Thread: Mad Truck Driver

Makes me want to get a dash cam.
What an idiot

It happened to me the other week, a bozo trying to over take 4 cars in front of him and over double lines but it was another car approaching, you really start to hate driving on single lane roads.


Many years ago I was traveling along the Princes Hwy between Rosedale and Sale, on that single lane bit, there were cars in front of me and cars behind me , we were all traveling at 100kph with a safe distance between us. You could see the road a head clearly and approaching cars. Out of the corner of my right eye I could see an old under powered hatch back trying to pass me and all the other cars in my line, I turned and thought what and idiot, there are approaching cars. The driver was staring straight ahead as if in a trance, he had a passenger asleep in the front passenger seat. I kept looking and the oncoming traffic was now so close that a head one collision was imminent any second and this bloke was still in overtaking mode. All of a sudden the passenger woke up and went hysterical and needed an undie change ( he didn't want to die it seems!) To avoid a head on happening I had to brake real hard to allow the driver to pull in font of me and avoid the head on, all this happened in a time frame of only seconds. I was one of those situations that the car approaching was sticking his ground and not slowing down , no flashing lights or pulling over to avoid collision, there was no room for the idiot overtaking to safely overtake if a head on was to occur I also would have been involved due to the impact of vehicles next to me and behind me. It was quite scarey.

Originally Posted by Vern

Makes me want to get a dash cam.

Something that is on my list. Just haven't got around to it.

One of these would have saved my son a while ago. He was turning right, the light went red so he turned.
Moron ran the red light and took him out. He claimed the light was green and that my son turned in front of him.

No witnesses so his word against my son

Not sure if this has been posted but here is another near catastrophe involving a school bus on Sydney's M5.

This was last Thursday.

Truck driver avoids 'catastrophic' crash with bus carrying school children on Sydney's M5 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Just over 2 years ago I was involved in a high speed head on collision because a Chinese tourist decided that driving I on the wrong side of the road was a good idea and the driver of the vehicle that I was travelling in didn't react fast enough and go bush.
It resulted in one of my workmates being killed on the spot and I myself ended up in hospital for 18 days, I didn't loose my arm But it is now pretty much useless.
We all see near misses But when it all goes pear shaped somebody usually dies because the impact of two vehicles colliding at 100 kph or more is mind blowing.
Many people roll the dice and do stupid things like this and get away with it, what they tend to forget is that they are also rolling the dice for the other people on the road.

Dashcams are cheap nowdays.
A relo of mine had a vehicle oncoming at him on his side of the road. He had nowhere to go and had to swerve right. The oncoming vehicle swerved left at the last instant and they collided head-on in the other lane. She died. There were no other witnesses, the court didn't believe his story and he did jail time. A camera would have avoided him having his life wrecked by a jail record.
C

IMHO the truck driver probably started to overtake when the road was clear , long before the car came the other way.
The other truck driver may have been bloody minded in not slowing to let him in. They were probably both limited.
He had no options to pull back in due to his position and you could see that he was squeezing onto the other truck.
Seeing that there was ample run off room, good visibility on a straight road, the oncoming driver would have to be a moron not to move off to the side.

I have had exactly this situation several times in my driving career, and just pulled off out of the way although once I had a panicking passenger not SWMBO who is used to such things after being a passenger in 34 countries.

Just one of those things that you will encounter in any country driving. I can recall once overtaking on the left then the right verges while overtaking trucks passing each other at about 10Kmh on the Silesian Gates.
The other clip of the car veering over double lines on a curve is a different kettle of fish, but again the dash cam car driver must have been very poor to spin and roll under those circumstances. Maybe his ESC and ABS could not cope.

Regards Philip A

Yes phillip but he was 20m from hitting double lines and less than 100m from an overtaking lane! He also could have hit the brakes amd pulled back in behind the truck, he would have seen the car coming from a fair distance