Monkey crashes Porsche
Discussion
Pericoloso said:
Welshbeef's wrong explanation of how he got the monkey nickname remains though.
How do you know someone pressed report ,was there a "thread prune" ?
It was mentioned in the Crap Driving on Cam thread. Straight from the Tarse's mouth:How do you know someone pressed report ,was there a "thread prune" ?
Shaw Tarse said:
Thank you to the person who alerted the mods to this, but Monkey is the presenter's nickname & not "racist slang"
Pericoloso said:
Cold said:
Oh, and a shout out to the person who reported "Monkey" to the PH mods as being racist slang! 
Welshbeef's wrong explanation of how he got the monkey nickname remains though.How do you know someone pressed report ,was there a "thread prune" ?
julian64 said:
p1stonhead said:
98elise said:
MollyGT3 said:
Chris H knows that area particularly well so unlikely to be him in the wrong. Then again, they say you should be particularly careful closest to home 
You should be able to stop in the distance you can see. If not you're going to hit something or someone at some point. Police apparently disagree though;
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqHL6pBHLhk/
To say the accident was unavoidable is just bonkers and shows a complete lack of road awareness.
Round my way its not uncommon to find a horse and horse rider round a bend. You can't just crash into horses and say. Unavoidable because the horse was In the middle of the road.
If the police weren't interested in him then they thought his driving was of a reasonable standard, but to be honest if the other car was a film car and he was doing some sort of video then he needs to reassess where his concentration was, cos that's no better than being on a mobile from the point of view of distraction.
If I car doing a U turn round a bend is unavoidable I suggest he never drives in London, else he is likely to rear end the second or third Taxi he meets.
I assume the police cleared him from most of that so good luck to him, but stop saying unavoidable.
I had an horrific near miss which makes me feel faint just thinking about it. Sweeping NSL road, 1 mile from home (always seems to be riskier close to home apparently). There are several such corners. As I rounded the final one - there were three numpties walking side-by-side dragging suitcases. On the other side - perfectly reasonably - was a car, positioned just at the right place to narrow the road. I remember thinking 's
t - give me something to work with here'.I ONLY JUST managed to stop. The stuff of nightmares. A crash between two cars - awful. Multiple pedestrians flying over the bonnet? Jail time, surely.
I was usually careful in such circumstances, but we all make mistakes. F**k am I careful now.
clarki said:
From what little i've seen of Chris Harris (Top Gear mainly) he does come across as someone who seems to want to drive at full speed everywhere to impress people. Most of us are like that, when we're 19.
Shame, looks like it was a nice Porsche.
What about Trevor Macdonald, do you think he starts every conversation with a headline when not working or do you think people might be different when not being paid to work in front of a camera?Shame, looks like it was a nice Porsche.
Caddyshack said:
What about Trevor Macdonald, do you think he starts every conversation with a headline when not working or do you think people might be different when not being paid to work in front of a camera?
Tonight, for dinner......
>*dong*
Edited by xjay1337 on Wednesday 14th November 10:24
xjay1337 said:
Caddyshack said:
What about Trevor Macdonald, do you think he starts every conversation with a headline when not working or do you think people might be different when not being paid to work in front of a camera?
Tonight, for dinner......
- dong*
swisstoni said:
xjay1337 said:
Caddyshack said:
What about Trevor Macdonald, do you think he starts every conversation with a headline when not working or do you think people might be different when not being paid to work in front of a camera?
Tonight, for dinner......
- dong*
Caddyshack said:
clarki said:
From what little i've seen of Chris Harris (Top Gear mainly) he does come across as someone who seems to want to drive at full speed everywhere to impress people. Most of us are like that, when we're 19.
Shame, looks like it was a nice Porsche.
What about Trevor Macdonald, do you think he starts every conversation with a headline when not working or do you think people might be different when not being paid to work in front of a camera?Shame, looks like it was a nice Porsche.
Although it wouldn't be very PH if we didn't assume everything.
Leonard Stanley said:
julian64 said:
p1stonhead said:
98elise said:
MollyGT3 said:
Chris H knows that area particularly well so unlikely to be him in the wrong. Then again, they say you should be particularly careful closest to home
You should be able to stop in the distance you can see. If not you're going to hit something or someone at some point. Police apparently disagree though;
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqHL6pBHLhk/
To say the accident was unavoidable is just bonkers and shows a complete lack of road awareness.
