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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Waspy on 18 May 2014, 00:21
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http://youtu.be/HXpZcosOj4Y
I almost bought a dash cam after watching this. The van driver could have been shafted without it.
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What a w@nker that Peugeot was! Someone might have been seriously injured in that, wonder what the outcome was, and what lead the pug driver to do that in the first place?
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Title said cash for crash. So I'm guessing attempted insurance fraud.
If you google the plate a video of the car for sale comes up. That us about as far as I got with "what happened next"
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Van was also tail gating he forgot the 2 second rule.
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The claim would have been against the driver that ran into the back of the van.
I also sincerely doubt that this is an Insurance scam!
Thom
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What a w@nker that Peugeot was! Someone might have been seriously injured in that, wonder what the outcome was, and what lead the pug driver to do that in the first place?
its a pug it probably broke down :grin:
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That is awful! What an absolute thingy the Peugot driver is, needs putting down.
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The van driver has probably flashed him to move over and the Peugot driver has lost the plot, but why on earth would slow to a stop like that on a 50 dual carriageway??? Serves him right but i feel for the driver that hit the van.
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Stupid people be crazy. This is the world live in unfortunately. Read youtube comments for further proof.
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No lead car to instigate the pug to brake so its a bit iffy to say crash for cash from that footage.
Although close the van did stop, guy at the back gets to pay....
At least the whiplash claims will be genuine and not the usual scummer scam for any bump or knock.
I blame the pug, should not have stopped like that. Move over if someone is tail gating you, its not a race
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It's very hard to draw any conclusions from the clip, but playing devils advocate; it is arguable that the pug is in the wrong lane to start with, since he isn't gaining on car in the left lane. And then to come to a stop, without even attempting to reach a safe place (if it was a mechanical fault) is just crazy.
Could still be a scam, just not very well thought out, he may have been anticipating the van rear ending him. I really am struggling to put an angle on it where the pug isn't at fault. Even if the van is tailgating, he still managed to stop in time, which means car number 3 was traveling too close.
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Bottom line is, its the fault of the vehicle that went into the back of the van! The lesson to learn here, is not to tailgate vans especially when you can't see past them!
Thom
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Well, yeah, but had the pug not stopped, they all wound have gone merrily on their tailgating ways without a crash.
I feel for the van driver, he was the filling in a messy sandwich, still, at least he is alive.
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It's very hard to draw any conclusions from the clip, but playing devils advocate; it is arguable that the pug is in the wrong lane to start with, since he isn't gaining on car in the left lane. And then to come to a stop, without even attempting to reach a safe place (if it was a mechanical fault) is just crazy.
Could still be a scam, just not very well thought out, he may have been anticipating the van rear ending him. I really am struggling to put an angle on it where the pug isn't at fault. Even if the van is tailgating, he still managed to stop in time, which means car number 3 was traveling too close.
No way it was travelling that close to make such an impact on a van. More like not paying attention.
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No way it was travelling that close to make such an impact on a van. More like not paying attention.
This. That was one hell of a whack and I wouldn't be surprised if it knocked the transit driver out. (There wasn't much braking being done after). I was rear ended at 25-30 mph last year and that looks much worse. I felt like I had been whacked in the back of the head by a cricket bat.
If that had been a 1 ton Fiesta instead of a 2+ ton Transit, conservation of momentum means that it could have been very serious (if it wasn't already).