Newell Highway closed at Dubbo 24.1.12

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Newell Highway closed at Dubbo 24.1.12

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Motorists travelling southbound on the #F3 Freeway via Morisset are experiencing significant delays this morning following an accident which blocked all southbound lanes for a brief time.

The accident involved two trucks and a car.

Ma · Guru

And isn't it stressful when you can't get in contact with your son who is a truckie and travels that route every week........ cry

jonathan · Guru

I always travel that section of road with extreme caution .. some of the incidents I've seen from there through to Parkes are amazing. While that highway is a known heavy vehicle route, the risks taken by smaller vehicles to overtake is ludicris !!

I would certainly not like to apportion blame .. It's a road to hell !

Jon

Rip and Rosie · Guru

F3 isn't any better despite the millions of dollars poured into it.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Ma wrote:
And isn't it stressful when you can't get in contact with your son who is a truckie and travels that route every week........

suggest you contact the company to put your mind at rest

Rip and Rosie · Guru

Ma wrote:
And isn't it stressful when you can't get in contact with your son who is a truckie and travels that route every week........

keep ringing Ma, I feel for you.

ChiChi1 · Guru

Came though there last week. Trucks driving very fast all the way from Toowoomba. Nightmare drive in the rain. Many, many more trucks on the road than when I went up in December.

Very worrying Ma, when you can't get in touch. Keep calling and I hope you fears are unfounded.

Ma · Guru

PHEW!!!! Just managed to get through to him. He came down the Newell about 1.30 this morning and is now on his way to Scorsby in Vic.

He heard that it was two B-Doubles (which one newspaper said) and he also heard it was a B-Double and a tray top (which the other newspaper said)

Guess he will find out on the grapevine eventually.

Andrew drives B-Doubles.

blaze · Guru

thats great news for you and blue ma but alas some family is going to go through a lot of pain
blaze

Ma · Guru

Yes Blaze, unfortunately so. I know Andrew has lost a few mates now in accidents and not all of them were the truck drivers fault either although it is mostly blamed on the truck.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

So glad and relieved about your son Elaine. But oh dear some other family has lost their son, its dreadful.

jimbo · Guru

Tragic...Know the area well.....

milo · Guru

and another truck accident this arvo,

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/three-trapped-in-hume-highway-crash-20120124-1qex1.html

i tell you after driving the tardis , I have a lot more respect for truckies etc
some of the stupid things people do in front of us on our last few trips,
every one should go for a drive in a truck or motorhome and see what its like
for them.. yeah there are some cowboys out there and yes sometimes the truck companies
force them to get from A-to b faster than they should..
but we still have to give our truckies respect on the road...

milo

Ma · Guru

Yes Milo, people are all too quick to blame the truckie before they find out the facts. Sometimes the facts are never known and people "assume" and we all know what assuming does.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Truck drivers are professionals they know what they are doing, they do a great job avoiding the non professionals out on ther road, sometimes they are unable to avoid idiots.

Take a trip across the Nullarbor and have a chat with the truckies on ch 40 they are a great bunch of guys and gals

milo · Guru

yeah id love to do that one day wombat.. its on the bucket list of things to do ..

Delta18 · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
Truck drivers are professionals they know what they are doing, they do a great job avoiding the non professionals out on ther road, sometimes they are unable to avoid idiots.

The one in the link Milo posted didn't seem to know what he was doing, aparently he was going the wrong way on the wrong side of the median strip on Hume Highway.

Ma · Guru

If you have been on that section of the Hume lately you wouldn't wonder that he was on the wrong side of the road.

With all the road works and detours and deviations it's a miracle that something like this hasn't happened before now.

Motorists travelling southbound on the #F3 Freeway via Morisset are experiencing significant delays this morning following an accident which blocked all southbound lanes for a brief time. The accident involved two trucks and a car.

Motorists travelling southbound on the #F3 Freeway via Morisset are experiencing significant delays this morning following an accident which blocked all southbound lanes for a brief time.

The accident involved two trucks and a car.