Elderly Drivers

fabs said:
How about drivers who smoke in petrol stations, even flicking their ash out of the window!
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Nowt wrong with that if I'm filling up with diesel + the ash can actually be useful when the floor is a bit slippery (y)


:LOL:
 
OldCarlos said:
Nowt wrong with that if I'm filling up with diesel + the ash can actually be useful when the floor is a bit slippery (y)


:LOL:
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From what I remember from my ADR , ( tanker driver) days, spirit has a flash point of 21oC and we all know its been a lot hotter than that!
Plus we were shown a film of vapour travelling across a forecourt, across a road, to a bus shelter where people were smoking ;)
As they used to drum into us on these courses, a tanker is at its most dangerous once the delivery has been made, and just the vapour remains.
 
I wasn't going to comment on this thread, because generally speaking there is bad and good driving from all the different age groups.
However, today we had to go down to Hythe on the M20, and just South of Ashford, there was a queue of slow moving traffic. In the inside lane was a very old lady, doing about 40MPH, but with her O/S wheels planted firmly in the middle lane, and it was busy, so the lorries which were overtaking her had to be partially in the fast lane - utter chaos, although everyone was being well behaved about it.
 
Cobra said:
From what I remember from my ADR , ( tanker driver) days, spirit has a flash point of 21oC and we all know its been a lot hotter than that!
Plus we were shown a film of vapour travelling across a forecourt, across a road, to a bus shelter where people were smoking ;)
As they used to drum into us on these courses, a tanker is at its most dangerous once the delivery has been made, and just the vapour remains.
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Yep, I was only joking ;) (actually waiting for lots of abuse from the righteous :D but no one bit :rolleyes: )

Plenty of eejits injured & killed over the years trying to weld empty fuel tanks (n)
 
OldCarlos said:
Yep, I was only joking ;)
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TBH I've seen it, and wasn't surprised by the post one bit!

I usually step around them and put my fingers in my ears, :D
 
I went to a builders to pay a bill and his face was all red, I thought he had sun burn at first but I asked if he was ok and he just said I've had the most frightening thing happen. For years he's sprinkled petrol onto a bonfire and it burnt hot but not on that day, as he lit the bonfire the vapour expolded in his face and he fell backwards he ran into the kitchen and threw water onto his face, one very lucky man. Now, he really is the most sensible of people, he and his wife were in shock of what is could have been. Just a careless moment of stupidity and he could have been terribly burnt. Never take chances in as these things happen to someone else.
 
Shirleyr said:
I went to a builders to pay a bill and his face was all red, I thought he had sun burn at first but I asked if he was ok and he just said I've had the most frightening thing happen. For years he's sprinkled petrol onto a bonfire and it burnt hot but not on that day, as he lit the bonfire the vapour expolded in his face and he fell backwards he ran into the kitchen and threw water onto his face, one very lucky man. Now, he really is the most sensible of people, he and his wife were in shock of what is could have been. Just a careless moment of stupidity and he could have been terribly burnt. Never take chances in as these things happen to someone else.
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Was he driving at the time? :thinking:
 
Shirleyr said:
I went to a builders to pay a bill and his face was all red, I thought he had sun burn at first but I asked if he was ok and he just said I've had the most frightening thing happen. For years he's sprinkled petrol onto a bonfire and it burnt hot but not on that day, as he lit the bonfire the vapour expolded in his face and he fell backwards he ran into the kitchen and threw water onto his face, one very lucky man. Now, he really is the most sensible of people, he and his wife were in shock of what is could have been. Just a careless moment of stupidity and he could have been terribly burnt. Never take chances in as these things happen to someone else.
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On the news a couple of weeks ago, said a guy had splashed petrol on his arm while filling up then lit a cig as he drove away. Badly burned. Police also arrested & charged him ............ being in charge of a fire arm. :D

(ok, ok :coat: )
 
OldCarlos said:
On the news a couple of weeks ago, said a guy had splashed petrol on his arm while filling up then lit a cig as he drove away. Badly burned. Police also arrested & charged him ............ being in charge of a fire arm. :D

(ok, ok :coat: )
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Early night required.:wave:
 
OldCarlos said:
Police also arrested & charged him ............ being in charge of a fire arm. :D
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Out! just get out! :p
:D

Although, this is a true story, years ago my dad was a "Paramedic" before the term was coined.
They went to a call, a guy had burned his arse.
Seems he used one of these little tubes of petrol, to fill his lighter, while sitting on the bog.
He threw that down the pan, light a cigarette, and continued with his business.

Once finished, he threw the cigarette down the pan too.
The lit cigarette ignited the residual petrol, in what was effectively a confined space and the flash burned his arse.

The guy related the story, as they were carrying him out on a stretcher, the pair laughed so much, they dropped him, and broke his arm.

:D
 
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