End of a herald

[richardmorris]

Unbelievable driving!

 

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/dramatic-footage-shows-vintage-vehicle-11088583

 

http://i3.getsurrey.co.uk/incoming/article11088423.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Crash1.jpg

 

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[RayMK]

Looks as though the driver of the silver car requires tuition as to which pedal is which. Glad no-one was badly hurt.  Strangely, when driving my Herald estate into Bicester many years ago, a VW Beetle came out of a garage forecourt in the same way but slower.  I watched in horror as the VW's front wing screwed up on my offside light unit.  I was less troubled when I realised that my car had hardly a scratch.

[Stanky]

Appalling driving, however being forced to watch a 25 second advert about something shit before being allowed to watch 7 seconds of dashcam footage is also pretty poor. Local news websites as dismal for this sort of thing.

[Anthony]

What on earth was that 307 driver thinking?! I can only assume that they were so busy looking right that they didn't look left at all and just blindly accelerated out after the Fiat(?) went past.

 

Truly woeful driving that should see them up in front of the beak for driving without due care, the only saving grace being that the Harald driver was OK.

[mercrocker]

Appalling driving, however being forced to watch a 25 second advert about something shit before being allowed to watch 7 seconds of dashcam footage is also pretty poor. Local news websites as dismal for this sort of thing.

 

Agree.  You need Adblock Plus.....google it, download it and never see another ad.  

[DSdriver]

I often wonder if I have accidentally switched the cloaking shields on. Is it that some peoples brains just don't accept that there are still forty year old cars about and therefore dismiss the fact that the object is actually there?

[richardmorris]

Something similar happened to me back in 1992 when I was driving my dad's brand new ( day old) BX TXD to collect my mum from work. Happily the dozy bint who pulled out and hit me was from the left, so didn't get speed up, but managed to knock me and the bx over to the other side of the road and damage every panel from bumper to bumper on the n/s. Insurers didn't write it off though - K505LTU was one of the last registered.

 

It also happens a lot to cyclists. The old SMIDSY- sorry, mate, didn't see you. Which in reality means I couldn't be bothered to look. Surrey police have recently been conducting trials of drug swiping all road stops. Well over half of them are positive for something or other ( especially prescribed painkillers- diazapams, morphine etc).

 

The guy in the herald is very lucky. Although he may not think so having to explain to his dad why the prized classic is now a little worse for wear.

[richardmorris]

I often wonder if I have accidentally switched the cloaking shields on. Is it that some peoples brains just don't accept that there are still forty year old cars about and therefore dismiss the fact that the object is actually there?

I frequently think I've pressed the cloaking device button instead of turning the radio on. Some days you get a whole flurry of muppets who pull out on you, ignore you on roundabouts and generally try and drive though you. My colleague had this yesterday - he said three people pulled out on him on the way into work - he has a new focus. I on the other hand had a faultless cycle in with no muppets I recall at all.

[michael t]

Bad accident and awful driving, who knows the Pug driver may be young and inexperienced and simply chose the wrong pedal but the real shame is the poor Herald which is almost certainly dead

[dollywobbler]

The old SMIDSY- sorry, mate, didn't see you. Which in reality means I couldn't be bothered to look. 

 

That's a bit harsh. People are not perfect. I've certainly had to react to circumstances I didn't initially 'see' because our brains don't allow us to see everything. There's some very interesting science behind it, and we do get distracted very easily.

 

[Supernaut]

I've only experienced people not seeing me in one car so far.

 

My bright fuck-off-red MX-5.

 

I resorted to driving it with the headlights on at all times.

 

Seriously. I had to stand it on its nose more times than I care to remember because of muppets blindly pulling out in front of me. It never happened in either of the 306s, the A4, and hasn't happened so far (touch wood) in the Omega.

[Felly Magic]

This is normal driving standards for today. I've lost count of how many near misses I've had in Bury St Edmunds, with clowns pulling out on me, an I am driving a 33 ft long, 8ft wide, 10ft high bus. Even passengers agree that buses are invisible to drivers in that town! In November, we had a bus written off because an old Doris simply didn't look to her right when pulling out of Robert Boby Way, and in late Feb, one of my colleagues had 2 non fault accidents in a week, caused by idiots pulling out on them, one of them a doctor who just blindly pulled out of the hospital staff carpark

[richardmorris]

I don't agree really, and yes I can see the gorilla. It may have been Jimmy Saville saying it, but look once look twice was the right message.

