"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
07/22/2015 at 07:49 • Filed to: None
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"davedave1111" (davedave1111)
07/22/2015 at 07:49 • Filed to: None | 3
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What a fucking terrible bit of driving. Driver should have swung wide on the street he was on, and then turned into his own side of the road.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 07:52 |
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Wow. The guy’s in his line of sight, he goes anyway, about to hit him and keeps going, and then slowly runs him over and keeps trying before finally stopping. What an idiot.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 08:01 |
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may not have been possible.
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davedave1111
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
07/22/2015 at 08:08 |
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I’m pretty sure that the lorry driver somehow managed to miss the bike at first, and then it was in his blind spot. It’s a problem with his whole approach to the corner.
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davedave1111
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/22/2015 at 08:13 |
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Why not?
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 08:16 |
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traffic in the background.
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davedave1111
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/22/2015 at 08:49 |
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Nope, plenty of room. Might have had to wait a second for a clear space, but it doesn’t look that way to me.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 08:54 |
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just looked at the video , there is a bus stopped (at a stop i’m assuming) , other traffic going past it , so no room for truck to swing out.
450X_FTW
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 08:58 |
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This guy has the polar opposite reaction of an American who just had their bike crushed by another vehicle
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davedave1111
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/22/2015 at 09:13 |
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Did you look at the streetview scene I linked? There’s plenty of space, no problem there. Might have to wait a second for the traffic passing the bus in the other direction to move, but I think there’s room even without that.
McMike
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:15 |
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What a fucking terrible bit of driving. Driver should have swung wide on the street he was on, and then turned into his own side of the road.
Regardless if he could have turned wide before, the mistake he made was not stopping before fucking running over a parked motorcycle.
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davedave1111
> 450X_FTW
07/22/2015 at 09:15 |
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I think he was shocked enough not to say much, and that’s as rare here as in the US :)
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davedave1111
> McMike
07/22/2015 at 09:35 |
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It wasn’t parked. And it was in his blind spot, once he’d fucked things up by coming too tight round the corner.
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450X_FTW
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:38 |
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I thought for sure he would go all football hooligan on him and kick the crap out of the driver. Or at least punt his dog off a bridge with the line “that’s how I roll”
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McMike
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:38 |
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It wasn’t parked.
Wrong choice of words.
The point I was trying to make is that he wasn’t moving.
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davedave1111
> 450X_FTW
07/22/2015 at 09:47 |
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It was a surprisingly calm response - hence my assumption it was shock. If you watch some of the other videos on that channel, the rider’s not exactly a shrinking violet.
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davedave1111
> McMike
07/22/2015 at 09:49 |
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Thing is, the bike was moving just before he hit it. Don’t forget, it’s a RHD lorry. The driver’s mistake was in not properly checking the road was clear, and/or turning in in such a way that he really needed to do so. Hitting something you can’t see is a symptom, not a cause.
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McMike
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:53 |
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Carry on.
XJDano
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:58 |
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Why does this kind of stuff get posted right after I buy a bike?
M54B30
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 09:58 |
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False. Never swing wide on the street you’re turning from, buttonhook on the street you’re turning on to. Straight from the CDL manual
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davedave1111
> McMike
07/22/2015 at 10:06 |
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?
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davedave1111
> M54B30
07/22/2015 at 10:10 |
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Not over here:
https://www.safedrivingforlife.info/professionals/…
Not sure I understand quite how button-hooking is supposed to work if the road isn’t wide enough. Unless I’ve misunderstood something it’s the classic error made by inexperienced drivers in longer vehicles than they’re used to, where they end up running the side of the lorry/bus/van/big car into a post on the corner or something, as the angle closes.
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M54B30
> davedave1111
07/22/2015 at 10:14 |
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We subscribe to different theories i guess. But ive never hit anybody sooooo....
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davedave1111
> M54B30
07/22/2015 at 10:17 |
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Seems like there’s different rules here to in the US - but I really don’t understand how the US way is supposed to work.
What’s important is clearly opening your fucking eyes :)
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M54B30
> davedave1111
07/23/2015 at 03:40 |
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I think the idea is that traffoc around the start of the turn is still going fast whereas if you go into the oncoming lane at the end of the turn, traffic is more likely to be stopped at a light.
I’m not sure. I just made sure i did it right on my CDL test and I just take each turn as a special case. There are some serious blindspots in that front corner though
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> davedave1111
07/23/2015 at 03:49 |
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yes , and it shows there isn’t enough room.
one lane in the video is blocked b a stationary bus.
other vehicles going left to right are moving over the centre painted lines
result truck unable to swing out.
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davedave1111
> pip bip - choose Corrour
07/23/2015 at 06:15 |
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There wasn’t enough room on the road he was turning into, either. He could have waited a moment for the traffic to pass and the bus to move off.