The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread

[Rob MacLennan]

Conflicting reports but there seems to have been at least one driver that was driving very poorly on the QEW. They cut off a passenger vehicle that crashed into a fuel tanker carrying 50,000 litres. Fuel tanker jumped onto south service road and then rolled. No fire, no major injuries. Dbag ran as expected.

Fail-to-remain driver sought in crash involving fuel tanker near QEW in Beamsville

OPP say the tractor-trailer, which was carrying fuel, rolled into the ditch on South Service Road on Friday morning.

toronto.citynews.ca

With any luck dashcam footage will eventually surface.

 

[Jampy00]

Oh Brampton, you've done it again.

A 25-year-old from Brampton only had his G2 license for about 20 minutes before it was suspended by Caledon OPP.

'Can’t even begin to understand': Brampton man, 25, charged with cracking open a beer while driving to celebrate new driver's licence

A 25-year-old driver from Brampton had his G2 license suspended just 20 minutes after obtaining it, following an incident reported by Caledon OPP. Allegedly, the driver, who had celebrated passing his G2 test by cracking open a beer, decided to drive back to Brampton on Highway 10. While...

www.caledonenterprise.com

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Bad enough they're on main artery surface roads like Derry Rd., etc. @ 20kmh during rush hour, but the QEW? Idiot.

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[GreyGhost]

Bad enough they're on main artery surface roads like Derry Rd., etc. @ 20kmh during rush hour, but the QEW? Idiot.

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I was confused about that too. Only got a careless ticket. I wondered if the tractor was doing work for mto (clearing turnarounds and under bridges?) And drifted into live lanes?

 

[JZ67]

Oh Brampton, you've done it again.

A 25-year-old from Brampton only had his G2 license for about 20 minutes before it was suspended by Caledon OPP.

'Can’t even begin to understand': Brampton man, 25, charged with cracking open a beer while driving to celebrate new driver's licence

A 25-year-old driver from Brampton had his G2 license suspended just 20 minutes after obtaining it, following an incident reported by Caledon OPP. Allegedly, the driver, who had celebrated passing his G2 test by cracking open a beer, decided to drive back to Brampton on Highway 10. While...

www.caledonenterprise.com

Just some chump that wanted to have a story to brag about. This one is a better story...for the listener.

 

[GreyGhost]

Well this was probably exciting. 401 at Mavis.

 

[Baggsy]

The quality of parking in Ottawa:

 

[FullMotoJacket]

The quality of parking in Ottawa:

Sophie?

 

[klr_guy]

Oops: Plane makes emergency landing on street in Ajax

 

[GreyGhost]

Oops: Plane makes emergency landing on street in Ajax

Good job getting it down. Plane is pretty much garbage at this point. Owned by a guy from BC. That's a long way from home for a 120.

EDIT:
How is the prop bent? It should be almost impossible to get a prop strike without collapsing the gear. It may be the camera angle playing visual tricks but the tip on the lower blade sure looks to be off at an angle. This plane is 100% garbage now. Both wings damaged, wing root appears to be bent, prop bent (which triggers a full engine teardown). That is more than 100K of damage for a plane that is worth maybe 60k. Pilot survived though so it's still a good day.

 

[GreyGhost]

Hammer down. Don't worry about the plow train. They'll get out of the way. Or not.

It sure looks like there was another vehicle trying to get through the plowtrain too but they didn't get through (or crash into the plows) so they are a slightly less bad driver.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1747341130616938951

 

[Rob MacLennan]

Hammer down. Don't worry about the plow train. They'll get out of the way. Or not.

It sure looks like there was another vehicle trying to get through the plowtrain too but they didn't get through (or crash into the plows) so they are a slightly less bad driver.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1747341130616938951

And with every overhead pixelboard telling you to not do exactly that.

 

[DownUnder]

Hammer down. Don't worry about the plow train. They'll get out of the way. Or not.

It sure looks like there was another vehicle trying to get through the plowtrain too but they didn't get through (or crash into the plows) so they are a slightly less bad driver.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1747341130616938951

Didn't ontario just make it illegal to pass the plow convoys on hwys in 2024? Someone didn't get the memo.

 

[GreyGhost]

Didn't ontario just make it illegal to pass the plow convoys on hwys in 2024? Someone didn't get the memo.

Did they pass the plows though? Where did the crash start and the pass end? Crashing into slower vehicles has always been frowned upon.

It sure looked like cruise control and distraction. Car gets put of shape well before plows (maintained speed until that point and then got hard on brakes). If cruise had been shut down at beginning f video, this would all have been avoided.

 

[Baggsy]

Remember the old commercials where the blue light was a gunner's hat?

 

[Rob MacLennan]

Remember the old commercials where the blue light was a gunner's hat?

 

[GreyGhost]

Thats awesome. I'm not old enough to have seen that when it was current. Tail gunner seems like an awesome addition. Saves the expense of a trial and meaningless handslap.

 

[timtune]

I remember this one where they put the blue light on a race car....

 

[TwistedKestrel]

Good job getting it down. Plane is pretty much garbage at this point. Owned by a guy from BC. That's a long way from home for a 120.

EDIT:
How is the prop bent? It should be almost impossible to get a prop strike without collapsing the gear. It may be the camera angle playing visual tricks but the tip on the lower blade sure looks to be off at an angle. This plane is 100% garbage now. Both wings damaged, wing root appears to be bent, prop bent (which triggers a full engine teardown). That is more than 100K of damage for a plane that is worth maybe 60k. Pilot survived though so it's still a good day.

Is this not this plane?

CCAR Web - Aircraft Details

wwwapps.tc.gc.ca

 

[GreyGhost]

Is this not this plane?

CCAR Web - Aircraft Details

wwwapps.tc.gc.ca

Yeah. I looked up what I thought was the tail number and got a 120 out of surrey. 150 out of island school makes more sense. Chances the value a little but the economics of getting it going again still look doubtful. Apparently the fuselage is bent enough that the doors wouldn't open.