We know all, that some people shouldn't be allowed to have driving license. Here are two compilations of various traffic camera videos from Slovenian motorways, showing:
Reverse driving on motorway (geisterfahrer) (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_vzvratna_voznja_PR.wmv) :bash:
Cyclists, pedestrians and skaters on motorway (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_pesci_kolesarji_PR.wmv) :lol:

Those situations on Slovenian motorways are not very frequent, but nevertheless they are very very dangerous. How often do they happen in your country and maybe post some videos.

You see often elderly people with scootmobile's (don't know how they are called in English) on the Motorway. Those things go like 10 - 15km/h.

Ghostriders are mostly at night.

We know all, that some people shouldn't be allowed to have driving license. Here are two compilations of various traffic camera videos from Slovenian motorways, showing:
Reverse driving on motorway (geisterfahrer) (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_vzvratna_voznja_PR.wmv) :bash:
Cyclists, pedestrians and skaters on motorway (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_pesci_kolesarji_PR.wmv) :lol:

Those situations on Slovenian motorways are not very frequent, but nevertheless they are very very dangerous. How often do they happen in your country and maybe post some videos.

We still have too few motorways to be able to tell you, the only section which is more than 200 km i don´t travel on it.

Reverse driving on motorway (geisterfahrer) (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_vzvratna_voznja_PR.wmv)
Cyclists, pedestrians and skaters on motorway (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_pesci_kolesarji_PR.wmv)

What the...?! :crazy2: Btw, cool music! :D

We know all, that some people shouldn't be allowed to have driving license. Here are two compilations of various traffic camera videos from Slovenian motorways, showing:
Reverse driving on motorway (geisterfahrer) (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_vzvratna_voznja_PR.wmv) :bash:
Cyclists, pedestrians and skaters on motorway (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_pesci_kolesarji_PR.wmv) :lol:

Those situations on Slovenian motorways are not very frequent, but nevertheless they are very very dangerous. How often do they happen in your country and maybe post some videos.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Jesus christ, people are very brave in Slovenia
Btw, great motorways.

Oh my... :ohno:

Ha-ha! Those people are plain stupid, but it is too sad they endanger the lives of others. In Russia, this can happen easily. One of the problems I encountered in Kaliningrad region was the horse-driven carts with farmers riding on the shoulders. If there was no shoulder - no problem - they would ride in the right lane.... at 15 km/h! :lol:

In America, I have never seen anything bizarre. The only exception was the huge traffic jam that forced people to make u-turns on the on-ramps. Some people made u-turns on the motorway and used the shoulder as a reverse lane. However, the traffic was completely immobilised and many drivers were eager to exit the motorway, and other drivers were very understanding and cooperative.

In Toronto we drove by a guy in a wheelchair, he had one lane blocked off and people were getting out to see what was going on.

Apparently my cousins saw some lady running naked down the 111 orbital road in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

I saw trucks parked on the Polish A4 (before rehabilitation) on the right lane. That lane was in such a bad condition no-one would drive there anyway...

a lorry is driving on the emergency lame on the Struma motorway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Struma_motorway_leading_to_greece.jpg

Not that specacular though.

In some western US states, if the ascend is too steep, lorries drive in the emergency lane (aka shoulder) with blinking hazards. Also, in the State of Washington, there are even signs directing slower cars to use the shoulder. I think it's cool when the DOT is actually trying to ease the flow of traffic rather than impose more speed restrictions.

In the Philippines, there are various animals that randomly go on the freeway, chickens, water buffalo, etc.

@ Alex, in Europe, you see often a third (or even fourth) "crawling lane". Slow vehicles can acces this lane on the right, while cars and faster trucks can pass on the other 2 or 3 lanes.

Wow :eek:... These people are very brave and in the same time very stupid :nuts:...

OMFG!!!! i really didn't know that there is such a lot of those things in Slovenia!!

my experience: i saw twice idiots driving to rear while missed the exit. once it was extremely dangerous and close because idiot has been driving to rear on driving lane

OMFG!!!! i really didn't know that there is such a lot of those things in Slovenia!!

my experience: i saw twice idiots driving to rear while missed the exit. once it was extremely dangerous and close because idiot has been driving to rear on driving lane

Do you maybe know if there's a similar video from HR? I remember seeing it or at least hearing of it, it was about what people do in the tunnels... (I think there was a guy that was running around naked in a tunnel or smth...) :nuts:

OMFG!!!! i really didn't know that there is such a lot of those things in Slovenia!!

I haven't encountered it in my life though.

I haven't encountered it in my life actually.

I remember seeing a guy on a bicycle on the A6 in Rijeka, and a woman walking her DOG (!!), also near Rijeka.

Do you maybe know if there's a similar video from HR? I remember seeing it or at least hearing of it, it was about what people do in the tunnels... (I think there was a guy that was running around naked in a tunnel or smth...) :nuts:

i saw it on tv once, i'm not sure if it exists at net. but those slovenian scenes are more crazy. i mean-guys stopped to piss in tunnel. or drinking beer in tunnel :ohno: on this croatian clip are scenes from tunnel Sveti Rok (turning, stopping, driving 200 km/h, driving to rear...)

now i remember that once i saw german tourists at Rijeka bypass who stopped to rest in SOS lane. they had dog who ran out of car to motorway and got killed by driving vehicle :ohno:
thanks god, i have never seen cyclists or pedestrians, although i saw people running across motorway at service areas (from one side to the other) and woman with little child who's been triing to cross motorway near toll booths Lučko with huge amount of traffic. she looked like this C64 game when frog must cross the street full of cars :D

OMFG!!!! i really didn't know that there is such a lot of those things in Slovenia!!

my experience: i saw twice idiots driving to rear while missed the exit. once it was extremely dangerous and close because idiot has been driving to rear on driving lane

A friend of my just encountered such a situation on the Brussels R0. And he made a pic of it :lol:
The pic was just a good shot, because he was taking pics in Belgium, but this scares the shit out of you.

http://i13.tinypic.com/4xpe0ww.png

I would make such idiotic manoeuvres a criminal offence. People should loose their license, pay hefty fines and have a criminal record for this crap they pull on the road.

I find them just funny.

I find them just funny.

ain't funny at all to me...:uh: i don't see what can be funny there to you

In the Philippines, there are various animals that randomly go on the freeway, chickens, water buffalo, etc.

I have never experienced that on a Philippine motorway. And I doubt that can happen especially on the SLEX or NLEX.

Though I've seen alot of trying hard drag racers on Honda Civics and recklessly race in the motorway.

I find them just funny.

It's not so funny when you're driving like 90km/h and see some guy driving in reverse right in front of you.

How about this :lol: :lol:

Athens orbital motorway way Attiki odos watch whats happending at hard shoulder :nuts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2G40WrQfTk


also see this in attiki odos,greek mafia ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhFIPxn12RA



and for speed lovers also in attiki odos ^^ M6 v10 reaching 340 km/h

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWhkGybzzIw

people crossing a 4 - 6 lane highway at night, with absolutely no sense of recognising what a 120+ kph speed is. (many people are killed every year and always the motorists are held responsible).

Once in the night I saw not one but three persons trying to cross the highway and they were standing beside eachother on the line between the fast lane and the third.

A minivan had stopped on the emergency lane on the right side to the highway and had put a road cone halfway on the middle of the fast lane, and peoples were geting down from it.

...

And then are 70% of the drivers in total who seams to have just poped up from a cave and made to drive on the road.

This happened to me just last week!

I hit teh exit lane on i-87 to get off at Albany,NY and right in front of me I see a BMW 3 series reversing down the exit ramp at around 20-30 mph. The guy then got off the exit ramp and onto the shoulder where he tucked his head down while I passed him. :nuts:

scared the shit out of me


A friend of my just encountered such a situation on the Brussels R0. And he made a pic of it :lol:
The pic was just a good shot, because he was taking pics in Belgium, but this scares the shit out of you.

http://i13.tinypic.com/4xpe0ww.png

In Spain's A-1 highway I've seen Moroccans (who live in Europe and usually return to their country in summer) driving on the shoulder during a traffic jam. Not very stupid compared with the things you've posted.

^^ Because such things happens often in those Arab countries. It usual to see people drive 5 cars next to eachother on a threelaned motorway in Algiers.

Ghost drivers are very common in Austria. In 2006 there were officially 486 of them...
Some years back, I witnessed an elderly man in a Mercedes stopping and turning right in front of me on A4 (Hungary-Vienna). Pretty scary.
:runaway:

Geistesfahrer :D

Geisterfahrer. ;)

I've seen a man walking a dog on a motorway in England, and last summer on the M25 there was sush a bat lit double decker, MY ungcle was driving at
130ish and saw that in front carwling, time to change lanes.

Geistesfahrer :D

:D :D :D

N VI (Segovia, Spain)

N VI (Segovia, Spain)

You forgot the pics!



http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7897/pict0001te3.jpg

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/9481/pict0002ga7.jpg

Que hay prisa, adelantamos en toda la raya continua...

