Zorgbarend many accidents, Rijkswaterstaat-vehicles
Posted on 22-07-2014 at 16:01 by CasperH – 55 Comments”
Highways inspectors of Rijkswaterstaat will try our roads as safe as possible, but over the past few days several times been the victim of inattentive road users. Their vehicles were hit while they were trying to help others from dangers. In all cases, the roadway marked with a red cross.
That a Rijkswaterstaatmedewerker not his life certainly is a series of collisions that the last few days has taken place. Several times it went quite wrong, because a vehicle of Rijkswaterstaat was hit by a medeweggebruiker that a red cross above the lane ignored.
On July 10, went wrong on the A28 near Zwolle with @WIS_Peter, his vehicle served as wegafzetting when an unwary truck driver, his car hit. Luckily for him Peter not his car, but the damage was enormous.
In the morning of 20 July is going wrong again: the car of @WIS_Barry is on the A12 torpedoed by a bus. The driver of the bus, gets wounded in that battle, Barry was fortunately not in his car that he was in “fend off” position had placed on the second lane, which was already marked with a red cross. All of this to an autobrand on the hard shoulder to shield.
Yesterday even two times wrong, a actiewagen is hit on the A15 by a car, again by ignoring a red cross. On the A58 is it then also wrong and is once again a pickup from the Rws hit by someone who is a red cross ignores.
13 incidents this year
Rijkswaterstaat late at Autoblog know that this year all 13 incidents with vehicles from highways inspectors to have occurred. It is notable that four of these incidents in the month of July took place.
“It happens, indeed, that road users aware of red crosses over lanes of traffic to ignore. In the cases that you have described and there is no evidence of the conscious disregard of the red cross,” so let RWS spokesman Gertske de Bruijn at Autoblog know. “It appears also that road users unknowingly the red crosses have ignored. They indicated that they had enough warning and too late in the holes. It is very important that road users be on the lookout for the red crosses, they are there for a reason. The way seems sometimes to be free, but there is later an incident happened which caused the lane is afgekruist.”
People, keep the hell of your eyes open. The guidance and hang there for a good reason, and red crosses indicate danger, so ignore it. If you do then you’re not only your own life in danger but even more important: that of people who are trying to road users to protect.
Photo credits: RWS inspectors and @wa_Zwolle16