Turning a car over.
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How do morons manage to do this in everyday driving. I came past an accident that must have happened about 4.30 this afternoon. Car was on its side at a set of lights in a village centre, always quite busy there so cant have picked up much speed, lots of kids about as well as a couple of secondary schools nearby.
I couldn't see any other vehicles involved but didn't want to be one of those plebs who holds everyone else up whilst having a good gawp, it didn't even seem that badly damaged and if you were to right it, it would be sat perfectly at the lights again.
So come on, spill the beans, how is it possible that the driving public end up getting into such bizzare situations. I have to drive past the Trafford Centre quite a lot and from this time onwards right up until Christmas there is a bump on the M60 virtually every evening rush hour. The mind boggles.
This is a link to the junction
http://goo.gl/maps/K5zvJ
The car was on its side about where the right turn arrow is.
I couldn't see any other vehicles involved but didn't want to be one of those plebs who holds everyone else up whilst having a good gawp, it didn't even seem that badly damaged and if you were to right it, it would be sat perfectly at the lights again.
So come on, spill the beans, how is it possible that the driving public end up getting into such bizzare situations. I have to drive past the Trafford Centre quite a lot and from this time onwards right up until Christmas there is a bump on the M60 virtually every evening rush hour. The mind boggles.
This is a link to the junction
http://goo.gl/maps/K5zvJ
The car was on its side about where the right turn arrow is.
My neighbour was telling us she and her daughter ended up upside down the other week, an 84 year old woman caught her on a roundabout and pushed her into the kerb and the car went over, easy to do, so it is probably not worth getting cocky about it until you have hung up your keys.
I do however agree that some accidents seem to be due to utter cretins. That Trafford centre section is dicey, I was going over there on my commute and it all went a bit "Days of Thunder", cars spinning and piling into the back of others, I somehow managed to brake and avoid any collision, luck rather than skill.
I do however agree that some accidents seem to be due to utter cretins. That Trafford centre section is dicey, I was going over there on my commute and it all went a bit "Days of Thunder", cars spinning and piling into the back of others, I somehow managed to brake and avoid any collision, luck rather than skill.
I rolled a 1994 Honda Civic SIR imported from Japan a couple of months earlier.
I knew a rear brake was binding and had it booked in but had to go to York hospital as a family member was ill.
Going pretty quickly, damp road I overtook a Micra then approached a left hand bend. my mind not with it and having slowed to approx 50mph, the back stepped out I steered into it and accelerated to pull me straight but there was no power at all (in 5th)Should of been in 2nd/ 3rd. I got around the bend still looking out my door window and carried on about 40 meters up the straight before it touched the grass on the left got grip and put me into the army barracks concrete fence post (barbed wire above)
My speed had mostly scrubbed off but somehow it flipped me and I ended up in some bramble bushes upside down, stuck in my seat by the seatbelt.
I had taken out 3 posts and the barbed wire just drooped to the grass.
I crawled out and saw the Micra drive past, oblivious to me in the bushes in the army barracks.
I was cut, covered in thorns and had glass in my ear.
I felt a right tit
Insurance paid me out just £5300, and I had paid £7000 for it and fitted new alloys
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Strensall+Camp,+Yo...
I knew a rear brake was binding and had it booked in but had to go to York hospital as a family member was ill.
Going pretty quickly, damp road I overtook a Micra then approached a left hand bend. my mind not with it and having slowed to approx 50mph, the back stepped out I steered into it and accelerated to pull me straight but there was no power at all (in 5th)Should of been in 2nd/ 3rd. I got around the bend still looking out my door window and carried on about 40 meters up the straight before it touched the grass on the left got grip and put me into the army barracks concrete fence post (barbed wire above)
My speed had mostly scrubbed off but somehow it flipped me and I ended up in some bramble bushes upside down, stuck in my seat by the seatbelt.
I had taken out 3 posts and the barbed wire just drooped to the grass.
I crawled out and saw the Micra drive past, oblivious to me in the bushes in the army barracks.