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/240/pict0006ra9.jpg

:crazy:

Ghost drivers are very common in Austria. In 2006 there were officially 486 of them...
Some years back, I witnessed an elderly man in a Mercedes stopping and turning right in front of me on A4 (Hungary-Vienna). Pretty scary.
:runaway:

What is a ghost driver and why do they exist?

What is a ghost driver
Ghost driver is the one who drives on the autobahn in the wrong direction. Sometimes ghost drivers also have their lights turned off, but it's not necessary to be a ghost driver ;)

and why do they exist?
People stupidity is the reason that first comes to my mind. You can't blame it on the lack of driving rules knowledge because motorways exist in all countries around the world, so people know they must drive one way only.

Ghost drivers are very common in Austria. In 2006 there were officially 486 of them...
Some years back, I witnessed an elderly man in a Mercedes stopping and turning right in front of me on A4 (Hungary-Vienna). Pretty scary.
:runaway:
I always blame the USA for bad drivers, but I have to admit that it is very rare here. I personally have never seen one in 7 years that I drive on American motorways, and I drive a lot.

I always blame the USA for bad drivers, but I have to admit that it is very rare here. I personally have never seen one in 7 years that I drive on American motorways, and I drive a lot.

US drivers are generally good because most start driving at 16 and gain experience over their lifetimes. (However, add cellphones, and all bets are off!) My biggest pet-peeve is in the Mountain West where you have 75 MPH speed limits, but there are always a few who still are puttering along at 60 or 65. I guesss it isn't illegal, but certainly not safe. I drive an 18 mile stretch of I-15 in a semi-rural area twice daily, and between these slow-pokes and all the truck traffic, can rarely keep my cruise control on for more than a few minutes. BTW, I love the truckers, especially the ones who are courteous, and that is most of them! (Don't know if I'm alone, but truckers seem much better drivers than 20 years ago...remember some scary experiences back then with aggresssive truckers, but I guess with their names plastered all over their rigs these days, they behave a lot better! :)

Trucks are generally courteous... with each other :lol: However, it gets annoying when one lorry starts overtaking another on a motorway that only has 2 lanes going in the same direction. For instance, in Oregon on I-5 it has always created a clog in the left lane.

As for slow drivers, it doesn't bother me much as long as they drive in the right lane. On German 2x2 autobahnen, the right lane is very slow (80 km/h) because of the lorries while the left lane is very fast (130+ km/h), so it creates certain difficulties for those who want to drive at 120 km/h. If you think you've got a window in the left lane with enough space to overtake, as soon as you pull there, there will be a faster car driving at 200+ km/h right behind you in no time.

If you think you've got a window in the left lane with enough space to overtake, as soon as you pull there, there will be a faster car driving at 200+ km/h right behind you in no time.

Don't feel hunted. The Autobahn is from everyone, from slow driving trucks, old grannies in a Fiat Panda, normal driving people, and racers.
So if you've got a fair window, just overtake.

But don't throw your car on the left lane in front of a mercedes or BMW at high speed, that's asking for problems. Germans are anticipating on this, but foreigners not so much.

You have to check your mirrors more often in Germany, so you won't be surprised when some guy blows past you with 220km/h.

But don't get scared, except some quiet rural Autobahnen, the majority of the drivers don't get faster than 150km/h.

German signs;

1. Racers don't get home
http://jahresaktion.dvr.de/2006/inhalt/startseite.jpg

2. Racers are this sexy (do i have to say more?)
http://www.dvr.de/bilder/raser07_collien.jpg

3. Instead of a hot girl, some lame guy, Racers are this cool.
http://www.dvr.de/bilder/raser07_lahm.jpg

US drivers are generally good because most start driving at 16 and gain experience over their lifetimes. (However, add cellphones, and all bets are off!) My biggest pet-peeve is in the Mountain West where you have 75 MPH speed limits, but there are always a few who still are puttering along at 60 or 65. I guesss it isn't illegal, but certainly not safe. I drive an 18 mile stretch of I-15 in a semi-rural area twice daily, and between these slow-pokes and all the truck traffic, can rarely keep my cruise control on for more than a few minutes. BTW, I love the truckers, especially the ones who are courteous, and that is most of them! (Don't know if I'm alone, but truckers seem much better drivers than 20 years ago...remember some scary experiences back then with aggresssive truckers, but I guess with their names plastered all over their rigs these days, they behave a lot better! :)

I agree. I think truckers are some of the best drivers on the Interstate.

German signs;

3. Instead of a hot girl, some lame guy, Racers are this cool.
http://www.dvr.de/bilder/raser07_lahm.jpg

damn, this is Philipp Lahm, who made the first goal at the Football World Cup 2006 (for Germany against Costa Rica) ;);)

But I like it to have such signs on the road instead of big commercial billboards


But last sunday (no trucks on sundays), I had some silly experience on the Autobahn. On the 3+3 road from Cologne to Frankfurt there was a stretch, where I just didn't need to get out from the left lane although riding at 170 km/h, because everyone else in the left and middle lane were faster and the ones in front of me also had some 170 km/h. That was damn crazy to be in the slow group with that speed. These 2 minutes were the best Autobahn minutes I ever had (in a 54 hp Nissan Micra) :D

more signs:
http://www.dvr.de/bilder/groesse1g.jpg
racers have this much brain

http://www.dvr.de/bilder/groesse2g.jpg
racers earn this much respect

http://medienarchiv.dvr.de/(opldqp45poay4345bt2aot45)/pw/z01_autobahnplakatte/2000-28_v1.jpg
Hello racer, we wait for you

http://medienarchiv.dvr.de/(opldqp45poay4345bt2aot45)/pw/z01_autobahnplakatte/1999-24.jpg
where do you drive?

http://medienarchiv.dvr.de/(opldqp45poay4345bt2aot45)/pw/z01_autobahnplakatte/2000-24_dupl.jpg
been too fast, too?

http://medienarchiv.dvr.de/(opldqp45poay4345bt2aot45)/pw/z01_autobahnplakatte/2000-19_v1.jpg
travelling, not racing

http://medienarchiv.dvr.de/(opldqp45poay4345bt2aot45)/pw/z01_autobahnplakatte/2000-22.jpg
...and your safe distance?



EDIT for Chris: doubledamn, now I understood your wordplay (a bit late) ... since "lahm" in german means "lame" in english :lol:

Patrick, you don´t translate everything right and add words which aren´t on the signs at all.

I've seen a man walking a dog on a motorway in England, and last summer on the M25 there was sush a bat(BAD) lit double decker, my ungcle(UNCLE) was driving at
130ish and saw that in front carwling, time to change lanes.

God I need to learn to write again, I write so fast it all goes::nuts:

Patrick, you don´t translate everything right and add words which aren´t on the signs at all.

hey, complaining king, you could be a german considering your complaining :nuts: :bash: i know my english is not the best, but how about YOU correct me If I'm so wrong because not translating word by word, but looking for the right sense.

Pretty much everyone in Italy can't drive, except professionals.

Australia has copied that small penis propaganda stuff:

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hey, complaining king, you could be a german considering your complaining :nuts: :bash: i know my english is not the best, but how about YOU correct me If I'm so wrong because not translating word by word, but looking for the right sense.

I am not German but Bulgarian, but i can speak German as good as Bulgarian, so... I don´t know why you always added words, for example, Hallo Raser, wir warten does only mean, Hi racers, we are waiting, and not for you, and other, but i just wanted notice it.

I know you're bulgarian (from the world-famous austrian-highways-fred :tongue2:) and that is that why I said you could be a german from your reaction (not perfect translation => being narrow-minded ;)). but, my re-reaction of justification here could have the same narrow-mindedness, but hey, I am german, I have to accomplish that cliché :D

Maybe it is because I don't care for exact word-by-word translations if the people get the general message. And this general messages haven't been changed with my word-addings. I did that jsut to make it clearer IMO (for example the signs says only "Abstand" and not "Sicherheitsabstand" but I wrote "safe distance" instead of only "distance", the same thing goes with your example)

Now btt.

Okay, no problem.

Ghost driver is the one who drives on the autobahn in the wrong direction. Sometimes ghost drivers also have their lights turned off, but it's not necessary to be a ghost driver ;)




In Spain we called them "kamikaze" or suicidal driver.


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Check this one out...this happaned not so long ago near Pécs,not on a highway:
http://www.youtube.com/v/urpzNnrnLk0

The other motorist,comming opposite,died on the spot.The other one(who was filming) will get on a motorcycle never ever again.

Credit to RawLee...

so it was in Hungary! i saw that clip, but i thought it was in Austria

This was posted earlier in the czech motorways thread in CE forum, but I think it fits this thread as well:

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Despite the appalling recklessness of the driver one cannot deny him some skill.
However he is lucky not to kill anybody so far and lets hope he wont do so in the future either.

