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General => General Chat => Planes, Trains & Automobiles => Topic started by: Xsannz on November 19, 2014, 07:09:59 am
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Well on the way home to pick up miss 7 from school.
Slight bend on the single lane motorway, and prick stops to turn right into a side road, all i remember is seeing the back of his car swerving and then waking up a foot from the power pole with a face full of airbag and airbag smoke.
Driver seat in my car (green) broke its mounts and the back of the seat ratchet is broken means the back of the seat flops around, drivers door wouldn't open and the window was stuck in place as the metal has crushed around it, that and the dent where the accelerator pedal should be from the suspension pretty much says it is going to be a write off
Cops still deciding whether to charge me with failing to certain following distance, or charge me with careless driving, as either way i couldn't remember the events just before the accident and i hit him so that makes me at fault.
woke up this morning , thank god for codeine my back is killing me.
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At least it wasn't your bike....
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if it had been my bike i would have been in the dirt somewhere further distance down the road i would imagine.
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Shit, good to hear you're still with the living.
My front shocks are squishy and still seem to get warrants which is why I always give myself a huge following distance, if I have to slam on my breaks (thankfully I have ABS + airbags) it's going to take more time to stop me than usual.
Can never say the same about the fucktard behind me, doing his best to suck on my exhaust. One day I'll slam the breaks on just to teach them a lesson.
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Cheers RII, amazing how fast it happens and how little i recall of the events prior.
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Hope you're doing well man.
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Good to hear you're are mostly ok.
Slight bend on the single lane motorway, and prick stops to turn right into a side road,
What crazy motorway is this with single lanes and right turns?
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Sounds like a driveway.
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Good to hear you're are mostly ok.
Slight bend on the single lane motorway, and prick stops to turn right into a side road,
What crazy motorway is this with single lanes and right turns?
main north rd state highway coming into woodend
going to argue the rule that in these cases the right turn should have been executed from the side of the road and not from the middle so in fact he was blocking more than enough of the lane to use it safely
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That's correct, road code states that when making a right turn and other vehicles moving fast or following too closely, or if the road is narrow, then they should wait on the left. However it's more a recommendation then a strict rule.
But you were not on a motorway. :P Motorways are full of cars not going anywhere.
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What else fucks me off with drivers is, when turning left into a street, they turn from the fucking lane, instead of taking the shoulder and then turning into the street.
"Yep, lets slow down to 20km and turn into the street from the middle of the lane". Fucktards.
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Glad it wasn't the other car, glad no-one was hurt.
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Bro, you got a flat.
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Monkey, can you programme a visual basic gui so you can zoom in and enhance the picture so we can track the driver's IP address so we can finally figure out where in the world Carmen Sandiego is?
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Monkey, can you programme a visual basic gui so you can zoom in and enhance the picture so we can track the driver's IP address so we can finally figure out where in the world Carmen Sandiego is?
#Enhance
#Enhance
#Enhance
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That was the first thing I did.
I'm currently using Google maps to triangulate his cell phone signal in the cloud.
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If you link hashtags in with the cloud render, you can piggy back on the breadcrumbs left by his Netflix subscription.
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Glad you're still with us
You might suddenly wake up through the night and think "Holy shit, I'm actually still alive"
If your muscles start to go all weird, even if you don't think you were hurt, go and see someone about it.. I had to go to an osteopath for a few months, I didn't realise it at the time, but I had caused quite a bit of damage lol (well, the other guy caused it...)
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
But cats can't drive....
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
But cats can't drive....
Just introducing a reality check into the thread.
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
But cats can't drive....
Just introducing a reality check into the thread.
far reality check , although a few have said that making a right turn of motorway should have been done from the left hand side.
so far i can find road codes that say that and also say it's legal, either way it happened so fast i wasn't being negligent or speeding it just happened, but i do want to fight it if the law states he was in some portion of wrong placement etc, i don't deny i hit him and have a portion or most of the blame.
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
But cats can't drive....
Just introducing a reality check into the thread.
far reality check , although a few have said that making a right turn of motorway should have been done from the left hand side.
so far i can find road codes that say that and also say it's legal, either way it happened so fast i wasn't being negligent or speeding it just happened, but i do want to fight it if the law states he was in some portion of wrong placement etc, i don't deny i hit him and have a portion or most of the blame.
Good luck with that.
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Other vehicle was making a legal right turn, you ran up his arse.
Obvious case of careless driving.
Be thankful you didn't kill somebody.
But cats can't drive....
Just introducing a reality check into the thread.
far reality check , although a few have said that making a right turn of motorway should have been done from the left hand side.
so far i can find road codes that say that and also say it's legal, either way it happened so fast i wasn't being negligent or speeding it just happened, but i do want to fight it if the law states he was in some portion of wrong placement etc, i don't deny i hit him and have a portion or most of the blame.
Good luck with that.
well if you had an other poignant advice now would be the time.
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Without wanting too sound harsh and without having been witness to the events:
I can't see how the fault could be anywhere other than with the following car. Even if the guy in front didn't indicate until after he started braking, the brake lights would make it clear he was slowing.
My understanding is that following distance is always meant to be sufficient that if the car in front has to stop suddenly (e.g. if a hazard unexpectedly occurs on the road) then the following car must be able to stop without making contact.
In any event, glad you're (reasonably) ok.
If this is your first offence, you may be eligible for diversion - although I am not sure if this applies in instances where other parties have been injured: this can usually be helped by being proactive in sorting out reparations for damages etc.
Good luck with it.
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Insurance covering damages, nobody hurt except myself.
when i came round the bend his brake lights were off, and he was mid lane, i am not denying my fault in the accident, as my statement said i don't remember the events just prior to accident, i am unsure if i was following that car or another or was just the car out front and came round the corner to him turning.
all i remember is coming round the bend realising fuck me hitting the brakes and swerving, honestly i swear his car just appeared in the road.
my passenger side wheels were across the white curb median line when i hit him so he was taking up a good portion of the lane.