Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

"Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> **Yeah, sounded like he was coached well by his lawyer to me too. Can 
>>> you think of an engine fault which requires such emergency action,
such 
>>> that the lives of 50 people were put at risk? Hell, he (allegedly) 
>>> re-started quickly enough, so he could flee the scene. Smells like 
>>> bull**** to me.
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>> Of course it does, because you've already got your mind made up that he

>> is guilty *regardless* of what actually happened.
>>
>> I never said he had an *engine* fault, and I've never seen that
re****ted 
>> anywhere. All that has been said is that he had a "mechanical issue"
and 
>> that could have been anything from a blown tyre to no brakes.
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> **Here are the alleged words used by the driver:
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> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/13/1210444378585.html?from=top5
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> "The driver, calling himself "Jason", telephoned Macquarie Radio last 
> Friday and claimed his car had stalled after "the airbox popped" and 
> blamed the cyclists for failing to watch where they were going."
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> Is an airbox the air filter assembly? I see nothing which required the 
> lives of 50 people to be placed in jeopardy.


Ford's with LPGas have on the odd occasion, backfired through the air 
filter, which slows the car rapidly, almost like standing on the brakes,
It depends on how the gas system is set up and the gas system itself.
On a carburettor system with L.P.Gas, the butterfly valve will sometimes
be 
forced back past its normal position and the car will never get started 
again, without pressure to force the butterfly valve back to its original 
position.

Even on an injected system, the backfire or "airbox pop" will cause a hole

to be blown in the system.