^And I thought this was bad:
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Such fucking idiots have absolutely no sense of responsibility and should be locked up in jail for years.

I hope they crash to their death against a tree or something. :ohno:

Such fucking idiots have absolutely no sense of responsibility and should be locked up in jail for years.

I hope they crash to their death against a tree or something. :ohno:
A big rig does the job.

I don't get why folks become so shocked at this "insane" behaviour. That's what we get for not obliging any would-be motorist to attend licensed driving schools. How can anybody be expected to get her/himself a proper driver's license, right? How can s/he appreciate the risks that present themselves when becoming sloppy, etc? No-fault.

My most telling observation of stupid motoring was US Hwy 2 hugging the eastern part of the southern shore of Lake Superior in northwestern Michigan. Dark cold spring foggy night -- not misty but foggy -- on a two-laner, all within the region of the merging of the three Great Lakes. Overtakers, opposing traffic speeding away in gruesome territory: Huge deer torn this way and that (e.g., missing head must've sheered from the neck) strewn for miles on end, and so many more live herds right roadside.

Check out the expressway hugging Manhattan's East Side some weekend night -- dozens of show-offs doing their fun night, might as well leave the 'corder home down there . . . real wicked, although what else primarily is driving about, right?

idiot!
the problem is that he think that what he's doing is cool and he is a great driver.
we all know what will be the end of this idiot.

bus drivers in Israel :ohno:

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6963/38546472ae4.jpg

exhaustion of many hours behind the wheel is the reason for accidents like this

two stupid driviers plade chiken. no body moves.
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/5816/35678051oy7.jpg


Israeli police. highway patrol show how we need to drive.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5185/34286851rn5.jpg


the X5 is onley X now
drivier who past the intersection in red hit the BMW with high speed
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5733/34289152xf4.jpg

she pushed the gas insteade the breaks.
Oops, I did that at the end of a 4200-Km drive a dozen years ago -- I'd had only two more metres to go when I became confused in the absurdly narrow, two-way(!) breezeway, and driven right into the oncoming vehicle.

lol Urban, it is a known situation, Israel must be the king when it comes to stupidity on the road. It's sad that I think it has one of the highest (if not the highest) accident rates in the developed world, and that is despite efforts to increase safety, such as the fact that all left turns in Israel are protected, barriers/traffic circles are installed anywhere.

AND guess what?? -- Israel has mandatory lengthy and expensive driver training with at least 28 mandatory lessons, and usually much more because more lessons are required each test you fail. And the average Israeli probably passes his/her driving test after around 3-5 tries, and sometimes much more. In Israel you are never allowed to practice with an accompanying driver until after you pass all the driving tests and get your license. It is just sad...

Driver training/testing in North America is almost non-existent compared to Israel, and yet the accident rates here are much lower.

lol Urban, it is a known situation, Israel must be the king when it comes to stupidity on the road. It's sad that I think it has one of the highest (if not the highest) accident rates in the developed world, and that is despite efforts to increase safety, such as the fact that all left turns in Israel are protected, barriers/traffic circles are installed anywhere.

AND guess what?? -- Israel has mandatory lengthy and expensive driver training with at least 28 mandatory lessons, and usually much more because more lessons are required each test you fail. And the average Israeli probably passes his/her driving test after around 3-5 tries, and sometimes much more. In Israel you are never allowed to practice with an accompanying driver until after you pass all the driving tests and get your license. It is just sad...

Driver training/testing in North America is almost non-existent compared to Israel, and yet the accident rates here are much lower.

Countries like Greece and South Korea have higher accident rates.

Yeah, Portugal and Italy are not too good either.

This one is shocking. Truck driver fall asleep and didn't noticed that there is a traffic jam in tunnel. Two woman and 3 kids died. One of the most horrible accidents that I can remember on Croatian roads.

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lol Urban, it is a known situation, Israel must be the king when it comes to stupidity on the road. It's sad that I think it has one of the highest (if not the highest) accident rates in the developed world, and that is despite efforts to increase safety, such as the fact that all left turns in Israel are protected, barriers/traffic circles are installed anywhere.

AND guess what?? -- Israel has mandatory lengthy and expensive driver training with at least 28 mandatory lessons, and usually much more because more lessons are required each test you fail. And the average Israeli probably passes his/her driving test after around 3-5 tries, and sometimes much more. In Israel you are never allowed to practice with an accompanying driver until after you pass all the driving tests and get your license. It is just sad...

Driver training/testing in North America is almost non-existent compared to Israel, and yet the accident rates here are much lower.

Actually, it´s one of the most ignored statistics in the world that traffic deaths in Israel have gone down drastically over the past few years. Less people were killed in 2006 than in 1967, even though there are three times more people now, and probably 20 times more cars.

This graph is from the Israel Police website and shows the number of road deaths per year for the past 40 years:

I've no idea how to compare these figures with other countries, but I'd be very surprised if Israel has the highest rate of road deaths.

http://www.type34.info/temp/roaddeaths.jpg

^^ The same counts for the Netherlands, in the seventies, there were in the 1970's over 3500 deaths a year, now only 811, but meanwhile, a huge population boom and traffic boom has taken place. In 2005, the Netherlands was the second safest traffic country in the world, behind Malta.

Belgium is way unsafer, with over 2,5 times the trafficdeath rate per 100.000 inhabitants. The Belgium province of Luxembourg (not to be confused with the country Luxembourg) is the most dangerous place of the whole European union, with 41,6 deaths per 100.000 inhabitants against a Belgium average of 12,8 and a Dutch average of 5 deaths per 100.000.

^^ The same counts for the Netherlands, in the seventies, there were in the 1970's over 3500 deaths a year, now only 811, but meanwhile, a huge population boom and traffic boom has taken place. In 2005, the Netherlands was the second safest traffic country in the world, behind Malta.

Belgium is way unsafer, with over 2,5 times the trafficdeath rate per 100.000 inhabitants. The Belgium province of Luxembourg (not to be confused with the country Luxembourg) is the most dangerous place of the whole European union, with 41,6 deaths per 100.000 inhabitants against a Belgium average of 12,8 and a Dutch average of 5 deaths per 100.000.

Well, going by that measure, given that Israel's population was almost exactly 7 million in October of 2006, and with 447 road deaths in that year, the death rate per 100,000 people was 6.37. That makes Israel somewhat less safe than Holland but safer than all the others you mentioned.

That can't be right . . . :dunno: I guess that like everything else in statistics, it all depends what numbers you use to draw your graph. . .

This one is shocking. Truck driver fall asleep and didn't noticed that there is a traffic jam in tunnel. Two woman and 3 kids died. One of the most horrible accidents that I can remember on Croatian roads.

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he didn't fall asleep, he's been jerking on his cell phone

horrible accident ^^

horrible accident in Israel last week. Truck drivier with 190 authorizations didn't keep distance with the car in front and smash a car destroying family. the father and 5 years old girl were killed. the mother is seriously injured and the 7 years old son with medium injuries.


http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/6135/36239651xj6.jpg


and the stupid truck drivier will not be charged by killing but causing death by carelessness. :ohno:

Spain (2005)

4.442 deaths / 39.000.000

http://www.dgt.es/estadisticas/estadisticas03.htm

From Wikipedia

Germany

502 deaths (2004)

1.642 deaths (1972)

France

5.732 deaths (2003)

Since 2003 the number of death in french road had fallen.
4,709 deaths in 2006 compared at 5,318 in 2005 or 10,960 in 1986 or 16,500 in 1972. :eek:

I think French cars used to be very unsafe in the seventies.

Me too, and the speed limit was higher.

Really? Interesting. What was the speed limit?

In the Netherlands, there was a time where there were no speed limits too.

City 60 km/h
Motorway 140 km/h

And imagine that in this time french motorways did not have crash barrier.

That's small difference to current limit in France(130km/h i think).

Yes but the cars in the 70's was very different.

Nowadays French cars are very safe, maybe safest cars in the world.
German Japanese and Italian the most frequent outside french ones are also very safe.

Actually, it´s one of the most ignored statistics in the world that traffic deaths in Israel have gone down drastically over the past few years. Less people were killed in 2006 than in 1967, even though there are three times more people now, and probably 20 times more cars.

This graph is from the Israel Police website and shows the number of road deaths per year for the past 40 years:

I've no idea how to compare these figures with other countries, but I'd be very surprised if Israel has the highest rate of road deaths.

What can I say, good to hear :)

Here's a dumb asshole in a BMW M5 trying to flee from the police, he succeeds by passing the border into germany where, at that time, the dutch police didn't have any juristriction.
He seemed to forget that his license plate can be used to track him down and he eventually lost his car, drivers lincence and he had to pay 3000 euros

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In the Netherlands, there was a time where there were no speed limits too.

Spain has speed limits since the oil crisis in the '70s. Probably the same happened in the Netherlands.

I think so. But back then, there weren't even cars that could reach more than 120km/h. (except for the really expensive ones) Now even the smallest cars can reach that speed. So back then, speed limits weren't very necessary.

