Serious Crash - Monks Way Sunday

[NobleGuy]

Hope it's not a repost but the search is currently down.

Saw what looked like a pretty bad accident in Milton Keynes yesterday down Monks Way.
Road closed at the Land Rover garage with a car on it's roof and a silver Peugeot also involved - emergency services all over the place.
Second accident along there in 5 days - VX220 written off on Tuesday.

Anyone got any news on this as it looked fairly bad? Hope everyone's OK.

[NobleGuy]

Fatal. fk.

Take care boys and girls...

[NobleGuy]

FourWheelDrift said:

Is this the bit where they have posted up 40mph signs near the M1 junction because of the roadworks and roundabout widening yet most seem to ignore it and carry on at 60+ ?

No, it was at the Newport Pagnell roundabout next to the Land Rover garage, heading out of Milton Keynes.

Flying Toilet said:

I was stuck on the roundabout right after it happened. It was an awful crash and i have never seen anything like it.
I was told the guy in the BMW convertable died and his passenger seriously injured. No word on the Peugeot drivers.
It looked like the BMW was T-boned.
RIP.

Was weird. Couldn't work out how on earth you can roll a car on that little bit. Drove past this morning and you'd never know it had happened. So was it the Peugeot that t-boned the BM? And which way was everyone going? All seemed impossible to me. Sent a chill down my spine when we filtered off.

Sounds silly as I didn't know any of them but I was absolutely gutted when I saw the "Fatal Accident" boards.

http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/Man-dies-when-c...
Seems to be saying that the BMW was coming into Milton Keynes - if that's the case then it flipped right over the barrier into oncoming traffic.

Managed to get a speeding issue in there though.....

Edited by NobleGuy on Tuesday 23 September 12:29

[NobleGuy]

Flying Toilet said:

What shocked me most was the state of the BMW, it looked like the screen and bars failed as it was dead flat on the floor. We are talking headrests on the road...

That's what I feared when I saw it.

Flying Toilet said:

So are you a MK man Noble?

Yeah. Lived there 2 years or so and not seen one accident. Now 2 in a week.

.....Just had a horrid thought. Was it an M3?

Edited by NobleGuy on Tuesday 23 September 13:32

[NobleGuy]

Yep. That was the one.

[NobleGuy]

Must admit I was guilty of that. I saw the red brake calipers and nice alloys in the air and thought "18 year-old with girlfriend. Probably going too fast on a nice sunny day.".

It does sound like he was coming into Milton Keynes, which means he must have vaulted the roundabout and/or the barrier to end up where he did.

I saw him around MK on that very road a couple of times in recent weeks and he always gave me a beaming smile when he saw the Noble. That's what my 'horrid thought' was.

[NobleGuy]

Crazy Fool said:

It's been a long time since I lived in MK, but is that the road also known as Chichley Hill with the double roundabout at the bottom, left towards J14 M1 and right onto Tickford Street and Aston Martin?

Exactly the place. Poor guy ended up upside down on the opposite carriageway in the tiny bit of road in between the two roundabouts. Still not entirely sure how.

[NobleGuy]

Flying Toilet said:

Crazy Fool said:

Holy crap. That road used to be much better before the second roundabout got put in with that stupid chicane meaning you had to slow down a lot more than normal. I can kind of see how it might have happened now.

Agreed, the chicane has done more harm that good. I have seen probably 10 crashes this year here and my Mrs mate got pushed onto the grass by a lorry on the 2nd roundabout my Land Rover a month or so ago. It goes to narrow really and lane markings confuse people.

Yes, the turn is a bit too tight to follow the markings properly unless you really crawl round.
Lots of people cut the corner a bit.

[NobleGuy]

I'm not sure. I've been past it 3 times now and there are no impact marks at all on the roundabout on either side, which as wildbean says, made me conclude on the way to work today that he (hit the kerbing hard?) flew right over the roundabout. There's an arrow sign on the roundabout that is half hanging off which also would indicate he clipped it while airborn as there's no damage to the parts of the sing in the ground.

It's possible something broke on the car so I wouldn't like to comment on how it all began.
What gets me is the lack of evidence around the scene that anything happened at all. No debris, no road damage, no barrier damage. Scary. Like it never happened....

[NobleGuy]

Just been looking through the topic and realised how often I've posted. Think I'm actually a bit shaken by it. Still feeling gutted for a guy that I've only ever seen two or three times through my back windscreen, which is weird.