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Re: A45 Accident
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Re: A45 Accident -
12-15-2003
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I witnessed the nastiest road accident I've ever seen on the A45 near Billing Aquadrome at about 5:15pm today... snip |
Do you mean the Billing junction itself, or the A43/Riverside slip?
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I'm guessing that there's no point in contacting the police - there will have been many more witnesses in a much better position than me to say what occured. |
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does anyone know of a non-intrusive, non-timewasting way of finding out what happened to those involved? |
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I witnessed the nastiest road accident I've ever seen on the A45 near Billing Aquadrome at about 5:15pm today... Rush hour, so there was a lot of traffic about. A two-lane sliproad rising up off the main east-bound carriageway. A Fiesta-sized hatchback struck the offside rear of a stationary vehicle waiting in the queue in the left-hand lane about half way up the sliproad. The impact was violent enough to throw the hatchback well into the air. It came down in the right-hand lane and continued to barrel-roll across the sliproad and then down the grass bank towards the main carriageway. We were in the right-hand lane of the main carriageway and already alongside the scene when the accident began. I only saw it because I was the front seat passenger and happened to be looking in that direction - the driver didn't see anything. By the time the hatchback was reaching the bottom of the slope we were already well past the scene and the vehicle was obscured by other traffic, so I don't know if it actually rolled onto the main carirageway, or if it was struck by anything else if it did make it that far. My guess, based on the hatchback's apparent momentum as it went out of view, is that it didn't get as far as the main carriageway itself, although it probably would've made the verge... I'm guessing that there's no point in contacting the police - there will have been many more witnesses in a much better position than me to say what occured. I *think* the stationary vehicle that was struck was *not* the last vehicle in the queue, in which case, how did the hatchback manage to hit it at all? I can't even be 100% certain that it *was* in the left-hand lane... However, witnessing the accident did shake me up a bit. Other than keeping an ear to the local media (the accident did feature on a subsequent traffic bulletin, although the facts were wrong), does anyone know of a non-intrusive, non-timewasting way of finding out what happened to those involved? PJ. -- Acorn RiscPC600 - StrongARM Powered WWW: http://www.tarags.demon.co.uk/homepages/index.htm Cobra: http://www.tarags.demon.co.uk/homepages/cobra/2003/ E i g h t C y l i n d e r s - N o S t e r e o |
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I witnessed the nastiest road accident I've ever seen on the A45 near Billing Aquadrome at about 5:15pm today... Rush hour, so there was a lot of traffic about. A two-lane sliproad rising up off the main east-bound carriageway. A Fiesta-sized hatchback struck the offside rear of a stationary vehicle waiting in the queue in the left-hand lane about half way up the sliproad. The impact was violent enough to throw the hatchback well into the air. It came down in the right-hand lane and continued to barrel-roll across the sliproad and then down the grass bank towards the main carriageway. I can't help you with seeking information but I can relate to what you |
child was hit by a car and he was consequently somersaulted about six
feet into the air before landing unconscious on the pavement.
Fortunately the kid survived although he was extremely lucky only to
suffer from concussion and a broken leg but still a horrendous thing to
witness nonetheless.
Steve.
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Hi PJ, Just a thought but maybe you should contact the police as they may not have had anyone providing a statement from your viewpoint of what happened. Thankfully, i've never had to witness a bad car accident, but did see the sad loss of the Firefly crew at my first Duxford flying legends airshow show earlier this year. Cheers, Stephen "PJ" <pj (AT) tarags (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote in message |
MK3 Golf with a blow out in the outside lane of M1, went across all
three lanes and hard shoulder, up onto the armco along the top for
20/30 yards then back off ending up on the hard shoulder, missed
everyone else by some miracle.
Was behind an Alfa in the outside lane, he moved across to let me
past, looked in the mirror and he was crashing behind me into the
central res. after I'd passed (another tyre blow out).
Another Golf on a country lane going too fast into standing water,
ended up on the verge at opposite side of road on the wheels but
smashed to pieces - opps didn't see that one as I was in the car
crashing at the time. ;-)
Mark S.
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Hi PJ, Just a thought but maybe you should contact the police as they may not have had anyone providing a statement from your viewpoint of what happened. Cheers, Stephen |
While you are talking to the police ask them does their force have a
"media line number"? Many have a phone number that their press office
leaves updates to incidents on, the press then call this rather than
keep calling the press officer.
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Off Topic On a lighter note i used to fish at Billing Aquadrome as a kid Great place then. S'pose too commercialised now. Capstick Cornwall for 15 or so years |
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I witnessed the nastiest road accident I've ever seen on the A45 near Billing Aquadrome at about 5:15pm today... |
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I witnessed the nastiest road accident I've ever seen on the A45 near Billing Aquadrome at about 5:15pm today... |
No news today either - I guess this means it wasn't a KSI incident (these are normally reported).
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