Six doctors on accident spot

[mangell6]

Check out this story in the NZHerald (online)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3522282&thesection=news&thesubsection=general


Such good fortune.

Mike

[Coldkiwi]

A motorcyclist injured after hitting a tree was treated by a party of six doctors travelling on the same road. The motorcyclist, a middle-aged man, had ridden into a tree that had fallen on to the road in a slip near Te Pohue, 45km northwest of Napier. He was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries. The doctors were travelling with ambulance staff and paramedics.

(and some people say God doesn't exist)

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hmm, I guess that article is good reason to not follow someone too close (or go too fast) through corners. if only i would actually respond to painful stories like this (so that i slowed down to reduce some of the risk) instead of reading them and putting them out of my mind in place of happy thoughts of my next ride.

i guess it's a mental defence mechanism to stop me becoming a paranoid nancy flower boy in a 4x4 automatic cage.

thoughts?

 

 

[jrandom]

Originally posted by Coldkiwi
hmm, I guess that article is good reason to not follow someone too close (or go too fast) through corners. if only i would actually respond to painful stories like this (so that i slowed down to reduce some of the risk) instead of reading them and putting them out of my mind in place of happy thoughts of my next ride.

Hmmm... I suppose it's just a good reminder not to take blind corners above a speed where you can do something about the inevitable stalled white van or felled tree lying in the middle of the road just beyond the apex. I must confess I have difficulty fanging it (for 150cc values of 'fang') round bends when I can't see what's there... can't get the paranoid visions of running smack into the back of a broken-down car out of my head.

Save the hooligan behaviour for when you can see where you're going, I reckon.

[Slim]

I just drove the Napier-Taupo road twice last week and there had been a lot of slips (already cleaned up) but all were signposted with Orange exclamation points. By the time he got to Te Pohue, he should have realised what all those signs meant & slowed down a bit.

Mind you, I'm probably being a bit harsh - you'd have to be going pretty slow in wet conditions to stop in time to avoid a tree across the road!


He's a lucky barsteward, at any rate.

[MikeL]

Just a thought:
Isn't it a general rule that you must drive/ride at a speed so as to be able to stop in half the clear distance ahead? Or something like that - the last time I had to know the road code was for my first and last licence test well over thirty years ago. But I vaguely recall something along those lines.

[jrandom]

Originally posted by Slim
Mind you, I'm probably being a bit harsh - you'd have to be going pretty slow in wet conditions to stop in time to avoid a tree across the road!

Yeah, 'spose so. Difficult to swerve around, anyway :D

Still, he *was* a 'middle-aged man', according to the news article. And we all know about those doddering 40-something types, don't we? Bunch of uncoordinated shortsighted geriatrics.

:p

[Coldkiwi]

of course, we also know about the Youth of Today... all balls, no brains!

[SPman]

Originally posted by jrandom
And we all know about those doddering 40-something types, don't we? Bunch of uncoordinated shortsighted geriatrics. :p

Someone talking about me..?????

[Slim]

Originally posted by MikeL
Isn't it a general rule that you must drive/ride at a speed so as to be able to stop in half the clear distance ahead?
That's just about word for word from the Road Code, m8!

And it's worth 20points too! :eek:

http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/roadcode/driver-responsibility/stepping-over-the-line1.html

[Redstar]

Six nurses in mini skirts would have been even luckier:D

[MikeL]

Originally posted by Slim
That's just about word for word from the Road Code, m8!

And it's worth 20points too! :eek:

http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/roadcode/driver-responsibility/stepping-over-the-line1.html

Thanks Slim. Not bad for 30-odd years. Mind you, they say that one sign of senility is clear memory of the distant past while not being able to remember what you did this morning. Now where the hell did I leave my keys...

You prompted me to delve into the Road Code again - checked the on-line version. Omigod, when did they bring in all those demerit point regulations? By rights I ought to clocked up a zillion points by now. Ignorance is bliss.

Or was. It's got me worried. I'm gonna have to be more careful now. All the fun's gone.
At least until tomorrow. Thank God for the Alzheimers. :p

[Slim]

I was most surprised to see all those other things you can get demerit points for!

