Thursday, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:30
Dean, when you see the poor levels of driving skills on country roads, it really does make you wonder how people get their licence.
People pulling out onto the highway without looking have caused innumerable accidents.
I can remember, many years ago, buying some used parts for my F100 from a wrecker.
I asked him what happened to the Effie he got the part off, because it was unusual to see them totally wrecked, back then.
He said, "The bloke collected a loaded semi-trailer, full-on, that was going sideways up the Eyre Hwy!".
I said, "How the dickens could that happen?"
And he said, "It was all started by a dope in a Kombi van! The Kombi van was parked in a truck bay, on the left of the hwy, heading East - and there was a Greyhound coach approaching the truck bay, heading East, with the F100 following it.
There was a fully loaded East-Wester semi approaching the truck bay, heading West".
"The dope in the Kombi pulled straight out onto the hwy, right into the path of the Greyhound coach - so the coach driver swerved right, to avoid wiping out the Kombi!"
"In doing so, the coach driver swerved into the path of the oncoming semi! - so the semi driver took to the bush on the LHS of the hwy - then after the coach passed, he swerved hard right, to get back onto the hwy - and lost it!"
"He broadsided the semi right across the hwy at right angles - right into the path of the bloke in the F100!"
"The bloke in the Effie had nowhere to go, he was looking straight at 40 feet of semi coming at him, side-on!"
"He collected the semi full-on, and it totally destroyed the Effie! Fortunately, there were no fatalities or major injuries."
And the whole exercise was entirely the fault of one idiot who thought he was the only one using the highway.
Cheers, Ron.
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