After the oil crises we had about 15 years a common speed limit of 100km/h. Since 1988 it's 120km/h, though there are still al lot of 100km/h stretches on urban (and some less urban) roads.

I think there should be a 130 km/h limit in all EU countries, so there cant be any confusing with drivers from different countries. There should be safety laws for those roads.

Greece :ohno:

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Greece :ohno:



That is not a motorway :)

hehehe....

Greece :ohno:



Amazing he didn't get hurt. Why does he walks away like that?

What is the guy on the bike saying? It seems like he failed to yield, unless there is a traffic light I'm not aware of.

Amazing he didn't get hurt. Why does he walks away like that?

I don't believe this could be real. This movie must have been editted. You'll never get that easy away on a motorbike on such accidents.

I don't believe this could be real. This movie must have been editted. You'll never get that easy away on a motorbike on such accidents.

yeah, that's too weird to me too, but maybe that guy is one of million who's lucky that much

Really? Interesting. What was the speed limit?

In the Netherlands, there was a time where there were no speed limits too.

Is there a web site that shows all the old speed limit's?

i think this guy is pissed off :lol:

by the way he had to stop. it's he's fault.

I don't believe this could be real. This movie must have been editted. You'll never get that easy away on a motorbike on such accidents.

everything can happend.
maby he had minor injury but in the first minutes he didn't feel anything becouse of the shock and tha anger.
it happend to me many times when i got injured and didn't feel the pain at the begining.

you can gues what happend to the driver. R.I.P

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In Estonia:
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I once met a car in the opposite direction with a velocity of 130 km/h on one of the main highways near Prague. One driver´s mistake and we did not have to be alive.:ohno:

All people other than myself are stupid when it comes to driving on highways and freeways! Get off MY roads!

This is not a motorway, but these people are stupid enough to be in this thread. A railroad crossing in Tallinn:
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why stupid? i would do the same.
the barrier is not down yet

why stupid? i would do the same.
the barrier is not down yet

Somewhat true, but strictly speaking when you see the signals flashing it already may be unsafe to jump the barrier. What if the barrier happens to be broken? After all, it's a mechanical device. The signals and the bell signify that there is a train approaching, so I would at least slow down to make sure I don't see a train. Even when the signals aren't flashing it's a good idea to slow down at least, to make sure there are no trains.

^^You're right about the possibility of mechanical failure. There is a railway crossing near my home with light signals, but for some reason they weren't working so a car was hit by a locomotive about a week ago. Fortunately the speeds were small and nothing serious happen, but accidents at railway crossing are very common in Estonia and people don't learn at all. This happened yesterday morning when a truck was hit by a commuter train: http://www.krimi.ee/2007/09/08/rongi-ja-veoki-kokkuporkes-neli-kannatanut

here in Croatia this is the same as you pass through red at traffic lights, so no good at all

In Portugal a few months ago a driver decided to drive around the barriers in a railway crossing, the excuse being because he knew the place like the back of his hand and it's something he used to do frequently, but one day the train came a bit faster.. and we all know how it ended...

^^ Did he survive to tell about this little habit he had?

Somewhat true, but strictly speaking when you see the signals flashing it already may be unsafe to jump the barrier. What if the barrier happens to be broken? After all, it's a mechanical device. The signals and the bell signify that there is a train approaching, so I would at least slow down to make sure I don't see a train. Even when the signals aren't flashing it's a good idea to slow down at least, to make sure there are no trains.

In Israel if i would slow down i would get so meny beeping behind me and people would stop near me to say what they think about me and my mother :lol:

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i don't unerstand how such people get license.

^^ Did he survive to tell about this little habit he had?
Apparently he used to brag about it in the village he lived in.. until the day of the incident, when he was hit by a few tens of tonnes of metal travelling at at speed of 100 miles per hour!

Apparently he used to brag about it in the village he lived in.. until the day of the incident, when he was hit by a few tens of tonnes of metal travelling at at speed of 100 miles per hour!

Actually,even the locomotive is over than 100tonnes. A packed freight train can be even 5000 tonnes.

I tried to, unsuccessfully, look up weights of trains. But basically he was turned into minced meat! Moral of the story: Bragging brings bad luck!

I tried to, unsuccessfully, look up weights of trains. But basically he was turned into minced meat! Moral of the story: Bragging brings bad luck!

An old hungarian steam engine weighted 140 tonnes with its coal car(?).
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%81V_424

Yes,train accidents are fatal. Numerous accidents happen in Hungary when some "I'm-a-big-guy-nothing-can-hurt-me" type driver crosses the tracks at red signal.
Drivers have some chance when this comes,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/hu/thumb/c/cf/Bzmot-268_sp.jpg/250px-Bzmot-268_sp.jpg
but when a monster like this comes with 80km/h and 40 freightcars.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Hungarian-diesel-locomotive-m62-sergej.jpg/200px-Hungarian-diesel-locomotive-m62-sergej.jpg
Even truck drivers challenge their luck,but usually they loose. There was an accident a few years back,when a german tourist bus,full of german tourists, crossed the tracks near lake Balaton,and a train came...

There was an accident a few years back,when a german tourist bus,full of german tourists, crossed the tracks near lake Balaton,and a train came...

bus waas stucked in traffic jam at crossing when train came. i allways have that accident in my mind while crossing the railway and i'm allways affraid to be stuck if there is a lot of cars because i have that accident in my mind!

btw, trains in Europe are very rarely over 2000 t ;)

I think your standard mainline railway is supposed to be able to handle 22.5 tons per axle safely. So yeah, we're taking about huge weights here, but not 5000 tons I'm afraid.. :)

I think your standard mainline railway is supposed to be able to handle 22.5 tons per axle safely. So yeah, we're taking about huge weights here, but not 5000 tons I'm afraid.. :)

Well,yes not in Europe,but trains elsewhere can be that heavy.

In my hometown, the beltway has traffic lights, with a red-light camera next to it.

Some guy drove there with 70km/h almost under the traffic lights, when the lights jumped to orange. That guy makes some emergency brake, and the car behind him (the car in front of me) couldn't brake that fast, and had to make a move to the left not to crash into the other car. I could brake fast enough, but what if a truck was behind him?

Those damn red-light camera only makes it unsafer on the road...

There is a railway crossing in Tallinn that has 2+2 lanes and lots of traffic. On a record day, 3 barriers were run down by cars :D

In my hometown, the beltway has traffic lights, with a red-light camera next to it.

Some guy drove there with 70km/h almost under the traffic lights, when the lights jumped to orange. That guy makes some emergency brake, and the car behind him (the car in front of me) couldn't brake that fast, and had to make a move to the left not to crash into the other car. I could brake fast enough, but what if a truck was behind him?

Those damn red-light camera only makes it unsafer on the road...

Hehe I know this phenomenon, I sometimes also get a bit nervous before traffic lights. I don't know if in Europe this is common, but here in Toronto (and most of North America) the pedestrian lights start flashing red before turning red, which is also a good indication that the traffic lights will change to amber (yellow) soon. So, on arterial streets, where the limit is usually 60-70km/h, if I see a light blinking but I am still somewhat far, I get a bit nervous, and I've had cases where I braked when I probably shouldn't have, but also cases where I ran yellow lights just a millisecond before they turned red, which is technically dangerous too, because vehicles might be completing their left turn at this moment. Currently this is a rare problem for me, probably because I have much more driving experience than before, but I still get a bit nervous at times.

I like the system that is used in Israel (where I used to live long ago), where the green light starts blinking before turning yellow on roads where the speed limit is 60km/h or above. Also, I like the countdown timers on pedestrian lights in downtown Toronto, which also essentially count down to the yellow light, which coincides with the pedestrian signal turning red.

However, I have noticed that generally the yellow light actually stays on longer in North America than in other places around the world, which is somewhat interesting, although I may be wrong.

I think your standard mainline railway is supposed to be able to handle 22.5 tons per axle safely. So yeah, we're taking about huge weights here, but not 5000 tons I'm afraid.. :)

You haven't seen the trains in Canada. Often times the trains will get to 200 to 300 cars long. Often, this isn't safe, but the railway companies do this so they can turn a profit. A shame really, it pains me to see fish leaping out of the water because they don't wanted to be burned by caustic soda.

I like the system that is used in Israel (where I used to live long ago), where the green light starts blinking before turning yellow on roads where the speed limit is 60km/h or above.

This works like that in Estonia for every traffic light I've seen, no matter what the speed limit is.

