Ouch ouch ouch ouch

http://www.ulrp.com/photos/accident/graphics/carwreck.mpg

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

*shudder*
Imagine if that victim was on a bike rather than in a car.
Then again I dont wanna imagine it!

 

Imagine if that victim was on a bike rather than in a car.

I think the REAL victim was the pedestrian!!! Bugger me!!! It's enough to
send chills down your spine!

 

Where was it? US?

 

Not that it's a justification or anything but the guy who got hit was
walking against a red crosswalk signal.
--
Deevo

Geraldton
WA, The Nanny State (® Corks)
http://members.westnet.com.au/mckenzie

 

yer didnt see the pedestrian before

 

Fucking hell - he's one lucky dude then, I assumed he was a pancake.

That whole video is just wrong wrong wrong

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

Not that it's a justification or anything but the guy who got hit was

You must have better eyes than i have!!!

 

hey Kev, come on over and fix my goddam network will you? theres a BOAGS in it for you

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:22:52 +1000

Don't need better eyes. If the bod coming from the right had a green
light, the ped walking across that path isn't going to have a green too.

Zebee

 

Don't need better eyes. If the bod coming from the right had a green

True. Eitherway, he is one unlucky dude.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Sat, 17 Jul 2004 09:12:19 +1000

Yeah. He was almost at the kerb. a couple of seconds either way and
he'd have been OK.

I've seen someone go straight on a green left arrow - arrow comes on,
driver reacts to combination of yellow on the cross light they were
watching and flash of green, drives their 4WD into intersection, car
comes over crest to green light their way (green arrow was for left turn
into their side of the intersection) and t-bones the 4WD. Similar thing
except the 4WD is hit dead on, not at an angle (I think that's important)
and has enough mass that the lighter car doesn't push it a hell of a way.
both cannoned into a car sitting at the lights though. And a ped crossing
*would* have had a green or flashing red.

But had the errant car been light, and the oncoming car the 4WD, or had
there been more of an angle involved, I think it would have been a lot
worse.

Like that clip, it all happened very very fast.

ONe of my nightmares that, sitting at the lights and a high speed
intersection crash in front of me with nowhere to go and no real time to
react as cars spin across the intersection....

Looking for red light runners when the light has just changed is one
thing, looking for them when your side's been green for ages, that's
quite another!

Zebee

 

Strangely enough - I'm just about to get on the bike and head over to
Rifle Range Rd to mate's place ...

Cheers

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

so, mid afternoon then?

 

I was in an accident similar to this about 9 months ago.

I was stopped at the lights, a car ran the red, travelling in the opposite
direction to my facing, and was clipped by a car that had the green.

The car that ran the read careered straight into the side of my car at a
fair rate of knots (enough to do $10000 damage!).

Prior to slamming into my car, it had careered through a pedestrian
crossing, which the lights were green for. On the previous light change,
about 20 people had gone across the crossing, including a number of small
children. Luckily no-one was there this time. It still sent a BIG chill down
my spine though.

 

Deevo said....

Well, here in Victoria, it doesn't matter what they other guy was doing
wrong, but if you were speeding, then you're to blame...

 

Kevin said....

I glad then, that I don't have that sort of luck. I'd rather win
tattslotto or something...

 

smack said....

You're obviously not serious then, about wanting Kev to help you.

Try offering him a Cascade Premium....

 

Back home again, once I left there it was too frigging cold, didn't
take wet weather gear with me either, so wuz just intent on getting
back here ....

Kevin Gleeson
Imagine It
West Hobart
Tasmania Australia
www.imagine-it.com.au

 

Boags is the good drop
Cascade tastes like cat's piss.