Taranaki Toy Run crash

[caspernz]

it's simply how they always drive.

That bit right there...it's how they always drive...would be my thinking for the majority of tailgaters.

The classic one comes at roadworks, I slow down for the 30 kmh sign as there's new chip on the road, muppet behind me pulls out to overtake, and because he's so annoyed I slowed down he looses it on the loose chip and ends up in the ditch.

Situations like that I don't even stop for anymore, unless there's no #2 or #3 muppet behind them...then those conversations are usually fairly brief. Something akin to: "Are you hurt? No? Cool, start walking..."

[Edbear]

That bit right there...it's how they always drive...would be my thinking for the majority of tailgaters.

The classic one comes at roadworks, I slow down for the 30 kmh sign as there's new chip on the road, muppet behind me pulls out to overtake, and because he's so annoyed I slowed down he looses it on the loose chip and ends up in the ditch.

Situations like that I don't even stop for anymore, unless there's no #2 or #3 muppet behind them...then those conversations are usually fairly brief. Something akin to: "Are you hurt? No? Cool, start walking..."

"You must spread...!"

[jafar]

Yeah I know, but how often do ya get someone in a cage tailgating your truck?

Every day actually, despite it being a fuel tanker. No worries with a 20 tonne rated rear bumper...

I get that too, guess I'm kinda used to it now though, idiots are everywhere !!!

That bit right there...it's how they always drive...would be my thinking for the majority of tailgaters.

The classic one comes at roadworks, I slow down for the 30 kmh sign as there's new chip on the road, muppet behind me pulls out to overtake, and because he's so annoyed I slowed down he looses it on the loose chip and ends up in the ditch.

Situations like that I don't even stop for anymore, unless there's no #2 or #3 muppet behind them...then those conversations are usually fairly brief. Something akin to: "Are you hurt? No? Cool, start walking..."

I'm always right down on the speed through the road works, it is never an issue for the cars behind me though, they always follow the big white thing like obediant children & pass when the road ahead is clear.... Never realised how many people who drive cars had been in industrial accidents though.... so many have only one finger when they wave as they pass

[young1]

Has this been through the courts yet?

[Road kill]

That bit right there...it's how they always drive...would be my thinking for the majority of tailgaters.

The classic one comes at roadworks, I slow down for the 30 kmh sign as there's new chip on the road, muppet behind me pulls out to overtake, and because he's so annoyed I slowed down he looses it on the loose chip and ends up in the ditch.

Situations like that I don't even stop for anymore, unless there's no #2 or #3 muppet behind them...then those conversations are usually fairly brief. Something akin to: "Are you hurt? No? Cool, start walking..."

Reminds me of the time I stopped to check clearance under a big tree branch with a high load on a single lane road out Waitakere way and a guy in a fairly new BMW car squeezed past me from behind then slipped sideways into the ditch and bellied the front.
Then he got all shitty with me when I asked,,,well why did you drive into it then ?
So I'm standing their thinking this cunt never got enough punches in the face at school when I noticed there were 10-15 other people there and not a one offered to help drag his sorry arsed car out of the ditch,,so I figured it must be a local custom an fucked off.
Shouldn't laugh but

[Naki Rat]

Has this been through the courts yet?

This article in Taranaki Daily News today.

[Edbear]

This article in Taranaki Daily News today.

Hmmm... Linky no worky...

[sil3nt]

Hmmm... Linky no worky...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dail...-crash-charged

[Maha]

In light of the outcome (and it's the first fatality) perhaps something should be done to the Normanby overpass to lessen the crash rate?

''The crash was at a recognised black spot and came just one month after NZTA released statistics justifying a decision to spend money improving New Plymouth's Waiwhakaiho bridge instead of the Normanby overpass.

In 2005 three people died and two were injured in a crash on the overpass''.

[nadroj]

The crash site is far enough away from the overpass as to not have been a factor at all.
Yes there have been fatalities on the overpass including multiples and motorcyclists.

[Naki Rat]

The crash site is far enough away from the overpass as to not have been a factor at all.
Yes there have been fatalities on the overpass including multiples and motorcyclists.

+1
See photo #3 in this Stuff article from the OP. Normanby overbridge is a left hander beyond the right hander in the background. About 800m from the accident scene to the OB by Google maps.

[Naki Rat]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10905553

[Mo NZ]

Guilty plea. Lawyer asked for Community work. Stood down for sentencing report. What a f..n joke.
I hope the judge grows some nuts.

[Naki Rat]

This Taranaki Daily News article gives a summary of what happened.

Combined with the "the injured man [i.e. driver] had hired a private investigator and lawyer to clear his name over the crash" ( from the NZH article), the resistance to his accepting any self responsibility beggars belief What he did is manslaughter by neglect and his sentence should reflect that

[willytheekid]

...I hope the judge grows some nuts.

Don't count on it mate...the NZ justice system is set up in favour of the guilty , crimminals and the rich!....not the poor, or the innocent, or the victims!

...there will be no justice....just more heart ache for that poor riders family and friends