I found something very interesting:
"The heaviest train was a BHP Iron Ore train weighing 79,577 tons. The 10
locmotives and 540 ore cars ran from Newman to Port Hedland, Western
Australia, a distance of 253.9 miles, on May 28, 1996." The Guinness Book of World Records. 1998

There aren't any iron mines in Portugal and this was a passenger train but assuming the train weighed something like 1500 t and was travelling at 100kms/h, this is the momentum (p) of the train when it hit the car:
p= m * v ≈ 42000 kg*m/s which would surely be enough to crush any motor vehicle in its way!

again me: passenger trains are not that heavy. average passenger coach has 40 tons, so passenger trains usually weight up to about 500 t. train multiple units even less. ;)

again me: passenger trains are not that heavy. average passenger coach has 40 tons, so passenger trains usually weight up to about 500 t. train multiple units even less. ;)

I dont want to imagine what it is like to be hit by ~500 tonnes of steel. If a collision with 3,5 tonnes can kill a passenger in a car,what would happen with a train...

well, 1 t heavy car doing 100 km/h is scary, and how not 500?!

again me: passenger trains are not that heavy. average passenger coach has 40 tons, so passenger trains usually weight up to about 500 t. train multiple units even less. ;)
Just divide by three then :D

A friend of my just encountered such a situation on the Brussels R0. And he made a pic of it :lol:
The pic was just a good shot, because he was taking pics in Belgium, but this scares the shit out of you.

http://i13.tinypic.com/4xpe0ww.png

Extremely stupid :nuts: :D :nuts:

One time I was in the HOV lanes on a freeway, going with the flow at about 120km/h. Then all of a sudden, a giant dump truck going 80km/h max (the speed limit is 100km/h) cuts right in front of me!!! I blast my horn and slam my breaks and was fortunately able to avoid an accident, but I was stuck behind him at such a slow speed for about a kilometer before I was able to get out from behind him and merge with the fast traffic again.

http://www.szirena.hu/bal5n.jpg
It was a bus,if you were wondering...

On this month's 22nd day,a Lamborghini and a Porsche raced on the M7-M1 motorway's common segment. The result:
I think I should mention that the M7-M1 part is the busiest motorway in Hungary.
http://files.blogter.hu/user_files/6148/2007szep22/070922_m1m7lamborghini_10.jpg

http://files.blogter.hu/user_files/6148/2007szep22/070922_m1m7lamborghini_04.jpg

http://files.blogter.hu/user_files/6148/2007szep22/070922_m1m7lamborghini_05.jpg
Both drivers survived,thanks to the already waiting police...I hope they will be sued for a small fortune and a few years of jail.

This afternoon near Madrid

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6655/pict0001vr1.jpg

Left or right? :nuts:

http://shrani.si/f/3r/tD/1PafvykV/project1.jpg

http://www.megadeejay.com/images/MB/HitraCesta03.jpg

:cheers:

Was the woman driving? :D

Croatian tunnels

Most of them are tourists... :ohno:

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Anyone talking about a car hitting a train...

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Top Gear demonstrates...

Anyone talking about a car hitting a train...

Top Gear demonstrates...

If you want instant death, here is your answer. Just like the mother with four children try to beat a train, just sad when people cant wait 2-5 min extra.

Left or right?

:rofl:

There is a railway crossing in Tallinn that has 2+2 lanes and lots of traffic. On a record day, 3 barriers were run down by cars

When I left Estonia in 1992 ( I think) people weren't that stupid, I guess age shows everything. People just driving worst day by day. How is the things up there anyway :lol:

few days ago i have seen 180 turning at motorway in front of me. fortunately, i wasnßt going fast so i had enough time to gesticulate him a lot of things. the fact that makes him even larger idiont is that it happened between 2 exits which are only 4 km far one from another. so it was so bloody hard to make extra 2 km to turn safely:ohno:

In Croatia OMG.

btw, with this croatian clip goes a story about Italian who stopped in tunnel and went to shit. of course, as soon as he stopped, emergency alarms notified supervisors in supervising center who could not believe. unfortunately for Italian, right in that tunnel in emergency tube firemen had an emergency trial so people from center contacted firemen who caught him and told him to clean the shit and put it into his Alfa GT :D :D so, better don't shit in croatian tunnels :D

From thread in Alpe-Adria section:
Have u ever played that game, Driver? A Slovenian police chase in 'Driver Style' (for video) (http://24ur.com/bin/article.php?article_id=3108541&show_media=60060831)

http://image.24ur.com/media/images///extra/Oct2007//60060557.jpg:bash:

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^^ Visit slovenian motorways, post 475 and next

crazy video

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What in the name of hell are those idiots doing? :nuts:

Guys on polish subforum said, they want to avoid tolls or Road Transport Inspection. I don't think so, because second pair of trucks turned back. That's why i've got one idea: they missed right direction (because of lack of road marking?).

Crazy stupid commute on a motorcycle in the Utrecht area of the Netherlands.
To work (http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/31872/6db433db/fzr_600_late_for_work.html)
Back home (http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/31884/600d4cc2/fzr_600_late_for_work_(2_2).html)

Guys on polish subforum said, they want to avoid tolls or Road Transport Inspection. I don't think so, because second pair of trucks turned back. That's why i've got one idea: they missed right direction (because of lack of road marking?).

I'll bet it was a satnav telling them to do that.

Trash truck against toll booth in Puerto Montt, Chile.

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Drunkie in highway in Santiago de Chile, then he goes over a pedestrian bypass and threatens to jump to the metro lines.

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Horse running in highway in Santiago, it's shot by several cameras along the highway! i know this thread is about stupid people, but stupid people leaves them without care. We've had some accidents with horses on highways.

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I'll bet it was a satnav telling them to do that.

Satan? :lol: Ok, i know, satellite navigation.

Trash truck against toll booth in Puerto Montt, Chile.

What the hell is this guy doing and why? Is he drunk or what? He can't even hold on one lane...

Take a look at this moron of the year, parking on A6 entrance ramp.
http://images34.fotosik.pl/46/6c867b770795f193.jpg

^^ that's nothing:

http://www.destentor.nl/multimedia/archive/00569/a1_569664b.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4359/file458873bwk0.jpg

http://i16.tinypic.com/5xr5th0.jpg

What are they doing? Aren't they waiting to leave motorway? Or for customs check? I've seen many lines like this before D-PL border. But customs check in Netherlands?

This is on a German holiday, truck traffic is not allowed then. This line was 15km long. All parkings up to 100km away from the border were crowded with trucks, so they keep driving until the border and park their truck on the emergency lane.

And more stupid people leaving horses without care.

Accident happened today in Santiago.


http://teletrece.canal13.cl/t13/html/Noticias/Chile/322872Ivideoq1.html

And more stupid people leaving horses without care.

Accident happened today in Santiago.


http://teletrece.canal13.cl/t13/html/Noticias/Chile/322872Ivideoq1.html

Poor horse... :cry:

in Saudia

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entering the wrong direction (how the hell?!?!) combinated with speeding results in this way (yesterday evening):

http://24sata.hr/util_scripts/get_slika_original.php?slika_id=48528&sid=1196959291420

http://24sata.hr/util_scripts/get_slika_original.php?slika_id=48529&sid=1196959291420

http://24sata.hr/util_scripts/get_slika_original.php?slika_id=48530&sid=1196959291420

It looks like the driver of the car in the 1st pic killed at least 2 passengers of the car in the last 2 pics.

^^ that's nothing:

http://i16.tinypic.com/5xr5th0.jpg

This looks exactly like Pragues south-west bypass. Everyday. Last time it took me 2 1/2 hours to get through Prague.

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Innocent civilian gets hit by a Gumball rally participant. This happened in Morocco: scroll down to 6:34 to see the accident. If you look at the whole movie, you see how idiotic they drive and actually get busted by the police in the end.

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More crazy gumballers on Moroccan national roads.

It looks like the driver of the car in the 1st pic killed at least 2 passengers of the car in the last 2 pics.

Vento entered wrong direction and was hit by BMW 5 (first pic) which was speeding. in Vento there were 4 adults and 2 kids (6 persons :eek: ), 2 adults and one kid dead, others heavy injured. BMW's driver injured (broken leg, unconciousness). his speeding didn't actually affect this because Vento has just entered wrong direction while BMW hit it.

Innocent civilian gets hit by a Gumball rally participant. This happened in Morocco: scroll down to 6:34 to see the accident. If you look at the whole movie, you see how idiotic they drive and actually get busted by the police in the end.

More crazy gumballers on Moroccan national roads.

There is a video about the same race in Hungary too. They drive like crazy. In the video,they're almost hit by a truck.
Maybe he was one of them too? He wasnt driving fast...
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4742/resizeofimg2974ad2.jpg

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7859/resizeofimg2975ao2.jpg

Whenever you hear about somebody driving the wrong way onto a motorway, it's always an old pensioner :ohno:

Wednesday, 27 March, 2002

Two die in 'wrong way' motorway crash

Traffic queued on the motorway for several hours

A pensioner has killed himself and another driver after travelling four miles in the wrong carriageway on the M4 motorway.
Oncoming drivers swerved to avoid his Nissan Micra as he sped along at up to 75 mph 1200 GMT on Wednesday.

The eastbound carriageway was closed for seven hours between Swindon and Hungerford, either side of the Wiltshire-Berkshire border following the pile-up.

