Show us your crash pics!!

[Caddyshack]

yanyan said:

Two of mine from my youth....

1979 - country road, black ice - travelling far too fast because, of course, at 19 years of age, nothing can stop me...



1983 - A74, torrential rain, blocked culvert, road flooded, car spun and hit the central reservation, leaped over that and came to a halt pointing south on the north bound carriageway...

On that mini I spotted:

Dunlop de novo tyres, I think they were one of the early run flats and had that “special” wheel finish.

[RogerDodgerSuperTodger]

AyBee said:

Slow said:

132m from first impact to stopping. Isn’t it something like 100-0 mph takes 150+ meters to stop at maximum braking. Your not braking while in mid air and glancing blows aren’t the same as a hard impact for slowing you down.

With the amount of damage to that van, and moving the Volvo, the impacts were harder than "glancing blows" and that was after hitting a couple of lamp posts.

And snapping a telegraph pole, at floor level.

A lot of energy going on there.

[seyre1972]

RogerDodgerSuperTodger said:

AyBee said:

Slow said:

132m from first impact to stopping. Isn’t it something like 100-0 mph takes 150+ meters to stop at maximum braking. Your not braking while in mid air and glancing blows aren’t the same as a hard impact for slowing you down.

With the amount of damage to that van, and moving the Volvo, the impacts were harder than "glancing blows" and that was after hitting a couple of lamp posts.

And snapping a telegraph pole, at floor level.

A lot of energy going on there.

Side on Video of Car hitting telephone pole - I'm sure all the "forensic experts" can extrapolate speed from this ....

[surveyor]

seyre1972 said:

RogerDodgerSuperTodger said:

AyBee said:

Slow said:

132m from first impact to stopping. Isn’t it something like 100-0 mph takes 150+ meters to stop at maximum braking. Your not braking while in mid air and glancing blows aren’t the same as a hard impact for slowing you down.

With the amount of damage to that van, and moving the Volvo, the impacts were harder than "glancing blows" and that was after hitting a couple of lamp posts.

And snapping a telegraph pole, at floor level.

A lot of energy going on there.

Side on Video of Car hitting telephone pole - I'm sure all the "forensic experts" can extrapolate speed from this ....

That was rather fast.

[Mammasaid]

surveyor said:

seyre1972 said:

RogerDodgerSuperTodger said:

AyBee said:

Slow said:

132m from first impact to stopping. Isn’t it something like 100-0 mph takes 150+ meters to stop at maximum braking. Your not braking while in mid air and glancing blows aren’t the same as a hard impact for slowing you down.

With the amount of damage to that van, and moving the Volvo, the impacts were harder than "glancing blows" and that was after hitting a couple of lamp posts.

And snapping a telegraph pole, at floor level.

A lot of energy going on there.

Side on Video of Car hitting telephone pole - I'm sure all the "forensic experts" can extrapolate speed from this ....

That was rather fast.

Rough back of fag packet Maths, it takes < 0.5 sec between passing the end of the house on the right and hitting the lamp-post.

it's ~20m between the 2, so that's 40m/s or 89mph....

[silentbrown]

surveyor said:

That was rather fast.

25FPS Video. Car moves ~3.7 m in two frames (80ms)

Roughly 46 metres/second, or 103MPH in old money.

[donkmeister]

seyre1972 said:

Yes - my thoughts are the lights were glancing blow/not enough to snap them off - just dislodge the top light fitting - drove by earlier - all had been chopped off (Stihl Saw by looks of things) @ about 5 feet tall. Telephone pole definitely snapped at clean off @ base as below



VIDEO

Not mine - so can’t/won’t post it up (yet) likely all part of the evidence they’ll use against the driver.

I know 3 of the houses directly impacted all have CCTV cameras - so likely no shortage as/when it becomes available.

Other Side of Village

Wednesday there was a fatal motorbike accident just down the road from my house.

Fatal Motorbike

So for this to happen 3 days afterwards beggars belief.

Edited by seyre1972 on Sunday 3rd July 12:07

Clearly your village needs lower speed limits, that'll stop this sort of thing.

[DodgyGeezer]

surveyor said:

seyre1972 said:

RogerDodgerSuperTodger said:

AyBee said:

Slow said:

132m from first impact to stopping. Isn’t it something like 100-0 mph takes 150+ meters to stop at maximum braking. Your not braking while in mid air and glancing blows aren’t the same as a hard impact for slowing you down.

With the amount of damage to that van, and moving the Volvo, the impacts were harder than "glancing blows" and that was after hitting a couple of lamp posts.

And snapping a telegraph pole, at floor level.

A lot of energy going on there.

Side on Video of Car hitting telephone pole - I'm sure all the "forensic experts" can extrapolate speed from this ....

That was rather fast.

interestingly I thought it would look faster...

[seyre1972]

donkmeister said:

seyre1972 said:

Yes - my thoughts are the lights were glancing blow/not enough to snap them off - just dislodge the top light fitting - drove by earlier - all had been chopped off (Stihl Saw by looks of things) @ about 5 feet tall. Telephone pole definitely snapped at clean off @ base as below



VIDEO

Not mine - so can’t/won’t post it up (yet) likely all part of the evidence they’ll use against the driver.

I know 3 of the houses directly impacted all have CCTV cameras - so likely no shortage as/when it becomes available.

Other Side of Village

Wednesday there was a fatal motorbike accident just down the road from my house.

Fatal Motorbike

So for this to happen 3 days afterwards beggars belief.

Edited by seyre1972 on Sunday 3rd July 12:07

Clearly your village needs lower speed limits, that'll stop this sort of thing.

Average speed cameras, speed bumps, traffic calming/chicanes ..... all of them - but unfortunately - you can't teach stupid !!

