Foreign Trucks (Bryan?)

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

On my way to the old LVLO in Nottingham I would often stop for my lunch break at the services between Junction 25-26 where there is the glass sided walkway over the M1.

I've seen folk Texting whist travelling in the outside lane, not knocking HGV drivers, I would regularly see them reading a paper laid out on the dashboard with their feet up on the passenger side & foreign HGV's where the driver was watching a film on his laptop!

Little wonder folk get killed if they break down awaiting recovery  on the hard shoulder. I'm amazed there aren't more big shunts on the motorways. My perception is that none hands free mobile phone use is in reality just not policed enough for it to be a deterrent.

[Johnny4428]

Bloody scary stuff that Ted!😡😡. I always think of that truck that ran up the arse of that car and killed a family of five. Driver looking at his mobile phone.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

In the early days of my Police Service I would regularly attend quite minor road traffic accidents where the occupants would be shot blasted in the face by glass fragments (toughened screens back then not laminated) - at that time not only were seat belts not compulsory but most had no belts or just lap belts. Sounds strange but I became immune to young women in particular who would be crying or screaming from facial cuts when dealing with car accidents as we called them then. One of the strangest was where a driver was killed by the metal insert in his wiper blade that hit him in the eye like a miniature javelin. It managed to enter his brain via his eye socket. Oncoming vehicle was  not speeding in a 30 mph limit but due to a kink  in the road they contacted slightly via their offside wings. Other driver and all passengers had only minor cuts & bruises.

[Johnny4428]

That really is a freak accident. Or incident! Yes Ted we called them RTA’s in my Fire Brigade days. I think they are RTI,s now,not sure.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

It had transitioned to RTC's  a couple of years before I retired on the basis that they were not accidents as there was always culpability involved - now I believe Derbyshire use RTI probably due to shared facility's  with the Fire & Rescue Services.

[taysidedragon]

Bloody scary stuff that Ted!😡😡. I always think of that truck that ran up the arse of that car and killed a family of five. Driver looking at his mobile phone.

A good friend of mine was killed by a lorry running straight into the back of his car. He was stopped in a queue at temporary road works. Driver obviously not looking where he was going and killed him instantly.
My friend was a promising rugby player, possibly international level. What a waste. 😡