Dumb SOB in a jaguar coming out the garage onto the link road cant be assed to drive back up to the A34 roundabout and back down the link road to Didcot oh no!
Decides to turn right onto the eastbound carriage way and hit a bloke on a bike head on.
Lad on the bike full set of broken ribs,shoulder,ankle and written off bike(a week old).
Where the hell was the Tesco trucks,Wonder if he would have liked to play chicken with 30 tonne of Axor?Hope the pillock gets a bit of time with her majesty.
Shades of this: the death of one of a very few genuine heroes of motorcycle/motor sport (with a George Medal to prove it).
Following his retirement from motor sport, in late 1979 Mike Hailwood established a Honda-based retail motorcycle dealership in Birmingham (UK) named Hailwood and Gould, in partnership with former-racer Rodney Gould
On Saturday 21 March 1981, Hailwood set off in his Rover SD1 with his children Michelle and David to collect some fish and chips. As they returned along the A435 Alcester Road through Portway Warwickshire near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden, a truck made an illegal turn through the barriers onto the central reservation, and their car collided with it. Michelle, aged nine, was killed instantly. Mike and David were taken to hospital, where Mike died two days later from severe internal injuries. He was 40 years old. David survived with minor injuries. The truck driver was fined just £100.
What Wiki doesn’t make clear is that Hailwood was not killed by a 'truck driver"; he was killed by an unlicensed driver who happened to be at the wheel of a truck.
robinhood_1984:
Why Tesco? Is there a Tesco DC nearby meaning that there would normally be a lot of their trucks there?
Yeah there is. I’ve just come that way and parked up for the night on the estate near Tescos. I purposely took note of the garage exit as I passed and Bking is right, he must’ve been a proper arrogant ■■■■ to attempt that maneuvre. No way could you do it accidentaly.
As an aside even if a Tesco truck had been coming towards the car it’s likely ato have been travelling that slow that the car driver would’ve had time to stop, select reverse and gently retrace his steps with no danger of collision!