Diesel exhausts do cause cancer, says WHO

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

Hmmm, I've been driving motor cycles (and other vehicles including Diesel 4WD's) for thirty something years, I can't say diesel spills have been something I've noticed or worried about too much in my nick of the woods. Do you mean at petrol stations around the Diesel bowser?

Then again when I'm on my bike I might be too preoccupied with all the wallies hooning about in their cars trying to kill ME to notice?

I had an experience of a diesel spill on my er5, on a round about, back end went all over the place. Wibble wobble, kinda like a high side tank slapper... I managed to stay on although I had no idea wtf was going on...

Diesel is very hard to see and extremely slippery. What happens is you get a hol car drivers that lose or break their fuel cap so just drive without one. When they go round a corner the diesel rushes to one side then the other and squirts out of the filling cap... The major problem is its just so hard to see! Its not like a squased tin can on a corner or wet iron works on drains... Its practically invisable.