100 car pile up in Kent.

Post by **paul bristol uk** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:22 pm

Stevelar_granolar wrote:Police found skid marks upto fifty metres long!!?

Must have been nitins washing then!

stk prelude · Post by **stk prelude** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:42 pm

Loving the 'BOOM" lorry it must of been a big boom!

Post by **Donald** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:11 pm

BBC say its more like 130 cars now

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:57 pm

Stevelar_granolar wrote:Police found skid marks upto fifty metres long!!?

About right.
That's the official braking distance somewhere between 50 and 60mph

taz8520 · Post by **taz8520** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:20 pm

Just down road from me, don't know anyone involved luckily, prob caused by one or two cars I bet

Stevelar_granolar · Post by **Stevelar_granolar** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:49 pm

I meant the skid marks like some people find in their pants

Turbomick1985 · Post by **Turbomick1985** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:49 pm

I was leaving for work this morning around half 6 and I saw a lot of people driving with out lights on, it wasn't seriously foggy but still, I'd say a lot of people half asleep driving on auto pilot having done the same journey every morning not paying attention

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:01 pm

paul bristol uk wrote:Right its time for the old badgers turn to bore you. I passed my driving test 51 years ago with very few cars on the road by today's standards. The death and injury toll was horrific in percentage terms compared to today.
Why? IMO cars were death traps,poor brakes,razor edged parts.no seat belts or air bags. the list goes on.
Now we have every conceivable safety aid that you can think of and the driver thinks if he has an accident he can walk away.

I was caught at the tail end of a fog-crash on the M4 in the late 1960s. No damage and no injuries to me or surrounding cars and occupants, but death lurked in the mayhem ahead. Cars and trucks did that to you in those days. Few people wore seatbelts and airbags hadn't been invented.

paul bristol uk wrote: Wrong thinking to be lulled into that frame of mind. Traffic today is much more aggressive, people do not have a moment to live and ignore basic rules of the road such as tailgating,driving to the conditions outside your window,frustration and most of all speed that is incompatible with the conditions. In looking at the pictures I would say a great number of those involved should be prosecuted for driving without due care at least.

Right again. Were modern vehicles to travel at the speeds involved in the M4 accident, there's be almost no collisions, let alone injuries. A road I travel a lot used to take me about 15 minutes in good daylight; it now takes 10. In bad conditions, it might have taken me 25 back then; it still does today.