Thread: Grey Nomads - things I've learnt in the last few days.

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

Ok Pedro, I give up. What has fishing got to do with this off topic discussion about traveling at different speeds?

Nothing, but I think it was aimed at Eevo's comments

Shamelessly stolen from Disco Muppet.

Originally Posted by Eevo

MR LR for transport minister.

Haha I'd certainly do something about the **** driving standards in this country!

Originally Posted by Yorkie

B Double V 200 Series & Caravan - YouTube



apparantly no one hurt, oil on the road as possible cause of yota slide.

here is the article, read the comments below, one is from the 200 series driver.

COUPLE WALK AWAY AFTER BRUSH WITH TANKER : NBN News

seems not all as some of you doomsayers would believe.

In defense of the driver of the vehicle in question and with the purpose to encourage to some of the poster here to engage their brain before use the fingers in the keyboard I am posting what Brad the driver of the Toyota have to say about the accident.
QUOTE:

My name is Brad. I was the driver of the car and caravan. Without going in to too much detail, I will explain a bit about what happend. I am 53 years old and am a truck driver holding an MC licence with a lot of experience driving heavy vehicles.

When we left Woody Head, I commented to my wife about the amount of oil on the road. The posted speed limit is 100kph, I travelled at 80kph, through the small town, the speed limit is 50kph, I travelled at 40kph. As I approached the intersection I was breaking as per the conditions of the road and was successfully breaking. At about the last 50 to 30 metres the car started to slide and the ABS started operating and was doing nothing to slow the slide. As I have electronice brakes on the van that where working and adjusted correctly, I attempted to use the manual operation but that had no affect either. I had two choices….enter the intersection travelling straight or try to turn left to avoid crossing the intersection. I decided to turn left. This caused a jack knife of the car and van….now I don’t know if that was the right decision or not. BUT If the van hadn’t have jack knifed we would have been hit right at the drivers door…..I will leave the rest to your vivid imagination Garth and Renae.

I spoke to the truck driver and he said it did not look like I was going fast. Even the police officer who viewed the video said the same. I can assure you I was not speeding and the police report will state that.

The driver behind me had actually telephoned his wife to let her know about the amount of oil on the road. Another witness told the police the same thing. Two more witnesses stated to police they saw a truck leaving Iluka leaking oil out of drums. Perhaps, when the truck had slowed to a stop at the intersection the oil got heavier and this is where the loss of control happend. I don’t like to get involved in things like this, but on this occasion as it concerns me, I felt I needed to state the facts.

I can only think of the fact that all where so lucky to be un-inured and no loss of life occurred. I agree with you Garth that elderly drivers should be tested at a certain age. But you have your facts wrong in this case

Brad.

END of QUOTE

Originally Posted by MR LR

I said "if you can't drive at the speed limit when your rig can, ..."

in other words, dont ban restrict high performance cars, restrict low performance drivers.....

Originally Posted by Sprint

in other words, dont ban restrict high performance cars, restrict low performance drivers.....

Exactly!