J1a-J2 Darenth M25
RIP Driver. 
Medical incident ?
Possible stroke or heart attack. Thereâs nowhere for you to safely run up off the road there, in the seconds youâve got.
One of my old colleagues had some kind of Brain hemorrhage. He had managed to pull into a layby, phone in and say âI donât feel very wellâ, when the phone went dead.
It took the rest of the day to find his parked-up wagon, with him by that point stone cold dead at the wheel within it, from what I heard at the time, back in the days before all vehicles were moment-to-moment tracked like they are nowadays.
It seems then, like there might be a time of a few seconds to a few minutes where you feel yourself going, and would instinctively try and get your wagon parked up, and off the road safe.
Obviously, in those types of RTA where the truck smashes into something causing blunt force trauma death - no one has any idea if the driver at the wheel died of a medical incident such as described linked above, especially when no real post mortem is possble, due to obliteration of the driver on impact.
I would imagine that in the event of a heart attack, rather than stroke - thereâs a period of a few seconds where one might âfeel themselves goingâ, meaning that more often that not, a driver has the opportunity to make that last professional move a driver can possibly make - getting the vehicle off the road in a fashion that no danger is then presented to other road users.
At places like M25 J1a-2 - itâs all slip roads and no hard shoulders in many parts, so such a place is the very worst place to âfall illâ, and probably contributes to the sheer number of ALL road users - who come to fatal grief there.
J5-6 of the M25 - is another bit with diverging lanes, and no hard shoulder.
I donât think it is any coincidence that such a large number of fatal RTAs happen on this stretch as well âNowhere to get off the road in a hurry when you donât feel wellââŚ
The M42 near Shirley - is another spot I can think of that fits this description⌠âManaged Motorwaysâ - which cannot manage oneâs health, alasâŚ
A bit scary in the linked article - when it talks about such âmedical incidentsâ being a symptom of covid-19 as well, eh?
âNo Previous History ofâ - suggests that such an oncoming condition - is unlikely to cause a pro driver to have been âmedically retiredâ before reaching the point where they might die at the wheel in the manner described here. More research is needed, I reckon. Too much medical energy is based around âsleep disordersâ and âregular migrainesâ it seems, at present⌠
RIPâŚ
Drive.
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