Go way you simpleton. The weed has rotted your brain.
Cars don’t veer across Roads uncontrollably due to low Tyre pressure you clown.
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That’s the problem with these people from the north west …no ownership or willingness to take personal responsibility.
Thought I heard on the news that one of the back tyres was flat on the car and something to do with cats eyes being 10mm higher on that stretch of road than they should be, so when a flat tyre hit the cats eye it caused the crash. How can you not notice a flat tyre on your car?
If you shouldn’t be driving unaccompanied as you are too inexperienced to realise, which tells us where we are at. I doubt the cats eyes were to blame in truth.
Lots of wimmin dont notice these things.Townies also.
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I know wimmin do have a problem noticing when the put petrol in the car but surely you would notice a flat Tyre when you are driving the car?
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Was it a flat tyre or was the pressure just low in it? I’ve stopped up to check on tyres where I thought something felt a bit off more times than I can count. The one time I got a flat while actually driving it was plain as day.
This was the report in the times
How long are you driving? Youd feel it v quickly if your tyres were only half inflated if you were an experienced driver.
In this csse it said there was no pressure in one tyre on the snippet I heard on radio.
I’m going to guess she’ll get off. Enough doubt there that the cats eyes on the road could have contributed to the crash. Reading the reports this morning it seems that expert witness called by the defence seems to have given her an out.
I think was that just conflating the issue by the defence engineers. That technically the cats eyes were 10mm off. one centimetre of a small item on the road would not cause a car to veer so violently as to lose all control and smash sideways into an oncoming van.
A flat tyre I would have though would cause the car to go slower and not be so out of control. I’ve had 2 blow outs on tyres, both happened on motorways, and neither time did the car lose any control or move in such a way that it couldnt be corrected easily.
Your an experienced driver probably though
I had an engine blowout on the motorway doing about 140ks an hr a few years back. Traffic everywhere. Car stopped pretty much dead. Only that i, and the drivers around me, didnt panic it could have been carnage
No way!!!
The defence expert witness has validated the defence story.
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Is that not his point?
There has been no mention of any other contributing factor.
to an extent that would be true. First time was when I was 19 or 20, the other was a couple of months ago. Very different cars both time, big difference in age and experience, but the reaction of the cars in both cases was virtually the same. it had very little impact on the trajectory of the car, if any at all to be honest. I didnt really do anything extraordinary to slow down and pull into the hard shoulder. Like you say, I didnt panic or shit myself, just slowed down and pulled in. But hitting a 1cm high cats eye on a flat tyre would not in my uneducated road engineer opinion cause you to go so out of control to cause such an impact.
Whilst the reports are saying speed wasnt a factor, the 4 girls were killed instantly. I dont see how speed couldnt have been a factor. It may not have been breaking the limit on the road, but the speed of a poorly maintained car, with a full load and inexperienced driver has to have been a factor.
you’d have to have a huge amount of sympathy for the girl. She was the driver of a car that killed all the passengers in it, all her friends. It must be absolutely awful to live with. But it seems that this was very much avoidable. She went 9 months without validating the NCT after buying the car? I know if my kids were of the age to buy a car, the first thing I’d be doing is making sure it was road worthy and safe.
If she is found guilty, I cant see a judge imprisoning her. Maybe a suspension on her licence will be about all that may happen.I doubt any guilty verdict or punishment will make her feel any worse.
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Both blowouts were on the Rear I’d guess.
A long time. Over 20 years.
Unless one tyre was actually flat or close to it, I don’t think you would notice it.
You passed your test yeah & have driven Agricultural Machinery? 