Dya know what, i cant work that out either. Very odd.
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From previous discussions the only logical conclusion was that the other lorry was forced across from an adjoining tunnel.
Yes, it appears to shoot through the wall and into the side of the first lorry. There's a hole in the wall that wasn't there before. Quite hard to avoid a lorry that T bones you through a wall, I'd say.
If you run the video backwards, it gives the impression that the 2nd lorry comes through the wall just out of shot, ie before the gap you can see. The new hole is created by the collision. The lorry doesn't come through the gap you can see at first as the barrier still appears to be present at the end of the shot.
Dya know what, i cant work that out either. Very odd.
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From previous discussions the only logical conclusion was that the other lorry was forced across from an adjoining tunnel.
That's an extremely suspect conclusion - where was the other discussion?
If you look again you will see that after the crash there is a lorry sized hole in the wall that was not there before. It therefore makes sense to suppose that that's where the new lorry came from. This would also explain why the first lorry veered so suddenly and sharply to the left - it was hit by the second one as it emerged from the hole.
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The driver did amazingly well to hold everything together and (s)he fared better than some the haplees motorists on the ice covered road.
I suspect it was more of a lottery than that with the prizes of if you get away with it you get the Exceptional Skill & Bravery Medal and if you don't you win the Robert Harris "Black Ice" Consolation Medal for being the unfortunate victim of circumstances.
I am left wondering how many days its cold enough to be icy in Moscow,
Well, in the winter of 1993 / 94, the first snow arrived (to general greetings of 's pyervym snyegom' [1]) in late October. It was icy from then until March, with patches of ice in parts as late as May.
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how long the tunnel had been leaking and how often the drivers had driven through there. Did they not know it was proned to icing before they found out the hard way?
Early 1990s Muscovite drivers all seemed completely mad to me. I've no idea whether they've got any better in the intervening years.
