Reply With QuoteFor some reason i don't think talking on the mobile was to blame here.Originally Posted by Disco44
85mph = 136kph.... on what, a suburban street?
At Rest
Sometimes only a picture can get our attention!
Her last call was from a new cell phone...
Do you see the motorcycle?
The Honda crotch rocket rider was traveling at approximately
85 kph. The VW driver was talking on a cell phone when she
pulled out from a side street, apparently not seeing the
motorcycle. The riders reaction time was not sufficient
enough to avoid this accident.
The car had two passengers
and the bike rider was found INSIDE the car with them.
The Volkswagen actually flipped over from the force of impact
and landed 20 feet from where the collision took place.
All three involved (two in the car and the bike rider) were
killed instantly. This graphic demonstration was placed at
the Motorcycle Fair by the Police and Road Safety Department..
Pass this on to car drivers or soon to be
new drivers, or new motorcycle owners
AND ESPECIALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO HAS A CELL PHONE!!!!!
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Save a life...
Stop talking on Cell phones and Texting while trying to drive.
The life you save may be your own..... or mine...
Last edited by Disco44; 25th May 2010 at 03:03 PM. Reason: wrong speed stated corrected
Master
For some reason i don't think talking on the mobile was to blame here.
85mph = 136kph.... on what, a suburban street?
At Rest
Sorry Mate the wrong speed was stated I have corrected it.
For some reason i don't think talking on the mobile was to blame here.
85mph = 136kph.... on what, a suburban street?
John.
Last edited by Disco44; 25th May 2010 at 03:05 PM. Reason: left out word
Passing it on has no effect, putting it on bill boards or TV does little as people are too ignorant or Stupid not to do it. Only way to stop it is if mobiles were designed not to work in the car cabin space. You can not help people from themselves.
RoverLord
The problem was not that the driver was talking on the phone, but that she was not paying attention to the driving. It might have been changing the station on the radio, talking to the passenger, disciplining the kids (some time back a woman near here was killed when she turned round to stop the fight in the back seat - I seem to remember the kids were too, a car stands little chance in a head-on with a B-double, even if it is in a 60 zone and both are only doing the speed limit). The problem is not phones, its not paying attention to driving.
John
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SubscriberHow would they have got the bodies of 3 people out and still leave the bike etc in situ.....
aside from with a hose, that is.
Hmmm.
In Weipa they have a big cage outside town and they put a different wreck in there from time to time to try to highlight road safety.
The continuing supply of wrecks may indicate it doesn't work.
It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".
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been riding for 30 years and its the ones who say sorry but i didnt see you that worry me the most forunatly only one has got me
ForumSage
SubscriberSome more food for thought: If talking on Mobile phones is as dangerous as "they" would have you believe why was there not a dramatic spike in the road toll in the late 90's - early 2000's as the technology became pervasive.
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety...ident-data.pdf
Methinks that mobile phone use whilst driving is easy to appear to be "tough" on and generate some publicity about how a particular politician is helping the community. Pity that they don't focus their attention elsewhere such as suicide prevention when the number of suicides eclipses the road toll by 500-600 annually
regards,
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YarnMaster
Was in a very similar situation that left me on hospital for 3 months nearly losing the ability to walk. I wasn't speeding, but the driver pulling out across a 4 lane main road, didn't stop at the stop sign and didn't look until I was literally on top of him. Ended up t boning me as I high sided under braking from 80kmh.... Still suffer pain etc today and this was in 1991.
Look left, look right, look bike.
Cheers
Andrew
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Swaggie
One possible way to reduce the road toll is far more stringent driver's licence testing including a skid pad test, and re-testing every so often. Perhaps issuing licences only for classes of vehicles in which the driver has passed a test, like pilots licence endorsements. Say a classification based on a combination of power to weight ratio and engine displacement.
Now this would be in the immortal words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, "a most courageous decision, Minister" which would probably result in a change of government at the next election.
Considerable savings could be made into the future as with at least two-thirds of current drivers now off the road after being unable to pass the new tests, there would not need to be as many roads, or as good. Most highways could then be reduced to two lanes instead of six because of reduced traffic volume. Bridges will be smaller and cheaper. No need for parking lots and so on.
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