The YooToob thread

Couldn't find this on YouTube but it's a video

https://www.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/2914943321886172/

Last week on the Nurburgring, one very lucky guy manages not to get wiped out after coolant on the track causes some crashes.

This week, same track, same corner, car bowling.

tossy wrote: »

I hope the guy in the silver Afla gets done for leaving the scene of an accident, that carry on drives me nuts, you see it in so many 'ring videos, the and the first driver to arrive at the scene and not stop.

Id have to disagree with you there. If he stayed where he was, on the outside of a corner with an oil spill on it he was in prime position to be taken out by the next car to lose it. It's the ring not the local bypass.

RustyNut wrote: »

Id have to disagree with you there. If he stayed where he was, on the outside of a corner with an oil spill on it he was in prime position to be taken out by the next car to lose it. It's the ring not the local bypass.

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Yup him sitting there at the scene of an accident is a terrible idea. You are supposed to move if able off the track and to a safe location.

It's a public road, with the according rules So in essence it's the same as the local 'bypass'. He could have easily moved to a safer location but he left the scene of the accident. The rules are if you are first on the scene you stop and warn oncoming traffic. It's a dangerous enough as is without morons adding to it

tossy wrote: »

It's a public road, with the according rules So in essence it's the same as the local 'bypass'. He could have easily moved to a safer location but he left the scene of the accident. The rules are if you are first on the scene you stop and warn oncoming traffic. It's a dangerous enough as is without morons adding to it

No. The rules for the ring state that it is an absolute no stopping zone. The only exemption is for vehicles with technical problems. That was the story the last time I was there anyway.

tossy wrote: »

The story the last time i was there was there (and the 2 other times i was there before it) was first on the scene stops (in a safe location) and warns on coming traffic.

http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/Touristenfahrten/2015/cNG-Driving_regulations_EN.pdf

Really?

spent hours on a ferry, can't wait 30 seconds.

oh, I see it now... I think I skipped that part. Yeah that's stupid. I thought they just did one donut in the car park.

public raceway would be handy, but I guess there will be some issue with insurance

something small, just for some messing and killing tyres:

Diabhalta wrote: »

so theres been a serious bus crash and the camera car and car ahead just drive off and go about their business.

SuperS54 wrote: »

Both the tour bus driving and the reaction of the other drivers are unfortunately very much par for the course here, everyone for themselves.

so whats the thinking? you crashed, tough luck and if your seriously injured or die you can just wait until the emergency services come along later?

neris wrote: »

so whats the thinking? you crashed, tough luck and if your seriously injured or die you can just wait until the emergency services come along later?

There's a lot of &*^%ed up thinking and lack of thinking behind it.

Some are very superstitious and won't stop in case someone died and the ghost is still around looking for a victim to cling to (I know).

In some cases people have been blamed for causing an accident when they stopped to help, particularly 1 vehicle accidents or even people tripping over in the street ~ you must have had something to do with it otherwise why would you have stopped?

What can be worse is with lower speed accidents the immediate action of the driver at fault is to try and have the person who was hit stand up, so you see motorcyclists who have been hit at intersections with the car driver trying to drag them standing ~ sure you'll be grand...

Culture has a huge amount to do with it, if someone is not in your family or immediate circle then *&^% em is the general thinking.

Insurance or lack of it is another issue, cheaper insurance here does not have unlimited cover, for third party injuries it's somewhere around a EU 100,000 cap and for vehicle damage around EU30,000 depends on the policy however if you have a low policy and do significant damage to an expensive vehicle the tendency is to run. There was a horrible practice in the past which has thankfully stopped where injuring a person meant you were personally responsible for their hospital treatment for life, killing them outright meant a one off compensation to the family, so if someone had significant injuries some drivers helped finish them off in order to avoid long term payments...

Anyway, way off topic, TLDR people generally won't stop to help unless they caused the accident and have no choice and then they may make things worse.

If you're looking for something to watch. Thanks to the chat thread for bringing these up.