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Horrible tragedy for all concerned. I have to say from the stretch of road shown in the picture it is perhaps understandable that the driver thought it was still dual carriageway.
I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles on business and pleasure over the years in Europe and America but know that you still have to watch out for instinctive reactions in an emergency situation taking you the opposite way from how a local would respond.
There but for the grace of . . .
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Roger
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Yip, read this yesterday too. It is sad. I think we need more direction arrows on the roads in the highlands. It's not the first time this has happened. I remember hearing of a Dutchman being killed because he was on the wrong side of the road around loch ness area.
It's a massive tragedy & my thoughts are with the families of those who are left.
We ended up being caught in the ensuing tailback after leaving Laggan Wolftrax. A couple who had been very close to the vehicles ( & almost involved) came in whilst we were still there. They looked dumbstruck by the magnitude of what they had just witnessed. They had see the whole event & their vehicle had been struck by the debris.
The car, considering what it had been involved in, wasn't massively damaged. The bike was in several large chunks. This all passed us on a flatbed transporter which was by then headed north. The powers that be hadn't even covered up the wreckage.
Yip, read this yesterday too. It is sad. I think we need more direction arrows on the roads in the highlands. It's not the first time this has happened. I remember hearing of a Dutchman being killed because he was on the wrong side of the road around loch ness area.
Keith
We have too many sections of road including motorways that change from 2 to 3 or 4 lanes and back again without any indication at all. You don't know if the lane on your left that has just appeared is part of the road or a slip on or off or is another road running parallel.
In France and Spain these lane changes are all clearly marked with arrows on signs showing that roads are joining or that lanes are merging.
If all countries started having yellow lines between lanes when the traffic moves in opposite directions and white on dual carriageways where traffic goes in the same direction we would avoid some of these accidents.
Some countries do this and you know with a glance if you are on a dual carriageway or not.
An accident is usually avoidable if all factors are in order.
This tragic accident must reflect in no small part on the design of the road markings which had they been effective, would have prevented what occured. "No Entry" and solid lines across the road being two possible staring points.
Facing an oncoming motorcyclist, a narrow image and closing at up to 100mph if both were travelling at 50mph.
The driver had little chance.
Alan
. . . "No Entry" and solid lines across the road being two possible staring points. . . Alan
I don't think that would be appropriate in this case, Alan - reading the article, it's not that he was driving the wrong way along a dual carriageway, rather that he was driving on the wrong side of the road in the face of oncoming traffic because he mistakenly believed he was still on dual carriageway.
We have a section of road near here which changes several times from single to dual carriageway and at some points has an adjacent road running parallel, it would be easy to make the same mistake there if you were unfamiliar with the road.
Christine600's idea of coloured markings would solve this.
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Roger
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