On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:55:15 +1000, Kev blathered on in :aus.cars
> ReSiN8oR wrote:
>> Jeßus wrote:
>>> Mot Adv wrote:
>>>> "Toby Ponsenby"
>>>>> True enough, but the inventor of the piece is indeed a sayer of
>>>>> sooth:-)
>>>> We motorised type people are tax banks.
>>>>
>>>> F6 Fog vid - unrelated.
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FkLjK9KG4
>>>
>>> That fog is mild compared to how it can be on the F6.
>>> Worst fog I've ever seen anywhere ever was on the F6 circa last
>>> October, it was so bad it was almost time to pull off the road (if you
>>> could find somewhere).
>>>
>>>
>> I was thinking the same thing. I've driven along in both directions day
>> and night in heavy fog. Times less than 20m visibility. Particularly
>> around Maddens Plains. At least at night you can see lighting making
the
>> drive easier. I can still vaguely remember a massive pileup one foggy
>> day years ago. Many cars involved. Ring any one elses bell?
>>
>
>
> wait until there is a bush fire close by and the smoke mizes with the
fog
> you won't even see the front of your car
>
> I came across this one night many years ago, towing a car on the
> trailer, hit the fog at around 70-80kph and everything disappeared and
> all I could see was a faint yellow glow from the headlights(couldn't
> actually see any light beams cause I couldn't see the front of the car)
>
> I had slowed to slower than walking pace and got a glimpse of the road
> and I was on the wrong side, just as I steered left someone went past
> going way too fast(probably only 20-30kph) for that ****
> I crept along and after another 100 metres or so it cleared up
>
> The last time I came across this same thing(at the nearly same place I
> might add) was closer to a bridge, this time as I crept through I came
> across some morons who had actually stopped, not off the side of the
> road, but right in the middle, and there they were standing behind their
> cars
>
>
> Kev
Yup - there's an entire subset of imbeciles out there who fervently
believe
that the brakes of an oncoming vehicle will suddenly develop miraculous
properties IF they can get themselves between an object an oncoming
vehicle
has to miss and that oncoming vehicle.
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