How dangerous our roads are sometimes and also watch out every second!

[mousti]

This happened in August at Aalter here in Belgium..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLu93G01aQM

Luckily she survived this very big crash, unbelievable even...

But it shows how dangerous it can be out there..

[MrJan]

Yes, roads can be dangerous when you veer across two lanes to get to an off ramp. Amazing she survived, hope she learned a lesson though.

[Mark]

I was expecting to post about how stupid she was. But I can see what happened, and how she would have been caught out by the stationary traffic. That said if you're turning off the motorway you get into Lane 1 in plenty of time, thus avoiding this sort of thing.

I wouldn't say that indicates the roads are dangerous, as the crash was entirely of her own making.

[Lousada]

The way I was taught is that it takes about 400-500 metres for a car going 120 to overtake a truck going 80. So as you approach the 400 metres sign you should stop overtaking and start merging into lane 1. Then you have plenty of time to merge in.

[Mark]

In that situation you never know what's going to be lane 1 anyway, even if there wasn't a junction coming up there could have been a lorry just travelling along.