Our unjust driving laws. A rant.

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Sat 2 Nov 2002 03:03
Our unjust driving laws. A rant. - dave18
My friend jsut narrowly escaped wwith her life because she crashed into a tractor with its lights on as brightly as possible. Many car drivers choose to 'forget' they have their main beam switched on on quiet country roads. Many car drivers seem to pull out onto a main road where it would only be safe to do so if their car had a 0-60 of nanoseconds. On the motorways, some choose to enter the motorway at some ridiculously low speed, 45, 50, regardless of the traffic approaching. People accelerate from the hard shoulder to 30 or 40 and then join the motorway itself regardless.
I could go on
Point is, I lose my licence for exceeding a oathetically low speed limit. I wonder when all driving offences will be magically covered by the doctrine of speeding?
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Sat 2 Nov 2002 07:17
Our unjust driving laws. A rant. - Dwight Van Driver
The tractor had its lights on and she still crashed into it.
Probably speeding?

DVD
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Sat 2 Nov 2002 11:32
Our unjust driving laws. A rant. - Paul Mykatz-Tinks
"Probably speeding?"

Rumbled.

That sounds like a Transport 2000 conditioned response.

Are you a mole, DVD?
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Sat 2 Nov 2002 11:45
Our unjust driving laws. A rant. - dave18
The driver has admitted liability - he was overloaded and therefore his lights were dazzling oncoming drivers. The virtually unlit trailer is what my friend couldn't see.
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Sat 2 Nov 2002 15:56
Our unjust driving laws. A rant. - teabelly
So what happened exactly? How did she manage to crash into the back of a tractor with an unlit trailer and be dazzled at the same time? Was she oncoming to the tractor or did it pull into the road in front of her?

A driver should be thinking 'tractor - does it have a trailer on it or some other attachment that will stick out in front or behind that I can't see and would therefore give it an extra wide berth. Or worse, what is that, can't see a thing so will have to assume that it is enormous until proven otherwise.

If she'd hit an unlit and unreflected trailer on her side of the road because of the tractor with the dazzling lights then that is a whole different kettle of fish and a much tougher situation to deal with safely.


teabelly
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