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Python
Posts: 191
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
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Wow, pretty insane
Horrific accident on Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway Abu Dhabi: At least three people were killed and nearly 350 injured in a horrific 60 vehicle pile-up on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway near Ghantoot on Tuesday. |
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Minxy
Posts: 220
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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holy crap....that's huge, so many people involved how the hell did so many people manage to all run up the back up each other sure, visibility was poor, but you'd assume at least someone would think to hold back more...
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JakeG
Posts: 118
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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sheeeiiitt |
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| #2 09:22am 12/03/08 |
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Fireblood
Posts: 8131
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Wow :| I guess they don't have the rule of keeping a safe distance over there?
Crazy countries! |
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| #3 09:56am 12/03/08 |
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Jim
Posts: 7559
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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nice job
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| #4 10:13am 12/03/08 |
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Spook
Posts: 21123
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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:(
so many camry's destroyed |
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| #5 10:14am 12/03/08 |
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Raven
Posts: 2458
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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The diagram in that article is freaky. The 'accident site' spans the equivalent of an outer suburban highway block!
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| #6 10:27am 12/03/08 |
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Fireblood
Posts: 8132
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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so many camry's destroyed Mines almost as banged up as a few of those! lol |
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| #7 10:34am 12/03/08 |
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teq
Posts: 980
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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you know whats even funnier than that is 350 / 60 = average of 5.8 people per car
I'm just picturing 60 cars all smashed together and people just piling out of them like clown cars |
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| #8 10:35am 12/03/08 |
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Idol
Posts: 2128
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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sucks to be working at the Abba Daba RACQ call centre huh
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| #9 11:03am 12/03/08 |
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ara
Posts: 1946
Location: Sydney, New South Wales
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you know whats even funnier than that is 350 / 60 = average of 5.8 people per car I'm just picturing 60 cars all smashed together and people just piling out of them like clown cars buses. |
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| #10 11:10am 12/03/08 |
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Minxy
Posts: 221
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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you know whats even funnier than that is 350 / 60 = average of 5.8 people per car
I'm just picturing 60 cars all smashed together and people just piling out of them like clown cars haha yea I thought that too, then remembered buses, vans etc... |
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| #11 12:36pm 12/03/08 |
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jmr
Posts: 5601
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Man I bet one insurance company is gonna get owned
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Twisted
Posts: 10124
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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holy crap....that's huge, so many people involved how the hell did so many people manage to all run up the back up each other sure, visibility was poor, but you'd assume at least someone would think to hold back more...I spent 8 months in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I don't know if things have changed, but when I was there, was long as you had a seat belt on you could pretty much go as fast as you wanted...I hated driving there. People take insane risks. |
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Thimes
Posts: 2752
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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sucks to be working at the Abba Daba RACQ call centre huh Why would they have a royal car club of Queensland branch in Dubai? |
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| #14 01:37pm 12/03/08 |
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Idol
Posts: 2131
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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they have Qantas overseas
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| #15 03:09pm 12/03/08 |
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Superform
Posts: 5034
Location: Netherlands
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i bet it was caused by some towel head surfing outside the car on his sandals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJupNDIKkEk last edited by Superform at 19:20:57 12/Mar/08 |
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GaZ
Posts: 1860
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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awww he didnt slam the door on his hand at the end :(
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| #17 07:51pm 12/03/08 |
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Le Infidel
Posts: 1760
Location: Other International
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Shaikh Rashid Hospital in Dubai sent a team comprising of two doctors and two nurses along with equipments were dispatched to the scenehmm I guess thats becasue they were only indians/pakistanis/asians |
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| #18 03:37am 13/03/08 |
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Tollaz0r!
Posts: 8554
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Office, I left plenty of distance but just couldn't stop in time! |
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| #19 06:58am 13/03/08 |
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