Oh Bugger - Massive screw up here

[caspernz]

What speed killed? 100? 90? Was the truck doing more than the posted limit? Come on...the death was the result of someone not paying attention and/or knowing what the hell was happening ahead of them and a company putting an enormous slow moving hulk onto SH1 in darkness....with light bulbs blinking...in the hope that every other motorist will be alert and wait in a line.
Darkness kills.

Without defending or blaming anyone, this oversize load was crawling along under overhead lines. Most of the time when you're trucking along at night and you see purple and orange lights they're moving along at a reasonable pace. So yeah, deception becomes part of the issue. Most will have come upon an overdim at night, the pilot lights partly obscured by following trucks and hey presto...bit of emergency braking going on... A few circumstances combining to give a tragic outcome, and having the seen the inferno minutes after it started...not pretty. But maybe we should leave the laying of blame with the boys in blue?

[Ocean1]

Oh - I'd definately stop and watch that puppy cross the road... Greenpeaces nightmare...

Anybody got a toothpick?





That's a D8, up there.

[mashman]

It could all be avoided if we went back to pick axe and shovel.

[oldrider]

It could all be avoided if we went back to pick axe and shovel.

Ignore the fact that our children would be randomly eaten by lions and tigers etc and that it would cold at night with no food!

Who the fuck needs progress anyway!

[jafar]

Anybody got a toothpick?





That's a D8, up there.

Need a log to move that, never mind a toothpick

[jasonu]

Anybody got a toothpick?





That's a D8, up there.

D9 (same physical size as D10)

[mashman]

Ignore the fact that our children would be randomly eaten by lions and tigers etc and that it would cold at night with no food!

Who the fuck needs progress anyway!

You forgot the sky falling, reverting to cannibalism, resurgence of the Taniwha and rampant homosexuality.

If the price of progress death and destruction, I'd be questioning why we're doing what we're doing... which, oddly enough, is exactly why I'm questioning why we're doing what we're doing.

[Ocean1]

If the price of progress death and destruction, I'd be questioning why we're doing what we're doing... which, oddly enough, is exactly why I'm questioning why we're doing what we're doing.

But it's not.



Which sorta exposes just how profoundly pointless your cargo cult bullshit is.

[mashman]

But it's not.

Which sorta exposes just how profoundly pointless your cargo cult bullshit is.

keep on fubmlin' man. The fact that we have to shift big shit by road is all to do with cost. If cost weren't an issue, then big shit could be shipped in any number of other ways. The OP incident may well still happen, but hey, it'd be one less thing eh.

[oldrider]

Coastal shipping used to keep a lot of stuff off the roads why didn't the Liabour government revive that again instead of buying the toy rail back?

Maybe they were afraid of getting the militant "Seamans Union" back with it!

[Trade_nancy]

Did you not read the news link?? The wide load was covered by a pilot at the front and rear. Then there was the Big Chill truck followed by the car and then the vege truck that run up the back of the car causing the crash. This has nothing to do with the 100km/h legal speed limit on the road as this is about him traveling at a speed where he could not stop within his visual distance. Therefore he was speeding.

Yeh Robbo - I read it. Correct lights make it legit - doesn't make it sensible for the situ and time of day/night though.
Place yourself in the situation where you are travelling along in the dark and ahead you see some tail lights of a truck and ahead of that more lights...you slow down and prepare to do maybe 70-80k? Maybe 50k? Trouble is - this rig was barely walking at many places and took the truckie by surprise. The truck that impacted was at fault for not stopping in time. My argument is only that the transport of this boat in this matter IN DARKNESS,...laid the foundation for the accident to happen. Approaching from a rear view and the warning is much less than frontal... may only see red tail lights....been there and seen that.

[mashman]

Coastal shipping used to keep a lot of stuff off the roads why didn't the Liabour government revive that again instead of buying the toy rail back?

Maybe they were afraid of getting the militant "Seamans Union" back with it!

There'd be plenty of us niggas around to do the job. Just throw in a 12 pack and a pack of special smokes (praps a bag o chups) and they can keep their unions bro.

[Ocean1]

The fact that we have to shift big shit by road is all to do with cost. If cost weren't an issue, then big shit could be shipped in any number of other ways.

Name a few.

No fairy dust or wizards.

[mashman]

Name a few.

No fairy dust or wizards.

No fairy dust of wizards, shit... in sensible parts and re-assembled on site for one (then transported by train, plane or automobile). Air lifted whole. Many smaller versions of the same machine. Pixies and Trolls. Work done elsewhere. By Sea (for the bulk of the journey.). Trebuchet. Aliems.