I was cut, covered in thorns and had glass in my ear.
I felt a right tit
Insurance paid me out just £5300, and I had paid £7000 for it and fitted new alloys
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Strensall+Camp,+Yo...
Edited by nottyash on Tuesday 20th November 23:07
Edited by nottyash on Tuesday 20th November 23:08
A mate rolled his 106 gti on the way to Donny south many years ago when I used to frequent these events. Nearly at Essex on a 3 lane motorway in the fast lane as a convoy. Some Muppet pulled into his lane.Seen him brake and swerve in my rear view mirror and then as if it was on a wire it just up and disappeared only to land on its roof and roll across 3 lanes up an embankment through some trees and back down again landing on its roof in the hard shoulder.
Running back to the car I was bricking it as the car was properly smashed. He got out with cuts and bruises and a branch sticking out his arm.
Got crash of the month in redline.
Then. In a twist of events. His insurance had been canceled the day before due to a missed payment and he shouldn't of been driving on the motorway as only had a provisional licence (had some one in with him though and forgot to switch back over for the motorway bit).
Another one of us in the convoy got clipped by him rolling past and then hit the central reservation. Muppet who'd caused it also had some small damage.
Said friend with us blamed our mate after he went and got a personal injury solicitor.
Mate got massive fines and banned for years.
But yeah. Easy to roll. Another mate slid into a curb on a off camber greasy road at low speed and rolled in to a field. Ran back several miles to ring us at another mates (before everyone had mobiles) asked him if his lass was ok who was in the car and he just shouted s
t and hung up. Drove through the find him just getting back to his upside down fiesta and helping his lass out of the car. He'd forgot about her and just ran to the payphone .
Running back to the car I was bricking it as the car was properly smashed. He got out with cuts and bruises and a branch sticking out his arm.
Got crash of the month in redline.
Then. In a twist of events. His insurance had been canceled the day before due to a missed payment and he shouldn't of been driving on the motorway as only had a provisional licence (had some one in with him though and forgot to switch back over for the motorway bit).
Another one of us in the convoy got clipped by him rolling past and then hit the central reservation. Muppet who'd caused it also had some small damage.
Said friend with us blamed our mate after he went and got a personal injury solicitor.
Mate got massive fines and banned for years.
But yeah. Easy to roll. Another mate slid into a curb on a off camber greasy road at low speed and rolled in to a field. Ran back several miles to ring us at another mates (before everyone had mobiles) asked him if his lass was ok who was in the car and he just shouted s
t and hung up. Drove through the find him just getting back to his upside down fiesta and helping his lass out of the car. He'd forgot about her and just ran to the payphone .Its not the rolling over either, its just frightening the amount of near misses and actual crashes I see practically every day. Just the other week 2 cars in front of me, front one brakes for no apparent reason, girl behind brakes late and goes right up the chuff, nothing serious but such a fiscal changing experience, I on the other hand was no where near as I was paying attention.
I hate to sound like a sanctimonious tt but I dont come close to having a crash year in year out. The nearest was locking up a van on the M6 a few years ago and stopping a couple of feet short. Although I did run up the arse of a brand new Cavalier when I was 18 as I was looking at a lady on the other side of the road at the time, but thats it. It just taxes my brain when I happen to come across some kind of stupid accident and think what the fk were they thinking to end up like that.
I hate to sound like a sanctimonious t
t but I dont come close to having a crash year in year out. The nearest was locking up a van on the M6 a few years ago and stopping a couple of feet short. Although I did run up the arse of a brand new Cavalier when I was 18 as I was looking at a lady on the other side of the road at the time, but thats it. It just taxes my brain when I happen to come across some kind of stupid accident and think what the fk were they thinking to end up like that.Driving into Paris in September, the autoroute came to an abrupt stop and then i spent the next hour crawling another half mile to the accident
3 cars spread across the outer lane, all on their roofs.
Pretty messy TBH, the pompiers were trying resus on a couple of people they pulled from the cars.
