How do you have a Crash like this?

[Batlamb]

I am concerned. Do Audi TTs still have handing problems?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916...

[W00DY]

Cruise control in the rain.


ETA: Hope he recovers, looks very nasty.

[GadgeS3C]

Loose nut behind the wheel.

[henrycrun]

The faster you drive, the faster you crash ?

[TheHeretic]

Batlamb said:

I am concerned. Do Audi TTs still have handing problems?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916...

Why on earth would you be concerned?

[ging84]

W00DY said:

Cruise control in the rain.


ETA: Hope he recovers, looks very nasty.

worse, this was cruise control in the snow
you don't take off like an aeroplane, but rather a missile

[scottyrocks]

Maybe he had the same top secret device I had in my car, and he lost control of it because he didn't have the proper training.

[NelsonR32]

Batlamb said:

I am concerned. Do Audi TTs still have handing problems?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916...

Yes they do, it's called the driver.

[john2443]

That's quite an acheivement, looks lik ehe's used the BMW as a launch ramp, but it must have involded some serious leptons (leapt-ons ) to get that high and be embedded that deep.

[Kitchski]

You could speculate all day long as to what caused that. Nobody here actually knows. Would be unfair to aim blame at the driver.

Only thing I do know is that he's improved an Audi TT.

[DrDeAtH]

Leapfrog..... Audi style....

[MJK 24]

Batlamb said:

I am concerned. Do Audi TTs still have handing problems?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916...

They never had handling problems. Someone killed themself in a very early TT by lifting off the throttle on a sweeping autobahn curve at 130mph. As sure as night follows day, the back of the car overtook the front and he crashed. The outcome would be the same in a vast number of cars. Doesn't indicate a problem more significant than driver error.

This TT is stuck in the side of a house as the driver has been driving way beyond both the abilities of himself and his car. A TT is a perfectly safe means of transport.

[Easternlight]

Can't believe this, we must be one of the only areas in england with no snow and he manages to to that.
13 plate unlucky??

[MJK 24]

Easternlight said:

Can't believe this, we must be one of the only areas in england with no snow and he manages to to that.
13 plate unlucky??

It's an old shape Audi TT. The stopped making them approx 7 years ago.

[loose cannon]

Not even a patch on the bmw hanging from a bedroom window in old basing a few years back !

[BFG TERRANO]

Many years ago a boy racer planted an XR2 in someone's loft. Freak accidents will always happen.

[anonymous-user]

Any higher and he could have made a cameo appearence on "Crash in the Attic" the new daytime telly show........... ;-)











i'll get my coat

[F1GTRUeno]

What has he hit to get it high enough to use the BMW as a launchpad in the first place though?

Surely he would've just gone into the side of it?

[xRIEx]

F1GTRUeno said:

What has he hit to get it high enough to use the BMW as a launchpad in the first place though?

Surely he would've just gone into the side of it?

The hedge - the picture shows the soil is piled up slightly, that and the hedge itself was probably enough of a kicker to get on to the bonnet.

[Robb F]

Kitchski said:

You could speculate all day long as to what caused that. Nobody here actually knows. Would be unfair to aim blame at the driver.

You're right, it's well known that you can easily embed a car into the side of a house (on the strongest point too, right on the corner) from doing the 30mph speed limit around a gentle bend in the road. It is of course coincidence that the bend is at the end of a very long arrow straight bit of road.

http://goo.gl/maps/yjLCA

Edited by Robb F on Sunday 24th March 14:03