Getting back to the original post, you do have to feel sorry for the guy who was unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and the effect this will have on his family. Yet again another victim of some scumbag who think the world owes them everything. On the technical front it would appear the vehicle was a Mitsubishi L200 pick up, so TPAC on this type of vehicle by the correct police vehicles should not be a problem, but from the video footage and pictures it looks as though it never got as far as a TPAC situation with the driver crashing before TPAC was executed, one comment I'd like to make is if you look at the central reservation barrier it is one of the wire rope types which I am not convinced work, these used to be in place on the motorways in South Yorkshire but most have now been replaced with solid concrete barriers (M18 & M1), these concrete barriers just like the old ARMCO ones provide a solid obstacle to hit, the crumple zones on the vehicle then do there bit absorbing the shock and take all the energy out of the situation. I have seen accidents when vehicles have struck these wire barriers and simply been hurled off like a catpult, a recent one I saw just before last Christmas saw the driveshaft fail on a Peugeot 307 it spun it into one of these wire central reservation barriers, it pinged the car off with such force that it flipped landed on its roof and skidded onto the hard shoulder, micraculously missing everythiing on the motorway, driver and front passsenger were OK, rear passenger had a broken femur. Maybe this type of central reservation barrier was a contributory factor in this accident? Given where the Mitsubishi hit it and finally ended up. Anyone else had or seen any bad experiences with this type of barrier?
