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The hesitant X-Trail driver could have just put their foot down instead of pausing when they'd realised they'd made a mistake.
I've seen similar before. That time the vehicle going around the roundabout was a motorcycle. Car driver pulls out onto roundabout then realises perhaps they should not have done and stops not leaving the motorcyclist many options.
I've seen similar before. That time the vehicle going around the roundabout was a motorcycle. Car driver pulls out onto roundabout then realises perhaps they should not have done and stops not leaving the motorcyclist many options.
Driver of this polo ignored a red x marker closing a lane on m60 slip road, went into the blind spot of my hgv to squeeze past broken down van, only 1 winner.
Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
Its Just Adz said:
Driver of this polo ignored a red x marker closing a lane on m60 slip road, went into the blind spot of my hgv to squeeze past broken down van, only 1 winner.
Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
To say it was going motorway speed that's held up very well. As recently as Saxo's and the like an impact of that nature would have trashed the car. Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
Its Just Adz said:
Driver of this polo ignored a red x marker closing a lane on m60 slip road, went into the blind spot of my hgv to squeeze past broken down van, only 1 winner.
Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people manage to crash into those massive, really obvious HGVs. Some people's awareness of HGV blindspots must be non-existent. Also comical how they try to either play chicken or bully an HGV, and simply come off worst because of the laws of physics. Lucky the impact wasn't a bit further back I think as I felt the truck lift up as it went over the wing.
Minimal damage to mine. Step is a bit loose and pulled part of metal ring around wheel nuts loose.
Muddle238 said:
It never ceases to amaze me how some people manage to crash into those massive, really obvious HGVs. Some people's awareness of HGV blindspots must be non-existent. Also comical how they try to either play chicken or bully an HGV, and simply come off worst because of the laws of physics.
I know, and mine is bright orange so it's pretty obvious! As for bullying, happens everyday, usually they realise it's a lot more difficult for me to move and they do.
I work mainly in Manchester though where driving standards seem to be awful.
Hit and run. Car was parked normally and from what I have found out since a Transit came around the T junction and tried to drive through the side of the car moving it up the road and across the pavement. Rear nearside wheel on the cock where it forced it across the kerb and car totally dead. Happened on a Sunday while we spent the day in the garden with the other car parked on the drive. Not a great start to a Monday morning which is when I found it.
Unfortunately no CCTV and police not interested. Luckily there can't have been anything parked behind it when it happened. Residential street, 30 limit, nice area hence no CCTV etc etc.
Unfortunately no CCTV and police not interested. Luckily there can't have been anything parked behind it when it happened. Residential street, 30 limit, nice area hence no CCTV etc etc.
Edited by StoatInACoat on Friday 26th April 11:07
Mr Tidy said:
Its Just Adz said:
Muddle238 said:
It never ceases to amaze me how some people manage to crash into those massive, really obvious HGVs. Some people's awareness of HGV blindspots must be non-existent. Also comical how they try to either play chicken or bully an HGV, and simply come off worst because of the laws of physics.
I know, and mine is bright orange so it's pretty obvious! As for bullying, happens everyday, usually they realise it's a lot more difficult for me to move and they do.
I work mainly in Manchester though where driving standards seem to be awful.
Plenty of clueless drivers down in the South East too.
Happened last year.
Van failed to give way at a junction and T boned me.
Three or four stitches in my head. Door had to be cut off as couldn't get out.
Bruised ribs from the seatbelt.
Driver of the van admitted fault and was given a driver improvement course rather than a prosecution (which i was happy with).
Van failed to give way at a junction and T boned me.
Three or four stitches in my head. Door had to be cut off as couldn't get out.
Bruised ribs from the seatbelt.
Driver of the van admitted fault and was given a driver improvement course rather than a prosecution (which i was happy with).
No Face said:
I don’t want to derail the thread or create an argument but I don’t think you can pin too much blame on the X-trail driver, I agree that without his mistake it wouldn’t have happened but if the Audi driver piles into the other Nissan it can only be their fault in my view. They were either coming in too fast, too close to the Nissan or not paying enough attention in my view. If the X trail wasn’t there and the other Nissan just stalled or something I think the same thing would have happened.
Anyway 10/10 for thread content as others have said.
I think 10/10 is a little generous. I'd go 9.5/10. To get 10/10 we really need an over head fish eye drone video too.Anyway 10/10 for thread content as others have said.
jingars said:
I have been pointed in the direction of this thread by a mate; surprised to find that my crash had been posted.
