Intentional Crash and Witnesses

[Oldred_V8S]

LoonR1 said:

Especially as the OPs "poor sister" seems incapable of wiping her own arse.

Why the attitude?
I hope all members of your family are capable of looking out for themselves and have no reliance on you for help or advice.

[StottyEvo]

Mouse1903 said:

All I know is both were doing about 25 in a 30 limit.

This has raised my eyebrows. From the description I had assumed she was doing around 60mph.

From 25mph she can't have scrubbed off much speed if any at all to set off the airbags and write her car off. How can she have been following at a safe distance and not managed to take enough speed off from 25mph? Doesn't this seem very odd to you OP?

I've been rear ended with a contact speed of around 20mph, bumpers were broken... no airbags

[pork911]

Mouse1903 said:

pork911 said:

I'm as good or as bad as the next driver, apart from you and your sister since i accept my fallibility and take personal responsibility for my actions.

My sister accepted she ran into the back of the Yaris, but they also braked suddenly. I accepted I ran into the back of someone after losing braking distance time by checking for pedestrians going round a corner. Still waiting to see your point...

you never will, mores the pity (but but but, blah blah blah)

[over_the_hill]

Phatboy317 said:

You can be keeping a safe distance, even with some margin, and it can all go horribly wrong in the space of less than 2 seconds if you happen to take your eyes off the road, eg looking in your r/v mirror, at what turns out to be precisely the wrong time.
Or someone cutting into your lane just ahead of you going a good deal slower.
Under normal driving conditions, the probability of these things actually happening is almost vanishingly tiny, however if it's been planned by the person in front then the probability suddenly becomes very large indeed.

If someone cuts in ahead of you they must have either

a) passed you first so must have been going faster at that point - therefore would take longer to stop

b) must have slowed as you were approaching - if I saw someone do this in a lane to my right (not approaching a junction, roundabout etc.) the alarm bells would be ringing straight away wondering what they were doing

[Mouse1903]

StottyEvo said:

This has raised my eyebrows. From the description I had assumed she was doing around 60mph.

From 25mph she can't have scrubbed off much speed if any at all to set off the airbags and write her car off. How can she have been following at a safe distance and not managed to take enough speed off from 25mph? Doesn't this seem very odd to you OP?

I've been rear ended with a contact speed of around 20mph, bumpers were broken... no airbags

Seems odd as when I had my accident at a similar speed none of my airbags deployed, although my car took the impact more in one corner rather than the full front end. The damage on her car at the front was also less than when I had mine so to me seems a case of very sensitive airbags.

[Mouse1903]

pork911 said:

you never will, mores the pity (but but but, blah blah blah)

You have no point. Jog on.

[pork911]

Mouse1903 said:

pork911 said:

you never will, mores the pity (but but but, blah blah blah)

You have no point. Jog on.

how can you type with fingers in your ears and eyes shut?


ah well it'll make a good story for you to regurgitate to friends who'll sympathise over these bloody scamsters based on your massive spin

[Mr GrimNasty]

FFS, give it a rest. Ta.

[Phatboy317]

over_the_hill said:

If someone cuts in ahead of you they must have either

a) passed you first so must have been going faster at that point - therefore would take longer to stop

b) must have slowed as you were approaching - if I saw someone do this in a lane to my right (not approaching a junction, roundabout etc.) the alarm bells would be ringing straight away wondering what they were doing

or

c) pulled out of a side street or parking in front of you

d) pulled into your lane from the left-hand lane as you were about to pass them