(zb)nutz should exit the motorway from lane 1 and not 3!
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It does!
Man you should add a warning if sharing a video where some ones is killed. !!! Disturbing. Brrrrr.
Dan ze Man:
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It does!
Man you should add a warning if sharing a video where some ones is killed. !!! Disturbing. Brrrrr.
No one was killed. Story below.
Lady Luck was nearby.
Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly…
the nodding donkey:
Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly…
Excellent philosophy… just sent mine to bed 
All the more reason why you should not be stopping for a tacho-break on entry/exit slip roads … there by the grace of god.
Wasn’t that on the same road where Farage nearly got killed recently?
His wheel nuts were all loose at once, and the police are happy to tell HIM that “someone tried to kill him” rather than just issue him with a fine and points like we would over here…
The woman lost her hand I understand… From the debris, it’s apparent that she is a mum too - so it’s lucky that there were no kids in the car with her…
Meanwhile, the dashcam on the truck exonerates the driver in what otherwise might well have been a hard-to-explain impact with the car NOT being the “driver behind”'s fault. 
Fairly standard driving for Belgium think it has been on here before it is certainly old footage
mazzer:
Fairly standard driving for Belgium think it has been on here before it is certainly old footage
Too true. I didn’t get involved in the best/worst drivers nationality thread but the first thing that came to find was that car drivers are especially bad in Belgium. They’re nowhere near as bad as Americans but for Europe they do seem to be particularly reckless.
Its the only place in Europe I’ve had a car tailgate me doing 90kph and then undertake me on the hard shoulder despite lane two being empty of traffic, to swerve in front of me between the truck I was following, then over take that truck properly on the correct side, actually using a lane of travel. I don’t know, perhaps he was a visiting American tourist who got lost on his way in to Brussels and was showing off to his wife after watching Nascar the night before etc.
trux:
All the more reason why you should not be stopping for a tacho-break on entry/exit slip roads … there by the grace of god.
The one she ran into was queuing for the turn off.
peterm:
trux:
All the more reason why you should not be stopping for a tacho-break on entry/exit slip roads … there by the grace of god.The one she ran into was queuing for the turn off.
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Yes i know that , i watched the clip.
but it still doesn`t excuse people stopping for a tacho-break on slip roads , know what i mean , innit . like.
robinhood_1984:
mazzer:
Fairly standard driving for Belgium think it has been on here before it is certainly old footageToo true. I didn’t get involved in the best/worst drivers nationality thread but the first thing that came to find was that car drivers are especially bad in Belgium. They’re nowhere near as bad as Americans but for Europe they do seem to be particularly reckless.
Its the only place in Europe I’ve had a car tailgate me doing 90kph and then undertake me on the hard shoulder despite lane two being empty of traffic, to swerve in front of me between the truck I was following, then over take that truck properly on the correct side, actually using a lane of travel. I don’t know, perhaps he was a visiting American tourist who got lost on his way in to Brussels and was showing off to his wife after watching Nascar the night before etc.
Aint it funny how we all have different perceptions of things. I have driven in many different countries including Belgium and America both east and west coasts.
I particularly remember the Brussels ring road which I have travelled on in a truck, in a car and on a motorbike. Always a very busy road with a lot of drivers driving far too close and being quite erratic at times but compared to the UK I find they are far more alert about what is going on round about them. They concentrate on their driving.
As far as America goes I have never really found any great problems apart from the idiots which you get everywhere. I would put the American driving above the driving in the UK but maybe my perception would change if I lived there and drove all the time.
Or maybe it is like the UK where the standard of driving varies throughout the country and is better is some areas than others.
apparantly that exit is always backed up on a regular basis to the effect that theres gantrys with warning signs informing you to gtf over into the righthand lane a few kms earlier which she ignored.nothing other than a stupid scatterbrained idiot woman driver…nothing more or less than that. she survived after a time in hospital.theres no amount of safe driving,rules,regulations or anything else can protect us for idiot drivers like her…although no doubt without the class video footage,it would have been blamed on the flipflop that didn’t stop.
albion1971:
As far as America goes I have never really found any great problems apart from the idiots which you get everywhere. I would put the American driving above the driving in the UK but maybe my perception would change if I lived there and drove all the time.
Or maybe it is like the UK where the standard of driving varies throughout the country and is better is some areas than others.
I would put American driving way below anything found in Britain. The fact that something like 95% of cars are automatics and they have absolutely no grasp of lane discipline means they’re just about all in cloud cuckoo land until the very last second before pulling off something reckless to exit the interstate from the fast or middle lane etc.
Maybe in a car its fine but when you’re driving an under powered North American truck and are constantly being cut up and having endless amounts of stupidity going on around you it soon wears thin. When I returned back to the UK to drive for 3 months a few years ago it was wonderful to be surrounded by so many people who were alert and paying attention. It never ceased to amaze me in the UK that on a two lane dual-carriage way, you approach a slower moving truck so put your indicator on and a car will slow down and flash you out.
In America trucks generally have the same speed limit as cars and most cars trundle along on their cruise control and take longer to over take a truck on the interstate than two trucks in the UK do in an infamous elephant race. In the same scenario as above, if you approach a slower truck, or usually in the US it will be a car, you indicate and the car on cruise control who’s approaching you at 0.1mph faster than you will put his or her foot down to box you in, then drop back to their original speed and take 2-4 minutes to pass you, by which time there are 40 cars behind all waiting to get past so you still can’t over take the slower car and eventually when you can and move out, get 3/4 of the way past the slower car speeds up to something in excess of 80mph roars down the inside of you swerves in to the middle lane in front of you and either isn’t seen again or just as likely, you catch them back up 10 minutes later and have the same situation all over again. This type of thing is an endless battle in the US, especially in my line of work going up and down the I95 on the eastern seaboard where from southern Maine to Virginia you have something like 600 miles or so of continuous urban sprawl and huge traffic density.
As you say about Belgium for example, they often do reckless things but unlike Americans, they’re paying attention and generally pull things off and get the eff out of the way and are never seen again.
already been shown last year might have been on here
Yes robinhood I hear what you are saying. Obviously different driving a truck has other problems a bit like this country.
Only driven a car in the States.