Rider down on the Cotter Road

milkman said :

Waaaaaaaah Speed Waaaaaaaaaah.

Calm down. When people are told speeding is the cause of most accidents, a few of them eventually believe it.

If the person on the black Honda was slightly broad across the shoulders, the bike resembled a Harley Davidson and the person in the car has had dealings with motorcycle gangs, perhaps they fled in sheer panic and in fear for their lives!
I hope the rider recovers quickly, but the poor bike…think of the bike people.

Waaaaaaaah Speed Waaaaaaaaaah.

NoImRight said :

what_the said :

NoImRight said :

JimCharles said :

It doesn’t mention speeding, it mentions that the car driver was on the wrong side of the road.
95% of the driving over here is fine and actually pretty slow with low speed limits. It’s the 5% of complete idiots who somehow have attained a driving license that make it dangerous.
Instead of bringing the standard up with better education, tougher tests and harder driving lessons, it’s easier just to make everyone go slower and use excessive speed or not wearing seatbelts as the reason for accidents. It’s an admission of failure if anything.

So you think its likely this guy “respected” the speed limit requirements but felt being restricted to one side of the road was just Govt interference?

If he was on the wrong side of the road he was driving at a speed that was too fast for him, whether it exceeded a speed limit or not.

This post makes no sense.

Im not your mother nor your teacher. Your problems with comprehension are for someone else.

I’m struggling with what you’re trying to say as well.

Noyou’rewrongyouporkhunthowcanberran.

JimCharles said :

It doesn’t mention speeding, it mentions that the car driver was on the wrong side of the road.
95% of the driving over here is fine and actually pretty slow with low speed limits. It’s the 5% of complete idiots who somehow have attained a driving license that make it dangerous.
Instead of bringing the standard up with better education, tougher tests and harder driving lessons, it’s easier just to make everyone go slower and use excessive speed or not wearing seatbelts as the reason for accidents. It’s an admission of failure if anything.

I agree that speeding in most places is possibly monitored/enforced at the expense of a lot of other offences. As well, I consider that regular retesting (of any sort initially) would help to improve driver behaviour.

However, the Cotter road works are quite bad. When the bollards are knocked over it would be very easy to unknowingly cross to the wrong side of the road. At times it even appears as though the oncoming lane is on the other side of the concrete dividers. The week before last I saw a young woman stop on the road because, after turning right off Lady Denman, she obviously thought the poorly placed red light then facing her was for other reasons. Anything over 40km/h at all times in these areas makes a serious accident all the more likely.

You’re completely tight…I mentioned about the motorcyclist to my missus this morning and she said the Cotter roadworks are awful, not well signposted or marked so it’s not surprising if somebody has got disorientated.
Doesn’t explain why they didn’t stop though, that’s cowardly behaviour when somebody is badly hurt due to their actions.

I have been avoiding that stretch for months. Too many frightening things are happening. The guy on the bike was seriously unlucky. I hope he gets well soon, without any permanent damage. Hope the miscreant is hunted down like the feral dog they are.

what_the said :

NoImRight said :

JimCharles said :

It doesn’t mention speeding, it mentions that the car driver was on the wrong side of the road.
95% of the driving over here is fine and actually pretty slow with low speed limits. It’s the 5% of complete idiots who somehow have attained a driving license that make it dangerous.
Instead of bringing the standard up with better education, tougher tests and harder driving lessons, it’s easier just to make everyone go slower and use excessive speed or not wearing seatbelts as the reason for accidents. It’s an admission of failure if anything.

So you think its likely this guy “respected” the speed limit requirements but felt being restricted to one side of the road was just Govt interference?

If he was on the wrong side of the road he was driving at a speed that was too fast for him, whether it exceeded a speed limit or not.

This post makes no sense.

Im not your mother nor your teacher. Your problems with comprehension are for someone else.

tim_c said :

Rollersk8r said :

We came across the scene of this accident on the way home from the footy on Saturday night. It’s been years since I’ve driven along there – and the accident is not surprising considering the state of the road/roadworks. The road diversions are very confusing and it should be lit up at night.

I agree – I drove through there for the first time on Friday evening and it appears they’re trying to get people to have head on collisions. Heading eastbound, you’re supposed to be diverted off onto the shoulder, but there is no signage to indicate this until you’ve actually successfully made it onto the diversion. The original linemarking directing you straight ahead (ie. not off onto the diversion) are more prominent (particularly at night) than the lines marking the diversion. If you miss the diversion, you’ll end up in the oncoming traffic, and the temporary concrete barriers would prevent westbound traffic from avoiding a collision.

IMHO, the contractor has been quite negligent in the signage of the west end of the roadworks (even though during working hours, you’re slowed to 40km/h for nearly half a km before even entering the roadworks zone), and the ACT Gov’t is quite negligent in failing to ensure that contractors (here and elsewhere in ACT) do not signpost roadworks adequately.

Well the buck stops with Lord Ratten for TAMS is his portfolio.

NoImRight said :

JimCharles said :

It doesn’t mention speeding, it mentions that the car driver was on the wrong side of the road.
95% of the driving over here is fine and actually pretty slow with low speed limits. It’s the 5% of complete idiots who somehow have attained a driving license that make it dangerous.
Instead of bringing the standard up with better education, tougher tests and harder driving lessons, it’s easier just to make everyone go slower and use excessive speed or not wearing seatbelts as the reason for accidents. It’s an admission of failure if anything.

So you think its likely this guy “respected” the speed limit requirements but felt being restricted to one side of the road was just Govt interference?

If he was on the wrong side of the road he was driving at a speed that was too fast for him, whether it exceeded a speed limit or not.

This post makes no sense.

JimCharles said :

It doesn’t mention speeding, it mentions that the car driver was on the wrong side of the road.
95% of the driving over here is fine and actually pretty slow with low speed limits. It’s the 5% of complete idiots who somehow have attained a driving license that make it dangerous.
Instead of bringing the standard up with better education, tougher tests and harder driving lessons, it’s easier just to make everyone go slower and use excessive speed or not wearing seatbelts as the reason for accidents. It’s an admission of failure if anything.

So you think its likely this guy “respected” the speed limit requirements but felt being restricted to one side of the road was just Govt interference?

If he was on the wrong side of the road he was driving at a speed that was too fast for him, whether it exceeded a speed limit or not.