Where is the Accident report plane when you need them?

Davo111 said :

Heavs said :

I hope you had some tissues in the car.

+1

oh, thanks davo111,

thanks for your concern. No, i didn’t….

But seeing that an average trip for me on the parkway is 10mins, (start complaining now, everyone) it was a surprise to be stuck in traffic. I felt sorry for the poor souls in the accident, and the people behind me. They were joining the congestion, that they could have avoided.

Heavs said :

I hope you had some tissues in the car.

+1

The traffic plane is still about I hear it overhead every morning. As people said above they get infor from a variety of sources, the plane, the AFP and people calling in.

I take the parkway every morning, 21 minutes is an extremely quick time. The only time I can do that is when there is no traffic at all! You’re in a real traffic jam on the parkway when you’re in it for an hour as has happened to me a couple of times. Today I was lucky enough to hear about the accident in the carpark at about 8.45am.

No doubt the motorcyclist cutting down the middle just cut back in front of someone, I nearly knocked a moron rider off today as he went down the emergency lane and cut back in at an off ramp. Somewhat disappointed that my reaction time is good enough to avoid him.

News Radio has a traffic report every 30 mins from around Australia. I think they use the ATN as mentioned above.

It’s pretty interesting hearing the differences from city to city. Sydney obviously always has its problems, but Brisbane always gets a lot of air time as well.

There’s usually a mention of Canberra every morning. They had the Tharwa Dr crash on there yesterday afternoon.

As long has things haven’t changed in the past few years, 2CA doesn’t own the Cessna. It’s owned and operated by the Australian Traffic Network.

They’ve got one guy in the plane and one guy on the ground. ATN provides traffic updates for 2CC, 2CA, 104 and MIX, as well as 666. The guy in the plane is probably doing the reports via radio for the AM’s (by the sounds of things they haven’t changed the system in years), and the guy on the ground does it live on a fixed line for the FM’s.

People do ring up from time to time but ATN gets most of their information from the cops. Plus it’s fairly easy to guess exactly where there’s going to be a lot of traffic ie. GDE southbound, Monaro Highway, Majura Ave and Northbourne.

If it’s during breakfast or drive, all the radio stations will usually pick up on major accidents pretty quickly, coz the police talk to them too.

Hope that clears things up 🙂

Oh and even if you do call, it generally doesn’t make it on the air for at least 20-30 minutes… sometimes congestion has eased by then… I never bother ringing the radio station anymore.

104 used to say they had a Cessna, but I’ve noticed lately they’ve stopped saying it…. they do say the “Police report….”

I passed the accident (southbound) before the emergency services got there, very soon after it happended as the traffic was not backed up more than 100 meters. However, i heard the 2CA traffic report only a few minutes prior, the penultimate for the morning. Maybe the plane went back for fuel? I would have called in the accident but I don’t have the number

Primal #13

I too would like to know more about this gay apparatus

Can’t have come cheap judging by the months they’ve had workmen there – some operating machinery, some working, many watching

BenMac said :

I was pointing out that if i knew the accident was there, I would have avoided the parkway, making it easier for the Emergency services personnel to deal with the accident.

If this is the case, did you then do the Emergency Services a favour and call 2CA to tell them about the crash to pass the info on? Probably not.

what, whilst i was driving, with police cars around me?

not a good idea, I really don’t need to receive a fine for being a good samaritan. I did my bit, I let a heap of cars exit in front of me from the right lane into the left lane prior to the accident site.

I was paying more attention to what the guy in front of me was doing, if i was calling the radio station, there might have been 2 accidents on the parkway. I don’t use my phone in my car, I don’t answer it. I wait until i am at my destination before checking voicemail.