Triumphrat

Tbirdnz · 04-20-2009, 10:20 PM

The eyes were open but there was no-one home !

I was driving today in my large white LandCruiser towing an empty trailer along a local country highway, just ahead of me a lady on the side road in a 4WD was waiting to turn in my direction. I watched her whilst she looked left, then right (directly at me) and then proceeded to turn in front of me !

I slammed on the brakes and stopped within inches of her driver's door ! She also had stopped halfway across the road. If it had been wet I would have hit her, if I had been on my return journey with a load of 4 x 178kg concrete drainpipes I would have ploughed thru her.

As it was it was a perfect sunny day, I had not long been coming out of a wooded area so still had my headlights on. I was also wearing a road-workers fluorescent safety vest !

Neither of us got out of our vehicles, it was in a dangerous situation being stopped in the middle of the road, she was apologetic thru the windscreen and we drove on.

I haven't been that close to a smash-up for a long time. I think my motororcycling experience helped me avoid that crash as I always look at drivers at T-junctions to see what they are about to do as I cross in front of them, even so it was quite a shock.

....but it shows you, I couldn't have been anymore visible but she still didn't see me !

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Ride on !

NEV1050 · 04-21-2009, 08:53 AM

Had the same thing last week while driving home from work in a Mazda T3500 truck. Woman looked at me and pulled out straight in front of me from a petrol station and turned straight across two lanes going opposite way to me. She had 2 kids in back seat which is where i would have hit if i had not braked in time. She was in a Toyota corolla and i was doing 80ks an hour so you can imagine the result had i not been paying attention.

I could see the horrified look on her face as i screeched to a halt so hopefully it was a lesson learned for her.

HiDesert · 04-22-2009, 12:37 AM

...and when will people learn that hitting the brakes is not always the best choice? I bet if she'd hit the gas, you'd never have gotten within five feet of her.

Tbirdnz · 04-22-2009, 05:51 AM

.....well if she'd stayed on the brakes at the junction instead of gassing it I wouldn't have needed to post this thread !

...........and I learned one thing, you can't counter-steer a landcruiser !

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Ride on !