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Captainawesome said:
Fearless and stupid...a poor combination.
I was travelling by train through the North line between Thurso and Inverness one night, several years ago, when the train hit a stag.The stag had been standing in the tracks. It was rutting season. According to the driver, the stag lowered his head and charged the train. Which was going at around 60 MPH at the time. Guess who won?
I don't think I will ever forget the initial bang, feeling the train shudder, and hearing the horrible crunching of bones and cracking of antlers that passed underneath me from the front to the back of the train.
For the remainder of the journey, passengers were only allowed to leave the train from the rear carriage (two carriage train), and they had a cordon out to stop people looking round the front. When I got off at the end of the line, the front half of the front carriage was spattered and smeared with blood. Can't imagine what the front must have been like...
Back on topic - I've been lucky enough to only have one minor scrape, in to the side of someone's Vauxhall Vecra, at very low speed (I was leaving a T-junction and didn't see him; luckily I just scuffed his paintwork, to the tune of £800). My front bumper (plain black plastic on a Mk1 Clio) received a very small scuff. I'd been driving for less than two weeks. No photo available; I was too busy s
tting myself to remember to take one.NRS said:
jamieduff1981 said:
Sorry to see that. I had a glancing blow impact with a deer in December too. Luckily I got away with a broken reflector in the bumper which cost £17 to replace with new. They are often standing about in my garden too. A pal had his pickup door badly dented by a stag which got stuck between the truck and his fence and panicked. Beautiful animals, but dumb.
Just be glad they're not the moose we have here. Problem is they're tall, heavy and have thin legs. That means that if you hit them at a reasonable speed you break the legs and the body falls, landing on the windscreen and crushing the driver/ passenger due to the weight of them.king terrifyingly powerful. And stupid.This one runs through several feet of snow as if it's not even there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEhM2Byk7w
My lady hit, or was hit by a wallaby, [small kangaroo] in the Mazda 2. Just on dusk it hopped into the drivers front wheel, when she was traveling at about 60 Km/H.
Somehow it took out the light plastic inner guard, without putting a single mark on the car.
Not only that, it got up & hopped off. It must have pinched that inner guard in annoyance, or took it home to show it's mates. Although she stopped & called me, only a couple of kilometres away, when I came we looked everywhere for the thing, but it had definitely gone.
Somehow it took out the light plastic inner guard, without putting a single mark on the car.
Not only that, it got up & hopped off. It must have pinched that inner guard in annoyance, or took it home to show it's mates. Although she stopped & called me, only a couple of kilometres away, when I came we looked everywhere for the thing, but it had definitely gone.
jamieduff1981 said:
What exactly was that crappy French hatchback wielding pillock trying to do?
Sorry to see that happen to a pretty cool Monaro
To be fair he hit a large patch of black ice, fishtailed all the way down the road and finally gripped as he was heading towards me. Not much he could have done. Irony is that the road was closed a few minutes earlier because a car was on its roof. The road reopened and two seconds later, wham!Sorry to see that happen to a pretty cool Monaro
Mr Red Barron said:
jamieduff1981 said:
What exactly was that crappy French hatchback wielding pillock trying to do?
Sorry to see that happen to a pretty cool Monaro
To be fair he hit a large patch of black ice, fishtailed all the way down the road and finally gripped as he was heading towards me. Not much he could have done. Irony is that the road was closed a few minutes earlier because a car was on its roof. The road reopened and two seconds later, wham!Sorry to see that happen to a pretty cool Monaro
Did you happen to check what seasonal tyres the baguettemobile was on?
TheLordJohn said:
How ironic... Lol.
Unusual to see a Seat undercover car in the back ground.
Edit - it's an Alpine!
He was a first responder rather than the feds, but he'd just been attending the accident the caused the road to be shut, once the road was back open he followed me 100 yards down the road before he was needed again!!Unusual to see a Seat undercover car in the back ground.
Edit - it's an Alpine!
chryslerben said:
Mr Red Barron said:
Thankfully I had gap insurance which allowed me to buy a VXR with a few 'choice' mods!!
Are we talking superchargers
Shame though as that one looks quite well specced what with the MF road response pack and AP's on
406highlander said:
I was travelling by train through the North line between Thurso and Inverness one night, several years ago, when the train hit a stag.
