Lethal Vehicle
In Sweden, the motor viecles are tightly regulated by laws and clauses but there is a vehicle that is completely exempt from all laws.
Det are vehicles that may be driven legally on Swedish roads which need not have insurance, approved lights, reflectors, brake lights or turn signals.
They do not need to be inspected, were not detected or estimated and there is no age limit for driving these vehicles on the road. Furthermore, there are no requirements for brakes, steering or emergency stop.
The vehicles have a top speed of 40 mph, weigh between 1000-2000 pounds, and manouverability is alittle so so. No requirements for approved tread on the tires. No signal is required. Sounds interesting? Unfortunately, it is very easy to get full throttle lock of these vehicles and then usually both control and brakes go down.
It had been snowing and I had been to fetch the tractor and would be home and shovel when I meet one of these vehicles on the road. Of old experience I slow down and almost stops the tractor when we meet, but when the vehicle is to pass the tractor so it got throttle full lock to the right. Drive gear is always engaged and the vehicle drives over the snow into the ditch and up the slope on the side of the road, despite abundant dubbed as slipping and the vehicle from sliding into the ditch and back on the road.
The driver has a tough job to hold on to the trailer, yes, the vast majority have a hitched trailer, but some just run with the engine. The vehicle is now running at full uncontrolled speed on the wrong side of the road and follow a trail straight into the garage where it will stop. When I drive past
the open garage doors so glaring Sven hard on me. Unimaginable.
For me it is absolutely unbelievable that these vehicles may be driven on public roads.
When questioning it a horse owner to get the answer that “the horses were on the road before the cars.”
If We motorists have turned off the car and parked at the road and a runaway horse running on it and injure themselves, it is the car owner’s fault, at least according to horse owners. Fortunately this law os seldom applied.
I had a workmate who was working on the trot. Once when he had been on the racetrack for training and going to the stables as it happened, it got full throttle lock and steering and brakes disappeared.
The horse takes a jump up on the hood of a car and jumps to the next hood and third hood with a trailer coupled with the driver sitting on the cart.
Hoods and fenders damaged three cars, do you think he became liable to pay compensation? Nah, it was the cars fault. Be careful when you encounter these vehicles along the road. Usually the pilopt starts waving his arms and wagging his fists long before the meeting.
Another workmate who also was doing trotting horses had met a new fiance and at the Christmas decorations they would they take a romantic sleigh
By: Jan Silén