Anyone Crashed an Evo???
Discussion
I've just spent 3 months at Her Majesty's pleasure for an accident with the same culpability as this fellow, the difference being that an unfortunate motorist got hurt because of my crash. I don't think he realises how easily he could now be in my shoes.
Sadly I doubt this is going to be this chaps last accident...
Sadly I doubt this is going to be this chaps last accident...
10 Pence Short said:
I've just spent 3 months at Her Majesty's pleasure for an accident with the same culpability as this fellow, the difference being that an unfortunate motorist got hurt because of my crash. I don't think he realises how easily he could now be in my shoes.
Sadly I doubt this is going to be this chaps last accident...
3 months time or 3 month Ban??? Sadly I doubt this is going to be this chaps last accident...
Edited to add sorry for my ignorance and being nosey!
Edited by stevieb on Friday 24th August 12:52
3 months in prison. In short, I drove too quickly, lost control, a motorcyclist coming the other way had no chance and ended up with a paralysed arm.
I used to drive too quickly on the road. Like this chap I had plenty of quick driving experience, and after a while, you can become ignorant of the danger. Reading this reminds me in part of my attitude to the road before the accident.
You think because you know the roads, the car, you've got a racing licence, any number of on-road training courses and track days, that you are safe to drive at warp speed. It doesn't work like that.
As much as I love driving I'll never use a public road as a place to drive quickly again.
I used to drive too quickly on the road. Like this chap I had plenty of quick driving experience, and after a while, you can become ignorant of the danger. Reading this reminds me in part of my attitude to the road before the accident.
You think because you know the roads, the car, you've got a racing licence, any number of on-road training courses and track days, that you are safe to drive at warp speed. It doesn't work like that.
As much as I love driving I'll never use a public road as a place to drive quickly again.
screem said:
I still don't think it was 100% my fault.
The great (lucky) thing about driving is most mistakes aren't punished. You can drive round a corner too fast (not able to stop in the distance you can see to be clear) and 999/1000 times you'll be fine. But that one time there'll be a parked car, small child, dog, whatever in the road, and it'll all go wrong. You'll say "but I've done that hundreds of times before, stupid (car/child/dog)", when actually it's your fault. Most people never make the connection, and that's where you're failing. Most drivers are driving in the assumption/hope that it'll be a 999/1000 day, advanced drivers always assume it's a 1/1000 day.
I was brought up on Cars that really didn't go very quickly and didn't handle either(MkIII Cortinas, Capris,Viva's, Chevettes, Escorts, Victors etc...), not like todays cars. I like to think my driving experience over the last 24yrs and early experiecne of driving shite cars, including Banger Racing, Grasstracking,Amateur Rally's etc... actually helped me today to handle better more powerful and solid handling cars like my Scooby, which is well within my capabilities.
The trouble is a lot of youngsters are going into some very powerful cars with not much driving experience under their belts, and the enevitable happens. My car handles very well but like everything else it has it's limits and i know what they are. EVO's are awesome bits of kit and i really cannot see that someone would crash theirs in this way unless they were going really hell for leather and doing something very stupid for the 5hit to hit the fan in such a big way. I've seen EVO's under very heavy braking on bends and it never ceases to amaze me at just how stable they are under those conditions, where an ordinary car would have totally lost the plot killed it's occupants.
It seems to me genuinely like 'operator error' is the problem here, not the car that's at fault. Sorry Screem but you should get yourself a Viva or MkIII Cortina and start all over again
The trouble is a lot of youngsters are going into some very powerful cars with not much driving experience under their belts, and the enevitable happens. My car handles very well but like everything else it has it's limits and i know what they are. EVO's are awesome bits of kit and i really cannot see that someone would crash theirs in this way unless they were going really hell for leather and doing something very stupid for the 5hit to hit the fan in such a big way. I've seen EVO's under very heavy braking on bends and it never ceases to amaze me at just how stable they are under those conditions, where an ordinary car would have totally lost the plot killed it's occupants.
It seems to me genuinely like 'operator error' is the problem here, not the car that's at fault. Sorry Screem but you should get yourself a Viva or MkIII Cortina and start all over again
Edited by ScoobieWRX on Sunday 26th August 01:31
Evos seem to have this cache of being uncrashable. Frankly, that is rubbish. They are just another 4WD car, with a particularly clever 4wd system.
The 4wd only makes a difference whilst you are applying power. The rest of the time, smoothness and weight distribution play as big a part as in any other car.
The real problem IMO is that inexperienced drivers' hazard perception cannot keep up with the speeds that the car is capable of.
The 4wd only makes a difference whilst you are applying power. The rest of the time, smoothness and weight distribution play as big a part as in any other car.
The real problem IMO is that inexperienced drivers' hazard perception cannot keep up with the speeds that the car is capable of.
Gassing Station | Japanese Chat | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff