Show us your crash pics!!

[evil.edna]

Stick Legs said:

Steep hill.
First rain in weeks.
1/4 ton of soil in the back.

I was doing about 15-20.
XC90 came the other way.

Hit the brakes & ABS just chattered.
Realised I wasn’t going to stop so decided to nose into the hedge rather than hit her.

My Ranger climbed the bank the rolled on to her bonnet.

Rather embarrassingly the attending police officer was a girl I quite liked from school, but in my pre-occupied state failed to recognise her even when she prompted me.

Not a good morning.



Sold it to a mate who managed to straighten the roof & A pillar, got a screen in & tidied up the rest.

Then it blew it’s head gasket & it turned out to be full of K-Seal after all.

Yes, yes.............but did you get her number?

[Byker28i]

Krikkit said:

Absolutely gutting, what a lovely car. Did you manage to catch up with the BMW owner to claim on insurance? Any Police involvement?

Nope to both, witness stopped to help us but didn't get reg number, and police weren't interested. Farmer came and pulled it out with his tractor and was most upset about his fence... it was him that called the police on me for damaging it...

[rampageturke]

evil.edna said:

Yes, yes.............but did you get her number?

999?

[Sir Bagalot]

Byker28i said:

I thought the nearside wing had plenty filler.... until I saw the offside!!

[Stick Legs]

rampageturke said:

evil.edna said:

Yes, yes.............but did you get her number?

999?

[airsafari87]

Crashed my road bike at the Devils Elbow a Mallory Park back in May this year.

[Castrol for a knave]

The Wookie said:

scs1 said:

Going back quite a few years.
This 2.8 injection Capri was spotted at my local Ford dealer,
Apparently the driver lost control at high speed on the motorway and ended up slamming into a concrete bridge support backwards.
Amazingly he survived.

Scrapi?

No

With the current old Ford market, that will be in the Silverstone auction next month, and sell for twenty grand.

[Spydaman]

Heisenberg in his BMW ran into the back of my Karmann Ghia the day the restoration was finished. Doesn't look much but would have been £25k to repair as a NOS wing was £2.5k and rear panel £1k so it was written off. I bought it back off the insurance and sold it to a chap who was going to repair it himself. He got it straight and ready for paint when his workshop burnt down taking the KG and others with it. It had been crashed the other side before I bought it which probably wrote it off too. I didn't have agreed value insurance either.

[E63eeeeee...]

That must have been utterly gutting, but it does sound a bit like the car was cursed.

[Spydaman]

Yes it was distressing at the time but the insurance paid market value plus a bit of personal injury and now I’ve got this.

[url|https://thumbsnap.com/HKF2UmZy[/url]

[seabod91]

Spydaman said:

Heisenberg in his BMW ran into the back of my Karmann Ghia the day the restoration was finished. Doesn't look much but would have been £25k to repair as a NOS wing was £2.5k and rear panel £1k so it was written off. I bought it back off the insurance and sold it to a chap who was going to repair it himself. He got it straight and ready for paint when his workshop burnt down taking the KG and others with it. It had been crashed the other side before I bought it which probably wrote it off too. I didn't have agreed value insurance either.

The expression from your wife ?, says it all.

[The Wookie]

Spydaman said:

Heisenberg in his BMW ran into the back of my Karmann Ghia the day the restoration was finished. Doesn't look much but would have been £25k to repair as a NOS wing was £2.5k and rear panel £1k so it was written off. I bought it back off the insurance and sold it to a chap who was going to repair it himself. He got it straight and ready for paint when his workshop burnt down taking the KG and others with it. It had been crashed the other side before I bought it which probably wrote it off too. I didn't have agreed value insurance either.

Nightmare.

I'd love to know what his excuse was for not being able to outbrake a 1960's car

[Frimley111R]

On the day the restoration was finished!! Gutting!!!

[shoestring7]

The Wookie said:

Spydaman said:

Heisenberg in his BMW ran into the back of my Karmann Ghia the day the restoration was finished. Doesn't look much but would have been £25k to repair as a NOS wing was £2.5k and rear panel £1k so it was written off. I bought it back off the insurance and sold it to a chap who was going to repair it himself. He got it straight and ready for paint when his workshop burnt down taking the KG and others with it. It had been crashed the other side before I bought it which probably wrote it off too. I didn't have agreed value insurance either.

