bring the A34 out of Manchester to a standstill the other month whilst they tried in vain to change a punctured tyre in the outside lane of the dual carriageway, at a major set of lights... Some nutcase copper was going on about needing an interpreter, he should have got in the thing and driven it onto the pavement, he didn't seem to grasp the simplicity of resolving the matter and was hell bent on making it a United Nations matter, and costing the public untold money and stress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorling Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 A friend had a puncture in his truck on the M4, hobbled off the hard shoulder onto a police waiting area and waited to be recovered as the wheel could not be removed. A plastic policeman (motorway traffic warden, whatever they call themselves) turned up ten minutes later, told my mate that he was trespassing on private land and that he should push his truck onto the hard shoulder or he would be arrested. When given an honest opinion as what he could do with that advice he drove off, presumably to go and offer his advice and assistance to some other law abiding drivers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 b;3214815']One lucky driver to avoid that! End of the car and would have been end of him : ( I know of a gentleman that that actually happened to (he was hit by a recovery lorry). He has brain damage but actually survived. It as a tiny Fiat that he was in at the time too. It is amazing what the human body can recover from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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