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[dstig1]

Are you telling us that Hollywood is "Hauling or Towing something wrong?"

 

[goeduck]

Yes GingerBilly is quite a hoot, but I find there is only so much of him I can take at once...

I could only take about 60 seconds.

 

[square1]

I could only take about 60 seconds.

You outlasted me by about double

 

[kenmbz]

Then there's the traffic in India. No rules.

And a feature I'll bet is a holdover from when the Brits ruled India: Anything larger and heavier in heavy traffic owns the road. So his horn means get out of the way or die, non negotiable.

I was stopped at a light in Jaipur, next to us was an ox pulling the back part of a truck.
Across from use was someone riding a camel.
Along the side was an elephant going up to the tourist area.
While surrounded by small motorcycles, Padmini taxis, tuk-tuks and other older cars based on very old french and british designs.
Most motorcycles had whole families on them.

Only the Camel and elephants were unusual, seeing ox driven wagons was pretty common, as was overloaded trucks and motorcycles and scooters. 30 to a truck, 4-6 to a motorcycle.

During rush hour, many roads become one way, even 4 lane ones. And it's not by design, just seems to happen organically!

 

[groundcover]

All because of a ladder that was in the roadway, too bad the hauler didn't have a ratchet strap or two.

8 Orange County (California) Firefighters were hurt, some critically, when their apparatus crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, last night.



The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 1850 hours in the Portola Springs area.



A ladder of some kind that was in the roadway caused the fire truck (personnel transport rig) and another vehicle in front of it to swerve. The OCFA truck collided with a nearby guard rail and overturned. See photo attached.



6 members have suffered "very serious" injuries and 2 others have minor injuries.

OCFA Chief Brian Fennessey said one of the Firefighters was airlifted to a hospital while paramedics rushed the seven others to local medical centers. Just 2 of the Firefighters are in stable condition.



"We ask that you pray for our Firefighters and their families," Fennessey said. "All of the families have been notified. This is the beginning of a long road for many of those Firefighters and our fire department."



The Firefighters had been operating at the massive Airport Fire before the crash and they were on the way home after a 12-hour shift.

 

[LouNY]

All because of a ladder that was in the roadway, too bad the hauler didn't have a ratchet strap or two.

8 Orange County (California) Firefighters were hurt, some critically, when their apparatus crashed on a freeway near Irvine, California, last night.



The Orange County Fire Authority truck overturned on State Route 241 at about 1850 hours in the Portola Springs area.



A ladder of some kind that was in the roadway caused the fire truck (personnel transport rig) and another vehicle in front of it to swerve. The OCFA truck collided with a nearby guard rail and overturned. See photo attached.



6 members have suffered "very serious" injuries and 2 others have minor injuries.

OCFA Chief Brian Fennessey said one of the Firefighters was airlifted to a hospital while paramedics rushed the seven others to local medical centers. Just 2 of the Firefighters are in stable condition.



"We ask that you pray for our Firefighters and their families," Fennessey said. "All of the families have been notified. This is the beginning of a long road for many of those Firefighters and our fire department."



The Firefighters had been operating at the massive Airport Fire before the crash and they were on the way home after a 12-hour shift.

I hate to hear about someone getting hurt especially from someone else's negligence. I also have a problem with drivers that swerve out of their way to try and avoid obstacles and end up creating a worse incident then driving through the obstacle be it debris or an animal.
A few years (several) I was coming home from work in heavy traffic when some dipstick lost a pallet off his truck just a few vehicles ahead of me with all of us doing over 70 mph 3 lanes wide. The vehicles in front of me swerved to avoid the pallet and got tangled up with other cars and started creating what became a several vehicle incident, if I had tried to swerve I would have been in that incident, instead I treated it just like I would have an animal, I drove right through that damned pallet, I did pick up a nail but I got home with no other damage and fixed the tire that night.

 

[Renze]

Those "minis" are bloated, almost 1500kg in such a small car, pathetic.

They arent exactly mini anymore, more like a VW Golf. The VW Up is in the size class where the original Mini was

Volkswagen Up - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[gstrom99]

Then there's the traffic in India. No rules.

If this thread could get a traffic cam feed from India, we'd be overloaded with the crazy stuff they do there, within a week...

 

[WinterDeere]

During rush hour, many roads become one way, even 4 lane ones. And it's not by design, just seems to happen organically!

I remember meeting a German buddy of mine for lunch in Verona Italy, when I was working in Florence (Firenze) one week about ten years ago. I meet him at the train station, and we head on foot to the town center to find a restaurant. At the first major intersection, 2 or 3 lanes in each direction with a traffic light and crosswalks, he stops and waits for the light. But when the light changes, none of the traffic stops, and he just continues standing there.

This cycle repeated two or three times, and I tell him he just needs to start walking, and traffic will stop. He looks at me and says, "this is no place for a German".

Having lived several years in Philly proper, where pedestrians are generally treated like targets, I didn't think it was such a big deal.

I hate to hear about someone getting hurt especially from someone else's negligence. I also have a problem with drivers that swerve out of their way to try and avoid obstacles and end up creating a worse incident then driving through the obstacle be it debris or an animal.

Swerve into my lane to get around a cyclist in your lane, on any country road having only one lane in each direction and no shoulder, and I will hit you head-on. My truck is a lot bigger and heavier than your Rav4... I won't be the one taking the med-evac chopper to the local trauma center.

I don't understand people who are so entitled to think all traffic in unaffected lanes of traffic should have to stop for them, just because they don't want to wait a few seconds to safely pass an obstacle in their own lane.

 

[KennyG]

Swerve into my lane to get around a cyclist in your lane, on any country road having only one lane in each direction and no shoulder, and I will hit you head-on. My truck is a lot bigger and heavier than your Rav4... I won't be the one taking the med-evac chopper to the local trauma center.

I don't understand people who are so entitled to think all traffic in unaffected lanes of traffic should have to stop for them, just because they don't want to wait a few seconds to safely pass an obstacle in their own lane.

As a cyclist, I've been surprised at the apparent increase in the number of people who think it's OK to run oncoming traffic into the ditch so they can pass me without slowing down. Of course, I should probably be happy because they are probably the people who used to run me off the road. (And I'm talking about low traffic rural roads here.)