marcustandy:
Mr B:
marcustandy:
One of his main examples of bad [HGV] driving was the original subject of this thread i.e. prolonged ‘overtaking’. He had personally attended a number of accidents/incidents that had been caused by the concertina effect of the long queues caused by the very kind of overtaking described by Governor in the above quote. Of course, most [if not all] of the time the HGV drivers were not aware of what had happened way back in the lines of traffic behind them. True, they didn’t directly cause the aforementioned incidents but they were certainly a contributing factor to what had happened.Mr B:
surely your copper friendFriend? Who said friend??!!
marcustandy:
there was a presentation by the areas Senior Examiner. His day job is a Traffic Cop, mainly on motorbikes,Mr B:
can only guess the accidents was caused by trucks causing a concertina, since the trucks involved and any witness’s in front of the accident would’ve continued on their way in ignorance once again truckers getting blamed for everythingI’m guessing, having not been there, it would be something along the lines of {whilst taking statements etc};
“What happened?”
"Well Officer, I was driving along at 70mph when suddenly the cars in front of me started braking really hard as there were two lorries side by side going slowly. I know I should’ve left a bigger gap to the vehicle in front but we just didn’t expect the sudden drop in speed.’
"So, just to confirm, the heavy braking in front due to the overtaking lorries, combined with you driving too close to the vehicle in front caused the accident?
They actually all got caught out by the speed differential caused by truck speed limits as opposed to car limits which is why the yanks don’t differentiate between the two types.But making trucks go even slower for whatever reason is just going to increase the problem not cure it.