Man dies in car tyre changing accident

[Tynan]

You'd think not but people regularly slam into the back of police cars and even fire engines that are stopped with lights aflashing.

agreed but that's a vehicle actually on the road in front of people driving

 

[Ashaman42]

agreed but that's a vehicle actually on the road in front of people driving

Even when they're off on the shoulder they get hit. I don't think it's that people aren't looking so much as zoning out, looking but not seeing if you will.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

ah, never sure on that one, so all relative to the curb then?

still think the passenger side is alright under the cirumstances, you're suggesting that another vehicle is going to hit a stopped car on the hard shoulder with hazards on, doesn;t strike me as awfully likely

You may feel safer tucked down behind your car on the side away from the traffic, but you're still going to end up badly injured if a truck sideswipes the offside of your car while you're changing the nearside wheel. It's not likely - I've changed wheels on the hard shoulder myself and got away with it, back before I was aware just how dangerous it can be - but it's still risky.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

You'd think not but people regularly slam into the back of police cars and even fire engines that are stopped with lights aflashing.

Part of the reason for that is the bright flashing lights make it difficult to judge distances.

 

[GrasB]

Part of the reason for that is the bright flashing lights make it difficult to judge distances.

... which leads onto why you should view your solid light as the 'primary' light & a flashing light as a supporting light when on a bike.

 

[BentMikey]

...unless you have a single main light that stays on low, and still strobes.

Perhaps the bigger part of why people crash into brightly lit emergency vehicles is target fixation.

 

[Ashaman42]

...unless you have a single main light that stays on low, and still strobes.

Perhaps the bigger part of why people crash into brightly lit emergency vehicles is target fixation.

This is probably the case as at least part of the time the emergency is on the shoulder so shouldn't be hit in normal travel.

 

[GrasB]

...unless you have a single main light that stays on low, and still strobes.

I wouldn't call that light flashing though, it's strobing high & even so I'd still want a solid light to give some kind of constant source.

Perhaps the bigger part of why people crash into brightly lit emergency vehicles is target fixation.

But also when people are looking at a blue flashing light they're looking to avoid a vehicle in the general flow of traffic, add to this the fact that some motorist so the daftest things when presented with a blue flashing light & you have a recipe for an incident.