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04-03-2009, 4:27 PM
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heard about this on the radio today, I am amazed that nobody was seriously injured or killed but I have to ask, were they asleep? How the hell to 6 (!!!!) plough into each other like that?  BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Six lorries involved in M6 crash
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speeding
they where all speeding, it is the only cause of accidents according to nulabore...
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hard to tell what happened from that tiny picture
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04-03-2009, 4:32 PM
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Originally Posted by eric pisch  speeding
they where all speeding, it is the only cause of accidents according to nulabore...
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hard to tell what happened from that tiny picture | Another pic here, looks like they shunted?  Also says up to 6 articulated lorries collided but the red one in that pic is not an articulated lorry....... BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands
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Originally Posted by eric pisch speeding
they where all speeding, it is the only cause of accidents according to nulabore...
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hard to tell what happened from that tiny picture | Oh get over yourself Eric will you,
I enjoy most of your posts, but recently you're just coming over as a complete prat.
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Having seen how close lorrys drive to each other I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often!
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I imagine they were all too close, it takes a long time to stop one of those buggers
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I enjoy most of your posts, but recently you're just coming over as a complete prat. | well that told me ...
on a side note sky are reporting several accidents on the M61 due to snow, warm in london atm thou http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...rs_In_The_Snow
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Originally Posted by smallclanger I imagine they were all too close, it takes a long time to stop one of those buggers | Exactly, stopping distances are the main reason, thats why most of them get annoyed when cars cut in front of them when it would be safe for a car, a lorry however has a few ton behind it to try stop too.
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I saw that, have to go up to cumbria tomorrow after work so could be fun 
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Originally Posted by Iccz Exactly, stopping distances are the main reason, thats why most of them get annoyed when cars cut in front of them when it would be safe for a car, a lorry however has a few ton behind it to try stop too. |
I don't get annoyed, I just wonder how some of them have managed to live so long I know about the stopping distances but what I don't understand is how so many managed to end up in it. If they were reading the road properly they should have seen it coming hence my comment about them being asleep It happens with cars all the time but lorry drivers are supposed to be more aware which makes me wonder who is training and/or employing these people 
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Most HGV drivers are nutters.............My brother was one. Curses other artic drivers yet he was the same. Brilliant at driving dustcarts, once totalled a brand new BMW 7 series when he went round a corner.
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Originally Posted by KillerOfThreads Most HGV drivers are nutters.............My brother was one. Curses other artic drivers yet he was the same. Brilliant at driving dustcarts, once totalled a brand new BMW 7 series when he went round a corner. |
dustcarts are a lot of fun to drive especially when it's icy, you can spin them around really easy as they have a lot of back end swing but I think this is what also catches people out, scarey when they are full though! Lot of points for a BMW, most I've managed was a ford Ka(K)
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Originally Posted by stormchaser2005 were they asleep? | probably - it seems to be the root cause of a lot of accidents involving lorries. Unlawfully long hours, then a long stint on a motorway, get into a convoy, doze off, bang.
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Around there it's 1 of the most congested area's of motorway,the gov should force the private motorway to lower there prices not put them up to stop people using it and wearing the road out.
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Problem with lorries is slowing down costing time and money when your getting back up to speed.
On the motorway they seem to drive closely to 'get in the slipstream' or play games of silly overtaking where it takes them about 5 mins to get past then they cut in dead close.
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