I think that the vehicle was travelling at such high speed , the driver was unable to negotiate the curve on the A40 carriageway and ran off the road, making several impacts before coming to rest on the railway line.
Car crashes into parked Tesla and ends up on track leaving one dead
The Piccadilly Line and the A40 near Park Royal underground station will stay closed for a 'considerable period of time' as officers place a cordon at the scene.www.dailymail.co.uk
That's one hell of a crash. Presumably the video's from a fixed camera overlooking the EV charging points. 2am-ish. 100-120mph. Showing off. No concern for others. overestimating capability ...However did this happen? Crash on A40 in middle of night seems to have dropped onto the car park of the Tesla dealer, gone right across, through the fence, and down onto "the tracks", which seems to actually mean the eastbound Piccadilly Line Park Royal platform.
Horror crash on A40 leaves one woman dead, three others injured
A local said he heard an ‘almighty bang’www.standard.co.uk
I believe the video actually comes from a Tesla being charged there.
I suspect that the most likely change will be very strict enforcement of the 40mph speed limit on this urban part of the A40. There are probably traffic cameras there anyway which might be used in the prosecutions. Looking at google maps, it would seem that the driver wanted to impress his passengers with his driving. Going westwards on the A40, Savoy Circus is the last flat junction for nearly 18 km where at Denham Roundabout the through road becomes the M40. So accelerating away, the driver may have forgotten the slightly tighter bend just before Park Royal Station. At whatever speed the car was travelling, there was little chance of negotiating that bend safely.
I don't. You simply cannot make provision for this sort of incident. It is, thankfully, extremely rare. Any money spent to mitigate this sort of incident is going to be better spent elsewhere. Great Heck was slightly different as that was someone going off the road at a foreseeable location and speed, which doesn't apply here
There are traffic light junctions at North Acton and Mansfield Road between Savoy Circus and Park Royal station.
The Tesla driver stated he found a body near his car, that may be the female ejected from the Range Rover, the blue tent is possibly the site where the female was found, the damage to the Tesla is medium, and is either the impact from the female and / or being struck by debris from the Range Rover, that debris may be is an alloy wheel from the Range Rover at rest near the concrete wall and the blue tent, I do not think the Range Rover made direct contact with the Tesla,, nor did the Range Rover bounce from the Tesla car park to the track, direct contact would have left the Tesla severely crushed, the Range Rover seemingly cleared a wooden enclosure and a high concrete wall without collision before landing on the track, so I believe that the Range Rover flew for several seconds at high speed in a high trajectory from the A40 road, not being impeded by any substantial obstacle in the line of its trajectory, until crash landing directly onto the railway track
OK, I didn't realise that. The same point could be true though, just with a shorter run up to Park Royal.
That stretch of the A40 already has average speed cameras, which are quite good and the average standard of driving has definitely improved on that road, and the North Circular, since they were installed.
Well at least the horror and obvious public concern about this event (and others), should deter any stupid anti-EU reaction like removing the requirement for new vehicles to have speed control fitted. it may even reinforce the measure.
Well the manufacturers have a right to make them and the public have a right to buy them. This is more a problem with the operator than the tool. On that front, why did we order iets as 140mph trains if they can only do a maximum of 125?
I would expect the cones are forensic markers highlighting key points for the investigation
People are arguing that actually you shouldn't be able to buy such a dangerous car. We all know this is the case currently.
Then let me put it this way. I can go buy a knife and either kill someone with it or make my dinner with it. The choice is with the operator of the tool, not the tool. The car didn't chose to be driven by an imbecile, it's an inanimate object.
A knife is an essential tool for preparing food, something we all need. There is no practical need for a car to do more than 80 mph.
A knife has a use other than stabbing people to death.
Once again, the manufacturers have a right to make them and the public have a right to buy them. Also track days exist so these people can drive their cars however they want in a safe environment.
The IETs could (and may one day) do 140mph in the UK if it was decided to be beneficial for rail operations. They might in some way be routed for part of their journeys on HS2.
So it would be fine if they could be bought for off-road use but not licenced for use on the public highway?
Yeah, I know this, why are you explaining again what the current situation is? The point is you shouldn't be able to drive a car 120mph on the public road, at all. Merely reiterating the current situation just shows you don't have an argument. This is like going back to 2001 and arguing for a public smoking ban and someone just tells you "aha! Well! You currently CAN smoke in pubs."
Some of the drivers attracted to vehicles like that wouldn't like 'track' driving because they can't bully other drivers. As this event may demonstrate, they aren't even able to drive safely on an empty road, - competition would show just how little they do have apart from arrogance and an inflated ego.
Except that preparing food does not require use of the pointed end of the knife. There is an argument that we should ban all pointed knives in favour of round-edged ones, but nobody ever seems to pursue this despite the benefits it would bring in reducing the fatal impact of stabbings.
There is no practical need for a knife to have a sharp pointed end.
Yes it does. Why do you think kitchen knives have pointy ends? You should do some cookery classes.
Well funnily enough, I was preparing a chicken curry yesterday and needed to use a large kitchen knife to chop up the onions and peppers, but for that task I managed fine just using the knife’s edge. The only time I had to use the pointed end was to pierce the packaging of the chicken as it was impossible to peel off from the edges (you know when you peel the plastic film but it only takes off the edges rather than all of it), but then packaging shouldn’t be designed like that in the first place.Yes it does. Why do you think kitchen knives have pointy ends? You should do some cookery classes.
