Car spins out and crashes in front of truck - Caught on dash cam

[DJR96]

The road was dry. Bald tyres would have made very little difference if any. Inflation pressures maybe.....

Clearly the over-corrections of the driver resulted in a spin and loss of control.

But also note this is yet another case where failing to keep left unless overtaking has created a scenario that has become an incident.
It is an enforceable road rule here. But very rarely enforced. Enforcement is only interested in raising revenue via speeding fines, which does little to improve road safety. If all the other road rules, especially keep left unless overtaking were enforced, we would actually see improvements to road safety.

Impressive how well that truck stopped.

One less poxy Holden Commodore on the road. Crappy IRS.

 

[DAP]

The road was dry. Bald tyres would have made very little difference if any. Inflation pressures maybe.....

Bald tires usually means old tires. The rubber in tires gets harder with age and it has less grip. Tires often have a different rubber compound in the body than the tread. If the tires were warn through the tread rubber they would have less grip. If the tires had warn down to the steel belts, she would have been driving on ice.

 

[dashy]

The car also had 4 people in it. Weight might play a role in a weaker car. They didn't have the power or tyres to correct themselves.

Wrong,
It is a v6 big engine commondore, they have a beefy engine with plenty of power.

 

[DJR96]

Despite the size of car and load and the condition of it's tyres, it was still able to react much quicker than the driver could cope with. I still say tyres were not a contributing factor. Had the tyres been as bad as you're suggesting the car would not have veered off into the dividing wall so abruptly. It would have kept going along the road while it spun around.

 

[dashy]

Anyone notice the white Hyundai hatchback in the slow lane when all stopped?
Maybe when the commondore went from the fast lane into lane 3 then lane2 then when it was about to go to lane 1 the driver realised there was a car there and he lost control trying to avoid it.

 

[sludgeguts]

I wish it was a law here in NZ, it's a road rule, but not an enforceable law like in the UK

I wish it was enforced here.
Yesterday, for example, I was on the M25, maxed out (62mph) in a 4 lane section. Lanes 1 & 2 were blocked by 2 cars doing almost exactly the same speed - except the driver of the car in lane 2 was texting - sadly, he was holding his mobile just below the window so my cam didn't catch it as I had to pull across into lane 3 to get by them both.
I had seen them a long way ahead of me & by the time I caught up, the car in lane 2 was barely ahead of the car in lane 1.
Since the car in lane 2 was a fairly new beemer, there really was no need for this stupidity - pull into lane 2, foot down, get by, back into lane 1, put a bit of distance between you then drop back to whatever speed you feel comfortable with.

 

[Tim]

Looks to me like the young lad was learning to drive.