HOW COULD THEY NOT BE AWARE?????

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

Just heard on the news near Gosford NSW they found pieces of a human scattered along the road. for 400 meters,. It seems it seems numerous motorist just kept driving over it just like a road kill. How you could not see or feel it running over some thing as large as a human body. are people so unaware of running over things. One could image a doped up truckie being tired and not feeling it in a heavy rig, but cars.
Pretty horrific, seems the body is hard to identify because of the state.

That is shocking. One can not even comprehend what the relatives would be going through when they find out .
truly sad.

[Scouse]

From what I've read today, it seems the truck (or whatever got him first) did a pretty good job of messing him up big time so the following cars didn't actually see any human size bits, just marsupial sized bits.

[Siska]

One could image a doped up truckie being tired and not feeling it in a heavy rig

My old man is a Truckie and as such we have many family friends that are aswell. My old man has been involved in two fatal accidents, both which he was praised for his actions in the investigating reports that followed the incidents.
A very close family friend used to drive interstate from Melbourne to Perth and Melbourne to Brisbane. On one occasion he clipped a drunk pedestrian with his trailer, He never even saw him or knew it had happened until over 100kms later when he had stopped at a truck stop and while there the Truck Stop was radioed by the Police to mention the accident and on investigation he found a bloodied mark on the side of the semi. He was investigated and found not to be in the wrong.

Neither this friend or my Old Boy have ever been 'doped!!' They never went over their log book hours. Looks like you have brought into the stereotype of truckers being dope heads and crims. Thought a Land Rover owner would have been better than that, but I guess not

[UncleHo]

G'day Siska

[jerryd]

The same thing happened to a friend's younger brother back in the '70s. He was riding his bike on the pavement but on a busy A Road. He was sucked under the wheels of a truck,then got repeatedly run over by more trucks Nobody stopped at first because they thought he was a sheep on the side of the road.
It really annoys me to this day when I see trucks that do not indicate to go round cyclists, in most cases the car behind cannot see the cyclist until the truck swerves out at the last minute. Maybe they should hang up their mobile phones.

[John W]

The same thing happened to a friend's younger brother back in the '70s. He was riding his bike on the pavement but on a busy A Road. He was sucked under the wheels of a truck,then got repeatedly run over by more trucks Nobody stopped at first because they thought he was a sheep on the side of the road.
It really annoys me to this day when I see trucks that do not indicate to go round cyclists, in most cases the car behind cannot see the cyclist until the truck swerves out at the last minute. Maybe they should hang up their mobile phones.

I once did a very long bicycle ride between states on main roads. I have also driven around this country and outback. I honestly say that truckies are the best. Always give as much room as possible, often waved as they had possibly been watching our progress. The majority are real professionals. Can't say the same for coach or van drivers! Yes living on the north coast now days I know there are a minority of undesirables up and down the pacific highway but I have a lot of respect for the majority.

[Bazzle218]

I have seen and taken part in investigation and the clean up of such an incident. I can state that it is possible for drivers of heavy vehicles to drive over the victim and then cars/ trucks to pass the accident site without realising what they have passed or ran over. If you cant believe this then try to imagine why the accident scene is over 400 meters long.
ps : The trucky was not to blame

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

Looks like you have brought into the stereotype of truckers being dope heads and crims. Thought a Land Rover owner would have been better than that, but I guess not

No you are incorrect, it is not saying or sterotyping ALL TRUCKIES ARE DOPE HEADS OR CRIMS.
I said a Doped up trucker as opposed to all Truckies.

and Thought a Land Rover owner would have been better than that, but I guess not your sterotying all land rover owners as angels ..... well some out there are not, seen quite a few idiot Landy drives on the road.

[Tank]

The same thing happened to a friend's younger brother back in the '70s. He was riding his bike on the pavement but on a busy A Road. He was sucked under the wheels of a truck,then got repeatedly run over by more trucks Nobody stopped at first because they thought he was a sheep on the side of the road.
It really annoys me to this day when I see trucks that do not indicate to go round cyclists, in most cases the car behind cannot see the cyclist until the truck swerves out at the last minute. Maybe they should hang up their mobile phones.

Maybe you should try driving a truck (semi trailer) in traffic, it is not always possible to swerve a prime mover and 40' trailer, either because there is traffic beside or coming at you. As far as a cyclist riding on the pavement (I assume you mean footpath) and being "sucked" under the wheels, what a load of crap, there is no way that could happen, either the truck was on the footpath or the cyclist was on the road, which was it? I have always given cyclists (even the idiotic ones) a wide berth if it is safe to do so and even at 100klm/hr I have never "sucked" any cyclists under the wheels. I did have a situation once where I was turning left (in my semi) in a left turn lane at a set of lights where a cyclist had layed down his bike with the handlebars only on the kerb and the rest of the bike in the left turn lane, while he was on his mobile, I beeped the horn and gestured he should move his bike off the roadway. he gestured back and shouted get ****ed, so i put the tri-axle trailer wheels over his bike, he wasn't happy Jan, Regards Frank.

[wouldbeowner]

..... and shouted get ****ed, so i put the tri-axle trailer wheels over his bike

Yes!!!!