[Chunkychucky]

donkmeister said:

seyre1972 said:

Yes - my thoughts are the lights were glancing blow/not enough to snap them off - just dislodge the top light fitting - drove by earlier - all had been chopped off (Stihl Saw by looks of things) @ about 5 feet tall. Telephone pole definitely snapped at clean off @ base as below



VIDEO

Not mine - so can’t/won’t post it up (yet) likely all part of the evidence they’ll use against the driver.

I know 3 of the houses directly impacted all have CCTV cameras - so likely no shortage as/when it becomes available.

Other Side of Village

Wednesday there was a fatal motorbike accident just down the road from my house.

Fatal Motorbike

So for this to happen 3 days afterwards beggars belief.

Edited by seyre1972 on Sunday 3rd July 12:07

Clearly your village needs lower speed limits, that'll stop this sort of thing.

Brilliant

[Zener]

seyre1972 said:

donkmeister said:

seyre1972 said:

Yes - my thoughts are the lights were glancing blow/not enough to snap them off - just dislodge the top light fitting - drove by earlier - all had been chopped off (Stihl Saw by looks of things) @ about 5 feet tall. Telephone pole definitely snapped at clean off @ base as below



VIDEO

Not mine - so can’t/won’t post it up (yet) likely all part of the evidence they’ll use against the driver.

I know 3 of the houses directly impacted all have CCTV cameras - so likely no shortage as/when it becomes available.

Other Side of Village

Wednesday there was a fatal motorbike accident just down the road from my house.

Fatal Motorbike

So for this to happen 3 days afterwards beggars belief.

Edited by seyre1972 on Sunday 3rd July 12:07

Clearly your village needs lower speed limits, that'll stop this sort of thing.

Average speed cameras, speed bumps, traffic calming/chicanes ..... all of them - but unfortunately - you can't teach stupid !!

Indeed plus modern driving aids too heavily depended on in many cases IMO making drivers lapse and lazy in many cases too

[untakenname]

This looks to be footage of the impact with the van and Volvo.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/20256477.hurst-...

[Zarco]

PHZero said:

Jakg said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/vqk...

Jesus. That's quite an achievment. He must have had a good run up in his 1.3L 134BHP CLA180.

Future applications for insurance could be interesting.

fk me. That was massive.

[donkmeister]

Zener said:

seyre1972 said:

donkmeister said:

seyre1972 said:

Yes - my thoughts are the lights were glancing blow/not enough to snap them off - just dislodge the top light fitting - drove by earlier - all had been chopped off (Stihl Saw by looks of things) @ about 5 feet tall. Telephone pole definitely snapped at clean off @ base as below



VIDEO

Not mine - so can’t/won’t post it up (yet) likely all part of the evidence they’ll use against the driver.

I know 3 of the houses directly impacted all have CCTV cameras - so likely no shortage as/when it becomes available.

Other Side of Village

Wednesday there was a fatal motorbike accident just down the road from my house.

Fatal Motorbike

So for this to happen 3 days afterwards beggars belief.

Edited by seyre1972 on Sunday 3rd July 12:07

Clearly your village needs lower speed limits, that'll stop this sort of thing.

Average speed cameras, speed bumps, traffic calming/chicanes ..... all of them - but unfortunately - you can't teach stupid !!

Indeed plus modern driving aids too heavily depended on in many cases IMO making drivers lapse and lazy in many cases too

Yup. I bet the Merc driver was on cruise control as he did over a ton through the 30mph residential street.

[dajw]

July 2019.

Some drug crazed person of no fixed abode had stolen a tipper truck transit, and who were attempting to ram another transit van off the road. The tipper driver pushed the transit off the road and into my Vantage, which was hit with enough force to domino into my wife’s Golf R next to it. Nobody died which is a miracle. The driver of the tipper repeatedly smashed the now crashed transit against the nearby wall. Cars? They’re just things. Repairable in my case. It came back with fewer squeaks and rattles which is a bonus.

[Fermit]

dajw said:

July 2019.

Some drug crazed person of no fixed abode had stolen a tipper truck transit, and who were attempting to ram another transit van off the road. The tipper driver pushed the transit off the road and into my Vantage, which was hit with enough force to domino into my wife’s Golf R next to it. Nobody died which is a miracle. The driver of the tipper repeatedly smashed the now crashed transit against the nearby wall. Cars? They’re just things. Repairable in my case. It came back with fewer squeaks and rattles which is a bonus.

Utter aholes. I am surprised that wasn't written off mind.

[dudleybloke]

dajw said:

July 2019.

Some drug crazed person of no fixed abode had stolen a tipper truck transit, and who were attempting to ram another transit van off the road. The tipper driver pushed the transit off the road and into my Vantage, which was hit with enough force to domino into my wife’s Golf R next to it. Nobody died which is a miracle. The driver of the tipper repeatedly smashed the now crashed transit against the nearby wall. Cars? They’re just things. Repairable in my case. It came back with fewer squeaks and rattles which is a bonus.

Esox?

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[seyre1972]

Vantagemech.. said:

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Wow - the break displacement/forearm tissue shape looks horrendous - hope the ambulance gave you the good pain management stuff quickly !!

Hope its not too early to ask - but do you set off airport metal detectors now ? ….

Edited by seyre1972 on Tuesday 12th July 10:29

[paulguitar]

seyre1972 said:

Vantagemech.. said:

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Wow - the break displacement/forearm tissue shape looks horrendous - hope the ambulance gave you the good pain management stuff quickly !!

Hope its not too early to ask - but do you set off airport metal detectors now ? ….

Edited by seyre1972 on Tuesday 12th July 10:29

Neat looking job from the surgeon there.


I have an armful of plates and screws and don't set off airport security. I think it's because it's titanium.