Why do car owners drive in the middle lane?

Flinty997

People learning the hard way about re-learning stopping distances in the wet.

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121113826#Comment_121113826

A crash for cash gone wrong?

Was the front vehicle in the shunt full of people complaining of whiplash and back injury?

magicbastarder

that's quite a whack the keywaste truck gave the white van.

AmpMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121113866#Comment_121113866

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121113960#Comment_121113960

They were probably rammed into each other. Happened to me once .

Car wrote off

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121113960#Comment_121113960

You'd wonder how much space each driver had allowed from the car in front of them.

I find that a big issue on the M50 especially in wet /foggy conditions. I like to leave a nice gap from the car in front of me, but without fail some plonker will pull into it which means I have to pull back further.

The two second rule seems lost and forgotten.

magicbastarder

I wonder how insurance companies handle this. Will every motorist except the last one claim that they'd stopped in time but were shunted into the vehicle in front? Or was it actually a case of seven individual rear endings?

Princess Calla

It looks like the green went into the white with force. The white then went into the black . There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of damage done to the black car or the silver one so I get the impression the black car was shunted into the silver one from the impact of the white.

It doesn't look to me anyway that silver stopped suddenly, causing black to go in to it, then white going into black.....cos if that was happening the green really should have had better reaction times.

How it plays out from insurance is anyone's guess.

bazz26

Typical brain dead drivers not leaving enough space or adjusting their driving to the conditions, too close to the vehicle in front to react to a sudden brake or stop. So close there was no time even to steer out of danger onto the verge where the photo is taken.

See it in winter time too on icy roads. You cannot teach stupid.

standardg60

Saw a video of it, the Keywaste truck was the last one and the biggest damage was between it and the white van. Damage got less as you went along the line so likely all the others were stopped at the red light and the truck didn't.