four police officers killed after being hit by semi-trailer on eastern hwy vic

I always slow to 40kph when passing an emergency or police vehicle that is stationary, even when they are in a service lane, although they can be hard to see sometimes due to tree's etc, but that is the law here.
The problem is that not all do so and it's getting worse, especially on freeways & highways. it is really nerve shattering to do your 40kph to see a truck coming up behind at 100kph with nowhere to pass.
I can't help thinking with this accident that the truck driver was inattentive & found himself bearing down on a vehicle in the outside lane doing 40kph - or less as there is no minimum, and he has reefed on the wheel & gone from bad to much worse with the consequences.
Time will tell.

Edit, wifey just sent me this link. Looks bad for the Semi driver if true..


Eastern Freeway Crash: Drugs and ice pipe allegedly found inside cabin of truck | 7NEWS.com.au

Not hard to work out who the bleeding heart leftists are in this discussion is it.

Don't want to speculate, but its certainly been suggested the truck driver was tested and found to have been affected by something, which is why his home was searched and something siezed.
The Porsche driver was apparently doing 149 in a 100 zone, and failed to assist the injured police. We don't know his record, so it's hard to predict his sentence, but he certainly appears to score highly on the dickhead scale.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

We don't know his record,

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thats already been released.
its a long record.

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Originally Posted by goingbush

Not hard to work out who the bleeding heart leftists are in this discussion is it.

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or the lynch mob.

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

or the lynch mob.

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Two wrongs do not make a right.. But let us lynch him while the crime is still fresh in everybody's memory 'coz in a few weeks he will Oz History..

I want to pull the trapdoor latch please.:bat:

Is it illegal to be a selfish dickhead?

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Two wrongs do not make a right..

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but two wrights make an airplane

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Is it illegal to be a selfish dickhead?

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It should be. I hope he rots in hell. nah, I'm not religious , theres no such thing as hell, fortunately for him,
hung, drawn and quartered will do just fine.

I also feel sorry for the poor misguided battlers that used him as a Mortgage Broker. I'd be pulling all stumps to get out of that one .

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Originally Posted by scarry

Ever been in one and actually had a good look around?
Or in a youth centre?

We work in them all the time,have for 30 years.

They are not much more than a holiday camp.

And thats not what he said or she said or someone said.

Seen it myself,and how the system has gone downhill over the years,but thats another story,not for a public forum.

But i think this guy won't get off lightly because of what happened,and Police were involved in the incident.

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Of course I was being flippant,Paul, but in reality I thought it might go to Tender & one might be specially built for him at say Lorne or Port Campbell or somewhere else nice on the G.O.R.

I wonder if he has accidentally tripped while going downstairs at the local nick yet?