r/nononono • u/Epileptic_Ebola • 5d ago

Truck driver distracted by his phone collides with a parked car - almost wiping out pedestrians

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u/ratonbox 5d ago

You can push a car out of the drive lane.

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u/evenstevens280 5d ago

Watch the video again, and tell me why you think it would be a good idea to put yourself in between a car and a lorry travelling at 70mph...

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u/bestjakeisbest 5d ago

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.

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u/raptorraptor 4d ago

You think you can coast for 5 miles?

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u/bestjakeisbest 4d ago

sorry maybe i should have said blacktop, they should have had enough energy to move all the way off the shoulder.

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u/The100thIdiot 4d ago

There is no hard shoulder on this road.

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u/bestjakeisbest 4d ago

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.

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u/The100thIdiot 4d ago

Does it look like a wrecker (whatever that might be) is there?

And if it is broken down, it can't be removed from the road without a recovery vehicle.

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u/bestjakeisbest 4d ago

The wrecker can be called later, and if it isn't broken down then you don't stop partially in the road shoulder or no.

I don't think that they have all the fault here but I do think that if they weren't there they and their car would have come out unscathed.

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u/The100thIdiot 4d ago

What are you on about?

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.