"Speedmonkey" (Speedmonkey)
09/02/2013 at 10:17 • Filed to: Crashing
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"Speedmonkey" (Speedmonkey)
09/02/2013 at 10:17 • Filed to: Crashing | 0
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This horrific CCTV footage shows a lorry driver ploughing into a line of traffic which is queuing to leave the M25 motorway (London's ring road).
The truck driver, Anton Maizen, didn't slow down despite seeing the stationary traffic in front of him. One of the car drivers was killed. Maizen was sentenced to four and a half years in jail last Friday.
This is exactly the kind of accident I fear when sitting in a line of traffic on the motorway whilst other lanes are flowing. My senses go to red-alert and my eyes are constantly on my mirrors. I leave room to move to either the left or right and leave plenty of space in front of me to do so at a moment's notice.
I'm not saying the accident in this video could have been avoidable by anyone but please take a read of my
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and analyse your own driving. Don't let yourself be a victim of someone else's stupidity.
davedave1111
> Speedmonkey
09/02/2013 at 10:24 |
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Agreed, spot on. Just to add, you need to have a surprisingly large number of stationary vehicles behind you before you're safe, so keep watching the mirrors and being ready to react until you've got at least half a dozen vehicles as a buffer.
If I remember rightly, being stopped on a motorway is (on average) the single most dangerous thing we normally do in cars, and by quite a margin - whether that's in traffic, or broken down on the hard shoulder. It's a higher risk factor than fog and ice, I believe.