Man charged over crash at M50 junction

**mypost** · 15/04/2005, 4:27 AM

Originally Posted by A face

Ringo .... what side of the bed did you get out on ??

Admit it .... you burnt yourself on your hot water bottle and there was not milk for your cornflakes .... cheers up fella ... we all have days like this !!

He spent the 2 hours throwing darts at his RC dartboard! Bought of course, at Carrolls Gift Stores!!!

**Ringo** · 15/04/2005, 7:02 AM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

It held Ringo up for two hours this morning, and that should be important to you pete. Whoever is finally found responsible should be given the electric chair, and their family sent to the Gulag.

Not a bad idea, must write to Mcdowall, he'd run with an idea like that.

**Ringo** · 15/04/2005, 7:04 AM

Originally Posted by A face

Ringo .... what side of the bed did you get out on ??

Admit it .... you burnt yourself on your hot water bottle and there was not milk for your cornflakes .... cheers up fella ... we all have days like this !!

The problem is every day is turning out like this! i'm turning into a grumpy old man

**fosterdollar** · 15/04/2005, 8:28 AM

Speed doesn't necessarily have to be a factor in the going through the wall part. A heavy truck is hard to stop at any speed.

**Ringo** · 15/04/2005, 8:44 AM

Originally Posted by Magoo

Speed doesn't necessarily have to be a factor in the going through the wall part. A heavy truck is hard to stop at any speed.

one would persume , the wall would have to be built to take a certain speed/weight of truck crashing into it.

**fosterdollar** · 15/04/2005, 8:54 AM

Well, given we would have presumed the M50 would be constructed using up-to-date traffic statistics rather than ones based on 20-year-old figures, would tend to have one now presume that the wall was, in fact, most probably of papier-mache construction.

**pete** · 15/04/2005, 8:54 AM

Originally Posted by Ringo

one would persume , the wall would have to be built to take a certain speed/weight of truck crashing into it.

ROLMAO. This is a country where the NRA has built motorways with no crash barriers & up to recently refused to admit that they were wrong (bsed data on 30 year old US studies). I could go on...

**Macy** · 15/04/2005, 8:58 AM

Originally Posted by pete

ROLMAO. This is a country where the NRA has built motorways with no crash barriers & up to recently refused to admit that they were wrong (bsed data on 30 year old US studies). I could go on...

Yeah, was it a wall or hedge the truck went through? If the NRA were that far sighted, there wouldn't be a roundabout there in the first place...

**Ringo** · 15/04/2005, 9:15 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

Yeah, was it a wall or hedge the truck went through? If the NRA were that far sighted, there wouldn't be a roundabout there in the first place...

It was the wall of the flyover, over the M50 as your heading in town. The long term plan is to replace the roundabout. As it happens that stretch of road has the latest (motorcyclist decapitating) steel cable barriers.

**Macy** · 15/04/2005, 9:31 AM

Originally Posted by Ringo

It was the wall of the flyover, over the M50 as your heading in town. The long term plan is to replace the roundabout. As it happens that stretch of road has the latest (motorcyclist decapitating) steel cable barriers.

I knew it was a wall, just commenting on the level of safety measures on the roads.

The old style barriers have in the past come off the posts and basically speared the occupiers of cars when they've been hit. The cables are now the standard, and will become more common with the introduction of the 3 lane roads (2 lanes in one direction, 1 in the other, swapping every couple of kilometres)...

**exile** · 15/04/2005, 9:52 AM

while we are on the story off traffic . has anyone experinced any road rage incidents saw a guy jump out of his car blackrock at start frothing at the mouth and banging on woman's car window while she had 2 kids in the back it was a horrible thing to see

**fosterdollar** · 15/04/2005, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by exile

while we are on the story off traffic . has anyone experinced any road rage incidents saw a guy jump out of his car blackrock at start frothing at the mouth and banging on woman's car window while she had 2 kids in the back it was a horrible thing to see

Knob-end. That's rediculous. Wonder would he have done the same things if she obstructed him (or whatever she did) while walking in the street? It's fair enough to get annoyed at the way others drive or how inconsiderate they sometimes are. Some people go looking for stuff to get thick about though (White van drivers) and it's never as bad as they try to make it out to be. If everyone is such a sh!t driver then why is taking them so long to realise that and come to expect it...

**Macy** · 15/04/2005, 10:52 AM

Again, you don't know what she did first. Could've nearly ran him off the road and it was just a spur of the moment reaction. No doubt an over reaction, but never beeped or flashed or given out to other drivers cutting you up and nearly causing an accident? Only one step on from that....

**dahamsta** · 15/04/2005, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Magoo

That's rediculous.

So did someone tell Magoo or did he do it all on his own?

**fosterdollar** · 15/04/2005, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

Again, you don't know what she did first. Could've nearly ran him off the road and it was just a spur of the moment reaction. No doubt an over reaction, but never beeped or flashed or given out to other drivers cutting you up and nearly causing an accident? Only one step on from that....

Well, that's just it. It's an over reaction, making it a pretty dumb thing to do.

Originally Posted by dahamsta

So did someone tell Magoo or did he do it all on his own?

huh?