Hit & Run

[oldfatfool]

Don't wish to argue....however the truck pushing the car was on the A1M, so they were both going the same way, not head on. I am assuming their paths converged, with the car in a blind spot, wet roads and size did the rest.

iirc it was when the car joined the carriageway, the truck must have hit it head on at some point in the contact for it to end up how it did. No matter how the truck hit the car it would be a much bigger impact than a body no?,

For all we know the poor lady found in Scotland could have been side swiped, could have stumbled into the vehicle as it passed etc etc at no point in the report does it say she was run over.

 

[ComedyPilot]

iirc it was when the car joined the carriageway, the truck must have hit it head on at some point in the contact for it to end up how it did. No matter how the truck hit the car it would be a much bigger impact than a body no?,

For all we know the poor lady found in Scotland could have been side swiped, could have stumbled into the vehicle as it passed etc etc at no point in the report does it say she was run over.

Or that is was a lorry.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

[quote="oldfatfool, post: 2112173, member: 17081]"at no point in the report does it say she was run over.[/quote]

Excuse my ignorance but doesn't it say "Police said the 20-year-old's injuries were consistent with having been hit by a vehicle."
Aren't hit by a vehicle and run over pretty much the same thing?

 

[oldfatfool]

Or that is was a lorry.

But if you remember I was originally contesting your statement that a lorry would certainly be aware of hitting a person.

[quote="oldfatfool, post: 2112173, member: 17081]"at no point in the report does it say she was run over.

Excuse my ignorance but doesn't it say "Police said the 20-year-old's injuries were consistent with having been hit by a vehicle."
Aren't hit by a vehicle and run over pretty much the same thing?

Run over implies that the person was hit head on and disappeared under the wheels. Hit by a vehicle could just as easily imply that, for instance the person slipped from the pavement and fell against a vehicle as it passed, which would impart injury consistent with having been hit by a vehicle.

Two very different accidents with very different outcomes for the driver.

 

[400bhp]

No arguments. I just want to discuss our country's addiction to motoring, and it's terrible toll it has as a price for the 'freedom'

Political then.

Discuss - not much of that going on.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Though I doubt that it was an HGV at that time of a Saturday night, how can any vehicle which can inflict fatal injuries on a pedestrian without the driver realising be considered roadworthy anyway?