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DJDD

15-10-2009, 09:06 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tmYmeHf84

biblical...if you believed in the apocalypse...

Lismore Bloke

15-10-2009, 09:12 AM

Unfreakinbelieveable!!!!
You'd turn around and drive east!!!

DavidU

15-10-2009, 09:23 AM

Now thats kewl !

DJDD

15-10-2009, 09:49 AM

if you saw that coming in a movie you would tell the characters to turn around and drive fast...

PCH

15-10-2009, 11:02 AM

WOW :eyepop:

Ian Robinson

15-10-2009, 11:33 AM

Really dumb to drive into something like that , and there's no evidence from the footage that the driver slowed down.

-- extremely poor visibility (high likelyhood of having a high speed head-on with another idiot driving the other direction who can't tell what sidie of the road they are
-- bad for the engine , that dust was very fine and a fair bit of it will have got through the air filter and into the engine where it will have melted and deposited
-- bad news for the air filter (not designed for those kinds of conditions).

I had a similar experience in summer 2000 in Port Hedland, I simply pulled over , and stopped the engine , and waited for it pass.

dpastern

15-10-2009, 01:32 PM

Well Ian, most drivers on our roads are pretty stupid I hate to tell you. We wonder why we have some many road fatalities (a higher per capita amount than any other country I believe) - it isn't the roads, nor the cars, it's the *drivers*. Dumb drivers make dumb decisions, which lead to dumb mistakes, which leads to road deaths.

Dave