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BennyWeaver said:
It was 3 years ago this May. No one else was involved. Police were on the scene along with fire brigade and ambulance. They never asked my speed or breathalysed me. Why would me putting 85mph on PH make any difference whatsoever.
because some people will say, oooh, breaking the speed limit, and in rush hour, there might have been queues on slip roads and it's just asking for trouble.because you know, some people on the internet are a
holes.it doesn't really make a difference.
Did quite a good job on this one. Came round a bend on a country road, in the dark to find a herd of deer crossing the road, I wasn't hanging about, braked, tried to steer around behind them and went up the bank flipping it onto it's roof. No injuries luckily.
I really liked that car too. I'd specced it up with leather and lots of options. I hadn't had it long.
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I really liked that car too. I'd specced it up with leather and lots of options. I hadn't had it long.
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kiethton said:
oobster said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258698/Fi...
http://www.nottinghampost.com/man-s-car-roof-cut-h...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085055/Pi...
Yeah not a hope I'd allow anybody to sit in mine when there is the possibility of claiming back injuries - he'll they'd be kicked out long before the lay could get the jaws of life removed!http://www.nottinghampost.com/man-s-car-roof-cut-h...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085055/Pi...
Edited by oobster on Sunday 8th January 12:28
It was -2 on Tuesday evening and my first priority on arriving at the scene was to make sure everyone was safe and warm - it didn't occur to me at that moment in time that a teenager who was walking around seemingly uninjured could result in my car being destroyed. She would have been sat or stood on the road for anything up to 2 hours in sub-zero conditions if I'd remembered the advice.
I also find it a worrying state of affairs when the recovery truck managed to arrive within five minutes of the first ambulance. We really need more crews out there if it's normal to lie on the road for over an hour waiting for an ambulance.
My Dad lost the arse on his car, apparent diesel spillage had been reported the other day according to the police. I rang the police to make the area bit more safe being on an a island, interestingly no paper work, breathe test etc just a few cones and directing traffic (not a complaint, and to be fair they were great). A bump on the head for me hitting the window on the door. Its now with the specialist and we'll try and get it fixed unless its uneconomical to do so.
When it came to moving it the wheel is practically hanging off.
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When it came to moving it the wheel is practically hanging off.
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Rich, sorry to see the Boxster damaged, but glad to see that no one was hurt.
I have only had my 986 since October and one at least two occasions the rear has tried to overtake the front. I was lucky both times as I had some clearance to save me.
Get that car to Cotswold Porsche, revolution or similar and it will be fixed in no time.
I have only had my 986 since October and one at least two occasions the rear has tried to overtake the front. I was lucky both times as I had some clearance to save me.
Get that car to Cotswold Porsche, revolution or similar and it will be fixed in no time.
legless said:
I was driving home from work last summer one evening on the M1 northbound. As I arrived at the Catthorpe interchange I took the 2-lane slip for the M6 north.
Due to the roadworks at the time, this 2-lane slip became lanes 1 and 2 of the M6, and ALL traffic arriving from the westbound A14 wishing to join the M6 arrived in what became lane 3 of the M6. This meant that HGV and bus drivers from the A14 were pretty keen to move left ASAP to avoid breaking the law.
I was in lane 2 of the M1 slip, passing a stream of slow HGVs, with my cruise control set at 50mph. The entire section was monitored by SPECS cameras at the time. At the point where the M1 traffic joined the A14 traffic, I was almost a car-length ahead of a HGV arriving from the A14.
The HGV hadn't seen me, moved left into lane 2 and struck the offside rear of my car. This rotated my car 90 degrees clockwise and I hit the central reservation head-on. The front of the HGV then t-boned the offside of my car and pushed it for 150 yards sideways down lane 3 until we came to a rest.
Fortunately, the only injury to me was a graze on my knuckles from where the driver's window had exploded over me. The car was less well-off. Despite the damage looking mostly superficial, the floorpan was twisted and it was declared a cat B loss. A real shame - it was a fully-loaded Skoda Superb L&K 2.0TSI 280PS 4x4 with only just over 4k on the clock. Until that moment it had been one of the best cars I'd ever had.
Fortunately the HGV driver admitted full liability very quickly and the claim was sorted promptly.
Can you get a like for like replacement through GAP insurance then?Due to the roadworks at the time, this 2-lane slip became lanes 1 and 2 of the M6, and ALL traffic arriving from the westbound A14 wishing to join the M6 arrived in what became lane 3 of the M6. This meant that HGV and bus drivers from the A14 were pretty keen to move left ASAP to avoid breaking the law.
I was in lane 2 of the M1 slip, passing a stream of slow HGVs, with my cruise control set at 50mph. The entire section was monitored by SPECS cameras at the time. At the point where the M1 traffic joined the A14 traffic, I was almost a car-length ahead of a HGV arriving from the A14.
The HGV hadn't seen me, moved left into lane 2 and struck the offside rear of my car. This rotated my car 90 degrees clockwise and I hit the central reservation head-on. The front of the HGV then t-boned the offside of my car and pushed it for 150 yards sideways down lane 3 until we came to a rest.
Fortunately, the only injury to me was a graze on my knuckles from where the driver's window had exploded over me. The car was less well-off. Despite the damage looking mostly superficial, the floorpan was twisted and it was declared a cat B loss. A real shame - it was a fully-loaded Skoda Superb L&K 2.0TSI 280PS 4x4 with only just over 4k on the clock. Until that moment it had been one of the best cars I'd ever had.
