Show us your crash pics!!

[Bonefish Blues]

TheInternet said:

Bogsye said:

the engine was still running

Typical Honda. You probably could've driven it home.

S2000 Speedster

Proper job, that crash.

[gforceg]

Which ear?

Details, man! Details!

[Bogsye]

Ten years have passed and it’s still a pretty clear memory. Through Lockdown I’ve taken to going a Sunday walk, and a couple weeks back went by the spot that I crashed. It was quite odd to back there standing looking down from the road.

To think that a few weeks prior I’d just had a new hood fitted under warranty.

Yes, the R32 wasn’t really the firecracker engine of the S2000. Number of times I cracked the R32 off the Rev limiter by accident expecting the ‘Vtech-Yo’ moment. It was a pretty uninspiring engine.

I did a day at Elvington with the S2000 and it was great fun. I recall after the lunch break that day we had to head back up to the top of the runway. It was raining and I experienced aqua planing for the first time ever at 110mph. I nigh on crapped myself.

Details - Yes, it was my right ear that got caught on the hood frame

Anyway, I got all sensible and sold the R32....for a Cerbera. I mean, what could possibly go wrong...

[Gilhooligan]

Top effort on the S2000 crash. You’d think more injuries would’ve occurred when looking at the carnage.

[LetsTryAgain]

My Dad did Croft in his S2000 (only track day he's done and with his local Jaguar club) and he stayed ahead of a Bentley Continental GT the whole way around for a session.
I know the Bentley won't be fantastic in the corner, but you'd think the power would make up for that!

[Isimmo]

I learnt a valuable lesson about speed back in the mid-1990’s at Castle Combe when I did several track days with the quattro.

The track instructor came out in a 1.6 Montego Countryman with a gaggle performance and/or modified Audis including several quattros and a SWB. Suffice to say he passed everything at least once.

Turns out 500-quid on driving tuition is probably worth £5000 worth of modifications.

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LetsTryAgain said:

My Dad did Croft in his S2000 (only track day he's done and with his local Jaguar club) and he stayed ahead of a Bentley Continental GT the whole way around for a session.
I know the Bentley won't be fantastic in the corner, but you'd think the power would make up for that!

You never know how commited people are. Last time out at croft I was in an F80 M3 and kept up with an R300. If the R300 was being driven properly in anger I wouldn't have seen which way it went. Equally there was a well driven 997 GT3RS and I couldn't keep anywhere near it.

When I drove my DC2 at Croft the tyres were the ones that came with the car from new (it was about 6 or 7 years old by then). It was great on track, but in raw pace slower around the corners than a bunch of mildly modified 90s Preludes and Civics.

S'pose the lesson is you can't tell anything from trackday pace.

[sim72]

5 In a Row said:

Rostfritt said:

Looks like they either mistook the parked van for a moving one, or passed out at the wheel.

Nowadays I assume these are all down to texting/phone use.

When exactly the same happened to my car 25 years ago it was down to the driver being stoned out of his head.

(Yes, I know ... it'll buff out)

[csd19]

sim72 said:

5 In a Row said:

Rostfritt said:

Looks like they either mistook the parked van for a moving one, or passed out at the wheel.

Nowadays I assume these are all down to texting/phone use.

When exactly the same happened to my car 25 years ago it was down to the driver being stoned out of his head.

(Yes, I know ... it'll buff out)

Ouch! Mk3 Cavalier?

[Bert Cheese]

Doing my bit to make Alfas rarer over the years...to be fair only the 33 was entirely my fault and the Range Rover I sideswiped was written off too.

[sim72]

csd19 said:

sim72 said:

5 In a Row said:

Rostfritt said:

Looks like they either mistook the parked van for a moving one, or passed out at the wheel.

Nowadays I assume these are all down to texting/phone use.

When exactly the same happened to my car 25 years ago it was down to the driver being stoned out of his head.

(Yes, I know ... it'll buff out)

Ouch! Mk3 Cavalier?

Yep. Mk3 Cavalier 2.0GLS. I'd not had it long. Here's the stolen Mk2 SRI that hit it. The rear seat passenger (no belts on those, I think) took out the windscreen and the rear view mirror as he ejected, I found the mirror in the driver's footwell of mine. Remarkably, he survived.

[Frimley111R]

Isimmo said:

I
Turns out 500-quid on driving tuition is probably worth £5000 worth of modifications.

And yet we all go for the shiny expensive stuff . I suspect you'd need £5000 of tuition to be anywhere near as good as him but then at least it would last your driving career unlike the £5000 you spent on one car.

[NuvolAscaRina]

NuvolAscaRina said:

no idea what time it happened , I slept through the carnage and saw it all when I went out at 10am .

Found out from a neighbour yesterday that this happened at about midnight , Audi driver claims to have fallen asleep after a 12 hour

shift on the railways .

As a confirmed cynic , "fell asleep" is an easy excuse for the looking at the phone and crashing .....possibly

[Sticks.]

NuvolAscaRina said:

NuvolAscaRina said:

no idea what time it happened , I slept through the carnage and saw it all when I went out at 10am .

Found out from a neighbour yesterday that this happened at about midnight , Audi driver claims to have fallen asleep after a 12 hour

shift on the railways .

As a confirmed cynic , "fell asleep" is an easy excuse for the looking at the phone and crashing .....possibly

It could well be. But tiredness is a well documented but widely ignored risk when driving. I read once that people driving between something like 2 and 6.30am had reactions the same as someone on the drink drive limit. It was a factor in my big accident, though not me.

[saaby93]

NuvolAscaRina said:

Found out from a neighbour yesterday that this happened at about midnight , Audi driver claims to have fallen asleep after a 12 hour

shift on the railways .

You'd think that someone working on the railways would be aware of the risks of long shift and falling asleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash

[SydneyBridge]

saaby93 said:

You'd think that someone working on the railways would be aware of the risks of long shift and falling asleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash

Yes...
Most expensive ever UK car insurance claim

Edit, I double checked and it is the second most expensive

Edited by SydneyBridge on Saturday 24th April 20:04

[saaby93]

SydneyBridge said:

saaby93 said:

You'd think that someone working on the railways would be aware of the risks of long shift and falling asleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash

Yes...
Most expensive ever UK car insurance claim

Edit, I double checked and it is the second most expensive

most expensive Rowan Atkinson?

[Bonefish Blues]

SydneyBridge said:

saaby93 said:

You'd think that someone working on the railways would be aware of the risks of long shift and falling asleep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selby_rail_crash

Yes...
Most expensive ever UK car insurance claim

Edit, I double checked and it is the second most expensive

Edited by SydneyBridge on Saturday 24th April 20:04

Behind what?!

[SydneyBridge]

Upton Nervett train crash, about £50m
Selby, about £30m

[Bonefish Blues]

Thanks - I remember that one too.