How all 3 managed it on a straight piece of 4 lane autoroute is beyond me. No other cars looked to be involved either.
3 cars spread across the outer lane, all on their roofs.
Pretty messy TBH, the pompiers were trying resus on a couple of people they pulled from the cars.
How all 3 managed it on a straight piece of 4 lane autoroute is beyond me. No other cars looked to be involved either.
Went to a party a few months back and i drove there and we all stopped at a tesco on the way to pick up some booze. There in the tesco petrol station was a brand new red astra on its roof. With absolutely no evidence to show how it happened.
Picture Imagine this if you will, no cars and just a bemused shop worker in a high vis jacket standing next to the car roughly where where the small white and blue sign is sitting.
Picture Imagine this if you will, no cars and just a bemused shop worker in a high vis jacket standing next to the car roughly where where the small white and blue sign is sitting.
some tit managed it at my college, after he borrowed his dads Twingo and went the wrong way around a very cambered roundabout at (witnesses say) 40-50MPH, went on 2 wheels and hit a curb. straight on its roof.
the prick actually did this right in the middle of college, next to an area where people congregate outside the shop, missing 2 people by less that 4ft, as well as being 4 up in the car. Very stupid boy.
His parents replaced the twingo with a new clio for him. He has written off 3 cars.
the prick actually did this right in the middle of college, next to an area where people congregate outside the shop, missing 2 people by less that 4ft, as well as being 4 up in the car. Very stupid boy.
His parents replaced the twingo with a new clio for him. He has written off 3 cars.
My son rolled his mothers R12 Renault many years ago.
She is one of these people who only puts petrol into a car, never oil water, or air in the tyres.
She'd let him take her car, when his was in bits. He had lost it going around a down hill 90 degree bend on a minor back road, so he couldn't have been going that quick.
He'd got off the road sideways, on the grass shoulder, on the right hand side. By the amount of grass & twigs driven up between the tyre & the rim, I'd say the tyres were very low, which probably started the problem.
It must have been almost stopped when it fell over, as there were no scuff marks on the thing.
Fortunately it was near home. We went over when he rang, pushed the thing back onto it's wheels, hit the key, & it started, if only on 3 cylinders, & drove it home.
The only real damage was a cracked windscreen & to my sons pride. After cleaning the sump oil out of the carb, I left her driving it for a few days with the cracked screen, hoping it would make service her cars better in future. It didn't.
Sons driving did not improve either, but he does keep his cars well serviced.
She is one of these people who only puts petrol into a car, never oil water, or air in the tyres.
She'd let him take her car, when his was in bits. He had lost it going around a down hill 90 degree bend on a minor back road, so he couldn't have been going that quick.
He'd got off the road sideways, on the grass shoulder, on the right hand side. By the amount of grass & twigs driven up between the tyre & the rim, I'd say the tyres were very low, which probably started the problem.
It must have been almost stopped when it fell over, as there were no scuff marks on the thing.
Fortunately it was near home. We went over when he rang, pushed the thing back onto it's wheels, hit the key, & it started, if only on 3 cylinders, & drove it home.
The only real damage was a cracked windscreen & to my sons pride. After cleaning the sump oil out of the carb, I left her driving it for a few days with the cracked screen, hoping it would make service her cars better in future. It didn't.
Sons driving did not improve either, but he does keep his cars well serviced.
My wife rolled my Volvo 240 estate a while back. She had our three kids in the back, and her mum in the front passenger seat. She did a 180 coming out of a roundabout and flipped the car over the central divide of a dual carriage-way.
I loved that car...
It was a Volvo, no one was hurt.
I loved that car...
It was a Volvo, no one was hurt.
Not that difficult. There's a lot of energy in a one ton car moving at 30mph. Try taking your car out of gear and letting it freewheel. From 30 mph on a flat road it will keep going for ages. Imagine the energy required to push it that far. Easily enough to turn it over if you hit the right object at the right angle.
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