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just a curious post seing as someone who had a shot at me about my sentiments in the kangeroo thread has posted in here too...

would you do the same if it was a cat on the road instead of a box.... exact same situation (and it does happen, traffic stops suddenly cause someone cant keep their dog or pet in their yard)

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ive been told not to swerve, i think braking is ok if you look in rear view mirrior, if it was a cat or dog or whatever, i would like to think i would do the same thing

paragon - no i didnt mean the box came from the van, i mean it slid from infront of it, so i couldnt see it until late

SO FOR EXAMPLE. There was a 5 car smash up. every car would pay for the damages THEY HIT UP THE BUM??? I thought they weigh up the facts to see whose fault it was and then whoever was deem the cause of the accident would pay for ALL THE DAMAGES. Wouldnt that be more sensible and logical???

If its the case where if u hit the bum of someone u pay. SHOULDNT EVERYONE JAM THE BRAKES and just get ram up the arse if such a situation should arise - so the only damage done to the car is in the rear WHICH THE PERSON WHO RAm up our ass have to pay the damages

If its the case where if u hit the bum of someone u pay. SHOULDNT EVERYONE JAM THE BRAKES and just get ram up the arse if such a situation should arise - so the only damage done to the car is in the rear WHICH THE PERSON WHO RAm up our ass have to pay the damages

Guest Boxhead

im not sure what your saying boostimports...

basically i was tought that its your fault if you hit someone from behind, its up to you to leave enough room for 'what if' situations...

however i can see your point if the car that hits you was going at highspeed and you could proove you left a good 2 meters etc...

chaos - the way i have always been taugth is, and im sure many other have, is dont risk it.... if you swerve at 100km to miss a possum on the road, chance is u will lose control... now, saying this, my parents have lived 1 hour out of the city so its fairly country here, with lots of trees and animals.... and i know a few .. drunk ... people that have swerved to miss an animal, and ended up in the paddock on the side of the road.

boost - its a generic rule that if you hit someone in the back, its your fault. In a case of a pile up.. im not fully aware of fault, but i have heard that if u were hit in the back, and u hit the car in front.. it all depends on if u were stationary or not. If you were stationary, the guy who hit u pay for all... if u were rolling still, then your responsible for the car in front of you.

also, had heaps of freidns ram ppl up the arse, 90% of the time the person in front has braked hard for some stupid reason, but they have all had to pay.

yes but if u read my post it said "if you can"

obviously if on a highway you would hit it because theres concrete walls etc that you could hit.

So you would rather hit an animal weather it be a possum or a kangaroo or watever than saving your car and try to avoid it.

yeh you would hit it if you had cars,walls or trees but paddocks or even a run off space on the road you wouldnt take it

Depends on the situation. Sometimes I would swerve, sometimes I wouldnt. Instinctively I go to swerve, I grew up riding motorbikes. Hitting something is never a good option, unless its top speed.

Comes down to judgement and experience and ability to control your car.

If you hit someone in the butt , its your fault. You shoud have been further back, full stop.

I just wanted to clear up what happens in cases of pile ups (if you want to call it that) because I've been involved in one. In was stopped at a road works site, when we started to move again (very slowly) the VK that was stopped behind me proceeded to floor it and ram me, which sent me and my Camry into the bcak of a F100, absolutely twisted the Camry and little damage to either of the other cars. The entire fault of the accident was that of the VK's, even though she had no insurance. Hope I've helped to clear something up for someone.

Lookin @ rear view mirrors is ok, providing u got enuf time within seconds to look, find an escape route, made decision to take it or stay in ur lane.

I always check my mirrors from time-to-time, pretty often, even when driving straight with less traffic on freeway. that way in case shit happens, if i just had a look at the mirrors 1 or 2 seconds ago, I had an "image" in my mind where to run to or if I have to stay in my lane. Learned that from advance driving course.

But then, if you really don't have an escape route, then all you can do is brake and pray that it all ends with a happy ending. what else can you do?

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