OO-ER Missus.......
No, seriously, passed the remains of a car this morning which was badly smashed up at the front and by the looks of it, it hadn't long happened.
However there was no other vehicle beside it on the hard shoulder and I was wondering would an Artic driver feel it if a 2 ton car shunted into the back of it, this was in stop-start rush hour motorway traffic.
Or could the driver be oblivious? I am guessing a pallet of sugar will be about a ton so they would maybe not feel it if a couple of these shifted on the wagon so is a car hitting it any different?
It could of course been that the vehicle it hit was still driveable and had went on his way but didn't look that way.
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I doubt that a driver would be unaware of an impact enough to do the sort of damge you describe BG, but i also doubt that the truck would sustain anything more than a few scratches or a cracked lens depending on it's design.
A pal driving an artic T boned a Corsa that cut across the front of him at around 40 or so mph impact speed, after the ambulance and wrecker and police had performed my mate carried on his shift with barely a mark on the truck.
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Was it a nice black Citroen C5 saloon on the M8 ?
I drove past one today with no sign what it had bumped into.
Driving a C5 myself it was rather interesting seeing how the crash protection at the front works. The bonnet seems to be able to slide up and back a bit. ( I may be wrong )
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Zhukov, that was exactly the one I was referring to. Sitting on the hard shoulder, smashed in, airbags had all gnoe off and no sign of another vehicle.
You live local to this area?
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The Artic driver may feel a slight twinge in their lower back if they have to stretch a little bit for the next brick of Yorkie.
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Obviously the day for it, today. I passed an S-reg Micra in similar disarray on the A27 at Worthing this morning. Front end completely smashed in - it would have been game over for a much newer car - headlamp glass all over the road, but no sign of any other vehicle involved.
I did wonder if the sun being a bit lower first thing in the morning had something to do with it.
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Unless it was a VERY minor shunt, the driver would feel the force.
If you have a badly stacked pallet and it lets go going around a corner, you also feel that.
a900ss
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>> my mate carried on his shift with barely a mark on the truck
This is more likely to be what happened. In the rush hour the traffic wombles' priority (after ensuring safety and wellbeing of all those people involved) is to open the carriageway to all traffic as quickly as possible. Chances are all the clear-up work had been done except final removal of the Citroen, and the OP was part of the free-flowing(?) traffic passing through in the aftermath.
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We don't get wombles :-( but we do get these guys with their snazzy oversized LED signs on top of their vans --> farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3576643512_29384a37b3.jpg
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BobbyG,
I live in Edinburgh and trundle through to Glasgow a couple of times a week. And you ?
Black Citroen C5, I don't tailgait ordrive with my foglights on although I don't put my handbrake on when waiting at a junction (foot brake and neutral) so I am a semi good forum member.
Further to some of the comments above, it could well have been the case that the occupants were just waiting to be picked up. However with debris still on the road it did seem "fresh" so to speak with no sign of another vehicle.
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Zhukov, live just off the motorway past Newhouse so usually join at EuroCentral. Work in Glasgow but have taken to coming off at Baillieston and down the M74 and in London Road. Traffic seems to move quicker.
Now I know why you were so interested in the C5 crash having one yourself!
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Some years back I seem to remember a car driver was killed when he hit the back of a ?car transporter? which then carried on with the car impaled on its rear until flagged down. I think this was on the M74 in the Abington area. That driver obviously didnt feel the impact or realise what any extra thump was.
Tony
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As a kind of relative comparison, I remember a motorbike once ran into the back of my LandRover at about 20 mph. I didn't feel a thing. I only realised something had happened when I looked in the mirror and saw a bike lying in the road.
Bumps always feel much smaller than they really are anyway, I think. Once when I got out of my Volvo estate to investigate what felt like a tiny bumper nudge, I found a small car with its front and radiator smashed in, but only a little scratch on the tow ball cover on the Volvo.
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If a truck driver can be oblivious to having T-boned a Clio and shunting it sideways along the A1(M) for some distance (as was reported in the news a few months back), then it wouldn't surprise me at all me if a collision at the rear would be similarly undetected. But I've never driven anything bigger than a Transit so I'm only speculating.
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I've only had it happen once and I was stopped at a red light at some road works on a long straight fen road.
A transit van ran into the back of my trailer ( don't as me why??) and I only felt a very slight nudge.
I was also amazed at the amount of damage caused to the transit.
Pat
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Would an Artic feel a shunt up the rear?? - -
