C15A hits pedestrians in Melbourne ANZAC Day march

[cantankrs]

Originally Posted by Max Hedges

The vehicles always lead the march so if there is a mishap or breakdown at least the marchers are safe, and we pull off to the side of the road so the march continues safely, the local police look after us well. On lookers are kept clear of the roadway.
Max

Just heard about it in this thread. Terrible news. I hope everyone pulls through. Nice to read that they won't be giving up marching

Max's description of procedure above sounds wise.

I presume most if not all CMP's are the same in that my F15 has the brake as the right pedal... Since this orientation of pedals is unique compared with probably all other vehicles anyone regularly drives today, I presume it could be problematic in a situation requiring a rapid reaction.

Regards

Alex

[Bob McNeill]

we had three vehicles in the march for the 4 small towns up our way, I understand the problems with crowds, as at Canowindra Balloon Festival some years back a horse bolted and a woman was killed. ( fireworks involved). Only hope this settles down quietly as devastating as it is.
Corowa next year will be the test.

[Harry Moon]

Thats how an accident happened with my truck, gas got hit not the break the first time out with an inexperianced (on CMP's ) driver. Fortunatly in my case it was just a lot of damage to another MV.
Scratch on my bumper. It's second nature to me with my CMP by now as it is the only standard I'm usually in not to mention the only right hand drive.

[Mike K]

The newsreader on the ABC Melbourne evening news Monday ...called the truck a 1942 BLITZ . It could have been a lot worse ...and we all should be thankfull. The media are all over the place as usual ..incorrect facts .

They wanted my C8 in ANZAC day and the club organiser was almost cohersive . I told him I freak out ..too many people and crowds ..I become very nervous and may do a silly thing . I did it from 79 to 83 ..had enough .

MIKE

[Douglas Greville]

They wanted my C8 in ANZAC day and the club organiser was almost cohersive . I told him I freak out ..too many people and crowds ..I become very nervous and may do a silly thing . I did it from 79 to 83 ..had enough .
MIKE

Mike

Speaking of coercion, I have had the same issue, twice in fact. They regard me as a right b*stard for saying no - so be it!
If they are that keen to have a tank/armoured car/truck/jeep then they can get off their b*ms and restore one themselves.

As you say, the coercion gets quite intense and speaking from personal experience can be from some surprisingly influential people at times.

What turned me off anything to do with the public and moving vehicles was promises of crowd control that were all hot air.
It appeared to be a case of saying what ever it took to get me to agree to providing my vehicles and then forgetting the promises.

Just to clarify things, the last event I agreed to go in was NOT an Anzac Day parade, it is an experience I will not be repeating.

Interestingly is the Corowa "parade", which I think is a misnomer, I would suggest a correct description of it would be a "run", "rally" or "convoy". The
fact that it is purely vehicles (and Alan on his push bike) APPEARS to mean that the vehicles are travelling at a reasonable speed and the public stays
on the foot path, there is no mixing of vehicles and people on foot. Effectively, from what I can gather, it is all about the public's perception:
they don't think of the road as somewhere they can be.

If I am wrong, tell me.

Regards
Doug

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Douglas Greville

Speaking of coercion, I have had the same issue, twice in fact. They regard me as a right b*stard for saying no - so be it!
If they are that keen to have a tank/armoured car/truck/jeep then they can get off their b*ms and restore one themselves.

As you say, the coercion gets quite intense and speaking from personal experience can be from some surprisingly influential people at times.

Doug

Believe it or not, but many people in the crowd on anzac day, think the restored vehicles belong to the army , and some of the crowd actaully believes the vehicles are current army and therefore are open to the public to scrutinize etc.. after all, the crowd believe it's our money that paid for them .

I took the command car in one year ... it was on dodgy plates ( no pun intended ) and in those days I looked like a hippy . The cops let me go but the looks from the boys in blue were intense and nasty . Never again I thought .

here's an update on the accident http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...section=justin

[Euan McDonald]

more updates.
http://abc.gov.au/news/stories/2010/....htm?site=news