I always make eye-contact, smirk and shake my head when crossing at a light when one of those gargantuan behemoths is in front of me. It’s not much, but it’s honest work (if not slightly risky).
One day i was at a gas station and some ridiculously bug truck just oeeled out. They are not very common here at all thankfully. He put the pedal ro the floor and made a ridiculous noise. I never quite know what they think this looks like for bystanders, so my first impulse was to piont and laugh. There was a roundabout near by and a few seconds later i heard that noise again. He came back and followed me into the gas station and asked me what’s so funny. I was so confused about that level of insecurity or whatever you wanna call that. I shrugged and said i thought that’s obvious. I thought he gained some self awareness and walked off, prdal to the floor again. I wasn’t outside to point and laugh again, but it would’ve been funny.
I bet that this is going to be one of those drivers who believe they own the road and who stops first goes first. You’ve seen the dashcams of drivers that double down when they clearly could’ve yielded.
I have a feeling he’s going to claim the ol’ Chip excuse, “I’m sorry officer, I didn’t know I couldn’t do that”.
That truck took it with basically no damage, wow!
In sure there’s some scratched paint and the driver will sue the victims family for the damage
I wasn‘t making a joke about the accident. But killing someone in a wheelchair should make more damage, than a bumper hanging down a little. Atleast I expected as much.
I had a look at the intersection on google maps street view and from what I can see there used to be very basic and rudimentary lights before June of 2026, but none after, and then only stop signs. Crazy for such a huge crossing… My European mind can’t comprehend it.
And even then, my European mind just goes “if you’re driving and someone is even thinking of crossing the crossroad, you stop for them”.
Police said there were no signs of impairment.
Driving a massive truck that you can’t see people in wheelchairs is a huge impairment
A woman is dead after being hit by a car which then crashed into lunchtime diners at a shopping centre in Melbourne’s east.
Police said the 27-year-old woman was walking across a pedestrian crossing at Westfield Knox when she was hit about 12:45pm.
today in melbourne :(
Ah yes the trucks that mow down a bushel of children before the driver even knows they’ve hit something. Fucking stupid ass jacked up box front trucks. Who gives a shit about running over people when you can tell the entire world you’re a fucking asshole.
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