But I'm not certain that the police actually apply most of them. I mean they could clear up the Auckland Motorway (& probably the Wellington ones too) in a week with the "Driving in a lane at such a speed as to be unable to stop in length of lane visible" option! :D

And I have yet to figure out the point of getting 50 demerit points for this: "Person under 20 driving or attempting to drive with excess breath or blood alcohol". I thought you just lost your licence pretty much straight away?!?!? :confused:

[jrandom]

Originally posted by Slim
I have yet to figure out the point of getting 50 demerit points for this: "Person under 20 driving or attempting to drive with excess breath or blood alcohol". I thought you just lost your licence pretty much straight away?!?!? :confused:

Hmmm... looking further through the LTSA site - you get an automatic 28-day suspension for excess alcohol, apart from whatever penalty the courts impose. Exceeding 100 points gets you an automatic 3-month suspension, so those 50 points must be an extra whammy to make life difficult when the court goes easy on a first offender under 20 who already has some points on their license.

[Big Dog]

This is my usual pathetic sounding excuse when people ten years my junior pass me on 250s. I simply refuse to ride beyond where I can stop.


Go on pour on the abuse about me slowing down the rest of the group. But that is the point to my avatar 105ps and still a snail!:o

[Marmoot]

Originally posted by Redstar
Six nurses in mini skirts would have been even luckier:D

Must be the best comment of the year and the year before that
:done: :done: :done: :done: :done:

[Lou Girardin]

Jeez! Now I'm an unco-ordinated geriatric, just not short sighted since my cataracts were done.
Never mind though, I bet my wife is younger than jrandom.
Lou

[Duke of Rogan]

Originally posted by Big Dog
Go on pour on the abuse about me slowing down the rest of the group. But that is the point to my avatar 105ps and still a snail!:o

so thats what its a picture of, I couldnt work it out :confused2

[Big Dog]

Originally posted by Duke of Rogan
so thats what its a picture of, I couldnt work it out :confused2

Ja, a rolls royce turbo jet engined snail.:p

Shame the artist made it cammo coloured, it makes it harder too see. :niceone:

[Slim]

Originally posted by Big Dog
Ja, a rolls royce turbo jet engined snail.:p

Shame the artist made it cammo coloured, it makes it harder too see. :niceone:
PMSL!

I've been trying to figure out what that was for ages! I twigged it was some sort of engine from your earlier comment in this thread, but could only see an old, brown leather work boot & didn't "get it". :confused:

It's a snail, not a boot, which makes sooooo much more sense. :D

[Redstar]

Lou

what do ya think of your RF plan to get one?

[Big Dog]

Originally posted by Slim
PMSL!

I've been trying to figure out what that was for ages! I twigged it was some sort of engine from your earlier comment in this thread, but could only see an old, brown leather work boot & didn't "get it". :confused:

It's a snail, not a boot, which makes sooooo much more sense. :D

Ja

I have had so many people ask me i was wondering if it was time to change but no its too me, for the moment any way:rockon:

[Lou Girardin]

They're great value for money, redstar. Not the fastest or best handling bike, but they do everything pretty well. Mine was a little tatty, but it's the '97 update model with Givi rack and bags for $7600.
Lou

[twistymover]

Originally posted by Slim
I just drove the Napier-Taupo road twice last week and there had been a lot of slips (already cleaned up) but all were signposted with Orange exclamation points. By the time he got to Te Pohue, he should have realised what all those signs meant & slowed down a bit.

Mind you, I'm probably being a bit harsh - you'd have to be going pretty slow in wet conditions to stop in time to avoid a tree across the road!


He's a lucky barsteward, at any rate.

Yes, lucky indeed. The article though didn't say anything about what speed he was going. It may have been just one of those very unlucky circumstances where he would have hit it anyway.
A few years ago, a fire service employee driving along one of the roads in the Whanganui river area was killed when the road collapsed underneath the vehicle. No way to avoid that one.

[Big Dog]

Sobering thought but after that you would be in the mood to buy lotto wouldn't you. One maybe a coincidence two raise your eyes to the heavens but six definitly time for a lucky dip.:niceone: