This morning on the way to work I saw a man coming towards me on a Vespa.
He wasn't going particularly fast and there was only a slight bend in the road but I suddenly thought to myself "He's going to come off that."
About a second after he passed me I heard a loud crash and I looked in my mirror - both scooter and rider were lying across the road.
PS Fortunately there weren't any tail-gaters otherwise it could have been a lot worse.
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I suddenly thought to myself "He's going to come off that."........
I agree that you can sometimes just tell that someone is in trouble by the way they are riding and this guy seems to have been riding slowly and nervously and in such a way as to make you unconsiously think he was an accident about to happen.......
Actually when I saw the thread I thought it was going to be about Croydon......
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Back in the 1960s, my then youthful mother was a passenger with her father in his MG Magnette (sp?). They were overtaken at high speed by a small 2 seater soft top (a Midget if memory serves) whilst heading down the A308 from Windsor to Maidenhad, just before the road bends at what was then Bray Studios (now some fancy schmancy overpriced hotel). My grandfather commented: "He'll end up dead driving like that".
As they rounded the bend a few moments later, they came upon the smoking wreckage of the Midget sticking out of a brick wall, the driver's bloodied and lifeless body hanging out of what was once the driver's door.
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I was running home through Reading one evening when a Cavalier drove passed with engine screaming. It was only a residential road, with a sharp bend at the end, and sure enough when I got there the car had ended up in someone's garden.
Shortly after that the residents of the house took steps to ensure it didn't happen again:
tinyurl.com/6zqng8v
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Focus, one of my golden rules when we were looking to buy a house recently was that under no circumstances would I buy one facing down a street at a t-junction or on a bend. A house round the corner from our old place was in this position (t-junction), and they ended up with a car in their living room. The bang was spectacular when it hit. They were out of their home for a year.
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Some years ago we were heading south towards Kirby Lonsdale in the Jowett.
Single carriageway A road. A sports bike blasted past me on a blind left hander, a girl perched on the back, both in matching leathers. I commented to wife about the danger of riding like that.
Half an hour later we were stopped in a line of traffic filtering past an accident.
It was the bikers. They'd T boned a van coming out of a side road. The bike was in the field, the rider was sat at the roadside with a policeman and the girl was lying on the tarmac with paramedics attending to her. I just hope she was all right in the end.
I don't know who's fault it was but he was certainly shifting when he passed me.
Ted
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once got held up coming back from the cafe at sherburn in elmett there were loads of police and bikers looking for someones head
not nice
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It's always in the last place you look.
Last edited by: BiggerBadderDave on Thu 20 Jan 11 at 14:03
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That the A65 Ted?
Mrs B would rather not use it 'cos of the bikers; I believe it's annual corpse count matched or betters that of the Cat & Fiddle.
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Don't you ever have a sneaking wish that you could use mind control to influence events? And would you be happy if you found you could?
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Thinks ......
Just remove all your clothes and come over here and lie down young lady........
Yes - I'd be happy ....
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This sounds like a new thread.
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Not on my watch it doesn't! :-)
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Actually, I meant the super powers bit. Not the young lady.
:)
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Of course, how remiss of me :-)
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Don't you ever have a sneaking wish that you could use mind control to influence events? And would you be happy if you found you could?
Unbeknown to you, Anne Widdecombe is standing within range....
John
Last edited by: Tooslow on Thu 20 Jan 11 at 20:23
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Back in the stone age when i was doing my 10 day HGV 1 course the other trainee and myself had a different trainer for a couple of days.
Twisty single track A road (Leighton Buzzard to Hemel) raining and the tarmac was melted, so you know what the surface was like.
The other trainee was driving slightly too fast for the road surface, i could feel the vehicle go light from the passenger seat a couple of times, so jokingly hinted by saying ''and with a touch of opposite lock we're round'' as we entered a bend...instructor gave me a withering look...just as the vehicle folded up and we slid across the road and a wide grass verge and neatly parked in the ditch.
I'd driven a Ford D series truck on Michelins for the previous 2 years so knew all about shiny tarmac in the wet and all wheel steering.
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The Twilight Zone - helicopter
