BEDROCK Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Dozens of people have been injured as 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the A249 Sheppey crossing in Kent. Eight of those hurt in the collisions, at about 07:15 BST, are thought to have serious injuries. Early reports said 200 people had been hurt, but police later revised the figure. Aerial footage shows the aftermath of the collisions, which happened in thick fog. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sheppey-crossing-crash-kent-pileup--involving-up-to-100-vehicles--leaves-more-than-200-hurt-8799266.html That is a lot of vehicles, I sure hope nobody has died, these roads are death traps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 130? How can the driver of the 101st fail to see 100 cars piled up in front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 these roads are death traps. Would you like to expand on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEDROCK Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Bets are that too many people were tail gating and not paying attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 It's always chaos on the roads the first couple of days back from the school holidays. It's like people left their brains at home or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 130? How can the driver of the 101st fail to see 100 cars piled up in front? The weather report said 15 meters of visibility on fog. I suspect people were driving too fast.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 The weather report said 15 meters of visibility on fog. I suspect people were driving too fast.... Probably the cause, but the matrix boards should have showed the problem. However, I've known occasions where they've not been working in such conditions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Probably the cause, but the matrix boards should have showed the problem. However, I've known occasions where they've not been working in such conditions If you have a thick wall of sudden fog I'll bet they didn't realise what they were driving into. Also it's not a motorway so maybe there were no matrix boards there, in the usual fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DT Ralge Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Roads aren't death traps. Fog doesn't kill, injure or damage too much on its own. Drivers prove themselves to be deficient in all sorts of ways. Most of the time their deficiencies don't have negative consequences. Sometimes they get bitten as a result of these deficiencies and call it an "accident". I saw rather a lot of deficient drivers this morning in very thick fog this morning on the A17, Lincolnshire. Far too many of them apparently hadn't considered putting their headlights on. An amazing number seemed confident that they could be seen with just candle-strength side-lights. Thick fog, thick drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Headlights in thick fog is the last thing you want to do - the light scatters back and dazzles you. Sidelights and fogs are often better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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