 

People often don't look properly. What were you told when learning to drive? Not to just glance in the direction, but turn your head.

 

As for the SMIDSY message, in my experience it actually comes down to "yea I did see you but I don't care".

 

How can the driver of that Peugeot not have seen a green vehicle driving along the road they meant to cross if they'd actually looked? They were stopped at the junction- what do you do when stopped waiting to cross a junction? Look left and right and left again.

 

If it had been someone on a bike ( cycle or motor) they'd be seriously injured or dead.

[Tamworthbay]

I have seen people's eyes follow me down the road and they still pull out when I have been on my bike, the last one was two minutes from home and left a nice print of a Pirelli dragon on the idiots rear bumper. What really annoys me is that they rarely apologise. I have to admit I tend to get a bit vocal at that point, two mates have been killed on bikes by idiots pulling out and I spent three months in hospital due to a dick head who was more interested in the damage to his car than my multiple broken bones.

[rrsix]

I wonder if the Peugeot driver did what a lot of drivers round here seem to do. Look see your coming and think I can get out if front of that or if i start pulling out I can force them to stop. Add in that plenty who do this have no depth perception to judge the speed of the approaching car or just don't care as their journey is more important and the above happens far too regularly.

[richardmorris]

Well, not "like" but there isn't a sympathise button

[Dick Cheeseburger]

I've only experienced people not seeing me in one car so far.

 

My bright fuck-off-red MX-5.

 

I resorted to driving it with the headlights on at all times.

 

Seriously. I had to stand it on its nose more times than I care to remember because of muppets blindly pulling out in front of me. It never happened in either of the 306s, the A4, and hasn't happened so far (touch wood) in the Omega.

We used to get twunts pulling out/cutting up/generally being knob cheeses when we had our old mk1 Eunos. Mentality of 'see a small car and assume it can't possibly be travelling at a speed greater than 10mph'.

[Rocket88]

The Top Gear spoof on the modern Peugeot driver is uncannily accurate...............[awaits flaming....]

[eddyramrod]

I drive a plain white Transit.  It's totally invisible, until I do something wrong.  Meanwhile, as we all know by now, my bright red MR2 proved to be totally invisible in daylight.  Funny that, as her car was the same colour as the road and the rain, and I saw her... 

People simply don't care these days.  "My journey is more important than yours, whoever you are, fuck off out of my way" is the prevalent attitude and most people's default setting.  It's completely wrong, but that's the way things are.

[doobietoo]

Interesting that they took the screen out to get him out the car... if that was a modern car you couldn't do that....

[michael1703]

Heralds are pretty strong in the B post area and having transverse Spring more tendency to capsize

 

That car might not be as bad as you think, it's crap stability would have absorbed some of the energy

[HH-R]

What the Pug driver has probably done is look left and look right, but not straight ahead, the wee Herald no doubt lost in the A pillars as they have looked left.

[mikebee]

Have to wonder if they were on there mobile!! I walk a lot and see it more now than ever before.

[stephen01]

Poor herald, never stood a chance against a car twice it's weight!

 

at least the chap walked away from it.

[dollywobbler]

What the Pug driver has probably done is look left and look right, but not straight ahead, the wee Herald no doubt lost in the A pillars as they have looked left.

 

That's fair comment. All this safety bollox that makes an accident more likely because moderns are like looking out of a bleedin' tank. With the flaps down.

[Richard]

As for the SMIDSY message, in my experience it actually comes down to "yea I did see you but I don't care".

 

Or "I saw you but I didn't know how to process the information, so I ignored it"

[DSdriver]

"I did not see you"... When did you last have your eyes tested? There are a lot of drivers with terrible eyesight. A dead giveaway is when you are following them and they hit the brakes every time a car approaches in the other direction on a straight road.

[richardmorris]

"I did not see you"... When did you last have your eyes tested? There are a lot of drivers with terrible eyesight. A dead giveaway is when you are following them and they hit the brakes every time a car approaches in the other direction on a straight road.

Followed someone on Monday night who did that- doing 35 in a 60 and slammed the braked on when someone came the other way. Unfortunately the road is too twisty to overtake and every straight bit had a car coming the other way.

[mercrocker]

Looking at the footage again (painful though it was...) Where was the bloody Peugeot going?  There doesn't appear to be a cross roads there, just a junction.   

[jonny69]

I'll just quietly point out that some of you seem to be trying to apply some kind of logic to the way people in Surrey drive.