Nick Grimshaw upturns G-Class in London street at 10mph

Nick Grimshaw upturns G-Class in London street at 10mph

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Deisel Weisel

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2,519 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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At 10mph avoiding a cat. Should Mercedes be worried or was Nick off the wagon?



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-37535...

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Oh what a shame. I feel deeply upset about this.



I hope the cat was unhurt though and I HATE cats.

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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He acts like a 12 year old girl so I guess it's only to expected that he drives like one.

LandRoverManiac

402 posts

91 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Reckon it must have been way beyond 10 mph to achieve that.

I once had to swerve to avoid a collision in an old Defender (with 50mm suspension lift, soggy shock-absorbers and lacking anti-roll bars) at 30 mph and it didn't fall over (wobbled and bounced around for yards afterwards - it isn't a move I recommend pulling for the fun of it). Despite being tall, a lot of the mass (gearbox, etc.) is still quite low - Merc Wagons are similar in format.

A modern G-Wagon on road tyres with all the road-biased suspension gubbins would need some seriously ham-fisted driving to get it over at urban speeds - assuming it didn't suffer from some kind of mechanical or structural failure on one of the front wheels.

(Judgemental Mode ON) More likely a case of going too fast and expecting a two-tonne 4x4 to change direction like a ballerina. They don't.


jhonn

1,556 posts

148 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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It says he was driving at 'moderate' speed - even if he was speeding it's hard to see how he could have done this, unless he hit something? There's no mention of that though - thing is G-Wagen's are pretty stable and carry their (considerable) weight fairly low down.
Not something I would have expected to see.


Deisel Weisel

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183 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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edo

16,699 posts

264 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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10mph my arse. Never heard of this person but I would wager over the speed limit...

stuttgartmetal

8,108 posts

215 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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He's come flying over that hill, and done a double lane change.
The front o/s tyres locked up on its edge as its tipping.

untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Reckon he clipped the wheel of the black suv which flipped the car at a relatively slow speed.

I witnessed similar happen in a high street in London a couple of years back and took a pic, the Volvo was only going around 20pmh when it clipped the wheel of the Mercedes in the background.

jhonn

1,556 posts

148 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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untakenname said:
Reckon he clipped the wheel of the black suv which flipped the car at a relatively slow speed.
Yep - that makes sense - his wheel would have climbed up over the wheel of the black SUV and if he had the steering hard over to the left the offside wheel would tuck under and over it would go.

joscal

2,072 posts

199 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Face for radio, at least he didn't hit the Espace.

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Monday 22nd August 2016
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Some girl in a fiesta who'd only been driving a week clipped the wheel of my ex girlfriends parked car at no more than 15-20mph and flipped. I think she was doing her hair, and I guess this was something similar.

Matt UK

17,649 posts

199 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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The thing I find most disturbing is a member of the attending emergency services posting pictures and personal comment, from the scene, on their social media.

Is that acceptable now?

Ninja59

3,691 posts

111 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Well that is a bit grim...Sorry...

ikarl

3,730 posts

198 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Matt UK said:
The thing I find most disturbing is a member of the attending emergency services posting pictures and personal comment, from the scene, on their social media.

Is that acceptable now?
I hope it's not!

To me, that does look like it was a reasonably slow accident, the car looks like it's just fallen over. No other cars look damaged and there doesn't appear to be any scrape marks along the road.

Could his n/s wheel have clipped the golf and just flipped it over though?!

swisstoni

16,852 posts

278 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Remarkable.

TR4man

5,208 posts

173 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Matt UK said:
The thing I find most disturbing is a member of the attending emergency services posting pictures and personal comment, from the scene, on their social media.

Is that acceptable now?
No it's not acceptable and I hope that the offender gets reprimanded.

saaby93

32,038 posts

177 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Isnt there a video in the dashcam thread of a car clipping another in town at low speed and turning turtle?

Hub

6,413 posts

197 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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untakenname said:
Reckon he clipped the wheel of the black suv which flipped the car at a relatively slow speed.

Yes, the road is too narrow for anything really silly and there would be more damage to the parked cars. Not paying attention - probably on Twitter.

Bet that slab sided thing made a bit of noise when it fell over!

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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No, he wasn't doing 10mph or avoiding a cat, as all you do in that situation is press that pedal that slows or even stops the car, and you press it rather hard and hey presto.....