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12/4/2015 at 4:17pm
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Yeah - similar volume and range of opinion on several other sites.
I've plotted the GPS co-ordinates from the original footage onto Bing maps (Google Earth Maps are 6 years old!!). Point 1 is the start point by the traffic lights, 2 is where the truck finished up, and 3 (blue circle on map) is as near as I can tell where the car first appears in front of the truck. The black X is where I believe the car/caravan ended up - you can actually see the caravan in the original footage crossing the second cycle-track markings on the road.
So I guess my original view that the car went round the wrong side of the bollards was not correct. Seeing the road for real, I did not think that the car could have travelled from the bollards to where it ended up, but if it was doing more than 30mph, it wouldn't take long. Measuring the distance according to the scale on the map shows about 190feet, and a car doing 30mph will travel this in around 4 secs. This is the same as the time stamp on the footage. All a bit rough, but I think gives a reasonably accurate picture.
What it can't show, of course, is how far the car was in front of the truck. Looking at the truck drivers facebook page, there is other footage from his 'dashcam', and the FOV is the same as here, so it has not been zoomed in or otherwise doctored.
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