Why you shouldn't take your eyes off the road
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:19 PM
A reminder to all drivers that your shouldn't take your eyes off the road, in case this happens to you, (fortunately it wasn't a torana), enjoy!
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:23 PM
FFAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKK!!!!!!!
Shouldn't that road have been blocked off with a barrier or something?
ouch!
Shouldn't that road have been blocked off with a barrier or something?
ouch!
Edited by TORANR AMORE, 22 June 2006 - 05:23 PM.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:32 PM
agree Farkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:33 PM
I agree toranramore some barriers may have prevented this accident. Don't know what state it occurred in but it is definitely in Australia. Some serious excavating was happening!!!! Glad it wasn't me.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:34 PM
OH MY GOD 
Just in curiosity, did the driver live?
Or do I know the answer to that question?
Just in curiosity, did the driver live?
Or do I know the answer to that question?
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:34 PM
Maybe it happened in the middle of the night? There doesn't look like there is much of a deviation, well not sealed anyways.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:34 PM
The big yellow signs saying "EXCAVATION" seem pretty clear to me.
The other vehicles and landscape look like ozzy, but the truck is on the wrong side of the road. Is it in the states?
The other vehicles and landscape look like ozzy, but the truck is on the wrong side of the road. Is it in the states?
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:36 PM
I guess that means the topic title proves a point...The big yellow signs saying "EXCAVATION" seem pretty clear to me.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:39 PM
Liam.W - I don't know whether the driver survived (I wouldn't like to bet on it). Received the photo's from a friend in the NSW Torana Club and posted them here. I'm guessing it occurred during the night like 73LJWhiteSL mentioned. Bloody big hole.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:41 PM
Yeah... Thats terrible, but it looks like it would have been instant, and he probably wouldn't have seen it and then
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:44 PM
nasty!
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:46 PM
I just read through my backlog of emails and saw this one myself...
Horrific scene isnt it. All i can say is the signage is pretty clearly lacking, and if a road were to be cleaved in half as has been obviously done here then an alternate route would have to have been established? Not only does this seem to be poor preparation, but also its shithouse execution.. As others have said there should have been barriers etc to stop this kind of thing.
I highly doubt the driver survived that cab is absolute carnage. Gotto be one of the most sickening things ive seen in ages.
Terrible..
Horrific scene isnt it. All i can say is the signage is pretty clearly lacking, and if a road were to be cleaved in half as has been obviously done here then an alternate route would have to have been established? Not only does this seem to be poor preparation, but also its shithouse execution.. As others have said there should have been barriers etc to stop this kind of thing.
I highly doubt the driver survived that cab is absolute carnage. Gotto be one of the most sickening things ive seen in ages.
Terrible..
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 05:59 PM
Definitely in Australia. I cant think why the truck is on the wrong side of the road though...
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 06:02 PM
Im starting to think he tryed to turn it hard after he saw it, although its perfectly straight, or maybe he drifted off and crashed
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 06:03 PM
Steering wheels on the passanger side from the looks of it..Well at least i think its on the left side..
why would they cut the rd like that without stopping all traffic from a distance?..
Dumb and very avoidable if you ask me.
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why would they cut the rd like that without stopping all traffic from a distance?..
Dumb and very avoidable if you ask me.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 06:07 PM
that road has a slight radius, so hes just drifted in his sleep or whatever..
he probably crashed through a sign or 2 to get to where he was
he probably crashed through a sign or 2 to get to where he was
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 06:12 PM
there is a road behind the 4x4's so I assume he nodded off or didnt read the signs advising the detour....
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 08:19 PM
If there was a barrier, you know those plastic things they just simply fill up with water, he would have hit that and then hit the brakes. It would have saved him from this.
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 08:33 PM
The truck is on the right side steering past the sign. From a distance it would look like dirt across the road as happens with earthmoving trucks cross a road.
The signage in no way complies with AS1743.2 Traffic control and management.
Who ever was in charge of that construction work could very well be looking at a gross negligence charge and manslaughter if someone was killed.
This was not just a trench across the road for a pipe. It was a Major Construction project from which I would suggest the Project Manager would have his hat and coat on making a hasty retrat to the nearest airport.
No Workplace Health and Safety or Job Safety Analysis done here.
The signage in no way complies with AS1743.2 Traffic control and management.
Who ever was in charge of that construction work could very well be looking at a gross negligence charge and manslaughter if someone was killed.
This was not just a trench across the road for a pipe. It was a Major Construction project from which I would suggest the Project Manager would have his hat and coat on making a hasty retrat to the nearest airport.
No Workplace Health and Safety or Job Safety Analysis done here.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 06:30 AM
thats shocking, I hope driver survived. Someone would have got their arse kicked 4 that.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 04:02 PM
Showed pics to a mate who was there a couple of hours after the event. It happened on the Kalgoorlie to Perth Road. A culvert was being installed across the road with a detour gravel road graded around the whole area.
The truckie has just blown clean on through the detour signs and punted straight into the trench. He survived with minor injuries!
Best bit to the story.
A month later it happened again with a car carrier. Apparently all the cars on the top deck were piled up over the cab of the truck.
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The truckie has just blown clean on through the detour signs and punted straight into the trench. He survived with minor injuries!
Best bit to the story.
A month later it happened again with a car carrier. Apparently all the cars on the top deck were piled up over the cab of the truck.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 05:09 PM
Thanks for the extra information A9X. Glad to hear the driver survived (you would go and buy a lottery ticket after that) but it is unbelieveable that it happened a second time, Regards Mick.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 05:25 PM
The first time could be put down to poor planning and safety assesment, but the second time!?
I think its time to fill in a certain BFH ( Big Fekkin Hole!)
I think its time to fill in a certain BFH ( Big Fekkin Hole!)
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 05:40 PM
Amazing you could survive that i know a guy who had a head on in a semi with another on a country road the other guy fell asleep and unfortunatley died in the carnage but this guy survived the steering wheel crushed his pelvis both legs completly shattered top to bottom head injuries and was pinned upside down for four hours also massive blood loss amazing how he now plays first grade rugby league.
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Posted 23 June 2006 - 05:43 PM
I was going to say the colour of the soil and the trees and stuff indicated to me outback Oz somewhere.
Glad to hear the bloke got a chance to learn from his mistake.
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Glad to hear the bloke got a chance to learn from his mistake.
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