3 Accidents In Less Than An Hour

[Col-GTSX]

Hey guys...

Some of you may know that ive been on the road for the last couple of days and today i decided to return to Brisbane for the night before setting back out tomorrow.

Anyway I was on my way back from dalby at about 12pm...

I heard about the storm on the way back so i thought ill go easy and have a long lunch in toowoomba or something. Anyways i get to toowoomba and i see no weather at all. So i set out from there, i had a very nice drive back to about Ipswitch when it hit hard...

Firstlly i would like to say i hate truckers, i was tailgated, intimidated and almost pushed out of the way while im being hailed on and doing 70kph in a 90 zone. I kept about 100 metres from the car infront of me and i have a 40 tonne B double up my bum, less than 10 metres.

OK enough...

I get to the centenery highway, im doing 100kph (100 zone) rain is gone, water all over the road.

An un loaded truck in the left lane about 150 metres ahead of me (im in the right lane). Trusk hits a massive puddle on the road (10-15cm of water) and the back end of the truck gets all out of shape and he head butts a light post at lease 60kph, the light post then falls over the 2 lanes. I pulled up ok and ran to the truck. All the traffic stops and i hear bang off in the distance as there is another accident down the back of the pack of cars.

Truck driver is ok Police come and they sort out everything, truck driver is not really at fault other than no slowing for the weather conditions. Police take my business card for witness purposes and i leave.

3km's later back to 100kph and the car infront of me swerves rapidlly with out indecation or brakes, to reveal a dog standing in the middle of the freeway. I missed that dog by less than a metre as i dived for the oppisite lane. My heart skips a beat and I wonder if the dog made it off the highway ok, i could not stop and i could not do anything other than to continue and hope he is ok.

15 minutes after that a small bread truck in front of me miss gudges a corner (right near chao's house) and hits the gutter with his back wheel and makes the truck jump in the air and spin 180 degres infront of me. Once again avoid contact easily as i had plenty of space and saw what was about to happen before it did, cause the driver was in a rush and over took me only seconds eariler cause i must have been going too slow for him. This accident only damages a parked car on the side of the road and the police were 150 metres down the road booking someone and saw it all happen, so he is screwed.

15 minutes later Im almost home, i come round a corner at everton park and the hilux ute in the right lane about 50 metres ahead of me looses his back end and spins 180 sliding toward a power pole... BANG...

The front side bites the pole hard, I pull up again to check that he is OK, I took that corner extra slow cause I had a guy tail gating me. If i were going at normal dry pace i would have been hit. Needless to say the guy behind me raced off when i pulled over. Once again i gave the guy my details incase his boss doe not believe what happened.

This accident was just that an accident. He was not speeding, he just didnt slow down enough for an un-loaded ute and the ute tyres that were on it would not have helped at all. People who drive un-loaded utes and trucks need to understand they back end will be extra light and will slip round corners in the wet.

So all three accidents were caused by loosers who didnt slow for wet weather, all 2 were no speeding at all but on the other hand they were not slowing at all either...

All people involved were ok and thats all that matters, but if a kid were to be on the side of the road all three accidents could have been allot worse. I fell that drivers are just being pushed too hard by their employers to get a job done in a set time or their too eager to get home early... They all need to slow down or they will kill them selves or others...

END RANT

Now i must iron some more shirts and prepair to drive another 1000km in the next 2 days...

Cya

[prego]

not having driven on roads myself but being in an accident with a new driver driving

we hit another car

it was dry but speeding doesnt help

and to see people speeding off in the wet makes it worse

i see people they think they can hoon more because its wet and they wont waste there tyres away

then winge when they hit a pole

at least your ok and the fact you stopped when loads of others wouldnt thats a job well done

gl on your trip back home or wherever

[Col-GTSX]

Yeah none of them were speeding...

There were all caused because no one was slowing...

When you are taught to drive you are taught to drive to the conditions of the road... If you only feel comfortable doing 80 in a 100 zone when the weather hits hard, then do what you feel comfortable with. You sould always have a little extra caution when its wet and be even more aware of what others are doing round you...

All 3 accidents were cause by people who dicided to use no caution and drove like it was dry...

I guess all 3 of them will think harder next time...

And thanks, ill be off to Hervey Bay at first light, so it will be a nice drive up the coast...

[Silver_R34_GT-T]

yeah, now that it rarely rains, when ever it does, people seem to be forgetting to slow down.

glad to hear no one was hurt.

[predator]

speed often isn't the problem up here.. it's just that people just are too moronic to keep a 2 second gap.. or further when it rains.

should be public education campaigns about it, it's so chronic, but nope, that costs money... never mind the chaos whenever one car has an accident, the other runs straight up the back with that 0.2 second gap, and the highways are thrown into chaos for the next hour.

[R33S2]

That explains why the centenary was stuffed this arvo going teh other way (YeaH), I thought it was to do with the B double rollover on the gateway.

[dangerous_daveo]

speed often isn't the problem up here.. it's just that people just are too moronic to keep a 2 second gap.. or further when it rains.

should be public education campaigns about it, it's so chronic, but nope, that costs money... never mind the chaos whenever one car has an accident, the other runs straight up the back with that 0.2 second gap, and the highways are thrown into chaos for the next hour.

4sec min in the rain pred 2secs in the dry, (3 secs on the gateway as your wheels are really on the tarmac for about 50% of the time due to pot holes...)

