Over The Hill
Guru
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a) Lambo doing 30
Mazda/VW is pulling out into the road and has a gap to pull into and enough time.
Lambo at a safe speed and he would certainly have seen the car pulling in and slot in behind him. Town speed of 30 and under is set so that we can deal with this sort of thing and we should be driving expecting things to pull out in front of us. Mazda was right out in the road and clear to see and deal with.
b) Lambo doing 60
It looks to me like the Lambo was doing a much higher speed. Lets say 60. So the scenario then is-
Mazda sees a gap and expects to go for it easily. Lambo "comes from nowhere" and appears perhaps after Mazda has checked gap, committed to go for gap and is checking other traffic. So Mazda may be quite fine and to have gone for a reasonable gap. Lambo has shot along far faster than expected hit both Mazda and parked car.
b) looks to be the scenario that happed given the very long stopping distance of the Lambo.
We all drive in towns and all have cars pulling out in front of us but we should always drive expecting this and at a speed to deal with it.
If Lambo speeding =his fault
If Lambo not speeding = should have easily stopped =his fault. Some blame on Mazda for pushing in.
Lambo driver is a d***head (and would still be even if he had not crashed).
Mazda/VW is pulling out into the road and has a gap to pull into and enough time.
Lambo at a safe speed and he would certainly have seen the car pulling in and slot in behind him. Town speed of 30 and under is set so that we can deal with this sort of thing and we should be driving expecting things to pull out in front of us. Mazda was right out in the road and clear to see and deal with.
b) Lambo doing 60
It looks to me like the Lambo was doing a much higher speed. Lets say 60. So the scenario then is-
Mazda sees a gap and expects to go for it easily. Lambo "comes from nowhere" and appears perhaps after Mazda has checked gap, committed to go for gap and is checking other traffic. So Mazda may be quite fine and to have gone for a reasonable gap. Lambo has shot along far faster than expected hit both Mazda and parked car.
b) looks to be the scenario that happed given the very long stopping distance of the Lambo.
We all drive in towns and all have cars pulling out in front of us but we should always drive expecting this and at a speed to deal with it.
If Lambo speeding =his fault
If Lambo not speeding = should have easily stopped =his fault. Some blame on Mazda for pushing in.
Lambo driver is a d***head (and would still be even if he had not crashed).