Two other accidents between junctions 14 and 15 added to the chaos, with several people being flown to hospital.

The AA estimated that 10,000 vehicles were caught up in the congestion.

Police said they were carrying out a major investigation.

Six vehicles, including a lorry, were involved in a crash when the pensioner slammed head-on into another driver.

The second accident involved a single car that had to swerve off the motorway.

Alec Mackey was travelling west towards his home in Worcester when he saw the pensioner heading the same way in the eastbound "slow lane".

He told BBC News Online: "I glanced to my right and there was this guy in a blue saloon car, on his own.

I saw one poor guy bang on his brakes and there was a cloud of dust and he swerved

"He looked totally focused, as if he knew precisely what he was doing.

"He didn't have his headlights on but he had his sidelights on.

"Oncoming traffic was light at the time."

Flashing lights

Mr Mackey said he drove alongside the blue car for up to two miles before pulling ahead.

"Traffic coming behind me, travelling west, began to flash their lights at oncoming traffic to warn them.

"I saw one poor guy bang on his brakes and there was a cloud of dust and he swerved."

Mr Mackey tried to dial 999 but the emergency line was jammed.

He said he saw one silver car swerve wildly but did not witness the crash itself.

"It was one of those things you could see was going to happen and you couldn't do anything about it," he said.

More examples of old-age idiocy :ohno:

Friday, 27 December, 2002, 17:03 GMT
'Wrong way' M1 crash dead named

The crash was on the M1 near Watford Gap services

A crash on the M1 in which two drivers were killed was caused by a pensioner going the wrong way, police confirmed on Friday.

Officers believe he had earlier driven on the wrong side of another motorway.

Leonard Sandison, age 69, from Congresbury, near Bristol, left the Watford Gap motorway services in Northamptonshire on the wrong slip road.


He was killed in a head-on collision with a car travelling northbound on the M1.

The other motorist who died has been named as 50-year-old Safdar Ali of Chapeltown, Leeds.

The motorway was shut for several hours after the accident on Christmas Eve.

The two drivers were the only occupants of the cars.

The Northamptonshire coroner has been informed.

A police spokesman said officers believed Mr Sandison had earlier joined the M45 on the wrong side of the motorway.


Pensioner drove wrong way on M8

A man who drove for three miles in the wrong direction on a busy motorway has been banned from driving for 12 months.
James Kennedy, 80, pleaded guilty at Paisley Sheriff Court to dangerous driving. He said had become confused while trying to exit Glasgow Airport.

Mr Kennedy, from Alloa, had been driving for more than 40 years without any previous blemish on his record.

But on returning from holiday in March he took the wrong sliproad and drove east on the M8's westbound carriageway.

The court was told that police in an unmarked car had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.

Mr Kennedy travelled for three miles in the fast lane before he managed to carry out a three-point turn and pull onto the hard shoulder.

Sheriff Bill Dunlop told the pensioner that he was due some credit for his previously clean driving record.

He banned Mr Kennedy from driving for 12 months and said he would have to sit the extended test of competence to drive if he wished to gain his licence back.

yet more :ohno:

Pensioner drives wrong way round M25

An 87-year-old drove 10 miles against the flow of traffic along the M25
The M25, which loops around London in a massive circle, is known as "the road to nowhere."

But even on a motorway with no direction there is still a wrong way.

Kent Police were alarmed when they started receiving calls saying a motorist was driving along the wrong side of M25.

By checking their observation cameras, police confirmed a white Ford Escort was travelling in the opposite direction of the flow of traffic in the slow lane.

Traffic meeting the 87-year-old driver and his female passenger were forced to take abrupt action to avoid crashing into them.

"People were having to swerve to get out of his way," said Inspector Krysia Keeley.

Police caught up with the driver after he had gone about 10 miles along the motorway.

A roadblock had to be set up to stop the car at the Swanley interchange in Kent.

The pensioner is unlikely to face prosecution.

"He is going to see a doctor," Inspector Keeley said.

"Prosecuting someone of that age is perhaps a bit unfair."

The doctor is likely to determine the man is unfit to be behind the wheel and force him to hand in his driving licence.

But even then, nobody can guarantee the roads are safe from traffic suddenly appearing in the wrong direction.

"It's not something that occurs on a frequent basis," Inspector Keeley said.

"But it does happen from time to time."



Pensioner drives wrong way up M6

Drivers were forced to swerve out of the way when an 82-year-old woman drove the wrong way along an unlit section of the M6 on Sunday night.
Police said cars spun out of control and one crashed as it avoided the pensioner's silver Peugeot near Shap in Cumbria.

The woman, from Windermere, travelled for four miles in the outside lane before police patrol cars halted her.

A spokesman said she could face a charge of dangerous driving.

Sgt Paul Brown, of Cumbria Police, said the pensioner, who had stopped immediately on seeing the police cars' flashing lights, was taken to Penrith Police Station for questioning following the incident.

Remote area

He said: "She's quite confused about what happened.

"We've established that she was trying to travel between Carlisle and Windermere and has somehow managed to make a wrong turn and has ended up coming back up the motorway."

A police spokesman added that it was a "miracle" a serious collision had not occurred and thanked drivers who had alerted police by mobile phone.

He said: "We believe she was going the wrong way for up to four miles and she was travelling between 60 and 70 mph in the southbound fast lane.

"The motorway at this point is remote without street lighting and drivers travelling southbound would have only been aware of the approaching vehicle as it was almost upon them."

The driver of a Daewoo car was treated for whiplash at the scene after crashing into the central reservation to evade a head-on smash with the Peugeot.

Drivers began phoning police on seeing the woman near Shap Summit and she was stopped at Shap Beck.

The Crown Prosecution Service will now decide if she should be charged.

No-brain ride thru Prague
He will enter expresway around 1:00


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Hahaha,,,woow Slovenia is realy weird:lol: Are people forgetting the exit every time :lol:

This isnt on a motorway but gets an idiocy award. This clip is in the traffic queue to get through Claregalway, on the N17 in Ireland. Its a horrific bottleneck thesedays, a motorway bypass is planned but wont be started until post 2010 until the politically desirable interurbans get finished. There was a queue of 10km to get through the town today.

So lets chalk this driving up as an example of 2 things -

1) How not to drive
2) How to be a plonker

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0104/6news_av.html

Thats todays Six One news. Fast forward to about 15mins to watch the clip. I find that sometimes when I load it I get sound but no picture, if that happens, press stop then play again. Then it seems to work.


What was he doing?

More of chilean highways, this video focuses on bad truck drivers.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c04_1206640366

Some guy drove there with 70km/h almost under the traffic lights, when the lights jumped to orange. That guy makes some emergency brake, and the car behind him (the car in front of me) couldn't brake that fast, and had to make a move to the left not to crash into the other car. I could brake fast enough, but what if a truck was behind him?

Those damn red-light camera only makes it unsafer on the road...

If the car in front brakes sharply and you can't stop without hitting it or swerving round it, you're driving too close - it's as simple as that. You must always be prepared for the driver in front to stop suddenly. That's why we have the "two second rule", although sadly it does seem like only 2% of people follow it...

^^ The two second rule simply doesn't work in busy city traffic. If gaps are getting too big other drivers will just fill it. If you see someone coming too close to you in your mirror(s), you need to be aware that you can't brake that hard... Just for your own safety. What if you've got kids in the backseat? At the end, the question who's wrong doesn't matter anymore, then...

If the car in front brakes sharply and you can't stop without hitting it or swerving round it, you're driving too close - it's as simple as that. You must always be prepared for the driver in front to stop suddenly. That's why we have the "two second rule", although sadly it does seem like only 2% of people follow it...

Yes, it's your own fault, if you're driving too close. Which also means it's your fault, if you'll smash the people in front of you. And that is of a very little help to them. These cameras should be banned, or allowed only where the green light pulses before turning yellow/orange.

If the car in front brakes sharply and you can't stop without hitting it or swerving round it, you're driving too close - it's as simple as that. You must always be prepared for the driver in front to stop suddenly. That's why we have the "two second rule", although sadly it does seem like only 2% of people follow it...

If everybody in the Netherlands followed the 2 second rule, our traffic jams would triple. You can see that when it rains, people tend to keep more distance, and there are a lot more traffic jams then.

If everybody in the Netherlands followed the 2 second rule, our traffic jams would triple. You can see that when it rains, people tend to keep more distance, and there are a lot more traffic jams then.
So that's a good excuse for endangering yourself and everyone else?
"To finish first, first you have to finish". The ultimate goal of driving is to get to where you are going, and to get there safely. If you're driving in a way that makes that less likely, you take the consequences. There's no point in being fast for the first half of your journey if you can't get to the end because your car is smashed up.

You must be prepared for the car in front to stop suddenly. End of story. If you are approaching a set of traffic lights that are probably about to turn red, you must expect the car in front to stop suddenly.

