Why to people need to drive around blind corners at speed?

i am sorry to say that i have to agree with you PCH. we have just got back from a few days up in the snowys and had a few close calls and one minor altercation with another 4wd which unfortunatly was another landie. although between me and the other driver we seemed to agree we were both at fault it was more the attitude of his wife that left that sour taste in my mouth with actusations of being on the phone (although no reception). these obvious city slickers in their disco seemed to be put back in their place when told after the hit that as i was leaving the truck i grabed the uhf to let the other cars in the convoy know to stop before we had a major accident on a narrow bend. it is attitudes like these that give 4wd drivers a bad name.

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Originally posted by 130TDi
i am sorry to say that i have to agree with you PCH. we have just got back from a few days up in the snowys and had a few close calls and one minor altercation with another 4wd which unfortunatly was another landie. although between me and the other driver we seemed to agree we were both at fault it was more the attitude of his wife that left that sour taste in my mouth with actusations of being on the phone (although no reception). these obvious city slickers in their disco seemed to be put back in their place when told after the hit that as i was leaving the truck i grabed the uhf to let the other cars in the convoy know to stop before we had a major accident on a narrow bend. it is attitudes like these that give 4wd drivers a bad name.

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What happened 130? Was the damage bad?

The one thing i hate in incidents like this, is when the person at fault, in this case be it equal to blame, like to shift the blame to the other party to make themselves feel better. I takes a bigger man to admit they have stuffed up, some people cant to this and proceed to throw accusations all over the place, getting the situation nowhere. Matt

Ace the damage was minor it was just a crack and some scratches on the disco bumber under the d/s head light and we lost some mud off the 130's bullbar [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] . we weren't traverling at speed it was just one of those things. came around a corner saw the other car had nowhere to go but over a drop or into a wall. pulled up in the length of the 130 and the 2 landies had a kiss 8O . jumped on the uhf to stop the oncoming convoy as where we had stoped they would have almost certainly hit us as they came through the dust. at this point we were in front of the 2 4bs and when i suggested neither of us was at fault it was then the wife proceeded to accuse me of being on the phone. until i pointed out it was a radio and i was on it for safty reasons AFTER the fact and she then seemed to crawl back in to her shell.
we were lucky this time as we had seen several others in their soft roaders come around similar corners at much higher speeds and at one point had a one tonner ute swerve in front of our tailend car in what looked like a move done on perpose.
it just goes to show there are some absolute d@#%heads on the roads.