Owner crashes E-type just after restoring it
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Can't see a thread for this ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/09/owner-o...
Shame, but how do you hit that lamp post on a dead straight road? Surely the old V12 isn't THAT powerful is it?
Women in the piece complaining about the damage to the 1973 lamp post, I can't see any!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/09/owner-o...
Shame, but how do you hit that lamp post on a dead straight road? Surely the old V12 isn't THAT powerful is it?
Women in the piece complaining about the damage to the 1973 lamp post, I can't see any!
uk66fastback said:
Can't see a thread for this ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/09/owner-o...
Shame, but how do you hit that lamp post on a dead straight road? Surely the old V12 isn't THAT powerful is it?
Women in the piece complaining about the damage to the 1973 lamp post, I can't see any!
I'm fairly certain its an 81' mk3 Curlaston lighting column and its still standing which isn't surprising really considering its made from 10swg carbon steel.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/09/owner-o...
Shame, but how do you hit that lamp post on a dead straight road? Surely the old V12 isn't THAT powerful is it?
Women in the piece complaining about the damage to the 1973 lamp post, I can't see any!
PositronicRay said:
I read about this at the weekend. Equally bemused.
Either
A) The driver wasn't paying attention and gazing @ his dials in awe, answering his phone, getting a BJ.
Or
B) He was avoiding another road user.
Or
C) Both of the above
D) Distracted by ... (hey even the Misses got rather distracted by a woman on the side of the road the other day)Either
A) The driver wasn't paying attention and gazing @ his dials in awe, answering his phone, getting a BJ.
Or
B) He was avoiding another road user.
Or
C) Both of the above
E) Problem with the brakes and a convenient lamp post was the easiest way to stop.
Looking at the skid marks in the photo he's gone for the left turn too quickly, realised he's overcooked it, brakes cold, tires cold, whatever, then tried to pull out of it and semi-succeeded only to be beaten by the tank slapper hence the skid marks across the broken white line nearest to the motor. I shout knob on this one. Get used to it first!!!
Easy come easy go.
Easy come easy go.
I suspect the owner may have been unused to a very torquey and near 300bhp V12 in a car with no TCS, EBD , ABS or any other acronym and which runs on tyres , possibly old ones, much narrower than a small hatchback.Didn't the V12 E also have notoriously light and feel free pa steering too ? Even a 1 litre Focus runs 215 to 235 section rubber these days.
Looks like he may have been either avoiding someone who turned right in front front of him, they stopped mid way and he either went right or left of them, chose to go left of them, hit kerb and then lamppost? Or someone pull out from the side road into his path and he had to avoid them, by going behind them, then mounting kerb and hitting lamppost? In both these cases the other car could will have misjudged the speed of the Jag and just panicked and stopped in the road?
Tom_C76 said:
If it makes any difference to the assumptions, that is in a 40mph limit. I'm going for either another car cut across but more likely rear end mechanical failure.
Well, having spent all that money restoring it and seeing the lamppost approaching rapidly I would image that, in the closing seconds before impact, the driver certainly suffered some rear end failure himself!!!number 46 said:
Tom_C76 said:
If it makes any difference to the assumptions, that is in a 40mph limit. I'm going for either another car cut across but more likely rear end mechanical failure.
Well, having spent all that money restoring it and seeing the lamppost approaching rapidly I would image that, in the closing seconds before impact, the driver certainly suffered some rear end failure himself!!!Rangeroverover said:
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