In the UK, traffic is worse when it rains, but I think a lot of that is because when it's raining, people are more likely to drive than to cycle, motorcycle, walk, wait at bus stops, etc.

This one is interesting, because it seems that it's partially the fault of the road engineering or signage (the trucks apparently cannot use this road). Nonetheless, pretty dangerous and crazy driving I think:

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^^ Famous video ;) It is said to be somewhere near Novi Sad in Serbia.

yes, it's in Novi Sad. they hav eclosed all the bridges over Danube for lorries and they must go round to the motorway and cross Danube at Beška (motorway) bridge and do more than 50 extra km's. lorries in our company also have that problem. but i cannot belive this ^^ is hapening. and idiot at 0:21 is also really special kind

I always blame the USA for bad drivers, but I have to admit that it is very rare here. I personally have never seen one in 7 years that I drive on American motorways, and I drive a lot.

Alex what planet are you on? Obviously you have never driven in New England. We have had " Geistfahrers" twice on I 84 here in the last few months. Both sadly with fatal results.

My pet peeve driving on an Interstate on the inside right lane with no way to ease left because of traffic are drivers who come up the access ramps and literally play chicken with you. Either brake to let them in or hit them !

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This is in Moroccco (City of Tetuan/Tetouan), its was actually before they open the highway to public!

So what's so stupid about this, if the road wasn't opened yet?

^^ Is it because he's not taking enough time to admire the shiny crashbarriers? ;)

I always cycle on unfinished motorways. It's the best way to take good pictures.

I've cycled over a small stretch of the A2. Back then it was closed, now it's open :)

These cameras should be banned, or allowed only where the green light pulses before turning yellow/orange.

isnt the task of the orange light to warn the drivers for the red light?

theres no need for another warning sign...

but the orange light have to hold at least 3 seconds...

and theres another useful auxiliary traffic light device: the back-timer (or whatisit) what count down for the light change...

A few years ago, a single-carriageway two-way arterial was being duplicated. My friend's dad "mustn't have noticed" (in his words) a detour sign and drove straight over a couple of traffic cones diverting traffic from the unopened carriageway. For a few seconds, I was wondering what he was doing, and when I pointed it out, he made a U-turn and headed back to the original intersection... only to find a roadworkers' vehicle parking where the cones used to be. :bash: They let us through, but not before having a laugh.

I always cycle on unfinished motorways. It's the best way to take good pictures.

are you making long car trips to the construction sites or are there many motorway U/C near your home? :)

I regularly visited the U/C M0 beltway of Budapest. it was really interesting to see its contsruction...
but I have to say it is much more interesting to see it under heavy traffic... :lol:

isnt the task of the orange light to warn the drivers for the red light?

theres no need for another warning sign...

but the orange light have to hold at least 3 seconds...3 seconds is too little time, it should be at least 4, especially, if there's a camera recording nearby. But the problem is, unless you're constantly looking right in the traffic light, you're not sure when exactly it turned yellow... which means you'll brake hardly to stop, if you know the camera is there... and that can have bad consequences, if someone's right behind you.

are you making long car trips to the construction sites or are there many motorway U/C near your home? :)Exactly what I wanted to ask. :lol:

are you making long car trips to the construction sites or are there many motorway U/C near your home? :)

There are/were a lot of motorway construction sites near my place. Sometimes I put bike into car if construction site (like A5 in Slovenia) is more than 30, 40 kms away. I even regularly cycled to the construction site of Pyhrn motorway in Croatia and cycled through all tunnels on Krapina-Gruškovje. :banana::banana:

We know all, that some people shouldn't be allowed to have driving license. Here are two compilations of various traffic camera videos from Slovenian motorways, showing:
Reverse driving on motorway (geisterfahrer) (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_vzvratna_voznja_PR.wmv) :bash:
Cyclists, pedestrians and skaters on motorway (mms://wmedia.siol.net/siol/avtomoto/reportaza/DARS_pesci_kolesarji_PR.wmv) :lol:

Those situations on Slovenian motorways are not very frequent, but nevertheless they are very very dangerous. How often do they happen in your country and maybe post some videos.

Once when I was walking in the CBD, I saw someone reversing on a motorway. It was at a place where a three lane carriageway forks into two two lane carriageways, the left fork is an exit to the CBD and the right fork goes into the Cross City Tunnel. The guy took the right fork and realised it wasn't where he wanted to be, so he just reversed back to the fork and took the other one. :bash: Fortunately traffic was very light at the time.

I don't have a picture of it actually happening, but here (http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-33.873997,151.201602&spn=0.001321,0.002969&t=k&z=19) is where it happened; you can't see it very clearly because there are two other roads overpassing it, but it's that eastbound fork on the lower level. At the time, I was walking on the pedestrian walkway that you can see on the right hand side of the picture, although I was on the part of it that you can't see underneath the road.

A friend of mine took this picture on the R0 around Brussels. This idiot was actually driving backwards on the motorway!
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Oh my god... If you miss your exit, that's the worst way you can react...

Instead of driving on, he/she should've taken the next exit (won't be far on the R0 anyway) and then driven to where he/she wanted to go...

*sigh*, stupid person indeed.

Greetings,
Glodenox

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^^ 1.5 years ago :D

I just knew I saw it here somewhere. :lol:

Chris, you're repeating yourself. :D I also immediately remembered it. :lol:

Usually, to get from one city to another in New Zealand, there are a series ot two lane roads which twist and turn according to the contours of the landscape. Blanket speed limit is 100kph. Last year though, 406 people died out of a population of 4.1 million.

3 seconds is too little time, it should be at least 4, especially, if there's a camera recording nearby. But the problem is, unless you're constantly looking right in the traffic light, you're not sure when exactly it turned yellow... which means you'll brake hardly to stop, if you know the camera is there... and that can have bad consequences, if someone's right behind you.

Exactly what I wanted to ask. :lol:

I do not know if it's a EU regulation or what but...

Courts canceled fiones here with orange set at 3 seconds. The new regulation requires five second.

Usually the traffic leghts with camera feature a countdown display which is somewhat useful.

If we stick to my small town I'd love to see people starting to move quicker than "within 5/6 seconds from the green light" like they are used to do.

A red light is apparently the best place to

a) make a call
b) check your makeup
c) play with your tie
d) pick your nose

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Romanian truckdriver on a Belgian highway... Our transport minister was furious :D

OLD ;) :ancient:

As expected :)

Spanish truckdriver didn't want to be overtaken by cars using the emergency lane, so he blocked it... Oops, is that a policecar? :lol:

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^^ What a moron. I'd send him to prison.

^^Without knowing the causes? :ohno: There can be a lot of reasons why he moved to emergency lane.

People who abuse the shoulder are in violation though. I sometimes see truckers playing policemen by driving half onto the shoulder to stop this. I think they're both wrong, people shouldn't abuse the shoulder, and truckers (or others) shouldn't take matters into their own hands.

Iran has about 27000 road deaths each year with 70,000,000 population and 18,000,000 cars!!
Fifteen times more than Gaza War!!

Tunnel in Santiago, Chile.

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Owwkay, seems like we've got to send a container of Darwin awards to Chile :P

Great reactions from the tunnel safety teams most of the time luckily.

Greetings,
Glodenox

Here's one from Germany. A trucker on my YouTube friends list posted this. 2 dead, three injured on the A2 in Germany (Lehrte) I had to look twice, to find the car that was caught in the middle...:

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74yo driver on highway in Bratislava, can't believe nobody stepped out from car to kick this idiot off

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Few Polish idiots..

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Wrong way driving:

A4 highway in Kraków. Old woman driving wrong way with 110km/h average speed .
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^^Wow very stupid.. I love some of the comments in the videos lol.

I hope all of these idiots have lost their driving license for life and were charged for attempted murder

I hope all of these idiots have lost their driving license for life and were charged for attempted murder

How do you know it's attempted murder (especially by the old lady)? Can you prove it?

if it wasn't and by papers she is not mentally disabled everyone with clear mind would at least stop car at emergency lane and wait with emergency lights there or waited when traffic is slower and turn it around

trying to drive wrong way on highway is always attempted murder

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rally, MADMAN drove a subway, after entered to church,

if it wasn't and by papers she is not mentally disabled everyone with clear mind would at least stop car at emergency lane and wait with emergency lights there or waited when traffic is slower and turn it around

trying to drive wrong way on highway is always attempted murder

Driving in the wrong direction because you're drunk and don't know what's going on around you certainly isn't an attempted murder.

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Was that driver sleeping?

^^ Is he was drunk? ehh poor horse...

Once I almost rear ended into a string of cars following some dickhead doing 70 in a 110 zone. My tires were screeching as i slammed on the breaks, just like everyone else. When it came my turn to pass the offender, I just had to blow my horn and flip that asscandle off as I approached him and passed him. At times like this, I wish I had a locomotive airhorn on my car.