Round my way its not uncommon to find a horse and horse rider round a bend. You can't just crash into horses and say. Unavoidable because the horse was In the middle of the road.
If the police weren't interested in him then they thought his driving was of a reasonable standard, but to be honest if the other car was a film car and he was doing some sort of video then he needs to reassess where his concentration was, cos that's no better than being on a mobile from the point of view of distraction.
If I car doing a U turn round a bend is unavoidable I suggest he never drives in London, else he is likely to rear end the second or third Taxi he meets.
I assume the police cleared him from most of that so good luck to him, but stop saying unavoidable.
I had an horrific near miss which makes me feel faint just thinking about it. Sweeping NSL road, 1 mile from home (always seems to be riskier close to home apparently). There are several such corners. As I rounded the final one - there were three numpties walking side-by-side dragging suitcases. On the other side - perfectly reasonably - was a car, positioned just at the right place to narrow the road. I remember thinking 's
t - give me something to work with here'.I ONLY JUST managed to stop. The stuff of nightmares. A crash between two cars - awful. Multiple pedestrians flying over the bonnet? Jail time, surely.
I was usually careful in such circumstances, but we all make mistakes. F**k am I careful now.
On the former many years ago I rounded a left hander on my bike on the way home from work to find a large flatbed truck filling my lane and a transit van coming the other way. I am still greatful to the van driver for pulling hard left which meant that I had the option to thread the needle between them rather than hit one of them or a stone wall. I clipped my right foot on the van's front bumper and bent the footrest, I had to lift my head up to avoid headbutting the side of the truck. It was close, the van driver could barely believe I hadn't come off.
Equus said:
Well, there was a thread a few months back where someone had hit a deer, on a straight, open road.
All I can say is that despite living in areas that are absolutely teeming with deer, badgers, foxes, wild boar, and the rest, I've yet to hit one, or even so much as a hedgehog or rabbit, in 30-odd years of driving. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky. Maybe I just drive with the care appropriate to the environment I'm driving in (you develop a '6th sense' for deer in particular). Take your pick.
Bizarrely, I think I did once hit a bat (or he hit me, not sure which - it was the roof, rather than the windscreen).
Sorry but you weren't driving the appropriate speed for the conditions if you weren't able to stop in time for a hazard, be it airborne, road or sea bound All I can say is that despite living in areas that are absolutely teeming with deer, badgers, foxes, wild boar, and the rest, I've yet to hit one, or even so much as a hedgehog or rabbit, in 30-odd years of driving. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky. Maybe I just drive with the care appropriate to the environment I'm driving in (you develop a '6th sense' for deer in particular). Take your pick.
Bizarrely, I think I did once hit a bat (or he hit me, not sure which - it was the roof, rather than the windscreen).
Kewy said:
Equus said:
Well, there was a thread a few months back where someone had hit a deer, on a straight, open road.
All I can say is that despite living in areas that are absolutely teeming with deer, badgers, foxes, wild boar, and the rest, I've yet to hit one, or even so much as a hedgehog or rabbit, in 30-odd years of driving. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky. Maybe I just drive with the care appropriate to the environment I'm driving in (you develop a '6th sense' for deer in particular). Take your pick.
Bizarrely, I think I did once hit a bat (or he hit me, not sure which - it was the roof, rather than the windscreen).
Sorry but you weren't driving the appropriate speed for the conditions if you weren't able to stop in time for a hazard, be it airborne, road or sea bound All I can say is that despite living in areas that are absolutely teeming with deer, badgers, foxes, wild boar, and the rest, I've yet to hit one, or even so much as a hedgehog or rabbit, in 30-odd years of driving. Maybe I'm incredibly lucky. Maybe I just drive with the care appropriate to the environment I'm driving in (you develop a '6th sense' for deer in particular). Take your pick.
Bizarrely, I think I did once hit a bat (or he hit me, not sure which - it was the roof, rather than the windscreen).
I've hit 2 deers.
Both cases I was driving well within the speed limit paying attention. Things happen, you can't or don't always react in time.
Unless you are a fighter pilot I would suggest you have just been lucky.
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