I bought the car in September 2007 and crashed it in August 2013. My son (13 at the time) and I were en route to a Lotus 7 Club handling day at Dunsfold. It was very early on a Saturday morning. I have no recollection of the accident, the build up to it, or the best part of a week after. No other vehicles were involved. I was told that the first vehicle on the scene was a van driver who parked up to protect our vehicle, the second was an off-duty nurse, the third an off-duty doctor. I was unconscious, but my son was awake and in considerable pain.
My son sustained multiple breaks to both legs, broken kneecaps and a ruptured spleen.
In the injury Top Trumps I prevailed, breaking every bone in both feet, both lower leg bones, my left femur, five ribs, “some” vertebrae, and a collapsed lung. In addition, I separated the muscles in my left shoulder. I think we should gloss over the damage done to my “gentlemen’s area” by the four point harness, but I am of the view that by keeping us in the vehicle they saved our lives.
Warwickshire police investigated and their conclusion was that we aquaplaned on standing water, hit the central reservation and dug in. No assessment of speed was given.
To try and summarise the recovery, the good news is that medical concerns over my son’s growth plates in his knees being adversely affected seems to have been avoided. He has had the poor form to get taller than me and has grown to 6’ 2” without any issues. He is coming to the end of his first year at a uni in Scotland and is greatly enjoying it, even taking up recreational running. He cannot ride a bike, though - his knees don't like the motion.
His two elder brothers went through a local under 17 driving scheme to prepare them for learning on the open road. He was adamant that he did not want to do the same – or even learn to drive. However, shortly after his 17th birthday (no doubt prompted by the fact that he had acquired a girlfriend...) he decided to take lessons. He has passed his test and I consider him to be a good driver; perhaps unsurprisingly he is very diligent and his scanning/risk assessment seems to be good for one so early in their driving career.
As Lotobear wrote, I lost my job. I remain very bitter about my treatment by my then employer. I was in hospital for three months, wheelchair bound for some time after that, then on crutches. I was out of work for a calendar year; I pushed too soon and I must have looked a wreck turning up to interviews on sticks. However, I am now starting my fifth year with a division of the Cox Automotive (aka) Manheim group, enjoying both the work and the colleagues I work with.
The staff at University Hospital in Coventry were terrific. My wife was – and still is – amazing.
I loved the Caterham and if I were a single man then I would have another one. My wife has told me that if I wish to be a single man, then all I have to do is tell her that I have ordered one.
Because this is Pistonheads, the story has to end with an MX5; bought a 59 plate Mk3 2.0 Sport PRHT as a family acceptable “proper” car with crumple zones, pre-tensioner seatbelts and airbags, which my wife loves and has nicked as her daily; I am not really in a position to argue as I will spend the rest of my time on this Earth in a negative equity brownie points scenario.
Fantastic news to hear I bought the car in September 2007 and crashed it in August 2013. My son (13 at the time) and I were en route to a Lotus 7 Club handling day at Dunsfold. It was very early on a Saturday morning. I have no recollection of the accident, the build up to it, or the best part of a week after. No other vehicles were involved. I was told that the first vehicle on the scene was a van driver who parked up to protect our vehicle, the second was an off-duty nurse, the third an off-duty doctor. I was unconscious, but my son was awake and in considerable pain.
My son sustained multiple breaks to both legs, broken kneecaps and a ruptured spleen.
In the injury Top Trumps I prevailed, breaking every bone in both feet, both lower leg bones, my left femur, five ribs, “some” vertebrae, and a collapsed lung. In addition, I separated the muscles in my left shoulder. I think we should gloss over the damage done to my “gentlemen’s area” by the four point harness, but I am of the view that by keeping us in the vehicle they saved our lives.
Warwickshire police investigated and their conclusion was that we aquaplaned on standing water, hit the central reservation and dug in. No assessment of speed was given.
To try and summarise the recovery, the good news is that medical concerns over my son’s growth plates in his knees being adversely affected seems to have been avoided. He has had the poor form to get taller than me and has grown to 6’ 2” without any issues. He is coming to the end of his first year at a uni in Scotland and is greatly enjoying it, even taking up recreational running. He cannot ride a bike, though - his knees don't like the motion.
His two elder brothers went through a local under 17 driving scheme to prepare them for learning on the open road. He was adamant that he did not want to do the same – or even learn to drive. However, shortly after his 17th birthday (no doubt prompted by the fact that he had acquired a girlfriend...) he decided to take lessons. He has passed his test and I consider him to be a good driver; perhaps unsurprisingly he is very diligent and his scanning/risk assessment seems to be good for one so early in their driving career.
