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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / September 2007Re: Could you avoid your last accident?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=656682 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Could you avoid your last accident? - No, absolutely nothing depended on me really - Yes, I could yield, slow down, look around, accelerate, dodge, etc. - I did not have any accident yet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've had two accidents, both because I was driving way too fast on a wet road. So yes, I can safely say that they could have been avoided runaround  Signaturepsych0hans http://www.automotiveforums.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > wet road. So yes, I can safely say that they could have been avoided > runaround Yes, I know this a troll post, from a web site that want you to blame yourself for your crashes. My last 'accident' was a broken mirror on a para-transit bus I was driving. I was in my lane (right side wheels on the white line actually) when a semi encrouched less than a foot over the double yellow, enough to take out my side mirror. Could I have avoided it, yes. I could have swerved and put the tires in the ditch thus flipping the bus and causing a greater disaster. I also had no choice in where and when (or what) I was driving as that is dictated by my employer. I was not charged with the accident at the safety board as one of my clients had a escourt who was a reliable witness. The web site wants you to think that ALL collisions are avoidable. This is a dangerous falicy. There are just some things that cannot be avoided, and you had better be prepared to deal with them. This whistling in the dark thinking, "Oh I'm a great driver and I can aviod anything" attitude will get you killed. Doug >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >Doug Could you have driven in such a manner as to not be pacing a semi? Signature"Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's homosexuallity: the guys at the bath-house stopped laughing at my 3 inch weenie. : http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.autos.driving/msg/168e8e621dd649fb?hl=en "Speeders And Drunk Drivers Are MURDERERS" brags of it's ability to operate a vehicle: I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash. : http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.road/msg/a376114ee8a61824?hl=en On Sep 3, 2:38 pm, "Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)" <drunk_and_distracted@the_wheel.com> wrote: > I was in my lane (right side wheels on the white line actually) > >when a semi encrouched less than a foot over the double yellow, enough to > >take out my side mirror. > > Could you have driven in such a manner as to not be pacing a semi? Could you have thunken in a manner to comprehend encroaching over a double yellow" indicates the vehicles were traveling in opposite directions...? I'd guess not. ----- - gpsman >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > Could you have driven in such a manner as to not be pacing a semi? It was from the opposite direction on a 2 lane road, PA Rt 152 between New Galena Rd & Upper Stump Rd. Doug > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Yes, I know this a troll post, from a web site that want you to blame > yourself for your crashes. Seriously. But I can honestly answer "no, there is nothing I could have done" for the last couple. Last one was leaving a parking lot at a strip mall, some kid apparently just didn't see the bright red GTI in front of him and plowed into the back of it. No damage so I told him to get the hell out of there. Even if I had seen him coming up behind me (I didn't,) I couldn't have gotten out of his way because I would have had to pull out into cross traffic. Before that I was sitting still on I-66 and again some guy not paying attention ran into the back of my Scirocco. I had nowhere to go there either; I saw him coming but there were cars on both sides of me. That takes us back about 10 years or so. nate > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Come now, Nate. You certainly could have taken the bus or a cab or hidden in the celler. Studemania <midlant@earthlink.net> said in rec.autos.driving: >Come now, Nate. You certainly could have taken the bus or a cab or >hidden in the celler. Which school did you attend to learn your precognition? SignatureMFFYCam Videos Galore: http://www.geocities.com/mffycam/ http://slothkills.blip.tv/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > The web site wants you to think that ALL collisions are avoidable. They pretty much are... by one participant or another. But I'd guess the website suggests that one contemplate what they might have done differently to avoid a crash. Crashes don't just happen instantaneously, they develop via a series of events that a driver can miss detecting, or ignore, which ultimately end in a crash. You might have avoided the truck that encroached upon your ROW if you had noticed the driver was having trouble staying in his lane 10 seconds earlier. Not saying he did, but -if- he did. > This > is a dangerous falicy. I don't know what might be "dangerous" about it. > There are just some things that cannot be avoided, Yes, of course. But many if not most things are easily avoidable by paying attention and practicing driving defensively. > and you had better be prepared to deal with them. This whistling in the > dark thinking, "Oh I'm a great driver and I can aviod anything" attitude > will get you killed. Well, it could, but most often it doesn't. Personally, I'm more concerned with being crippled than killed. ----- - gpsman >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > --- - A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > had noticed the driver was having trouble staying in his lane 10 > seconds earlier. Not saying he did, but -if- he did. Even if he had done something 10 seconds earlier, all I could have done was begine braking, I would still be in the same position on the road, just going slower. (And for the record as soon as I saw him com over the line, I was on the brake.) I did see a choice to make, stay in my lane and get hit on the side, or put it in the ditch and probably roll the bus. I'm thinking the semi got spoked by something and just for a second went on instinct instead of training. I have an aquaintqnce who landed herself in the hospital and totaled her car. Why? Because she swerved to avoid hitting a dog. Instead, she caught her wheels in the ditch, over-corrected, went back across the road and collided with a UPS truck. If she had held her couse and hit the dog, she would have been in much better shape. Now, she's on the hook for the wreck, and unable to work. If you are going to change couse to avoid and accident, make damn sure you don't cause a bigger one! That's my point. Doug >> This >> is a dangerous falicy. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > - gpsman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=656682 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Could you avoid your last accident? - No, absolutely nothing depended on me really - Yes, I could yield, slow down, look around, accelerate, dodge, etc. - I did not have any accident yet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I voted NO on this one. The last and only real accident I got into was whe I hit a deer at 80mph. In retrospect, I look back on the incident and actually avoided a much bigger wreck that could've done a lot more damage to not only myself but others that were driving in traffic that day. Picture this; it's 5:00 am and your running late for work. You have 30+ miles to go and traffic is building on a 4 lane freeway. You switch lanes to pass another motorist and you notice something moving across the lanes on the opposite side and before you know it, a 150lb. buck jumps and lands dead center in front of you. What do you do? Do what I did, drive right through the bastard and try to calmly steer your car off into the center divide. That thing flung across traffic an landed perfectly on the shoulder and died. Luckily no one else hit it while it was catapolting through the air. SignatureRothart http://www.automotiveforums.com |
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