Reply With QuoteSubaru, the new Volvo.
AT RESTFound this on Dash cam owners site, pretty scary that the car traveling toward you might have a driver asleep at the wheel. Suprised it drove for some distance before it crashed. Luckily the driver was not seriously injured. I would assume whilst it was still driving in a straight line the driver must of been in the sleepy mode in the process of falling asleep ie. noddoing off. Lucky for the driver there was a gap in the trees or it may have been fatal.
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Subaru, the new Volvo.
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So it's not just my imagination.Originally Posted by V8Ian
Cheers, Billy.
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OldBushie
SupporterIt may have been lucky for the driver of this that there was a gap in the trees But what if there was a car coming the other way?
This exact same scenario happened just over 2 years ago and it cost a good Mate of mine his life and ruined my left arm, All because some Tosser went to sleep at the wheel.
As far as I am concerned driving Tired is just as lethal as driving Drunk, both are driver choices and both are preventable.
You only get one shot at life, Aim well
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AT RESTYou just don't realise that everytime you go out on the road it might be your last, I particularly hate dual carriageways,
Check this near miss Vid .
https://www.facebook.com/bob.thomson...=2&theater
I lost a close mate where the on coming driver was perminately asleep ( the other driver was dead behind the wheel from a heart attack )
ForumSage
SubscriberI had a very similar experience one morning between Tomingley and Dubbo where I saw movement in the rear view mirror and a cloud of dust as the Patrol that was following me failed to take a corner and headed straight off the road coming to rest against a tree. Luckily the driver was not seriously hurt, he woke up as the vehicle went over the bank at the edge of the road and had no idea what had happened. The tyre tracks were in a dead straight line from where the previous straight section of road had been. This was about 10:00 in the morning and he had driven from Canberra without a break to do a job in Dubbo in his bosses vehicle.
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I haven't actually seen one like that, but many years ago, coming up the Newell south of Forbes, travelling at the speed limit, I was passed by a brand new Toyota Crown (shows how long ago it was!) travelling a lot faster. Just as he was disappearing into the mirage, he suddenly left the road. He was climbing up the bank as I stopped. Reckoned one back wheel had locked, and the skid mark supported that.
Not uncommon for me to see the after effects of "gone to sleep" on the way to town though. There is a tree just where I join the main road, just past a slight bend coming from Dubbo, where the publican of the Mendooran hotel and his passenger died a few years ago. Like most of these, this happened in the wee hours - easy to guess why it happened, albeit still a guess.
John
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YarnMaster
SupporterCouple of weeks ago guy two houses up from me fell asleep at the wheel writing off his VW Turbo, running into the concrete barrier on the Centenary Hwy in the 100k zone, he was lucky he wasn't driving his Ford GT40 replica . He was lucky he only received a couple of scratches .
Loud Mouthed Rat Bag
I'd have no chance of falling asleep in one of these. I couldn't get comfortable enough. Not by a long shot. And this one was made to be comfortable.Couple of weeks ago guy two houses up from me fell asleep at the wheel writing off his VW Turbo, running into the concrete barrier on the Centenary Hwy in the 100k zone
Cheers, Billy.
YarnMaster
I must admit to running off the road early one morning myself but luckily there was no bad result from it. I had been in Broome and had replaced the clutch on a truck I was travelling behind on it's way to a drilling job out of Kununurra.
We'd stayed in the Mangrove for 4 nights and got to know staff there and one asked me for a lift next morning as she knew we were leaving. No problem there and we set off about 0700hrs driving into the sun and about halfway to Derby I just ran off the road to the right through a small ditch and stopped.
And a car going the other way pulled over to see if we were alright.
Neither of us was hurt but well and truly shaken up. I hadn't felt tired and hadn't over imbibed the night before and have no idea why it happened but the way we stopped ever so gently showed my foot must have come off the throttle before we wandered over the road and off. Passenger had nodded off as well.
All I could think of was exhaust gases (series 3 Landie) had entered the cab and sent us both off. I can't remember if it was petrol or a diesel vehicle.
The rest of the trip was done with the window right down.
AlanH.
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