Flooding in Gravenhurst today. Skip to 2:42 to see the death of a focus. At 7:00 she comes back with some help and tries to start it again. I don't think she understands what has happened. When water is above your headlights, more throttle is not the answer.
Wow. Blows two stop signs and throws trash out the window on police dash cam and then when cop asks for ID shows him Apple music and a map showing where she was stopping. Two passengers in the car including a five year old. Charges include impaired, over 80 and driving under suspension (it seems they didn't bother with stop sign and littering charges). She's 33. She should never be allowed to drive in Canada again.
Wow. Blows two stop signs and throws trash out the window on police dash cam and then when cop asks for ID shows him Apple music and a map showing where she was stopping. Two passengers in the car including a five year old. Charges include impaired, over 80 and driving under suspension (it seems they didn't bother with stop sign and littering charges). She's 33. She should never be allowed to drive in Canada again.
I'm ok with tattooing her face in big letters so that it is easy to identify that she is a permanently suspended driver. She is free to leave Canada and not return if she doesn't want the tattoo.
Almost had a head on with a drunk driver who had a kid in the back seat when I was 21.
He took out the centre traffic signal post, and crossed into the opposing lanes on Eglinton.
We made a u turn after, and followed. He was stopped by police a few blocks later.
Another fatal boat crash in Muskoka last night. How long before our fearless leaders make it illegal to exceed 10 km/h at night? To be fair, all of these morons running each other over need a violent beating. Not everything you are supposed to miss in the water has a strobe light on it and forward lights on boats are brutal with very little coverage. They are basically planing around and hoping for the best.
Another fatal boat crash in Muskoka last night. How long before our fearless leaders make it illegal to exceed 10 km/h at night? To be fair, all of these morons running each other over need a violent beating. Not everything you are supposed to miss in the water has a strobe light on it and forward lights on boats are brutal with very little coverage. They are basically planing around and hoping for the best.
I've operated boats inland an on the ocean since I was 10 years old. Many boat operators in Ontario have only basic boat handling skills, many have only sight navigation capabilities. Sit by a gas dock or steam thru a busy channel and you'll see fails everywhere.
Get onto high traffic recreational lakes that attract high powered boats (like the Muskokas and Simcoe) and the problem can be worse -- you are bound to have disasters.
Operating in the dark is always risky - you can't see them and they might not see you. Other boats, flotsam, deadheads, dark bouys even swimmers present risk. I move slowly in the dark, navigate using tools, and always have a second set of eyes on 'watch'.
I really think we are at a point that we'll never learn, so a few hundred deaths for a few months is an acceptable loss.
The funny thing about "accidents" is they have little impact on you until they impact into you...
Bleeping Corolla. Pulled in front of a tractor trailer in the rain on the 401 and brake checked it. Truck crashed trying to avoid it and a six-vehicle pileup happened behind. Corolla drove off. Charges pending. We really need to start cancelling licenses for people that actively try to create chaos on the roads. They can take uber, bicycle, walk or move to a different country.
Bleeping Corolla. Pulled in front of a tractor trailer in the rain on the 401 and brake checked it. Truck crashed trying to avoid it and a six-vehicle pileup happened behind. Corolla drove off. Charges pending. We really need to start cancelling licenses for people that actively try to create chaos on the roads. They can take uber, bicycle, walk or move to a different country.
@PrivatePilot may know better as I haven't driven a big truck but I think he jumped on the brakes, locked up the front wheels and basically tucked the front. Not sure if he put in some steering input or not. Once he was out of line, he was a passenger.
Drive tires locked up on the tractor. You have literally a split second to back off the brakes (and with air brakes there’s a delay yet for the air to bleed off and actually release them) to get the wheels rolling again. Otherwise a split second after that the rear end starts to come around and a jackknife is virtually impossible to avoid once you’re beyond 15 degrees or something like that.
Functioning ABS would have avoided this. All class 8 tractors have ABS standard now so the ABS must have been malfunctioning on that tractor.
Drive tires locked up on the tractor. You have literally a split second to back off the brakes (and with air brakes there’s a delay yet for the air to bleed off and actually release them) to get the wheels rolling again. Otherwise a split second after that the rear end starts to come around and a jackknife is virtually impossible to avoid once you’re beyond 15 degrees or something like that.
Functioning ABS would have avoided this. All class 8 tractors have ABS standard now so the ABS must have been malfunctioning on that tractor.
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