A14, 6 cars, 1 lorry. Bugger.

Looks pretty painful. Glad everyone involved got out in once piece though.:)


platinum87 said:
I would really just get out of the car, move to a safe place, have a smoke...

and be thinking FFS!

I wouldnt help anyone, that is only because i'll not take a risk that i could be blamed for an outcome, even if the odds are one in a million.
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/rolleyes
 
sorry to be an ass

but is there a reason why this accident wouldnt have occured if people had allowed enough of a stopping distance ?

surely if you're allowing the highway code stopping distances, you car can brake from 70mph when a stationary object magically appears in front of you, and still not hit it.
 
MrLOL said:
sorry to be an ass

but is there a reason why this accident wouldnt have occured if people had allowed enough of a stopping distance ?

surely if you're allowing the highway code stopping distances, you car can brake from 70mph when a stationary object magically appears in front of you, and still not hit it.
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I'm sure you've driven on enough motorways to realise that hardly anyone leaves the correct distance between cars? Even more so in rush hour, you leave a gap and it gets filled, so you leave another, repeat over again. :confused:
 
MrLOL said:
sorry to be an ass

but is there a reason why this accident wouldnt have occured if people had allowed enough of a stopping distance ?

surely if you're allowing the highway code stopping distances, you car can brake from 70mph when a stationary object magically appears in front of you, and still not hit it.
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i was thinking the same thing. However everyone is guilty of following too close sometimes. Its hard not to in traffic, because you just get under/overtaken and people jump in the gap. You would end up having to reverse down the A14 if you kept a "real" braking distance to the car infront during busy times.
 
MrLOL said:
sorry to be an ass

but is there a reason why this accident wouldnt have occured if people had allowed enough of a stopping distance ?

surely if you're allowing the highway code stopping distances, you car can brake from 70mph when a stationary object magically appears in front of you, and still not hit it.
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Yeah there probably was a lot of human error involved, still the main thing was no one got hurt.
 
dannyjo22 said:
The worst part by far is the turning for the M11. People come belting up the outside lane to jump the queue of cars looking to come off the carriageway and then just pull in. For the love of god I don't understand why they don't solid white line that for 1/2 a mile with a get in lane.

A ridiculous amount of accidents happen there.

I also think the bisiest bits of the A14 should be a 50 during rush hours.

Glad your ok Platypus, so many people die on that stretch of road. One of our old apprentices was stuck in his car and burnt to death about 2 years ago not too far from there after an accident.
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I do this but carry straight on up the A428, quicker than the A14 to Huntingdon.
 
silane said:
I'm sure you've driven on enough motorways to realise that hardly anyone leaves the correct distance between cars? Even more so in rush hour, you leave a gap and it gets filled, so you leave another, repeat over again. :confused:
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maybe its just me

but when people jump into my braking distance, i just drop back again. yes people keep doing it

but im paranoid of being involved in something like this so it just plain doesnt bother me. Its not like its going to get you there any faster in rush hour driving aggressively.

and just to echo the sentiments above, yes, at least everybody was ok :)
 
MrLOL said:
maybe its just me

but when people jump into my braking distance, i just drop back again. yes people keep doing it

and just to echo the sentiments above, yes, at least everybody was ok :)
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It's not just you, hence why I said:

silane said:
I'm sure you've driven on enough motorways to realise that hardly anyone leaves the correct distance between cars? Even more so in rush hour, you leave a gap and it gets filled, so you leave another, repeat over again. :confused:
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Must also say that it is good to hear that nobody was hurt.
 
platinum87 said:
I would really just get out of the car, move to a safe place, have a smoke...
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Funny you should say that, when my mate binned his golf, into the back of a mates leon, first thing we did we pushed the car off the road and he just sat on the roof of his car and had a smoke, crashed at 60ish, both got out without a scratch :D
The leon looked like it had a parking dent on it.
Golf looked like it should still have people trapped inside it mind.
 
Hmm, had a frustrating merry go round with the insurance company. They aren't sure who they are going to decide to hold liable yet. When I pointed out the police and eye witness reports, the guy on the phone actually said to me - and I quote as word for word as I can remember - "Oh well we don't bother reading the police reports as whilst they're very good at criminal investigations, they don't really know much about the ins and outs of insurance investigations. And as for the eye witness reports, they were taken by the police so it's doubtful that we'll bother with those either."

:eek:
 
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