Thread: Why do people risk it?

Over confidence, naievity and lack of real world experience causes many accidents.

Originally Posted by Grumbles

Over confidence, naievity and lack of real world experience causes many accidents.

My thoughts are along the same lines, I don't think many of them 'risk it', I just don't think they really appreciate the power of moving water.


Martyn

Originally Posted by Grumbles

Over confidence, naievity and lack of real world experience causes many accidents.

And then there are the other ones, who have crossed that creek in flood dozens of times before!

In 1963 I, together with the rest of the crew, in about a dozen vehicles from utes up to heavy trucks, had stopped at a flooded creek and we were discussing how crossable it was. A local Landrover approached from the other side, slowed to about 15mph, and drove straight into the creek - it was swept sideways, crabbed 45 degrees, made it through and came up our side running on two cylinders. He did not stop and just drove on spluttering and missing. He missed being swept off by about six inches, on a concrete causeway about twenty feet wide, fifty feet long and with two feet of fast running water. (We crossed by driving the heavy vehicles through and winching the light vehicles through)

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

..................... A local Landrover approached from the other side, slowed to about 15mph, and drove straight into the creek - it was swept sideways, crabbed 45 degrees, made it through and came up our side running on two cylinders.

John

I kid you not. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen.
January 1975, in the wake of Cyclone Tracy. Mary River (NT) near Turkey Creek heading North. Heavy rain, Mary river goes from nothing to 30-40 metres wide in (it seemed like) seconds. Back up in the SIIA on the South side to wait it out.
Whilst waiting SWB Landcruiser comes along and hits the water flat out. Watching this with 2 mates totally expected the Landcruiser to disintegrate. But no. Landcruiser drove across the TOP of the water to the other side and kept going, stopped, hung a U'ey came back, stopped, hung another U'ey crossed again and kept going.
Oh! What a feeling!! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Deano

Why do people risk it? That will be the question on the coroner's - and relatives - lips. Why did they find it necessary to cross the river? What was so pressing that a woman now lays in the mortuary...such a waste... My condolences to the family...and especially the emergency services crews who had the unenviable job of retrieving the body...to those first responders who head towards the danger rather that away from it..

They thought they had a 4X4 & thought it was fine i'd say..