Thread: Did anyone see the roll over on AULRO FB

I saw that, Heather and wondered how anyone could drive off after causing that!
It would take a lot to convince me that they were unaware of events. The Landy driver was a lucky bloke to walk away from that.

I saw it. One of the reasons I always refused to drive at Easter. He's OK, which is a blessing.

It does scare me my oldest son was clip by a guy driving with a trailer on the freeway when he was 20 I think. It took his bumper front bumper bar and front panel. It was lucky that he had people pull over for him and help him. The driver that hit him said Kristopher was in the wrong not traveling the speed, which he was doing the right speed. One lady that help him said she was being tail gated as she entered the freeway as he was following her. Kristopher had people giving him there name. The guy gave him his name and phone number, and when it came to go through insurance he said that he wasn't on the freeway. And in the end it was reported to the police with the names of people that saw and police charge the guy, and insurance went through. It was lucky that it did swing Kristopher car in to the rails which could have been a lot worst, and I could have been going to the hospital to see him.

Originally Posted by Tins

I saw it. One of the reasons I always refused to drive at Easter. He's OK, which is a blessing.

Yes, Mario stayed off the roads on public holidays he always said that they drive like a maniac, and also wouldn't take his boat out as well, to many ramp rage.
We took holidays when very one was back at work, better traveling on the roads etc.

and so mid to late last year, nursing arkie back from the cape heading south from cairns...

a car towing a caravan trying to pass me going up hill in an overtaking lane got about past me and wasnt going to pass the loaded f350ish in front of me(which had finished overtaking me about 10 seconds earlier and was slowly pulling away), cut in at the merge and hooked the back bar of the vans bike rack to the front right of arkie and tore it plus the bikes and everything else attached off leaving it scattered on the highway as he overtook the 350 once we'd cleared the merge and the single oncoming vehicle had passed.

They're out there and they're dangerous...

Sounds like things have not changed - I was driving south from Rocky in the Series 1 in 1963 (about this time of year) pushing along happily at about 50mph. And was passed Silver Cloud towing a 30ft van, going so fast that I was nearly sucked off the road by the wake turbulence. In those days the Bruce Hwy was a narrow strip of bitumen, barely wide enough for two cars to pass, so I was also showered by mud and stones.

Driving about 120,000 kays a year, there would not be enough bandwidth(not sure if I have the right word here) on this site to report all the crap I see and put up with.

Originally Posted by d2dave

Driving about 120,000 kays a year, there would not be enough bandwidth(not sure if I have the right word here) on this site to report all the crap I see and put up with.

It's amazing how many people are still allive, thanks to our (truck drivers') skills, yet we're so often abused and denigrated.