Driving forest roads!

Yes, not acceptable and scary.
But its happening on the bitumen also.

Today on a quiet tar road in central victoria we were going downhill to our nearest shopping town. A semi trailer at the bottom of the hill about to ascend took his first bend at breakneck speed, running about 60cm over the white line onto our lane causing me to place two wheels onto dirt, during the corner obviously lowering our grip.

Luckily we werent towing! I know why some truck drivers do this, so they can maintain as much speed as possible so they slow down the least further up the hill, a "run up" so to speak.

I did a defensive driving course in 1974. It didnt do me much good then, but now I use that mentality all the time.

Had you Axle, been driving like that other guy, you would have collided.

I dont know what the answer is except more marked police cars on the road.

Well done people!. We don't have to !, but if we slow down!!! just that one little bit!! it might save one life. As you did, you were able to react. I have lost to many. take care out there. Travel!!! Adventure!!! EXPOLRE!!!!.

You should visit Far North Queensland,s formula 1 racetrack. Its the road from Laura to Seisia. .....Racing North starts soon after Easter and stragglers finish around mid September on the return trip. Mandatory to have 35 inch tyres, 4 inch lifted suspension , 250kg of bullbar and an attitude that says "F you" as it is well known without these vital bits of equipment you will never make it to the top.........

I have had a head on crash around a blind left hand corner with a N.P. ute of all things on a state forest rd! I was in the right as l was on the left hand side and he was cutting the corner. Nothing l could do, we both only saw each other with about 15m till impact. We where only doing 40kph at the time but both wrecked our bull bars and did some pamel damage. Scared the shit out of me! I do three things now. 1/ keep my uhf on scan to see if anyone else is about in the area. 2/slow down and be more wary 3/ If l'm doing a right hand turn on a blind corner go wide, don't cut corners.

My number one safety rule...

Drive like everyone is trying to kill you!

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

The road into the Bungle Bungles was awful for that, people cut every corner !
Blind crest with a sharp left hander just over the top, no worries, just cut it mate, she'll be right.
Missed me by "that much" I was hard to the left doing 20k, stopped on the spot and we got past................ extra very close mm's I reckon

We were once run right off the GRR by a full sized APT tour bus coming around a blind corner at very high speed on the wrong side of the road. It was just luck that there were no big trees or big rocks in the way.
Very scary.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome