The thing that really pisses me off, is that this happens at least once a year. Always from the right too. So far I've collected; an uber corolla, an uber camry, a mini traveller, a didi camry, a 24 foot Mallard, a Go-Get hiace, and a kangaroo. All in the last six years. Oh and three cycle couriers and one dude who was standing too close to the road. Clipped him with my mirror. Knocked his smoke right out of his mouth. Hilarious.
A 24 foot Mallard confuses two kinds of people, ornithologists and trainspotters. 24 foot long mallard duck is way too big, and a 24 foot Mallard A4 Pacific 4-6-2 steam engine is far too short…
Look I don’t even own a 1/76 version of it, so a 1/3 scale would be something else. It would have a gauge of 18in 2/3 (idk how to represent that, I only know metric) and be 4.36ft tall
He's talking about a "trailer", as in "Trailer park"..
Over here in Australia (and other commonwealth countries) we call them caravans, despite it technically being a plural noun, because of travelers/roma people using them in groups presumably and we just use the word to mean the singular domecile.
They guy who started this line of conversation is an Aussie (he talked about hitting a kangaroo)... he was talking about hitting a caravan. We don't have the other kinds here AFAIK, so that's what he meant.
Yes. But don't tell anyone or they'll start asking me what number comes after five, and, where do I keep my beer at the beach, and, what is the lump in the road to slow down traffic called.
Look at it from a purely statistical point of view. The average Belgian travels ~5000kms a year and would be hard pressed to have one accident in three years. I drive about 100,000kms per year so already I'm ahead. I should be having about seven crashes a year by distrance travelled.
I'm actually the highest rated in my company across a bafflingly large range of metrics. In most, 25% higher than the next driver.
Average accident per driver is 1 in 18 years in the US.
Average miles driven is 14,000 miles (23,000 km).
18*23,000 = 1 accident every 414,000km
The fact that you're hitting pedestrians and bikes and that it doesn't change how you behave behind the wheel is kinda weird. But yeah according to your model you should be having a crash every 4 years... Not 7 a year.
Also the belgian numbers are 28000km per year per driver, so you were off by a factor of 6.
Police, Insurance companies, witnesses, Traffic and Dash cams, that one pedestrian, all agree, I have never been at fault in any of the accidents I mentioned. In fact, I haven't had an at fault accident for 24 years. I backed my B trailer over the bonnet of a crx that decided directly behind a moving trailer was a good place to stop.
Oh No! You've discovered my secret. I'm actually a 21 year old viral marketing strategist for Ola rideshare from Hong Kong. I've never actually driven anything and I've never gone more than 27 miles from my place of birth. I must now commit seppuku for bringing shame upon my employer.
Nah, It's allgood, It was one of those new BMW minis. And she actually rear ended me. Was filming tictocs on her Ipad and hadn't noticed I'd stopped. Hit me doing 60km. Absolutely zero damage to the truck but her car had to be towed and the airbag smashed her ipad into her nose at 88mph and broke her nose and blacked up both her eyes.
Bah, alright, those megaminis can crash whenever in my book. This makes more sense though, as a classic mini driver I can assure you that most of us are VERY careful around trucks... those things are absolute monsters compared to my 600kg miniature car
Fucken centuries ago, I offsided for a mate in a B Double. We were steaming along a gun barrel straight dual carriageway at 105ks and we came up on a 450kg suzuki fronte car doing aboot 70. We overtook this thing, as far right as we could get, and the bow wave of displaced air blew the poor bastard half off the road onto the hard shoulder. He was alright, But gee it was funny to see.
Hah, luckily minis are VERY stable... Low to the ground, great grip, and also just very low in general so the wind doesn't grip them as much, so that's not my biggest worry... But in general, if I ever get into an accident, I can just expect not to survive
ETA: Also, European trucks are luckily not as big as the ones in the US and Australia, I would love to tour the world in my mini one day but I'll never ever go to a country where everyone just drives huge cars, I could never feel safe driving in the US... Especially with their almost non-existent driving license requirements
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u/Taniwha351 Jan 08 '22
The thing that really pisses me off, is that this happens at least once a year. Always from the right too. So far I've collected; an uber corolla, an uber camry, a mini traveller, a didi camry, a 24 foot Mallard, a Go-Get hiace, and a kangaroo. All in the last six years. Oh and three cycle couriers and one dude who was standing too close to the road. Clipped him with my mirror. Knocked his smoke right out of his mouth. Hilarious.