OT: More crash footage

[MrGrumpy]

OK Sorry, not scoot related at all, but this crash footage is amazing....and the guy survived with only moderate injuries!

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You can see exactly what happened and why, and I wonder if I was in the same situation whether the same thing would have happened to me!

[Waldorf]

I know that stretch of motorway very well - it's fiendishly dangerous at the best of times. For most of the day there's a queue to get off the m/way so I'm surprised that even a crazy Belgian carried out such a foolish manoeuvre.

[Ferrit]

Another reason to not try and cross multiple lanes at the last minute.

[MrGrumpy]

I know that stretch of motorway very well - it's fiendishly dangerous at the best of times. For most of the day there's a queue to get off the m/way so I'm surprised that even a crazy Belgian carried out such a foolish manoeuvre.

I guess if you know the likely dangers, you'd know what to avoid, but I feel its exactly the sort of move I might make to get round lots of trucks to get into a gap to get into the right lane to leave the M-way...

[Deleted User 796]

Good she survived and good she didn't hurt anyone.

MrGrumpy you must be a bit mental if you are really saying you'd dive accross multiple lanes without a clear view of where you were going.

[Steve_D]

I've seen the video. I think she only survived because she was in a LHD car.

[MrGrumpy]

Good she survived and good she didn't hurt anyone.

MrGrumpy you must be a bit mental if you are really saying you'd dive accross multiple lanes without a clear view of where you were going.

Not exactly - but it quite often happens on crowded M-ways and dual carriageways (especially on Urban M-ways with lots of junctions) that you have to search for a gap in the inside lane to pull into when you want to leave - trucks can be almost nose to tail. So if you spot a gap ahead you might go for that, and be completely unsighted by the trucks leading to the risk of the accident in the video.

[andyscooter]

Can't fix stupid


And it was a woman apparently

[Waldorf]

My point was that that particular exit is almost always congested, with the queue at peak times extending back beyond the exit lane and on to Lane 1 of the motorway.
I suppose it's possible the driver was unfamiliar with the area - we will probably never know - but if she was she should have known better than to take such a risk.