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« on: 2 September 2009, 21:25:48 »
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this is not a funny video!

Motoragent geschept op de A7


After an accident with a mini-van an ambulance gets assistance of 3 police motorcyclists. (Holland)

1 starts off immediately to get a distance and prepare the traffic on the nearby highway for the coming of the ambulance...and then it goes wrong...

here's a different view...

http://www.biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=15627

it always shocks me when people on duty are into problems...certainly by a 'sleepwalking' driver like this one...I cannot think differently that he wasn't driving concentrating on the road...
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« Reply #1 on: 2 September 2009, 21:32:21 »
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I saw the ther footage as well.
He was driving way to close behind the truck.
Young guy to with a sterotype fast car.
Probably more busy with his cd/radio than paying attention to traffic.
His sound may have been loud as well, since there were plenty of sirenes to be heard.
Last week a woman was killed on the same road while trying to walk over.......
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« Reply #2 on: 2 September 2009, 21:48:16 »
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seriously (and I am speaking from experience with 100k motorway km every year for more than 25 yrs), you get into a lull after 4-6 hours, breaks or not.

He could not see the obstacle long way ahead behind the truck (one of my rules: Never follow a truck - or any other vehicle that obstructs your sight ahead - for a long time), and after some hours on the road, in a dulling rhythm, you get kind of hypnotized...

(I had an accident like that myself riding a motorbike, truck pulled to the right, and suddenly I found myself behind another -stopped! waiting to turn left -  truck at 70 km/h.... Luckily I survived, let the moto slide under the truck and got rid of it, but almost too late. moto was crushed completely, beyond recognition...).

The agent also did not what was correct: Facing into - instead of turning to face out of -  the general traffic to avoid such a (not rare) situation... We all get distracted/lazy sometimes, he paid for his laziness/distraction...

Hope he recovered to tell the next police generation? What about the car driver?

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« Reply #3 on: 2 September 2009, 22:07:49 »
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the car driver stept out without injuries...I also found the bikers actions strange but looking at the speed of the traffic I suspect it was one of those thousands of tracks in Holland where the speed is limited to 70-90 kph...4 lanes or not...
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« Reply #4 on: 3 September 2009, 00:12:44 »
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getting hit at *30* on a bike is enough ,,,

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« Reply #5 on: 3 September 2009, 00:17:22 »
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"brandweer" = Fire brigade?  "Ziekenhuis" = Hospital?

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« Reply #6 on: 3 September 2009, 02:17:16 »
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As if I dont worry about my son enough already!
Thanks for the footage, sending link to my son immediately, as he is a Motor Officer and could use the lesson to ease his Da's mind.
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« Reply #7 on: 3 September 2009, 10:46:20 »
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Quote from: Rattler on  3 September 2009, 00:17:22
"brandweer" = Fire brigade?  "Ziekenhuis" = Hospital?

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P.S.: In another forum I frequent I now would get a reprimand for infraction of forum rules, having posted twice in a row, hope we never have to get to that stage.... Smiley R.


weer = defense
brand = burn

ziek = ill
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« Reply #8 on: 3 September 2009, 14:14:06 »
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On the other hand, even if you get hypnotized...a truck doesnt go to the right for nothing.
It means something blocks his way.

So you are stupid if you go on.
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« Reply #9 on: 26 September 2009, 18:21:44 »
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Thats the way motorcicle officers do it, i showed my uncle this footage, he is a motorcicle cop here in Belgium. That driver in the car just wasn't paying attention, all the others went to the other lane + he had enough time to see him. He schould lose his drivers licence forever. If thats the way you drive then you are a serious danger to others on the road and you schould not be driving.
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