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    traffic camera crashes

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    Wonder what it is with that corner? The conditions or stupidity or what?

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    Always fun to laugh at the stupidity of others....
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    Simple answer: people not driving to the conditions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket36 View Post
    Simple answer: people not driving to the conditions.
    Sounds like the bs spiel the RTA gives us.

    Very few of those cars look like they were driving unreasonably for what would appear to be a normal corner, some of them just panicked as soon as they got out of line.

    Looks like ****house roads and poor driver training to me, both a huge problem in Australia.

    That went on for months on end, surely after a little while they would do something about the surface of the road.

    Actually, why don't they sit a highway patrol car on the blind side of that corner to catch people coming around and fine them for 'not driving to the conditions', that will fix the problem.
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    Those people would be lucky to be able to drive a greasy stick up a dogs back side, let alone a car.

    The problem is in the drivers, not the cars or the roads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoVeReIgN View Post
    Sounds like the bs spiel the RTA gives us.

    Very few of those cars look like they were driving unreasonably for what would appear to be a normal corner, some of them just panicked as soon as they got out of line.

    Looks like ****house roads and poor driver training to me, both a huge problem in Australia.

    That went on for months on end, surely after a little while they would do something about the surface of the road.

    Actually, why don't they sit a highway patrol car on the blind side of that corner to catch people coming around and fine them for 'not driving to the conditions', that will fix the problem.
    LMAO!!! You crack me up... If you drive within the limits of the law, the limits of the conditions and the limits of the car, you will NOT crash! Simple! Blaming the road, the car, the conditions are all just poor excuses for someone who can't accept responsibilty.

    Quote Originally Posted by Preen59 View Post
    Those people would be lucky to be able to drive a greasy stick up a dogs back side, let alone a car.

    The problem is in the drivers, not the cars or the roads.
    Exactly!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket36 View Post
    LMAO!!! You crack me up... If you drive within the limits of the law, the limits of the conditions and the limits of the car, you will NOT crash! Simple! Blaming the road, the car, the conditions are all just poor excuses for someone who can't accept responsibilty.
    You say that, until one day you hit an oil slick you can't see and side straight into a wall.

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    Yeah, there's definitely an element of messing about going with a couple of those but the motorbike going down and the bus drifting isn't funny and has to be a problem with the road surface.

    If any of my family died there, I'd be gunning for negligence on the part of the road authority.

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    Quote Originally Posted by h100vw View Post
    Yeah, there's definitely an element of messing about going with a couple of those but the motorbike going down and the bus drifting isn't funny and has to be a problem with the road surface.
    I agree. This corner is obviously catching a lot of people out, so something is going on there (road surface off camber, something slippery coming off the bridge above and coating the road, or whatever ?)

    But I also noticed that many of the cars sliding were "on the more mature side", so maybe they didn't have very good tyres (ie near bald). Some of the following cars were able to brake reasonably heavily (to avoid the balletic cars spinning in front of them) and they were stopping without apparent problems.

    Certainly it makes you wonder about the state of some of the other cars that we share the roads with, doesn't it ?
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