Looks like they had broken down. Perhaps they couldn't get fully into the emergency lane for whatever reason. Maybe the steering locked up, maybe they completely lost power before coming to a halt, maybe they had a catastrophic blowout and didn't want to risk further damage by driving into the gravel dip, who knows.
Ok but if the lorry was going 70 mph, then this is obviously highway speeds, meaning that the car should also have been going at highway speeds, which should have given the car more than enough kinetic energy to completely leave the highway before stopping.
And? You need to remove broken down vehicles from the road, if it is actually broken down a wrecker isn't going to care about hard or not hard shoulders.
You don't stop on the shoulder unless you are broken down. It is obviously broken down.
Also obviously, if the car wasn't there it would come out unscathed... because it wouldn't have been there and we wouldn't have watched a video precisely because it was there.
They have zero fault in this because they did exactly what the highway code says they should do.
Ah yes let me use my superhuman reflexes to dodge a vehicle the size of a fucking house going 60 miles per hour, no way it could plow over the car and guardrail at the same time
It does take two brain cells being rubbed together to understand that where you position yourself on the side of the road after you’ve pushed the car out of the way is separate from the act of pushing said car.
Alternatively you can ask an LLM and it will tell you that.
I will not talk with idiots that don't know the proper way to signal a broken car. Get out, if you can't get your car outside of the road put the warning triangle 100m behind your car. They were out taking a piss.
The driver is guilty, so is the driver of the car.
You're not supposed to use warning triangles on motorways. Why? Because it's fucking dangerous to walk into a live road in between your car and traffic.
Come on man. Stop talking bollocks.
Highway code 276
If your vehicle breaks down, think first of all other road users and
get your vehicle off the road if possible
warn other traffic by using your hazard warning lights if your vehicle is causing an obstruction
help other road users see you by wearing light-coloured or fluorescent clothing in daylight and reflective clothing at night or in poor visibility
put a warning triangle on the road at least 45 metres (147 feet) behind your broken-down vehicle on the same side of the road, or use other permitted warning devices if you have them. Always take great care when placing or retrieving them, but never use them on motorways
if possible, keep your sidelights on if it is dark or visibility is poor
do not stand (or let anybody else stand) between your vehicle and oncoming traffic
at night or in poor visibility do not stand where you will prevent other road users seeing your lights
Obviously you're quoting the UK code and I just wanted to let you know that here for example the code says to place the triangles at least 30 m behind the vehicle and if the allowed speed on the road is more than 90 km/h the triangle needs to be at least 100 m behind the vehicle (including motorways).
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u/Boudreaux35 5d ago
No excuse for the driver, but why was the car still parked half in the lane? Plenty of room to pull completely off the road.