Re: Sydney Bicycle accident

"George W. Frost" <frosty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>
>> Is an airbox the air filter assembly? I see nothing which required the 
>> lives of 50 people to be placed in jeopardy.
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>
> 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,

**Only with a manual gearbox (very unlikely).

> 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.

**OK. Thanks for the clarification. I see nothing which required the
driver 
to endanger the lives of 50 cyclists.

Trevor Wilson