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| ![]() The discussion on the technicalities of bike riding is fascinating and highly instructional. To those of us who do not rife bikes, it is even illuminating! But there is a bottom line on both accidents, the collision with an oncoming biker and the collision with the Innova. Whether by bad tracking or bad overtaking, both the offending bikes were on the wrong side of the road. If only people could get into their heads: "Left side, mine. Right side theirs." Then overtaking, cutting corners, etc etc would be viewed with an entirely different attitude. This is absurdly dangerous to people, let alone cars. Last edited by Thad E Ginathom : 1st June 2017 at 16:00. |
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| ![]() Quote: As suggested by someone, barriers or atleast cones should be placed to help these hapless drivers. I hope you should suggest for a eye check camp in your office for the greater good. Last edited by prithm : 1st June 2017 at 16:08. | |
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At the end of the day, cops are appointed by the government and paid by the tax-payers. These are uniformed 'officials' and no one can argue that they were compelled to fall to unethical and illegal methods to stop someone who for all you know might not have even done anything wrong. Whatever happened to stopping someone on the basis of some evidence or under some reasonable suspicion? What happened to our rights? Our freedom? These policemen have no right to behave like thugs and for all I care I am paying them to show some courageous restraint as the job requires. Afterall they are here to protect us. Yet they act like we are the enemy ![]() Next one will argue that civilian casualties in countries like Syria is understandable because they walk, talk, and dress the same as the enemy as well as run away just like the enemy. What separates uniformed officials from the thugs out there if they don't enforce what is right in the correct manner? Last edited by khan_sultan : 10th February 2019 at 07:58. Reason: edited quoted post for better readability | |
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1) Indigo was parked without a handbrake, as one of my team mates was leaning on it during break time, and the car started to move ![]() 2) Volkswagen was a non-sense case, as it was raining cats and dogs, the Girl who got the car her parents came to pick her up in office. Dad decided to drive and went straight down. After the incident Girl was shouting the Security Guards and Drivers from our office. ![]() Now I have attached a Image sharing how the design is of my office. The 1st thing when you enter the office through the gate, you can see the parking which is a bit on elevation. Which can be seen in the 1st pic (Indigo). To park the car on the elevated part you need to go through the turns I have noted in the image, also their is a slope between 2nd and 3rd turn. On the other hand their are cars parked right in front of the elevated zones. Which can be seen on the image attached. In both cases the cars were not present so drivers might have drove off. | |
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Check out the distance between the Baleno and the Yellow Vehicle. I have a feeling he (Baleno) didn't want the biker to overtake and hence was driving a bit defensively, ofcourse the message originator would know if that's the case. All said and done the it was the bikers mistake to go so much in to the opposite lane without checking for oncoming vehicles, Not wearing protective gear. - Slick | |
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Distinguished - BHPian ![]() ![]() | ![]() I witnessed the aftermath of a gory accident involving a two wheeler. The bike was at the far left corner of the road and the rider was at 50 meters distance in the far right besides the center median. It is a wide road connecting the city with byepass (Oyamaari intersection of Trichy). The accident must have just happened. The bike was heavily damaged. No signs of the other vehicle involved in the accident. Looked like a hit and run case. The rider was dead on the spot. People have just started running towards the body. While I crossed him, i saw his skull was broken into two. :( He did not wear a helmet. It was quite a warning as i used to do triple digit speeds on my 390 over that road as it was always free and 4 laned. |
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The parking lot is poorly designed. Simple orange plastic poles at about 3 feet distance bolted to the floor will stop such accidents. Does not cost much. There are plastic triangles that are bolted to the floor to avoid vehicles rolling over if the driver fails to put the parking brake or if it does not work. Both are needed. Orange poles create a visual barrier for the driver. The plastic triangles arrest inadvertent vehicle movements. |
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The ledge is pretty high so the front wheels would have rolled off the ledge with the underside taking the first hit and then scraping along the edge of the ledge till the front wheels made contact with the ground. |
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On other note have escalated it to the responsible people long back, they already have started using a " VLC " cone with chains. Last edited by Rehaan : 6th June 2017 at 11:24. Reason: Removing unnecessary comment. | |
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