Fortunately the HGV driver admitted full liability very quickly and the claim was sorted promptly.
Alas, I have lost the only photo I ever owned of the one really decent prang I've had in my life. In February of 1981 I fell asleep one night on the coastal route across the cliffs of Chapman's Peak in South Africa - I'd been working at two jobs and took the road thinking it would keep me awake on the way home one late night.
I wasn't wearing a seat-belt (one didn't have to in those days and I suffered from the impetuousness of youth, as one does) and I came awake with bang after a terrible thump of contact and found myself pinned in a blackthorn bush over the edge of the cliff, watching confusedly as my 'bakkie' fell away from me into the blackness, lights spinning violently. It landed so far down I never heard the crash. It took me a while to climb back up to the road and then walk 7 miles into Hout Bay, shoeless and with windscreen glass in my eyes. Suffice to say I recovered quickly enough but it took the authorities a week to find a truck capable of lifting the wreck up the cliff. The roof had been compressed to within 6 inches of the floor and amazingly everything in the cab had been stolen. The one photo I had came from the Argus newspaper, and the story created quite a sensation for while, though more for the recovery job I think than my lucky escape.
Suffice to say I sometimes smile inwardly when people say seat-belts save lives.
It wasn't even my car, either. Ooops.
I wasn't wearing a seat-belt (one didn't have to in those days and I suffered from the impetuousness of youth, as one does) and I came awake with bang after a terrible thump of contact and found myself pinned in a blackthorn bush over the edge of the cliff, watching confusedly as my 'bakkie' fell away from me into the blackness, lights spinning violently. It landed so far down I never heard the crash. It took me a while to climb back up to the road and then walk 7 miles into Hout Bay, shoeless and with windscreen glass in my eyes. Suffice to say I recovered quickly enough but it took the authorities a week to find a truck capable of lifting the wreck up the cliff. The roof had been compressed to within 6 inches of the floor and amazingly everything in the cab had been stolen. The one photo I had came from the Argus newspaper, and the story created quite a sensation for while, though more for the recovery job I think than my lucky escape.
Suffice to say I sometimes smile inwardly when people say seat-belts save lives.
It wasn't even my car, either. Ooops.
Edited by drhook on Monday 13th February 18:17
Edited by drhook on Monday 13th February 18:18
Really rather minor by the standards of this thread, but this is the prang that took my first car away from me within 6 months of me passing my test. On the A420 near Swindon, location fairly clear to anyone who knows the road. Old biddie pulls out of the houses to the left of the road in front of me, I brake, feller behind doesn't. Damage mostly averted by the manner in which his car scooped mine onto the bonnet of his and then dumped it back down like a paralytic drunk rejecting a doner kebab, though surely a bent chassis is still enough to earn me some man points? Apologies in advance for any offence caused by the sticker 
Highlight of the incident was a mad Irish lorryist who appeared to have many screws loose and took a large degree of offence to the queue caused by fellow lorryists unable to pass my knackered motor perched as it appears in the top photo with traffic in oncoming lane- he then ranted at me that 'English-not-English' way that only a furious Irishman does (think Micky the boxer from the film Snatch) before marching over to the car (keys still in the ignition) and redlining the motor then dropping the clutch to the most painful shearing rending sound I think I've ever heard, and onto the kerb he bounced. He then marched past me in the opposite direction, still ranting incoherently, back into his lorry, and off he went.
In hindsight I was being a bit of a tool leaving the car sat where it stood but it was my first (and only) accident, fresh-faced and all that. In fact in hindsight the entire episode was avoidable on my part with better observation and reaction, a lesson well learnt especially now I own kit worth looking after and keeping not crashed.
Bloke who hit me couldn't have been nicer, owned up straight off the bat and was pleasant throughout. I felt sorry for him in the end as he was on his way home- which for him was Devon. Poor bd. His insurance company sorted me out too, courtesy car arrived next day and they must have given me 4 or 5 times what the car was actually worth. I'd say he did me a favour writing the fking thing off.
Still paying hefty premiums for my NON-FAULT accident today though. Cts.
Highlight of the incident was a mad Irish lorryist who appeared to have many screws loose and took a large degree of offence to the queue caused by fellow lorryists unable to pass my knackered motor perched as it appears in the top photo with traffic in oncoming lane- he then ranted at me that 'English-not-English' way that only a furious Irishman does (think Micky the boxer from the film Snatch) before marching over to the car (keys still in the ignition) and redlining the motor then dropping the clutch to the most painful shearing rending sound I think I've ever heard, and onto the kerb he bounced. He then marched past me in the opposite direction, still ranting incoherently, back into his lorry, and off he went.
In hindsight I was being a bit of a tool leaving the car sat where it stood but it was my first (and only) accident, fresh-faced and all that. In fact in hindsight the entire episode was avoidable on my part with better observation and reaction, a lesson well learnt especially now I own kit worth looking after and keeping not crashed.
Bloke who hit me couldn't have been nicer, owned up straight off the bat and was pleasant throughout. I felt sorry for him in the end as he was on his way home- which for him was Devon. Poor b
d. His insurance company sorted me out too, courtesy car arrived next day and they must have given me 4 or 5 times what the car was actually worth. I'd say he did me a favour writing the fking thing off.Still paying hefty premiums for my NON-FAULT accident today though. C
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