Yikes.
This morning.
Leonard’s Corner, South Circular Road, Dublin.
Dublin Fire Brigade tweetz:
Surface water today for the morning commute Allow for greater braking distances…Pedestrians will have hoods up limiting visibility,..look out for them…School areas will be busy too…
Name that jammer, anyone?
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I cannot name the jammer (Golf, maybe?) but it does remind me of a few accidents I have been in in my life. In one, a relatively minor thump, but in a car with a full steel chassis and the body more or less bolted on. The car suffered minor damages, three people in the car suffered various levels of non-life-threatening injuries, including my own broken ribs and clavicle. We were out of business for a few weeks.
Then there was one in a small Toyota Corolla which was thumped by a truck, upended, spun, and was eventually halted by crashing into a pole. Wet roads, car aquaplaned, truck tried its best, but still. All 4 of us in the car were wearing our seatbelts. All 4 of us opened our doors and walked out of the car. We were sore, but that was all. The car was destroyed (I do have a picture somewhere, but I may not be free to share it)
I am a firm believer that engineers are our friends. While the car takes a hit, the people inside do not, to the same extent.
I hope that all were well in this incident.
Yeah older cars were fairly solidly built, and so all the shock of the impact was transferred directly to the squishy occupants. Modern cars are purposely designed to crumple like accordions – it may look worse, but its safer for the people inside and outside if the chassis acts like soft padding to soak up inertia. Additionally engines are now designed to fall through the bottom of the car instead of formerly pushing through into the cabin.
My dad used to be (wrongly) horrified at how newer cars crumpled.
Recently watched a documentary on the evolution of car safety standards, and how easy it was to be maimed or killed back in the day when cars seemed invincible. They may have been, but not so the folk on the inside. Who often ended up on the outside.
For example you can no longer be impaled on a protruding radio knob (hah!).
polo
Jammer: I’m seeing Rod Hull’s Emu when it snarls.
HAH!
It’s great that cars have gotten better at protecting us in high speed impacts whether on a grand prix track or on a motorway.
But in the city centre you need to slow down, especially in the wet.
ABS is great, but you still have to obey basic physics.
A car needs distance to stop.
Brakes? Brakes? Come on Broadsheet, call them what they really are.
Wheel MUZZLES.
Padraig Pearse didn’t die so our Pirellis, Michelins and Firestones would be shackled thus!
Stand up, free the wheel, REJECT that libtard “science” and keep the right foot down.
Actually, isn’t the brake pedal to the LEFT of the acceleraror? Curious….
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Why?
BS SEZ: the word ‘libtard’ is on our naughtiness auto-sensor Ian-O. No offence intended.
What possible reason might there be outside me annoying a moderator, for what I have no idea. Sorry to waste both our times, I’ll be off so.
Fair enough so and thanks for the clarification. I appreciate, intent aside, its meaning can offend so won’t use it again.
I always hated riding my motorbike in the rain in Dublin city. You were guaranteed that someone would forget how to brake on time and almost knock you off your bike. Approaching crossroads were the worst. They should make wet weather breaking a big part of the driving lessons and tests for car drivers.
this morning a dublin bus broke the red light and mounted the curb as it turned the corner i was on. there was fupp all traffic too so what’s his damn rush? bus drivers drive like teens in toyota glanzas, and not in the biggest vehicle on the road.