Nightmare.

I'd love to know what his excuse was for not being able to outbrake a 1960's car

It's not possible to be certain, but principally he was expecting a quantum improvement in his car's mechanics.

[ChocolateFrog]

Fermit said:

I worried I was going to be here last night. M1, near Leicester last night, clear traffic, 80ish MPH (awaits our Brake members....) lane 4 just overtook a car. Suddenly a gust caught the back end of the car (which must be 1.7 tonnes?) and pushed the car diagonally to near 45 degrees. For a second or two my forward view was of the central reservation, and I really thought I was about to have a big one. Straightened up after (probably) a far smaller unit of time than it felt, but it woke me up somewhat!

Wind blew your car 45 degrees?

Nah, not having that.

That came across a bit tttish. But if wind alone was capable of doing that then every HGV in the country would be on its side.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Tuesday 30th November 09:57

[ChocolateFrog]

Stick Legs said:

Steep hill.
First rain in weeks.
1/4 ton of soil in the back.

I was doing about 15-20.
XC90 came the other way.

Hit the brakes & ABS just chattered.
Realised I wasn’t going to stop so decided to nose into the hedge rather than hit her.

My Ranger climbed the bank the rolled on to her bonnet.

Rather embarrassingly the attending police officer was a girl I quite liked from school, but in my pre-occupied state failed to recognise her even when she prompted me.

Not a good morning.



Sold it to a mate who managed to straighten the roof & A pillar, got a screen in & tidied up the rest.

Then it blew it’s head gasket & it turned out to be full of K-Seal after all.

I thought you were going to say you were the XC90 driver and a lunatic in a pickup with the contents of his most recent grow still in the bed came barrelling into you.

[Fermit]

ChocolateFrog said:

Fermit said:

I worried I was going to be here last night. M1, near Leicester last night, clear traffic, 80ish MPH (awaits our Brake members....) lane 4 just overtook a car. Suddenly a gust caught the back end of the car (which must be 1.7 tonnes?) and pushed the car diagonally to near 45 degrees. For a second or two my forward view was of the central reservation, and I really thought I was about to have a big one. Straightened up after (probably) a far smaller unit of time than it felt, but it woke me up somewhat!

Wind blew your car 45 degrees?

Nah, not having that.

That came across a bit tttish. But if wind alone was capable of doing that then every HGV in the country would be on its side.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Tuesday 30th November 09:57

You don't have to believe me, but I was briefly looking at the armco. And there was many a HGV being blown about all over the place. I made sure whenever I had to overtake one to do so as quickly as possible for this very reason!

[Byker28i]

Sir Bagalot said:

Byker28i said:

I thought the nearside wing had plenty filler.... until I saw the offside!!

It was an old Capri - what did you expect

Typically, two new wings were in the garage waiting to be fitted...

[Byker28i]

Fermit said:

ChocolateFrog said:

Fermit said:

I worried I was going to be here last night. M1, near Leicester last night, clear traffic, 80ish MPH (awaits our Brake members....) lane 4 just overtook a car. Suddenly a gust caught the back end of the car (which must be 1.7 tonnes?) and pushed the car diagonally to near 45 degrees. For a second or two my forward view was of the central reservation, and I really thought I was about to have a big one. Straightened up after (probably) a far smaller unit of time than it felt, but it woke me up somewhat!

Wind blew your car 45 degrees?

Nah, not having that.

That came across a bit tttish. But if wind alone was capable of doing that then every HGV in the country would be on its side.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Tuesday 30th November 09:57

You don't have to believe me, but I was briefly looking at the armco. And there was many a HGV being blown about all over the place. I made sure whenever I had to overtake one to do so as quickly as possible for this very reason!

M6 seems to always feature heavily with HGV's blown on their sides, and there's a reason they shut/restrict the severn crossings

[dibblecorse]

A slightly different one for the thread, thats me and my bike at opposite sides of the circuit, highside out of Turn 2 at Valencia !!!!

The camera was attached to a piece of the bike that got separated from the rest of it !!!