The stag had been standing in the tracks. It was rutting season. According to the driver, the stag lowered his head and charged the train. Which was going at around 60 MPH at the time. Guess who won?
I don't think I will ever forget the initial bang, feeling the train shudder, and hearing the horrible crunching of bones and cracking of antlers that passed underneath me from the front to the back of the train.
For the remainder of the journey, passengers were only allowed to leave the train from the rear carriage (two carriage train), and they had a cordon out to stop people looking round the front. When I got off at the end of the line, the front half of the front carriage was spattered and smeared with blood. Can't imagine what the front must have been like...
I have had a similar experience on a train. Sadly however, it wasn't a deer / stag or other animal. The stag had been standing in the tracks. It was rutting season. According to the driver, the stag lowered his head and charged the train. Which was going at around 60 MPH at the time. Guess who won?
I don't think I will ever forget the initial bang, feeling the train shudder, and hearing the horrible crunching of bones and cracking of antlers that passed underneath me from the front to the back of the train.
For the remainder of the journey, passengers were only allowed to leave the train from the rear carriage (two carriage train), and they had a cordon out to stop people looking round the front. When I got off at the end of the line, the front half of the front carriage was spattered and smeared with blood. Can't imagine what the front must have been like...
The sound of it is something I will not forget.
Not a crash pic of my own car but it's a pic I took yesterday afternoon after I had just left work.
An elderly chap had knocked down a woman, a teenager and child on the pedestrian crossing and then carried on straight into the lamppost. Thankfully the pedestrians and the driver were discharged from hospital the same evening but it could have been much worse.
Apparently the driver was in his 90s. It certainly made me question whether we should have better regulation over elderly drivers and their capabilities on the roads.
An elderly chap had knocked down a woman, a teenager and child on the pedestrian crossing and then carried on straight into the lamppost. Thankfully the pedestrians and the driver were discharged from hospital the same evening but it could have been much worse.
Apparently the driver was in his 90s. It certainly made me question whether we should have better regulation over elderly drivers and their capabilities on the roads.
JuanGandini said:
Not a crash pic of my own car but it's a pic I took yesterday afternoon after I had just left work.
An elderly chap had knocked down a woman, a teenager and child on the pedestrian crossing and then carried on straight into the lamppost. Thankfully the pedestrians and the driver were discharged from hospital the same evening but it could have been much worse.
Apparently the driver was in his 90s. It certainly made me question whether we should have better regulation over elderly drivers and their capabilities on the roads.
Bloody hell. There definitely should be more regulation on it. I have no doubt there are people of that age driving around with equivalent reaction times as drunk drivers, if not worse.An elderly chap had knocked down a woman, a teenager and child on the pedestrian crossing and then carried on straight into the lamppost. Thankfully the pedestrians and the driver were discharged from hospital the same evening but it could have been much worse.
Apparently the driver was in his 90s. It certainly made me question whether we should have better regulation over elderly drivers and their capabilities on the roads.
getawayturtle said:
Bloody hell. There definitely should be more regulation on it. I have no doubt there are people of that age driving around with equivalent reaction times as drunk drivers, if not worse.
I suspect that co-ordination may be a bigger issue than reaction times in many cases.TonyRPH said:
getawayturtle said:
Bloody hell. There definitely should be more regulation on it. I have no doubt there are people of that age driving around with equivalent reaction times as drunk drivers, if not worse.
I suspect that co-ordination may be a bigger issue than reaction times in many cases.http://cars.aol.co.uk/2015/04/15/elderly-wrong-way...
So, this is my crash from the end of May.
I went for a 2 car overtake and one of the cars I was passing decided to turn right , just I was coming alongside, without having (visibly to me anyway) indicated or braked.
I swerved to avoid and went through (yes, through) a telegraph pole, which duly landed on my roof.
I walked out with just a large bump on my head from hitting the windscreen. no whiplash, no airbag burns, no seatbelt bruising, not a scratch.
Car was a Cat B write-off.
I went for a 2 car overtake and one of the cars I was passing decided to turn right , just I was coming alongside, without having (visibly to me anyway) indicated or braked.
I swerved to avoid and went through (yes, through) a telegraph pole, which duly landed on my roof.
I walked out with just a large bump on my head from hitting the windscreen. no whiplash, no airbag burns, no seatbelt bruising, not a scratch.
Car was a Cat B write-off.
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