Posted by
Grim..., around 22nd May 2006:
video.google.com/videoplay?...
Now, 57 seconds in... WHAT THE FUCK WERE THOSE TRUCKS DOING?
Also, although the uploader slags off the bendy-bus, the driver performs absolute miracles to keep it together (even though it does touch the wall, it could have been much worse. I'd imagine that everyone in the back was dead anyway).
Posted by
Brock, around 22nd May 2006:
Trucks - I assumed that one squeezed the other against the well because one of them didn't look to see if there was anything there before he pulled out. Squeezing the outer one against the wall caused it to try and run up the wall, and so flip when they contacted.
Someone sent me a link to this a few days ago and they reckoned it was something to do with the tunnel being icy. Utter horseshit. Icy roads don't produce tyre smoke, do they?
this is ages old. but i'm with brock -- not icy. on the other hand, i AM inclined to think the road is non-standard-grip. reason: the vehicles are slewing and sliding like nascar cars on the edge of adhesion, but they stop far too quickly. especially watch the cars next to/behind most of the accidents, for example: braking to avoid the accident. they come to an easy halt in a dozen yards. even though the accident vehicles have been slewing sideways like they're accelerating near windblast-liftoff point and have had an unlucky gust.
but also: based on my drive around the baltic sea: russians/baltic states drivers are insanely bad drivers, even LESS aware (if you can believe that) of real-life consequences than are french or german drivers.
the only time i've ever been afraid on the roads was in lithuania. and i was sitting in a 3 ton vehicle. and just hunkered down and kept my eyes through the windshield and said "I'm 3 metres tall and I can't dodge and if they don't see me there's not a damn thing I can do about it."
i saw a semi trailer upside down going in my direction in my lane. i saw 6 abreast overtaking on a 2 lane road with 5 foot drops to the fields outside the hard shoulder. i saw chunks taken out of every single tree i drove past, and they were planted decoratively every 20m or so (before cars were invented, so they were growing into the lanes).