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hash tag said:
You sure thats not a front wing thats been damaged and needs replacing also?
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I think it will need a new wing, suspension seeing to, obviously a new bit at the front, possibly (another) new bonnet. All colour matched etc, plus the light-washer thing replaced, parking sensors; all adds up to a lot of work/cost. But for once it isn't Frau Bahn's fault, except choosing to park where she did, but I'll let that slide as I value my testicles.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Some cunt driving a local care in the community minibus has just done this to our car:
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They have admitted full responsibility, and a hire car will arrive in the morning. The garage says with Xmas on the way it may be a month before they get it fixed. With the hire car being an X5, ouch to their insurance.
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How did they do that - reverse into you?
 
mauvais said:
A HGV tractor like that pulls up to 44 tonnes. A Mk5 Golf weighs about 1.5 tonnes.

Visibility is poor:

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They're noisy. Add all that up and it turns out it's possible to push a car along without immediately noticing.
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I broadly agree with you, but the front mirror gives visibility to the front blind spot, if a driver checks it, which they don't have much call to do so if they are already moving I guess.
 
BigTom said:
I broadly agree with you, but the front mirror gives visibility to the front blind spot, if a driver checks it, which they don't have much call to do so if they are already moving I guess.
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It's (kind of) understandable that once a car gets in there the truck driver may not notice and push him along a bit. What's more challenging to get to grips with is how the car got in there in the first place without the truck driver noticing. From the way he's facing it seems he's cut in front of the lorry from the nearside lane, got collected and pushed along, but even at very low speed you'd expect the truck driver to notice the initial impact wouldn't you?
 
Spymaster said:
It's (kind of) understandable that once a car gets in there the truck driver may not notice and push him along a bit. What's more challenging to get to grips with is how the car got in there in the first place without the truck driver noticing. From the way he's facing it seems he's cut in front of the lorry from the nearside lane, got collected and pushed along, but even at very low speed you'd expect the truck driver to notice the initial impact wouldn't you?
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It'd be really interesting to see what happened, I'd agree the most likely explanation is that they've cut in front of the lorry, got hit on the rear side and turned around like in a PIT maneouver, I don't think you can expect the truck driver to notice the initial impact at a low speed, and it's possible that they were stationary when the car cut in front and i really wouldn't think they'd notice if they were moving off from stationary.
edit: that said, if moving off from stationary, they should have checked their front mirror.
 
From the start of the Ellie Goulding clip its impossible to tell whats happened.
There are no side turnings in view and I note it was on the A40, a 30 limit.
 
Well there's no way he came out of a side road and and got hit. The cab driver would have had to be on some serious drugs to miss that.

The driver's seat of the Golf is going to need some heavy duty cleaning though. He must have thought he'd pissed-off the driver from Duel. :D
 
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Spymaster said:
It's (kind of) understandable that once a car gets in there the truck driver may not notice and push him along a bit. What's more challenging to get to grips with is how the car got in there in the first place without the truck driver noticing. From the way he's facing it seems he's cut in front of the lorry from the nearside lane, got collected and pushed along, but even at very low speed you'd expect the truck driver to notice the initial impact wouldn't you?
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Having watched a few similar incidents in those Russian dash cam videos on YouTube, it tends to be exactly as you describe, and not that uncommon. Not saying it was the case here, but almost invariably it involves the driver of the car driving like a cunt and attempting to undertake the lorry and squeeze through a gap, only for karma to intervene.
 
mauvais said:
A HGV tractor like that pulls up to 44 tonnes. A Mk5 Golf weighs about 1.5 tonnes.

Visibility is poor:

hgv-vision.jpg


They're noisy. Add all that up and it turns out it's possible to push a car along without immediately noticing.
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This is why they’re pushing for HGVs with low cabs, London is mandating it in a few years.

Direct Vision Standard and HGV Safety Permit

A good thing IMO. Will provide a lot more awareness of immediate surroundings, providing the driver’s not watching videos on their phone.
 
God knows what people think a 200mph Lamborghini is for if not speeding. The fucking things should be banned from all roads.
 
hash tag said:
Is that why they are talking of introducing speed limits on the autobahns IN Germany?
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People have been talking for years but I doubt it will happen, even though the pile ups are legendary.

There is a reason German cars are solid and stable at high speed and it is because of how they are used on the autobahn.

However limit free sections are not everywhere, on quite a lot of autobahn there are limits.
 
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