I bet this hurt.... (check out the tyre marks...)
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That looks like it coulda hurt..
Apparently ,according to the local bongo drums,some chav was overtaking a line of cars whilst approaching a cross roads with an emerging vehicle the end result being what you see here. 
Looks to me like whoever was pulling out did not see the junction until way too late, hence the skid marks prior to the stop line - he must have been going at a fair lick also!
Looks to me like whoever was pulling out did not see the junction until way too late, hence the skid marks prior to the stop line - he must have been going at a fair lick also!
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Bah! At the top of our road someone parked a 106 in the drystone wall at 70mph, having lost control in a wide bend about 25m back.
As it was a fatality we now have a super-abrasive surface there, and on the junction next to where she lost it. The stuff is super slippery in the wet.
As it was a fatality we now have a super-abrasive surface there, and on the junction next to where she lost it. The stuff is super slippery in the wet.
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doesnt look anything like overtaking - looks like someone never saw the crossroads was coming up and continued at normal speed until it was too late to brake in time
brake marks dont looks that bad unless they continue under your car and backwards for a wee bit
brake marks dont looks that bad unless they continue under your car and backwards for a wee bit
Don't look that bad? They have a 90 degree bend in them where they were obviously clobbered from the side... No matter who was to blame for that accident, someone is going to be sore in the morning...
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Might no be painful! Looks like someone has driven into the front of the car as the nose has poked out. The front wheel skids are only half way into the left side of the road. I'm guessing as long as the car going forwards had their belts on then chances are everyone was all good if a little shaken.
Personally i think crossroads are the stupidest idea ever, give me a roundabout any day!
Personally i think crossroads are the stupidest idea ever, give me a roundabout any day!
The way I read it, there was a line of traffic at a standstill running left-to-right, victim was going fairly fast through as a car impatiently overtook alongside the traffic, saw it too late and.. BAM!
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judging by the tyre marks he wasnt hit by a car overtaking
somone needs to draw some diagrams
hes in the left lane approaching the crossroads
he gets hit in the left lane of the incoming crossroad
to overtake you would have to be in the right lane
i see it as the guy driving seeing the crossroads too late and braking hard but was a few feet short of stopping in time
That's how I see it too.
It looks like whoever hit from the side didn't even have time to apply their brakes.
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the tyre marks are going the wrong way for the person to have been hit by an overtaking car, unless the overtaking car had completed the manoeuvre and was back on the left side of the road.
The only logical explanation I can think of based on the skidmarks is that the person approaching in the same way R124 was did not see it was a junction until too late, slammed on the brakes, got hit by a car coming from the right, and the wheels skidded as the impact of the collision sent the car flying to the left, and the patch on the road to the left is where they stopped and glass/oil built up 
Not that it matters.... but.. I read it as... someone overtakes line of traffic just before junction, comes back into his own lane, and either left it to late (misjudged distance/speed to junction) or didn't realise the junction was there and the outcome was slamming on the anchors too late (but on the correct side of the road).
Matthew
Matthew
