Mother And Two Children Killed In Horrific Car Crash On Their Way To Their Holidays.t

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4746670/Mother-two-children-killed-horrific-crash.html

We on AnswerBank squabble from time to time over various items of news, but reading this ultra sad item of news, makes one realise the futility of it all.

RIP that poor mother and her children, and my feelings go out to the poor husband, will he ever be able to erases this from his mind?

[Mamyalynne]

Utterly heartbreaking.

No, he never will, poor man.

[albaqwerty]

the poor man never will.
Am so sorry to read this.

[Zacs-Master]

Life is extremely fragile and throws up some unimaginable horrors at times. He will probably need some expert counselling to even begin to cope.

[Islay]

Death is always sad

[jourdain2]

A terrible tragedy, especially for the father. He will never 'get over it'.
:(

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

/// Death is always sad ///

This is much more than death, for example how can you possible class this with a death from natural causes etc?

Show a little compassion please.

[hereIam]

My God, what a truly awful thing to have happened.

[Islay]

AOG I am not going to argue with you over this.
I said death is sad, there is nothing more to be said!

[youngmafbog]

I agree AOG, this sort of News puts many things into perspective.

I cant imagine how they manage to get people to cope in incidents like this, certainly in the near future one must feel suicidal.

[Old_Geezer]

One might suspect a steering problem, but since two similar incidents have occured maybe the road markings are confusing if not paying total concentration. The authorities need to find the cause.

[murraymints]

very very sad...

[Lie-in King]

Absolutely dreadful, heartbreaking story.

[wolf63]

A death like this impacts on so many people - family, friends and emergency services.

It does make you stop - to take time to reflect about how fragile life is.

[hc4361]

The lorry driver will be in bits, too

[237SJ]

I haven't read anything about this as I have been away but I see it happened on the A361 (or Link Road as it's known). I know that road very well and it is so bloody dangerous. There have been so many fatalities on it. It goes from 3 lanes into two (sometimes on the brow of a hill) and people come off the motorways at 70 mph and continue on that speed on the Link Rd.

[TWR]

Seen a few in my day's, not a pleasant thing to see.

[Peter Pedant]

jesus - it even has an entry in wiki !
the road I mean - - - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road

poor family

[237SJ]

I only use the link road when it is very late at night or very foggy - otherwise I take my chances going across the wilds of Exmoor to get home. The link road has a lot of 3 lane sections whereby there are 2 lanes on one side of the road and 1 lane on the other. Some of the convergences are on the brow of a hill so people try to overtake a slower vehicle going up the hill and then realise that they don't have the power to do it and are not going to make it before the lanes converge.

[anotheoldgit]

Road markings have a lot to answer for, makes one wonder if those who lay them out have ever been behind a wheel.

There is a roundabout near me which has multi entrances and exits as well as traffic lights, some of which are pixelated (for want of a better description).

All the directions are marked on the surface of the road, those that it is possible to read that is. One is then left to try and read what it says, keeping an eye on the lights, whilst also watching the traffic.

A complete nightmare, why cant parts of the road surface be painted in different colours then one would know which lane to keep in?

[albaqwerty]

some years back, there was a new by-pass built near my locality. A dual carriage-way.
There's been quite a few fatal accidents in the one direction due to poor road-markings (and possibly poor driving).
I don't think the roads are dangerous, it's the person who is driving the vehicle's responsibility surely?