That and looking at your tyres. They reckon the 2mm min tread depth is too little, it should be 3mm, which is about where I change mine.

But nice work Col. It just goes to show what leaving a good sized gap, slowing down a bit, and most of all LOOKING AHEAD can do. If you were the average driver you would have been nailed on the first acco.

[frankxinyu]

i remember a commodore driver complained to me about me driving too slow in pouring rain on M1 in front of him when we both stoped at a servo.

he is like' all you young drivers can not drive nowadays, i was brought up driving in the wet. the heavier it rains the faster i drive. i can see where im going by looking at the side of the road. i have been driving for 25 years. '

i often think to myself how much of an idiot that guy was.

i drive according to the condition. i have done 40km/h on m1 before. i dont care if ppl beep at me or not. at least i am safe

[Bunta]

i remember a commodore driver complained to me about me driving too slow in pouring rain on M1 in front of him when we both stoped at a servo.

he is like' all you young drivers can not drive nowadays, i was brought up driving in the wet. the heavier it rains the faster i drive. i can see where im going by looking at the side of the road. i have been driving for 25 years. '

i often think to myself how much of an idiot that guy was.

i drive according to the condition. i have done 40km/h on m1 before. i dont care if ppl beep at me or not. at least i am safe

What a chump lol

[Dan_B]

Yer i have driven at 40km/h on the M1 too, also another thing i have problems with is when its raining no one puts there headlights on, with heavy rain you cannot see the car that is 20m in front of you if it doesn't have headlights.

BTW: Anyone know what was up with the riverside express way this arvo heading towards Corro drive?

[Spook's_Skyline]

wide rims dont help in the rain either, so i always take it extra easy

[Thunderbolt]

As the ads say, Speed kills. That must mean that you are safe when going within the speed limit, regardless of conditions.

[arbess]

i remember a commodore driver complained to me about me driving too slow in pouring rain on M1 in front of him when we both stoped at a servo.

he is like' all you young drivers can not drive nowadays, i was brought up driving in the wet. the heavier it rains the faster i drive. i can see where im going by looking at the side of the road. i have been driving for 25 years. '

i often think to myself how much of an idiot that guy was.

i drive according to the condition. i have done 40km/h on m1 before. i dont care if ppl beep at me or not. at least i am safe

.... and thats why he would driving a commodore, simply cant afford to keep buying real cars after all the accidents he has had in 25 years.

I've driven back from Amberley in cyclonic weather doing 40km/h, couldn't see anything and I was leading a pack of people hahaha.

Yesterday's weather was pretty weird, I didnt see any accidents.

[RYN26]

after my accident in Sep, which is also my first, now I do think much much harder when I put my foot on the gas and going into corners.....

like what my father said to me: "must always have a clear mind." there was the only time I lost myself, I have paid Big price for it and still suffering from it both financiallyl and mentally......

best of luck to everyone, I know ppl here are all mature drivers, and I will try to learn from my lesson, be a better driver.

P.S. special thanks to Daniel (Elite Racing), who has given me great help like he always does. Thanks Dan!!

Edited November 16, 2006 by RYN26

[mad082]

another problem when it hasn't rained for ages is that there is a lot of oil built up on the road. and the first rain after a dry spell is usually the worst.

[prego]

another problem when it hasn't rained for ages is that there is a lot of oil built up on the road. and the first rain after a dry spell is usually the worst.

ive seen many a car spin out in front of the old primar school in the wet around my place

[Destero]

damn must have been a pretty intense day for you im sure.

i was driveing home from the gold coast on wednesday when the massive storm hit, i was going down the highway(110km/h)

and every 1 around me and including me slowed right down to a 40-50km/h speed and alot just pulled over all together but yeh there is so many people who for what ever reason decide they can still go around 100km/h when the road is wet or cant see more then 10m infront of them... but yeh i have had my licence for around 10 months now and 1 of the first things u learn is when it rains or there is other hazards around you slow down

well yeh thats my 2 cents for the day

[frankxinyu]

another problem when it hasn't rained for ages is that there is a lot of oil built up on the road. and the first rain after a dry spell is usually the worst.

yes, and also QLD has a shit high way network thanx to peter the lier beatie. i mean ipswich motorway and gateway motorway are designed to kill ppl.....very rough surface, heavy traffic with loads of 40 ton trucks as well as your daily commodore hoons.

[Col-GTSX]

damn must have been a pretty intense day for you im sure.

Yeah tell me about it...

Thursday morning i set out for Hervey Bay...

I stopped in Gympie on the way, just outside of Gympie up the range the wind was becoming very heavy and all trucks were pulling over cause it was too dangerous...

But a guy with a Patrol and a caravan decided to continue along... Needless to say his caravan is all over the place now... I ran over one of his fry pans, and what looked like a few tea towels... Was quite funny to be honest... The accident happended about 15 minutes before i got there, but the road was a mess and I helped him for a minute pick up some crap off the road...

I told him about what happened on Wednesday and he was in shock as to my luck...

So thats another accident, but i didnt see this one... To be honest the wind was getting to the point where i was considering pulling over also as the car was a bit light at the top of the hills...

Anyway i home now for the weekend and i covered a bit under 1600km's and to be honest im stuffed...

[dangerous_daveo]

I saw the leftovers of one of the trucks that rolled over on the gateway. Must have got nailed pretty hard! The road still has crap all over it.