As Lotobear wrote, I lost my job. I remain very bitter about my treatment by my then employer. I was in hospital for three months, wheelchair bound for some time after that, then on crutches. I was out of work for a calendar year; I pushed too soon and I must have looked a wreck turning up to interviews on sticks. However, I am now starting my fifth year with a division of the Cox Automotive (aka) Manheim group, enjoying both the work and the colleagues I work with.
The staff at University Hospital in Coventry were terrific. My wife was – and still is – amazing.
I loved the Caterham and if I were a single man then I would have another one. My wife has told me that if I wish to be a single man, then all I have to do is tell her that I have ordered one.
Because this is Pistonheads, the story has to end with an MX5; bought a 59 plate Mk3 2.0 Sport PRHT as a family acceptable “proper” car with crumple zones, pre-tensioner seatbelts and airbags, which my wife loves and has nicked as her daily; I am not really in a position to argue as I will spend the rest of my time on this Earth in a negative equity brownie points scenario.
Not my car, but I was involved in a crash with it last night!
I was in an artic truck, the car was behind me.
Very heavy rain, lots of spray and double white lines on a long bend going up hill. A truck is coming in the other direction, so I’m concentrating on him as usual so we don’t clip each other’s mirrors.
Unbeknown to me the car decided to over take me!
As our cabs became level with each other the car is now half way up the side of me, the spray is that bad I didn’t see it’s lights and am concentrating hard on seeing where I’m going, the truck and his lights in the rain. Suddenly a huge bang which lurched me sideways onto the verge, I try to correct it before it’s game over into the ditch, field, or worse on my side, as I’m a half loaded milk tanker which have no baffles.
I manage to keep it on the road with the trailer fishtailing behind me.
I stop not knowing what the hell has happened, obviously a crash, but no damage to my unit, just everything smashed under the trailer.
Every surface of my trailer has smashed glass on, even stuck to the wheel rim on the rear trailer wheel!
It turned out the car hit the other truck head on, ripped the trucks front wheel off, bounced off under my trailer, ripped one of my trailer tyres off, smashed my air tanks and everything down the side of the trailer, the bounced back under the other trailer. It ripped two of the three trailer axles off too!
By what I can only imagine is a miracle, two girls walked out of it with no injuries!!
It was a Renault. There wasn’t one single thing I could see on the car that wasn’t damaged, literally everything.
The engine was separate, doors peeled back, half a door card here, engine mount there, wiper stalks on the verge, very window gone.
Just a complete miracle.
The driver admitted trying to over take me. Unbelievable.
To add, the other truck driver then had no steering and said he was heading towards a huge tree, game over. By another miracle, the verge had soft deep soil which it dug into, he managed to stop with the tree trunk inches from his windscreen.
I was in an artic truck, the car was behind me.
Very heavy rain, lots of spray and double white lines on a long bend going up hill. A truck is coming in the other direction, so I’m concentrating on him as usual so we don’t clip each other’s mirrors.
Unbeknown to me the car decided to over take me!
As our cabs became level with each other the car is now half way up the side of me, the spray is that bad I didn’t see it’s lights and am concentrating hard on seeing where I’m going, the truck and his lights in the rain. Suddenly a huge bang which lurched me sideways onto the verge, I try to correct it before it’s game over into the ditch, field, or worse on my side, as I’m a half loaded milk tanker which have no baffles.
I manage to keep it on the road with the trailer fishtailing behind me.
I stop not knowing what the hell has happened, obviously a crash, but no damage to my unit, just everything smashed under the trailer.
Every surface of my trailer has smashed glass on, even stuck to the wheel rim on the rear trailer wheel!
It turned out the car hit the other truck head on, ripped the trucks front wheel off, bounced off under my trailer, ripped one of my trailer tyres off, smashed my air tanks and everything down the side of the trailer, the bounced back under the other trailer. It ripped two of the three trailer axles off too!
By what I can only imagine is a miracle, two girls walked out of it with no injuries!!
It was a Renault. There wasn’t one single thing I could see on the car that wasn’t damaged, literally everything.
The engine was separate, doors peeled back, half a door card here, engine mount there, wiper stalks on the verge, very window gone.
Just a complete miracle.
The driver admitted trying to over take me. Unbelievable.
To add, the other truck driver then had no steering and said he was heading towards a huge tree, game over. By another miracle, the verge had soft deep soil which it dug into, he managed to stop with the tree trunk inches from his windscreen.
Edited by Stussy on Friday 27th September 15:56
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