accidents in your highways

[wafu21m]

can you post pics of some of the accidents in your highways? just don't include the bloody scenes :lol: thanks

[Alargule]

I've never seen an accident happen IN a highway...so I'm afraid not.

[ChrisZwolle]

I had an accident this summer on the French A10 just north of Bordeaux.

[Minato ku]

In summer and winter holidays accidents is frequent on French motorways.
Also after midnight on Parisian freeways and motorways because of the illegal races.
But the first is more common :) .

[victor5101]

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http://i16.tinypic.com/33uvbqt.jpg

[Nephasto]

I've never seen an accident happen IN a highway...so I'm afraid not.

We've never seen an acident in a highway?!?
Where do you live?! Have you ever actually rode a highway??

Unfortunatly accidents are quite comon in all type's of roads, all over the world. Highways are safer roads, but also have much traffic, so they are prone to accidents too.


One of the most recent accidents on a motorway I've seen was this summer, on the French A9, getting to the Spanish border. 2 cars collided andI think at least one was uppside down, on the right lane. A truck had stoped on the right lane to give the smashed cars some proteccion and for what I could see there injured victims (at least not anything serious), which was very good! :)

[Sampei]

In this case, the highway had a big accident!

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/incidente-catania/ansa83926832406192511_big.jpg

http://www.repubblica.it/2006/05/gallerie/cronaca/incidente-catania/reuters83923992406192514_big.jpg

(under construction Highway Catania-Siracusa, Italy, 2006)

[Macca-GC]

^^Now that could be seen as an accident IN a highway;) Yes, pun intended.

We get crashes on our highways all the time. In fact I think that a couple of years ago, it came out that more people died on the Pacific Highway between Brisbane and Sydney each year than are killed by murder across all of Australia. Much of the highway has been upgraded since, but the road toll is still quite high. On the M1 which is the main highway through the Gold Coast and forms a part of the Pacific Highway, there are often crashes particularly on a 2+2 lane section between Nerang and Mudgeeraba. there are rarely any deaths, but traffic delays and congestion is terrible.

Actually I do remember last year a truck was driving towards Brisbane just before the afternoon peak hour on the M1 on the 4+4 lane section and for some reason lost control and swerved across the median strip and into the oncoming traffic. There was something like 10 cars involved. 5 of 8 lanes of traffic closed including all south-bound traffic, preventing at least 50,000 commuters from getting home and causing a traffic jam for 35Km.

[sequoias]

I've seen some accidents on highway before. That caused a big traffic backup for miles away.

One of the accident that I saw a unsecured load come off the truck and the Honda civic tried to avoid it but lost control of the car and hit the median barrier and killed the local coffee shop owner. It was a metal shelf that came off the truck. The driver of the unsecured load was fined and jailtime, it isn't enough.

I didn't actually see it happen, but after it happened.