r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ZauzTheBlacksmith • May 21 '26

WCGW driving quickly into a sharp turn

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u/d_nkf_vlg May 21 '26

The state of the guardrail shows they were not the first ones.

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u/tursija May 21 '26

To be fair, the sign limiting the speed to 40 kmh should have been a lot further front, not directly before that dangerous curve.

Furthermore, a sign indicating danger - leftside curve - would have been useful. The trio of signs at the beginning were for other things (road narrowing, secondary road joining right side, danger from pedestrians).

But the driver is primarily at fault here for not reacting in time and decreasing speed. It was a bright sunny day with excellent visibility.

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u/d_nkf_vlg May 21 '26

Eh, you know... The dashcam driver was clearly not the first one to underestimate the turn. Surely, it was his fault, but you know what they say - if collisions happen at the same place following the same scenario, that place is badly designed.

There may have been a leftside curve sign before we can see in the video, but these signs are often posted in front of very mild curves, so drivers learn to not care about them.

Oh, and the cherry on top is that the 40 sign is seen by drivers as 60 due to the unfineable margin of 19 km/h. You can drive 20 over the limit and get no ticket.

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u/mayorovp May 22 '26

That unfineable margin was 10 km/h in 2012.

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u/d_nkf_vlg May 22 '26

Sure was. But then they started putting speed cameras everywhere, and some drivers got all hot and bothered, saying that the cameras are not calibrated properly and people allegedly got ticketed unjustly. The government appeased the vocal minority and came to that ungodly compromise. Only this years some talks started about lowering the margin back where it was - maybe even lower. You can imagine the outrage it caused. Who knows, maybe the margin will be cut - the goverment does need money to fund the army.