Would you panic in this situation? [Video]

Tallon

Excellent driving and awareness from the driver!

Do you think you would act as quick in this situation?

He was very quick to react, assuming he checked his mirrors etc and nothing was behind him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97M3yGFhfXk

bassey

They didn't really have much choice, fair play to them for keeping the head together

GreeBo

Probably would have tried to ram it and stop it.
It wasnt exactly flying and was being slowed by its own legs.
Safer for me to hit it on purpose than :
1) it plough into someone else at the bottom of the hill
2) me get ploughed into as I reverse around a corner

Kenny Logins

I don't see a particularly fast reaction there...

spank_inferno

GreeBo wrote: »

Probably would have tried to ram it and stop it.
It wasnt exactly flying and was being slowed by its own legs.

It was still carrying a huge amount of weight and momentum
With gravity taking it downhill.

If you tried to ram that in a car your gonna have a bad time.

Remmy

I thought he was going to do a reverse 180 flick there for a second . I'm watching too much autotest videos on youtube...

keithclancy

I probably would just have made a stupid face

vicwatson

I'd have driven into the left lane and sure he'd had ran into the side of me then

listermint

Not alot going on there tbh,

I was more impressed with my narrow avoidance of a mondeo coming down a snow filled incline at me last year. Only saw the guy in my rear view and i managed to come out around another swerved vehicle in front of me with very little traction.

Looked in the rear view and he has stopped right where i was previously.


All this person does was reverse lucky no one was behind.

Idbatterim

i agree, before it built up proper momentum, if i was driving a crap car i would have tried to stop. otherwise i would have just gotten out of his way. alternatively he could have just swerved to the other side of the road... Ok so just looked at it again I reckon even if you couldnt take all the momentum out of it, even if just going few mph, someone could have hopped in and pulled handbrake...

galwaytt

Idbatterim wrote: »

.. Ok so just looked at it again I reckon even if you couldnt take all the momentum out of it, even if just going few mph, someone could have hopped in and pulled handbrake...

....ever actually tried that, have you ? It's nowhere near as easy as you think.....

.....and, know where the handbrake actually is in a Canter/Hino/Isuzu/WHY............ ??

GreeBo

spank_inferno wrote: »

It was still carrying a huge amount of weight and momentum
With gravity taking it downhill.

If you tried to ram that in a car your gonna have a bad time.

Nah, check out the video again.
Even by the end of it its not like its free wheeling, all the legs are down and they are scraping along the ground. It was hardly moving at the start, you could have driven into it and braked it to a halt with your car, its not like its an unstoppable boat.

listermint

Who the hell would want to damage their car with another vehicle ?

That would never be my first reaction tbh.

GreeBo

listermint wrote: »

Who the hell would want to damage their car with another vehicle ?

That would never be my first reaction tbh.

Well Id rather my car got a bit dented and I claim it all back on insurance than I get out of the way and it ploughs into a bunch on kids (for example)

keithclancy

GreeBo wrote: »

Well Id rather my car got a bit dented and I claim it all back on insurance than I get out of the way and it ploughs into a bunch on kids (for example)

That would be nuts .... the hook hanging on the end of that boom is around 15 kilos ... would go straight through the windscreen, metal and the front to back of your head and out the other side.

T-Maxx

Brown underpants moment me thinks.

GreeBo

keithclancy wrote: »

That would be nuts .... the hook hanging on the end of that boom is around 15 kilos ... would go straight through the windscreen, metal and the front to back of your head and out the other side.

By the time it gets to the car the boom is pointing away to the right, Im not suggesting that you just blindly floor it and hope for the best.

peasant

GreeBo wrote: »

Probably would have tried to ram it and stop it.

I would have driven past on the left, tossed a towrope out the window and towed it back right to where it started from

(All while cooly holding a cigarette in the other hand)

jimmyw

GreeBo wrote: »

Well Id rather my car got a bit dented and I claim it all back on insurance than I get out of the way and it ploughs into a bunch on kids (for example)

I wouldn't be too sure about that, when the insurance company find out you deliberately drove into the path of an out of control vehicle,I am sure they would find an excuse to not pay out:p.

