On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:08:44 UTC, Mark Foster
This Morning 1535I've tried to do that as fairly as I can, using quotes from the original posting. Please do poit out where you think I've gone wrong - I ave no axe to gring here and...
merge in turn 1539On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:46:58 UTC, Mark Foster And if the supermarket hasn't put up a barrier...
Oddly enough, I have no particular "argument" here. Here's what seems to be the germane bit of the original posting:
"I called 999 and the filth arrived pretty promptly as did the ambulance. Nova driver is elderly woman - blue rinse hair - didn't really seem to
have a clue what was going on.Ê She told the filthette that the oncoming Saab was on the wrong side of the road and seemed at a loss to explain
merge in turn 1538No it isn't. There are two distinctly separate, marked lanes at roadworks. Until one of them is actually coned off, they...
the tyre marks on the bank or the scratches and dents caused by the hedgerow which I pointed out to the filthette.Ê Nova driver told me to
"stop telling lies - you tried to force me off the road
That seems to match fairly closely my paraphrase above, does it not?
Can you explain to me why the marks on the verge should have been taken as proof that the OP was not to blame, by the way? Tyre marks on the verge would hardly be surprising, would they, and non-specialists couldn't be expected to read them in detail.
Finally, the OP probably didn't do his own credibility as a witness much good by accusing another driver of an offence which he could not have seen: "I told him that in my opinion, all the subsequent collisions after Nova hit by Saab were caused by tailgating ...ÊFilth asked me how I knew that Peugeot was tailgating white van (good point which I conceded since obviously I couldn't see what she was doing)". Throwing unfounded accusations at other drivers is not, perhaps, the best way to get taken seriously. And that's quite apart from admitting that he "went into one about the police giving up on policing the roads and leaving that to cameras. As Adrian himself said, "he really is his own worst enemy - he is an expert at putting people's backs up..."
Let's end with a bit of role play. You are a non-traffic policeman sent to deal with a multiple accident in a country road. You find a badly damaged car, whose driver accuses two other drivers of having caused the accident. One of these drivers attempts to blame someone else for a traffic offence, but rapidly concedes that he has no grounds for doing so. You know that traffic officers are on their way. What do you do?
Serious question, and I am not trying to force you into any particular answer. It seems to me that "keep everyone there until the experts arrive" would be a pretty good plan, but confess I don't know if they have powers to do that without arresting folk.
Ian
