Out bush there isn’t too many reflective guide posts by the side of the road. If they are present it is usually on a bend to ensure drivers don’t go off the edge quite often rolling the car.
So you concentrate on driving on the slippery gravel surface rounding a bend and you see a sign down at the base of the reflective post. You try to see what is says:
A Microsleeps Can Kill in Seconds
I would suggest that sliding your car over the edge while reading a sign in a dopey position will kill you as quickly as a microsleep.
As usual clicking on the images will give you an enlarged picture.
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As cars break down and can’t be repaired by our Bush Mechanics they are left by the side of the road where they are quickly pulled apart for spares.
Every now and then a bulldozer or grader comes along and pushes them, along with other roadside debri back into the scrub.
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We have a guest post today from Wolf Cocklin. Wolf’s the bloke I took the idea from for putting a few of my driving videos up on the web.
This picture is from his 2009 trip along one of Australia’s most famous routes, the Oodnadatta Track. As well as today’s Wreck Of The Week picture Wolf also has a blog post up of this trip at his blog “Insert Clever Title Here” which includes video of the 166km trip condensed into 6 minutes.
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