Popoutman

I had something very similar happen to me in France a few years ago. Myself and 3 friends were camping and kayaking in the Pyrenees south of Saint-Girons, and we were taking the back roads from the campsite up to the river we were planning to paddle. Heading uphill low enough in third gear on a French boreen, not even two cars wide, shortly after a decent rain shower and around the next bend comes a JCB (with front bucket at bonnet height). The other driver sees me and jams on the brakes, and the JCB's wheel lock up and skate down the hill and on my side of the road towards me. I had to throw out the anchors and when it was obvious that the JCB wasn't slowing, I had to really quickly jab into reverse and head back downhill. I reached a farm entrance and pulled in nice and smartly. The JCB driver left off the brakes long after he had passed where I had originally gone into reverse and then cruised past my parked car at his previous speed and looked as if he couldn't care less that he had nearly caused a serious accident. The point at which the JCB stopped skidding was where I was going backwards at about 2500-3000 rpm - quite a decent distance down the hill. I had three brightly coloured kayaks on the roof - it's not as though I wasn't easy to see.

I had already known that there wasn't anything behind but that's not what you think of when you see the blade of a digger bucket pointing at your chest.. The others in the car certainly got a fright but were very happy with the overall outcome.

There were suggestions by the female passenger that a toilet stop would be a good idea.

I won't forget that JCB in a hurry...

RandomAccess

I have to say using my car to stop another vehicle would be the last thing I would be thinking of.

There is a recent case of a guy doing it in Canada though.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/09/06/edmonton-teens-thank-hummer-hero.html

"his insurance company said it would not be holding Krushelnicki liable for the crash."
Or maybe he ****ed up and he's just really lucky that he could pin it on the other guy! :pac:

Chuck Stone

1. Scream.
2. Adopt foetal position
3. Suck thumb
4. Think of a happy place


No, I think I would have done much the same.

Pottler

I've been tested an awful lot of times eg by drivers loosing it on bends head on and coming right at me, cars overtaking oncoming traffic heading straight at me etc etc etc and I've learnt one thing, I'm ice cool behind the wheel, never miss a heartbeat which could be dumbness or just an awful lot of miles driving:D In a lot of the cases, the passengers were screaming, but I've good reactions, so not wildly impressed by Koreaboy.:)

Dartz

I'd reverse over the cyclist behind me in a blind panic

Senna

There's no way in hell i would have tried to stop a lorry coming at me out of control, if it was a similar sized car to the one i was in, then maybe, but a lorry, no way. It could be loaded with a few tons and if there's enough weight and momentum (wouldn't need much) it could come over the top of the car and the driver wouldn't stand a chance.

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

GreeBo

Senna wrote: »

There's no way in hell i would have tried to stop a lorry coming at me out of control, if it was a similar sized car to the one i was in, then maybe, but a lorry, no way. It could be loaded with a few tons and if there's enough weight and momentum (wouldn't need much) it could come over the top of the car and the driver wouldn't stand a chance.

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity.

The lorry starts to skid towards the driver when he is right at it, its not like I am saying I would drive in front of a free-wheeling truck thats hurtling towards me. The legs of the truck coupled with your own car would stop it at the speed it was travelling at in the beginning.

Put it this way, I'd rather attempt it and at least slow it down (I cant see how it wouldnt stop it, it would get wedged between the car and the side barrier) than me escape out of the way and watch it kill 10 people behind me.
Whats the worse it could do to me? A 5mph planned crash? If I cant survive that then there isnt much hope for me.

DylanII

I would have just frozen. . . I usually have a good, Fast reaction, but for some reason I think I would freeze up in panic!

Senna

GreeBo wrote: »

The lorry starts to skid towards the driver when he is right at it, its not like I am saying I would drive in front of a free-wheeling truck thats hurtling towards me. The legs of the truck coupled with your own car would stop it at the speed it was travelling at in the beginning.

Put it this way, I'd rather attempt it and at least slow it down (I cant see how it wouldnt stop it, it would get wedged between the car and the side barrier) than me escape out of the way and watch it kill 10 people behind me.
Whats the worse it could do to me? A 5mph planned crash? If I cant survive that then there isnt much hope for me.

I just think that would be very foolish, look at the video, if you were in the drivers position you would have no idea if the legs are down, you also have no idea how much that lorry weights.

This is what you would see


You could probably see the crane and hook more clearly also, its maybe 20 meters away and what looks like a steep gradient, if the legs were up (you have no way of knowing if they are up or down) and it weight 2-3 times the weight of your car (minimum), within those 20 meters it could gain enough momentum to kill you and everyone in your car. The driver in the video done the correct thing.

ladypip

I would have cried and wet myself or hit the helicopter button.

GreeBo

if still rather make the effort, i don't think it would do serious damage to me, but it would to anyone at the bottom.
remember lads, not every hero wears a cape.

Fuh Q

I would have stoped, let it hit me, make sure I was cut out of my car and get the ambulance to stop outside the nearest solicitors office on the way to hospital.

On a serious note, I think the driver done ok, a lot of people would panic and most Irish drivers dont know where their mirrors are and can barely go forward never mind go in reverse.