Potholes are not just expensive on suspension, tyres etc but helped take a life
1st car damaged by large pothole, police attend and park before pothole, lights flashing - 2nd car driven by unbelted 85 yr old driver collides with Police car and is fatally injured.
news.scotsman.com/news/Motorist-hit-police-vehicle-as.6675706.jp
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Is it too early in the morning or is this sentence just plain wrong ?
"Despite fog at the time, the police vehicle was displaying flashing blue lights"
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Just plain wrong... Unless the Police are told they can't use the blues when its foggy?!
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Makes no sense to me either but the whole article is badly written/subbed.
I suspect the meaning is that although foggy the blues should have made the police LR visible in plenty of time for a driver to stop/avoid. If, OTOH, there is a missing 'not' than plod may have questions to answer (although a safe driver should still be able to stop in time!)
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I would have been very surprised by the police not displaying some flashing lights when parked on the carriageway. Clearly the elderly driver was not capable of driving in such conditions and regretfully aided his own death by not wearing seatbelt. Even if no lights visible on the police car, wearing the seatbelt would have significantly improved his chances of surviving the crash.
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>> Clearly the elderly driver was not capable of driving in such conditions
Neither were any of the others who crashed on that road. 9 or 10 crashes, as well as a lorry driven into a field.
>> and regretfully aided his own death by not wearing seatbelt.
"Regrettably", certainly - the BBC picture showing the vehicles seems to show that he might have lived if he'd been wearing his seat-belt. As it was, he was either thrown out of the car through a window, or got out on his last legs and died at the roadside.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12091008
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>> Potholes are not just expensive on suspension, tyres etc but helped take a life
If you are
1. 85
2. Not wearing a seatbelt
At some point you are going to run into trouble, pothole or not. They are going to appear at any point from now on, that's just the way it is.
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Offset against the unknown number of lives saved, through some people driving more cautiously on roads they know to be potholed.
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Looking at the bbc pic linked by FT showing Ratto's car trying to cube itself, it looks a very survivable crash if belted.
Obviously an 85yo man is more likely to sustain serious internal injuries than a fitter person, but I doubt the Panda struck the Disco at more than 25mph.
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looks about as bent as the ncap tested Panda. (64kph?)
www.euroncap.com/tests/fiat_panda_2004/198.aspx
Panda is a fine small car and all that, but I'm not sure I'd want to have been in either one, even with the belt on.
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But the passenger cell appears to be fairly intact. I wonder if the airbag caused his death (exacerbated by lack of seatbelt)?
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panda took it extremely well and i see that the airbags deployed
if you are 80 odd and not wearing a safety belt i cant see how you could survive that
i just wish kids could be shown the error of their ways as they slouch in their seats and also think they can brace themselves at a full frontal inpact situation
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Very sad about the loss of life and a sad indictment of the state of our roads. At least the government have had the decency not to call it a road fund licence any more. After having to shell out over seventy quid for 4 wheel laser alignment on my company car, my Jeep Cherokee with all terrain balloon tyres made a lot of sense.
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A9 Pothole leads to 2 accidents - 1 x fatal - R.P.
