Motorway incident |
Motorway incident |
Thu, 7 Sep 2017 - 07:53
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Member Group: Members Posts: 547 Joined: 5 Oct 2012 Member No.: 57,550 |
I drove behind another car on the motorway this morning who opened his window, emptied a can of drink which sprayed all over my car, then threw the can out of the window which hit my car at 70mph leaving a nice deep mark on my front bumper with the paint taken off.
I pulled up alongside him gesticulating to pull over but he just shrugged and sped off. Not only that, but I have probably never seen anyone with such atrocious driving skills. Weaving in and out of traffic without indicating, driving right up the backside of other cars and undertaking and squeezing into gaps where other motorists have to brake to avoid a collision. I reported him to the police who weren't interested in the slightest. They just said to go through my insurance. I rang my insurance who said it would go down as a fault claim as there's little chance they'd be able to recover the costs from the 3rd party insurer. What a just world we live in... |
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Thu, 7 Sep 2017 - 22:22
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Member Group: Members Posts: 25,726 Joined: 28 Jun 2010 From: Area 51 Member No.: 38,559 |
Number of times I've bin behind someone on motorway... at reasonable distance and got the overspray from their windscreen washers.
Seems that spray from a can could do the same. Back in my youth, opening a can out of the window of a moving car coated the screen of a following car, again he wasn't tailgating (but was annoyed) If a can stays airborne, a car at motorway speeds is potentially closing on it at up to 70MPH, make a clang if nothing else.... and can/will bounce Mythbusters episode 138 (March 2010) did some trials on cans and soda pop at speed and whether they could bust a screen with lethal force. Yes they could break the screen but not with lethal force. |
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