Car hits roundabout at speed - freak accident
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:40 pm
Was just going about my daily business on that forum, and noticed this story.
Unbelievable.
The story is here Freak accident.
I looked at the StreetView of the approach to the roundabout (here) and I came up with two possible situations:
If the car hit the roundabout square on (what would've happened if the driver fell asleep), then the car would've launched itself and flown straight over and landed on the carriageway on the other side.
In my head, one possible scenario is that the lady is driving down the hill, and someone has come up behind her, tailgating, flashing lights etc, so the lady panics, and floors it to try and get away, and since she's focused on the events behind her, she wouldn't have realised the roundabout is coming up until it's too late, and when she realises, she tries to brake, but gets the pedals mixed up and floors the accelerator instead, then swerves in the hope that she might be able to make it around the roundabout.
That would explain the increased speed, and the fact the car would've needed to be at an angle facing the car park when it hit the roundabout to launch itself into a somersault like that.
And explains the apparent lack of witnesses, because if there was a following driver, then the following driver wouldn't want to own up to causing death by dangerous driving?
For the second scenario, consider the fact she's going to Dover. Maybe she's late for a ferry, and is speeding down the A20 to make up time, and might be distracted by trying to text someone or find the ferry tickets she needed and didn't realise what was coming up?
Both those scenarios explain how the car could have hit the hump at the angle required to cause it to go over the multi-storey carpark. The fact the car went over the carpark rather than going straight over and landing on the carriageway directly opposite does rule out the possibility that the driver fell asleep or died at the wheel before hitting the roundabout.
Unbelievable.
The story is here Freak accident.
I looked at the StreetView of the approach to the roundabout (here) and I came up with two possible situations:
If the car hit the roundabout square on (what would've happened if the driver fell asleep), then the car would've launched itself and flown straight over and landed on the carriageway on the other side.
In my head, one possible scenario is that the lady is driving down the hill, and someone has come up behind her, tailgating, flashing lights etc, so the lady panics, and floors it to try and get away, and since she's focused on the events behind her, she wouldn't have realised the roundabout is coming up until it's too late, and when she realises, she tries to brake, but gets the pedals mixed up and floors the accelerator instead, then swerves in the hope that she might be able to make it around the roundabout.
That would explain the increased speed, and the fact the car would've needed to be at an angle facing the car park when it hit the roundabout to launch itself into a somersault like that.
And explains the apparent lack of witnesses, because if there was a following driver, then the following driver wouldn't want to own up to causing death by dangerous driving?
For the second scenario, consider the fact she's going to Dover. Maybe she's late for a ferry, and is speeding down the A20 to make up time, and might be distracted by trying to text someone or find the ferry tickets she needed and didn't realise what was coming up?
Both those scenarios explain how the car could have hit the hump at the angle required to cause it to go over the multi-storey carpark. The fact the car went over the carpark rather than going straight over and landing on the carriageway directly opposite does rule out the possibility that the driver fell asleep or died at the wheel before hitting the roundabout.