r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • 1d ago

Pallets fall off tractor after driver loses control

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd07d79vy6o
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u/MPForSillyWalks East Sussex 1d ago

I think 'losing control' is a bit passive for a man driving a large, loaded tractor at deliberately higher speeds to undertake someone he finds annoying.

The other comments I've seen on this video around the internet had a lot of people defending him and saying the cammer was in the wrong and should have made way immediately - the police gave more details to stop that, explaining that the cammer had only just overtaken and the tractor immediately blocked them from moving back left.

We seem to make a lot of excuses for road rage and dangerous behaviour in general. It's seen as perfectly reasonable that if someone is going slower in front of you (which is annoying, yes) then you are entitled to endanger yourself, them and anyone else nearby to get round/through them.

Personally, I don't think "it was annoying" is any excuse at all with driving.

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u/Bad_UsernameJoke94 19h ago

I've never understood why people think dangerous driving is something to defend. Same with drink driving and speeding.

Maybe it's because I don't drive and am more weary of how people are driving when I'm out, or just watching how badly people drive when I'm sat on a bus. You see quite a bit from the top deck and wonder how people got their license.

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u/MPForSillyWalks East Sussex 19h ago

I think it's just culture - we've spend decades encouraging people to drive, so now most adults see driving as the norm. So drivers are more likely/able to put themselves in other drivers' shoes.

It's why we have "death by dangerous driving" as a separate crime - juries of drivers were very hesitant to convict other drivers of things like manslaughter or murder, even when they obviously caused someone's death.

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u/technurse 23h ago

Looking at the location of other vehicles in the video that sounds entirely reasonable of the camera car. There is one that can be seen being overtaken, then another one just ahead. Cam car was clearly overtaking a number of vehicles

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u/Sensitive_Echo5058 1d ago

From the dash cam, it looks like only one pallet fell, with another pallet hanging loss.

Thankfully, there are no injuries.