[ramki.grandhi]

A rock fell on Harrier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Of...l=News18Virals

[Mustang Sammy]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Seriously though, it's getting to be near on a pandemic where people are taking turns in front of vehicles going straight/also turning. Boggles the mind as to what goes on in their head.

I guess most believe that traffic around will stop for them.

I cannot count the number of times that people have taken u-turns from the lane to the left of me, once even scraping my car in the process.
Then they have the gall to get angry as to why I was blocking their u-turn.
Leave alone traffic laws, these morons don’t even understand geometry and trajectories of moving objects.

[chaitanyakrish]

Originally Posted by Fire_Burner

Horrible accident in Mahbubnagar district of Telangana

Hello,
Please share any info on the source of this news as I couldn't find it in the newspapers.

[Fire_Burner]

Originally Posted by chaitanyakrish

Hello,
Please share any info on the source of this news as I couldn't find it in the newspapers.

My friend is an MBBS student at Government Medical College Mahbubnagar. The autopsy of the person who died was done at their hospital.

[Kashief]

Originally Posted by ramki.grandhi

A rock fell on Harrier.

https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=y6Of...l=News18Virals

Horrible accident The rock further rolled over on the Wagon R and what happened to the passengers?

[sarathlal]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

Sand, gravel, grit are all over the place on roads. Do they cause skidding? No, they do not.

....

Q. What causes a skid?
A. The Driver.

Absolutely true as far as the driver is concerned, but not so for the administrators responsible.
These attributes do not 'cause' a skid, but they definitely 'aid' or multiply the action magnitude of errand drivers.

Since roads are filled with people like the one who drove that red car, it is criminal negligence from the part of the authorities to leave such dangerous elements on the road. Wet road etc is beyond anybody's control, but leaving truck load of sand on a serious curve is not.

And most of the time, some innocent person who neither triggered the accident, nor accelerated the event will end up at the receiving end.

[electric_eel]

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom

It's another of my Dad's Q&A session with me (might even have been a UK driving-test question too): What causes a skid?

As with our pedestrian-right-of-way dialogue, all those usual suggestions got a firm "No!" from my Dad.

He really made me work at that stuff. Result: I still remember, almost 60 years later. Short version:

Q. What causes a skid?
A. The Driver.

Worth reading all these short question answer session. These are much better at getting the point across than deep and technically correct ruminations on the physics of driving (not that I don't like the latter). Do you have them recorded somewhere (written I mean) ?

[balenoed_]

Originally Posted by ramki.grandhi

A rock fell on Harrier.

… Wagon R and an Alto.

Originally Posted by Kashief

..and what happened to the passengers?

Read somewhere that there was a fatality.

[deathwalkr]

Miraculous escape for student as school bus collided with bicycle...

Video is in the link below. Really hope he got some sense knocked into his head and glad that he is ok.

https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/...aculously.html

[krishnakumar]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Video is in the link below. Really hope he got some sense knocked into his head and glad that he is ok.

The news article says the cycle lost its brake which led to the accident as the kid was coming downhill on a slope. The regular claw type brakes on cycles are almost non functional during rains anyway. I had an accident like this when I was a kid (luckily no other vehicle involved). The cycle just wouldn’t slow down on the slope and I had to turn causing a slide, scraping away a good chunk of flesh from my feet. I still carry the scars about 2 decades later.

Reading the article for this accident, I’m actually very glad for the boy’s mother. The article says the boy’s father is no more; losing her son as well would have absolutely debilitated her, especially since the article says he was out to get groceries for the house (most likely his mom’s bidding).

[ninjatalli]

Originally Posted by deathwalkr

Miraculous escape for student as school bus collided with bicycle...

Thank god he's able to walk away from this incident. But that video / article should have been saying "miraculous escape of a student who crashes his bicycle into a school bus". In face the scooter that crossed before him seems to be going at a slower speed than the cyclist.

Edit: noticed the translation above of the brakes failing in above post. What a lucky escape. But thanks to this video, hoping the bus driver is not troubled.

[Mustang Sammy]

Originally Posted by ramki.grandhi

A rock fell on Harrier.

https://www.Youtube.com/watch?v=y6Of...l=News18Virals

My god! Where was this?

[epiccross]

Originally Posted by krishnakumar

The news article says the cycle lost its brake which led to the accident as the kid was coming downhill on a slope.

Yup, the article clearly says it and pretty much expected in rains. Honestly nothing much he could have done. And IMO cycle is inherently multifolds unsafe in rains and it's always better to avoid and walk/take a bus. I've asked my brother to always go by car at half the usual speed or take a bus during rains.

Glad the boy is safe though, Miraculous escape

[Bhokal]

Originally Posted by Mustang Sammy

My god! Where was this?

It happened in Nagaland

[hdus001]

Came across this news somewhere: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-...mily/102570330

Given the number of high-powered motorcycles involved in accidents, perhaps this is something we could adopt.

"New laws in South Australia will introduce a licence class for people who drive ultra high-powered vehicles"

"If you drive an ultra high-powered vehicle, you need to go through training to have that accredited on your licence,".

"An ultra high-powered vehicle has been defined as one with a power-to-weight ratio of 276 kilowatts per tonne or higher."