Such idiots should be relegated to walking for life. Driving too slow on freeways is a real danger, anyone who lacks balls to drive on high speed roads should stay off them.

Was that driver sleeping?


maybe he was drunk and didnt want to be checked by police... :lol:

maybe he was drunk and didnt want to be checked by police... :lol:

Prolly talking on his cellphone. And not looking for horses.

Back in the late seventies, I was driving home from a concert (Queen, LOL!) at about 1am. I was in the country, and was really sleepy, driving on a pretty good state highway when... I felt my car... brush by something... soft. Fearing that I'd somehow hit a pedestrian (?), I safely slowed to a stop, turned around, and went back to find...

An ENORMOUS BLACK FREAKING BULL standing RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!

I guess he'd been on the right shoulder when I hit him. If he'd been in the middle of the road I guess I would've seen him in time to stop or evade, but who knows?

Was that driver sleeping?
I don't think he was. He never saw the horse. By the time he saw it, it was far too late. Also, the emergency worker (the dude waving the barely visible lantern) was also not in a position where the driver could see him either. He should have been in the same lane as the horses, and well upstream, so as to provide adequate warning to drivers, not off to the side by the van. Had he been in a better position, the driver would have been able to stop in time, and the horse would not have been killed.

An ENORMOUS BLACK FREAKING BULL standing RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!

The problem with animals is that they are not reflective of course, and if the road is not lit, there is no way you can stop in time for them at highway speed. Hit a bull, moose or horse, and your car is totaled.

I don't think he was. He never saw the horse. By the time he saw it, it was far too late. Also, the emergency worker (the dude waving the barely visible lantern) was also not in a position where the driver could see him either. He should have been in the same lane as the horses, and well upstream, so as to provide adequate warning to drivers, not off to the side by the van. Had he been in a better position, the driver would have been able to stop in time, and the horse would not have been killed.

What was also interesting was the rough way they manhandled the driver out of the car, then put him in a neckbrace on a stretcher!

^^

It was said after that the rescue was done this way because there were a fuel leakage and a risk of explosion so they hurried to take him out. The driver healed some days after.

No location in this vids but thinks it's New York looking at the plates.

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idiot in downtown Honolulu

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Spanish truckdriver didn't want to be overtaken by cars using the emergency lane, so he blocked it... Oops, is that a policecar? :lol:

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Few days ago I was entering a freeway (superstrada) in Italy, near Ancona. In the access ramp there was a car in front of me, which suddenly stopped in the middle of the acceleration lane, the guy stepped out of the car and began taking pictures...! Freeways in Italy have shorter acceleration lanes than highways, so i basically had to dodge that moron and enter the normal freeway at 20 km/h... lucky that the freeway was almost empty. And I gave that moron all my repertoire of insults...

Driving in the wrong direction because you're drunk and don't know what's going on around you certainly isn't an attempted murder.

Are you serious? Of course it is. It's even worse if you're drunk. In Italy you would probably be charged with driving under the influence and attempted manslaughter.

Are you serious? Of course it is. It's even worse if you're drunk. In Italy you would probably be charged with driving under the influence and attempted manslaughter.

How can it be an attempt of a murder when you don't even know what's going on around you? If you missed the right entrance to the motorway, that's not an attempt of anything. Btw, driving under the influence is an extenuating circumstance in Slovenia. I mean, of course you get a fine for it, but it's extenuating, if you caused an accident, because you weren't much aware of what you were doing.

How can it be an attempt of a murder when you don't even know what's going on around you? If you missed the right entrance to the motorway, that's not an attempt of anything.


f I drink and drive, I must know that's much more likely that I cause accidents and deaths.


Btw, driving under the influence is an extenuating circumstance in Slovenia. I mean, of course you get a fine for it, but it's extenuating, if you caused an accident, because you weren't much aware of what you were doing.

That's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. Fortunately in Italy it's just the opposite. Otherwise I can drink like a sponge, wreak havoc all around me with little legal consequences.

If you cause an accident while under influence in the Netherlands, the insurance won't pay a dime. You have to pay all damages yourself, including your own vehicle and if there are other vehicles are involved, those too. So one stupid night can easily cost you over € 50,000.

Btw, driving under the influence is an extenuating circumstance in Slovenia. I mean, of course you get a fine for it, but it's extenuating, if you caused an accident, because you weren't much aware of what you were doing.
Lol, that is crazy! It's completely the opposite here, if you get into the driving seat while drunk then your chances of having an accident shoot up, so any accidents caused are treated very harshly as the driver has deliberately chosen to make the roads more dangerous through his actions and this is to be discouraged.

It cannot be possible, maybe Verso knows wrong, in good faith. I mean, for instance the drunk-driving as an extenuating circumstance was banned from Italian legal code in 1935, and from Czechoslovakian one in 1950. A modern European nation like Slovenia cannot have such machist and backward legislation.

f I drink and drive, I must know that's much more likely that I cause accidents and deaths.Yeah, but it's not an attempt to kill people. I've already driven drunk a few times (stupid, I know) and my intention to drive certainly wasn't to kill other drivers, but to get home. If anything, driving in the wrong direction is "causing a general danger" or whatever the English expression (literal translation from Slovenian). Although that's not how it's treated here. You just get a fine of 300 € and only 5 (out of 18) penalty points.

It cannot be possible, maybe Verso knows wrong, in good faith. I mean, for instance the drunk-driving as an extenuating circumstance was banned from Italian legal code in 1935, and from Czechoslovakian one in 1950. A modern European nation like Slovenia cannot have such machist and backward legislation.Oops, you're right, I mixed up something. It can be an extenuating circumstance, if you harm or kill someone, but not in traffic. And you have to pay all damage yourself as well (in a traffic accident).

Yeah, but it's not an attempt to kill people. I've already driven drunk a few times (stupid, I know) and my intention to drive certainly wasn't to kill other drivers, but to get home. If anything, driving in the wrong direction is "causing a general danger" or whatever the English expression (literal translation from Slovenian). Although that's not how it's treated here. You just get a fine of 300 € and only 5 (out of 18) penalty points.


Maybe I exagerated, but I read of recent sentences in Italy in this sense. For instance, the attorney general of Bologna said that "whoever drinks and drives knows and accepts the risk of killing" and should be prosecuted in this sense:
http://bologna.repubblica.it/dettaglio/Il-procuratore:-Chi-guida-in-stato-di-ebbrezza-accetta-il-rischio-di-uccidere/1341397
sorry, Italian only.
But AFAIK there's a lot of confusion in the laws, and most of the times it is left to the sensibility of the judge.


Oops, you're right, I mixed up something. It can be an extenuating circumstance, if you harm or kill someone, but not in traffic. And you have to pay all damage yourself as well (in a traffic accident).

That's a total relief :D :D

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Czech tourist (26) in Audi A8 is chased by Croatian police because of high speed (246 km/h) and reckless driving...

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I recently heard on the news that in Sweden a driver was fined 900.000 euro for doing 290 km/h on a highway... they said that the speed trap was able to take a picture of the car only because it was a last generation speed trap...

I recently heard on the news that in Sweden a driver was fined 900.000 euro for doing 290 km/h on a highway... they said that the speed trap was able to take a picture of the car only because it was a last generation speed trap...

This was in Switzerland on the A12, but the driver was Swedish.

The maximum fine for speeding violations in Sweden is €400 euro.

^^ Ah, you're right, I must have heard the news wrong

Czech tourist (26) in Audi A8 is chased by Croatian police because of high speed (246 km/h) and reckless driving...

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Fortunately they were able to catch him !

2 Idiots I caught on camera last month in Romania (on Sibiu - Sebeș (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=%C5%9Eoseaua+Alba+Iulia%2FDN1%2FDN7&daddr=45.959802,23.547821&hl=ro&geocode=FUi6ugIdSM1vAQ%3B&mra=mift&mrsp=1,0&sz=14&sll=45.953477,23.56267&sspn=0.032999,0.077162&ie=UTF8&ll=45.876624,23.884277&spn=0.528715,1.234589&t=h&z=10) (52 km) road):

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Same road:

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This is one of the crazyest road-movies I have ever seen.

0:06 - Skoda passing
0:29 - Skoda passing again
0:31 - our camera-guy is going a little bit on the opposite direction
0:45 - VW Golf passing
0:50 - favorite scene - crazy truck driver
1:03 - our camera-guy is going again on the wrong lane (maybe he tought that there is going to be an accident and he wanted to catch it live)
1:08 - crazy truck driver nearly hits that Dacia Logan Van
1:12 - crazy truck driver nearly hits that Skoda
1:33 - truck passing another truck... so boooooooooooring
1:48 - truck nearly hits a homeless dog

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Some guy recall he should invoke Allah on Prague - Dresden route, his wife decided to asperse the place, apparently coming from Germany... :)
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^^ LOL!
I bet he protested the fine because it was a "religious discrimination"...

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and one rofl for the music
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Quick response of the police. Such people deserve a fine. Find a parking lot if you really need to do it.