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Crashed? Discussion and Photos > Stupid question - distracted car drivers?
 
 
Sar
Elite Veteran
Location: Kingston, NY

I know some people tend to rubberneck when they see helis flying around. Is anyone aware of an auto crash due to a someone gawking and not paying attention to the road? (Sorry, it's too dark to fly at the moment and these things just pop into my head)

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Jon
04-30-2003 Over year old.
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ez-flier
Veteran
Location: Vermont

Sar, i have actually heard of one incident. It was a guy night flying here in vermont in a field off a road, and apparently a guy saw it and decided to watch a little long, ended up in the ditch, so the heli pilot, i think his name is Tom, packed up and left really fast!
Hope you like that one, ask the Wasp for more info on that, he's good friends with Tom.
Aaron

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04-30-2003 Over year old.
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TOSH
Elite Veteran
Location: On the wagon.

l can beat that,l was rammed while turning into our field.Lucky for me l was in my pickup that day when a young lad decided he`d rather watch my mates flying than look where he was going.l had to tow his car out of the dyke it ended up in.Could have been a lot worse,he had his pregnent girlfriend with him.Hardly scratched my truck but made a hell of a mess of his moms car.
05-04-2003 Over year old.
 
 
TipSpeed
Senior Heliman
Location: Glenside, PA

I was getting ready to go up and this guy Rob was flying around inverted so I had to get a gallon of fuel out of the car...I see some guy driving down the street looking at the helis and the next thing you know hes into a ditch with a telephone pole laying on his new escalade..hehehe

-so I called up twenty mike-mike and I rolled in for the pass
05-05-2003 Over year old.
 
 
LEDZx
Heliman
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Hundreds of close calls

At our field the prodominant wind usually forces us to take-off straight towards the highway, ~60 m from the runway. Last year while I was learning I built myself a spad and put an old beat-up .40 on it. The engine was very old and didn't have great compression. Well, one take-off I opened the throttle and it shot off down the runway, got off a couple of metres from the end and started an extremly slow climbout. The highway is slightly elevated as we fly at a vlei( swampy sanctuary, pan.) I was flying right on the backside of this little crafts' envelope and was nearing the road. Then all I heard was hooting for what I presume was someone changing lanes to avoid my plane. I finaly turned out and as I did so , the engine quit, so it never reached te road.
But the other reason we hear hooting is that the worst drivers just without signaling just cross lanes to stop on the side and watch. The other day the club had an airshow, and there was limited parking, so it ended up having spectators on the side of the road as well as in the field, about 200 or so.
Cheerz
LEDZx

P.S. Not to dissapoint you, I have subsequently taken up helis, planks are so limited.
05-25-2003 Over year old.
 
 
Twobeers
Key Veteran
Location: Toronto, Canada

I witnessed one in late 2001 near our club. Young fellow with his girlfriend (both high as a kite) go by our club in a pick-up right thru the stop sign at the intersection. Got T-boned by a compact car right in the passenger door. Ass end of the truck went up about 8' in the air, made an abrubt left change in direction, into the ditch, out of the ditch, back in and out. Driver then tried to drive away, truck gave up after a couple hundred feet. Right side demolished, right front wheel almost lying flat on the ground. Girlfriend and female driver of other vehicle both taken to hospital. Driver of pick-up taken away to accomodations provided by the local government.

I lost my infamous tag line.
05-25-2003 Over year old.
 
 
Har
Senior Heliman
Location: Springfield MO

This may sould like a dumb question and forgive me if it is. Is there any way that the pilot can be introble with the law, or get sued due to the drivers not paying attention to the road?? Now grant it if the heli inwhich he was flying was in the middle of the street flipping around i could see that being an issue, but not if it is over the field away from traffic....
This is just something that i have been wondering about for awhile now.
05-25-2003 Over year old.
 
 
Sar
Elite Veteran
Location: Kingston, NY

You can be sued for any reason, so that's an open ended question. Doesn't make it a legit claim. Trouble witht he law though? Although the courts (in the US) seem to favor the idiots of the world (mostly because the press likes to publish those kind of stories), the actual laws are usually not so askew. If there were such laws we would have to start ticketing pretty ladies in bikinis and charging fines to car radio manufacturers. Mirror manufactuers, can you believe they make a device that actually ALLOWS women the ability to apply makeup while driving, and men the ability to clip their nostril hairs while driving?

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Jon
05-26-2003 Over year old.
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cratercreator
Heliman
Location: earth

i did hear that rubbingtheneck while driving was the number one cause of accidents and not cell phones
05-26-2003 Over year old.
 
 
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