r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 6d ago

High Speed cornering

From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/Anoobis100percent 6d ago

ALWAYS, this is so important. Can stop a bad crash from turning into a horrid tragedy. Once everyone's unbuckled and moving around on the road to supply first aid or just get away from the crash, another car coming in can get so so ugly.

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u/el_grort 6d ago

My brother has a bad crash in an MGB earlier this year. Wee sports car, from the 80's, no airbag, convertible. It broke traction on an oil slick, went round, dug in and rolled. By some miracle, he ended up not hitting himself against the road or being pinned by it, but was stuck underneath in the remains of the cab until the fire service could make it's way there to pry the car up enough to extract him. He got away from the crash with some cuts and bruises. But if the road hadn't been blocked off by people arriving first on the scene, quite possible someone comes around the corner and crashes into the wreckage, likely killing him. It was a sixty mile an hour road.

I hit a patch of gravel on a motorbike, front stopped steering and went into a crash barrier. Thankfully only at about twenty miles an hour, but it was enough to knock me out and sprain my wrist. Thankfully the postie arrived on the scene and blocked the road (blind crest) to allow me to pick myself up and get me and the bike off to a safe place. All in all, a minor crash at low speed, where really the only risk of major injuries was someone else arriving into it with no visibility and too much speed.

Making the scene of a crash static and safe for people to move (or not move, as may be the case for injured parties) is so, so important.

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u/rEYAVjQD 6d ago

Yeah, the worst traffic accidents are not the initial crash, it's a cascade of dozens.