Mursal
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Possible cause of accident:
Flat tyre
Understeer because all the steering angles are wrong, due to the tyre.
If you stop the footage with 43 seconds remaining (17 seconds from the start), just before impact you can see the front outside (next the truck) tyre soft, also causing the back to go light.
All modern road vehicles have whats known as negative roll radius built into the steering angles. So that in the event of a blowout, the steering wheel isn't pulled out of the drivers hand. I don't thing its all that common on tractors, but ZF increased Castor and KPI for John Deere in the 80's/90's to reduce turning circle.
Flat tyre
Understeer because all the steering angles are wrong, due to the tyre.
If you stop the footage with 43 seconds remaining (17 seconds from the start), just before impact you can see the front outside (next the truck) tyre soft, also causing the back to go light.
All modern road vehicles have whats known as negative roll radius built into the steering angles. So that in the event of a blowout, the steering wheel isn't pulled out of the drivers hand. I don't thing its all that common on tractors, but ZF increased Castor and KPI for John Deere in the 80's/90's to reduce turning circle.
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