Bit of a shunt...
 

85 cars involved in a pile-up between AD and DoBuy. And the fannies on the radio still saying, "Accident caused by fog...".

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And every frigging newspaper has got something in there about "...caused by dense fog". Why don't they say "...caused by God's will"?

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caused by tommy tankers :)

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According to police visibility due to fog was reduced to 50 metres (m), and that most of the cars involved in the pile-up were speeding at 120 km per hour, despite poor visibility conditions.

At 120 kph your reaction distance is 22 m, braking distance is 85 m and total stopping distance is 107 m …explains a lot ! :rolleyes:

The speed required to stop within 50 m is about 78 kph, but still too fast for the foggy conditions experienced !

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sounds like that massive pile up a few years ago when there was only 3 fatalities and about 60 cars on fire :rolleyes:

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Ghantoot

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yeh similar place, between samha and ghantoot.

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Ghantoot - whatever. The fog didn't cause the massive pile up, poor driving in bad weather conditions did and always will.

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"A crash is not an accident"

[(C) The Dean's dad, circa 1976]

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There are no accidents.

(Mr Ugui, Kung Fu Panda, 2009)

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Latest figures say 127 cars, 60 injured, one death.

I'm at a total loss to understand why people drive like idiots when they can't effing see. Imagine how much worse it would have been on a weekday morning. :(

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I was hoping they would confirm their stupidity by claiming the fog was caused by angry Jinn and Satan fiddled with everyone's breaks the morning before...

N.

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Clearly not enough of them put their hazards on, that would've solved the problem at 120 clicks...

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A friend did the same journey yesterday when there was fog again and said that people were still whizzing by at 150+, no lights and/or hazards flashing.

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Darwinism in action...

... and then there's the "0 road fatalities by 2020" target... seriously pmsl!