No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
January 21, 2014
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No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
A tipper truck driver in the Middle East has reason to be rather embarrassed over his forgetfulness. The man was truck his truck along a major highway with the tipper body raised when the vehicle smashed into an overhead gantry containing signage. The truck was brought to a rapid halt, with the body smashing into the gantry and damaging it seriously. The incident was captured on the dashcam of another vehicle following close behind. No one was injured in the incident luckily.
Volvo Construction Equipment president Pat Olney is to leave the global construction equipment manufacturing giant at the end of 2013.
The 44-year-old joined Volvo CE in 1996 and has held a number of top management positions in finance, operations and general management, before becoming Volvo CE president in May 2011.
He is to take a post at what a Volvo CE spokesperson said was a ‘non-competing, large engineering company based in the U.S.’
A driver in Kiev used a rather unusual technique to avoid a traffic jam. The driver reversed at high speed for several hundred metres along a busy dual carriageway, despite oncoming traffic. Almost miraculously, other vehicles managed to avoid crashing into the car. Once the vehicle reached an intersection, the driver was able to turn around and head off in another direction. This driving technique is not recommended.
Also in Kiev, a driver had a lucky escape when he crashed his car. The man was speeding
