In the wrong place at the wrong time

[Belle_Hemmi]

Driving along the Pacific Highway in Queensland one night minding my own business when i found myself caught up between 2 cars racing.
I was in the middle lane of a 3 lane highway when i noticed a car approching very fast from behind and another car in the right hand lane approching me from behind as well.
I saw the car behind me indicate for about 2 flashs and edover into the right hand lane and sped past me little did i know he had clipped the car in the right hand trying to fit between me the and other car.
So there for the car in the right hand lane plowed into my drivers door at 100kmls.
As you can see by the pics at the moment of damage i wasnt much better off.

[get_an_ea_today]

Ouch thats heaps bad, would insurance cover that?

Matt

[Belle_Hemmi]

$12,000.00 later and 3 months off the road i have it back =)

[Zed7fiddy]

Dayum mate thats a wee bit scary! amazing that the cops didnt suspect you of street racing though!

Good to see your out of it unharmed!, i woulda damn near pooooped meself!

[Falcon_Phill]

What happened to the dick heads?

[AMT]

Wow 12 grand....!!! glad you were ok....did the cops get the racers...???

[donno]

Did they catch the retards racing? Hope they threw the book at them, then made them eat it.

[Belle_Hemmi]

They caught the guy that hit me only because he rolled his car the one that clipped him got away

[2002auxr6]

i cant view the pics, where are they??

[Belle_Hemmi]

sorry about that ill post again

[uranium_death]

Bad luck on that.
You know Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic"...it should have been called "stiff s***" and unfortunately, that is exactly what has happened to you...you can be doing nothing wrong and everything right and in the end, you're the one to get stuffed.

I hope that they catch the perpetrators someday and hopefully you'll never have to be on the giving or receiving end of anything such as this every again!

Glad to hear that you weren't injured (you didn't say much about that aspect)...that's the most important thing.

[Peuty]

Where abouts on the Pacific Motorway was it mate?

By the way, you were very very lucky not not be far worse off!

[Dauphin]

That must have been terrifying - your driver's side! Glad to know you're okay.

[Sorted]

OMG, good to hear that you came out of it with only a damaged car..........which has been fixed now, thats a fair whack..........

[Keepleft]

If the left lane is clear, use it first-always. Avoid keeping middle.

Then, summary roadside execution for the idiots:-)

Example, see diagram.
http://www.td.gov.hk/road_safety/roa...ays_/index.htm

[gtfpv]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

If the left lane is clear, use it first-always. Avoid keeping middle.

Then, summary roadside execution for the idiots:-)

yeah the same thing happened to me !! always stick to the left lane from now on . cheers . hope you are ok mate .

[TheSneakiness]

Damn...

Unfortunately the Pacific Highway is notorious for idiots doing that, and yet won't take them to Willowbank because they're afraid they'll break something.

[PepeLePew]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

If the left lane is clear, use it first-always. Avoid keeping middle.

Then, summary roadside execution for the idiots:-)

Example, see diagram.
http://www.td.gov.hk/road_safety/roa...ays_/index.htm

I agree totally, problem being that at least here in SA the upkeep of the left lane kinda sucks in many cases with shocking camber and nice drain undulations etc....makes many travel in the right lane when it shouldnt be necessary to do so ..

[Black F6]

Glad to hear that your OK.

Cars can be fixed, damn lucky though with only that damage.

Not lucky, but you know what I mean????

[Quicksand]

$12k seems pretty expensive i know there was probably more than panel damage but sheesh dont they squeeze the cash out of you/insurance companies. Just doesn't seem like $12k worth of damage thats all....glad to hear you are OK.

[Keepleft]

Originally Posted by PepeLePew

I agree totally, problem being that at least here in SA the upkeep of the left lane kinda sucks in many cases with shocking camber and nice drain undulations etc....makes many travel in the right lane when it shouldnt be necessary to do so ..

$$$, thing is to find the local engineer and nag her. Funding for Commonwealth roads 'maintenance' arrives once per year and most roads agencies have 'agreements' and 'contracts' for 'basic up-keep'.

Such contractors like to spend little.

Ways and means to fight this. I deal with NSW in this regard only.

Your SA federal example, 'direction to VIC' - however I had input into its 'lane start treatment' (2 to three) to mirror NSW F3 practice. I must check up on this btw, if the blokes done this to old Victorian method however, execution will prevail.

Here in NSW, it is on the cards that we'll END the rightmost lane, when dropping three to two, to mirror German practice (L to R in Germany naturally). The idea being to leave the left lane unbroken, to further encourage use of it, rather than the middle-lane.

To drop a 'right' motorway lane, I am supporting a 700 metre taper/drop (>130km/h), rather than a low speed environment (110 - 130km/h) suggested 500 metre. (Ref to some AUSROADS crap).

Ways and means, early days yet.

Don't mean to take this too far OT.

[Belle_Hemmi]

the reason it was $12,000.00 is cause Mercedes Benz fixed it. they have fixed all my cars

[Belle_Hemmi]

Originally Posted by Peuty

Where abouts on the Pacific Motorway was it mate?

By the way, you were very very lucky not not be far worse off!

Just before Main / Klump Road Exit coming from the city

[Dezza]

Lucky you got out of that OK. Damn idiots