Road Accident

[Spacecadet]

A number of the above are not accidents are they!

Indeed! If it could have been avoided then its a collision due to negligence or dangerous driving.

That's why the police prefer to call them incidents instead of accidents.

It is perfectly feasible to be involved in an incident which you yourself could not have avoided, there a plenty of drunk, tired, reckless drivers out there. The trick is to be able to leave yourself enough room to react in the event of something happening.

[threaded]

That's why the police prefer to call them incidents instead of accidents.

No, it is because they are better at English than you. To call something an accident means to have judged the incident.

HTH

[Spacecadet]

To call something an accident means to have judged the incident.

That was my point!

FOAD

[wendigo100]

Volvo driven by a man with full face beard, moustache, wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and the car having an Icthus sticker on the boot lid waiting to pull out

The slowest cars that hold everyone up are estates. The worst of all are Volvo estates. Their drivers must take an twat examination before being allowed to drive one.

[SandyDown]

The slowest cars that hold everyone up are estates. The worst of all are Volvo estates. Their drivers must take an twat examination before being allowed to drive one.

Oiy !! I got a volve estate

[EternalOptimist]

Oiy !! I got a volve estate

er.. that'll be point proven then

[DaveB]

Volvo driven by a man with full face beard, moustache, wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and the car having an Icthus sticker on the boot lid.

That'll be ZG in his daytime camoflage

[threaded]

Seriously though, you know all this stuff about actuaries working on the statistics to give out the risks for insurance companies? Well there's this deep secret that's not mentioned too often, and that is your age, experience and training count for very little compared to the amount of facial hair of the drivers involved and whether or not one of the vehicles involved has an Icthus sticker on it. Those things alone at least double the cost of a claim.

I tried also to look at whether women wearing purple were significant, but no-one had bothered to note that down on the incident reports. Typical! Would seem an obvious thing to make a note of don't you think.

[IR35 Avoider]

Biggest fright in recent years happened as follows. Turned right after waiting for light at front of traffic-light controlled junction. There were two turning lanes and the two lanes they turned into merged into one a few hundred yards later. Once in the new road, with a trailer-less truck-tractor (terminology?) alongside me and nothing ahead, I decide that the easiest way to resolve things is to put my foot down. I figure my 140bhp Honda accelerating from low speed (from being stopped at lights) will easily get ahead before the lanes merge. Turns out a truck without a trailer can accelerate quite a lot. I only just squeezed in front of him, at which point he saw me and did emergency braking. (Possibly also some swearing and gestures.)

Normally I'm very unaggressive and if it had been a car I would invariably have let them ahead - it was only wrong assumption about acceleration characteristics/preferences of truck that lead to near-death.

[wendigo100]

So are you saying beardy types are the most dangerous then?

I knew it. Self-righteous "I'm perfectly entitled to poodle along this bendy road at 35 mph with no overtaking places if I want, there's no law against it, oh look at that view I'll slow down a bit more..."

Set fire to their beards I say!