I wonder what happened here then?
I wonder what happened here then?
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onyx39

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11,349 posts

179 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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Passed the accident last night on the way home from the pub, Bib Looked like they had just arrived.
Accident was 100 metres or so away from Rackstraws heading towards Tesco.
Car was there this morning when I left for Goodwood at silly oclock
Odd for someone to "lose it" on a dead straight bit of dry road?


Landshark

2,117 posts

210 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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You'd be surprised where people can lose it!!!

bigdom

2,357 posts

174 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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Maybe the sheer power of the MX5 just caught them out?

Planet Claire

3,416 posts

238 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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I don't recognise it as any of my local meet members. Wonder if they were coming from Little Sandhurst direction, turning right at the lights and were going a bit too quick?

MX-5 Lazza

7,954 posts

248 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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I wouldn't mind that boot spoiler. Is it still there wink

driverrob

4,847 posts

232 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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At 11:45 it was being towed towards Camberley when the truck driver pulled up on to the grass verge with it, before they'd even got as far as M&S !

Planet Claire

3,416 posts

238 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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MX-5 Lazza said:
I wouldn't mind that boot spoiler. Is it still there wink
I thought the same, although I could do with the wheels to practice polishing them up!

BlackCup

1,235 posts

212 months

Thursday 11th July 2013
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Planet Claire said:
I thought the same, although I could do with the wheels to practice polishing them up!
Haha picking the bones and the engines not even cold yet haha

Frimley111R

19,140 posts

263 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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onyx39 said:
Odd for someone to "lose it" on a dead straight bit of dry road?
Yes but they do. I watched a woman crash on the M3, all on her own, they are some seriously stupid people out there.

BlackCup

1,235 posts

212 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Yep, just come back from near St Peter's by the Christmas tree farm leading to the Harvester, our lane full with traffic from the M25, the two lanes coming the other way flowing freely and then i see a mini hammering it past us from our lane using middle lane the wrong way cutting back in when a car is on coming! Mental!

pewe

685 posts

248 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Not us, though we were also out a silly o'clock on our way to Goodwood.
Anyway who drives with the roof up at the moment??
Maybe too much right foot v driving ability?
No doubt we'll find out when parts come up on fleabay or ANOther well known site.
Be careful out there.
Cheers, Pewe.

Edited by pewe on Friday 12th July 12:08


Edited by pewe on Friday 12th July 16:27

msmith0592

303 posts

173 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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It could be a merging issue judging by the sign on the post.

David A

3,724 posts

280 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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Where is it? Just off the cross roads?

If so, I've seen an S2000 almost identically to that a few months back! It could be the bump mid crossroads that sent them wobbly if it was there.

omgus

7,305 posts

204 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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If it is past the traffic lights heading towards the meadows then i can say that if you are in the outside lane and doing a little more than twice the speed limit through the lights then there used to be a bump there that would make my MR2 really, really fking scarily unsettled a little twitchy, but i never really notice it now (could be a combo of either the car or much, much less speed)

Skaffen

514 posts

237 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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msmith0592 said:
It could be a merging issue judging by the sign on the post.
Merging with a lamp post never works out well

driverrob

4,847 posts

232 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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David A said:
Where is it? Just off the cross roads?

If so, I've seen an S2000 almost identically to that a few months back! It could be the bump mid crossroads that sent them wobbly if it was there.
Or possibly an over-enthusiastic right turn from the Sandhurst direction?

PK42

250 posts

166 months

Friday 12th July 2013
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There is quite a ridge as you go over the lights there heading towards the meadows and if you are going at a few leptons over the limit the car can bounce quite a bit and the front become very light (allegedly). Being a boring Mondeo driver I wouldnt know of course wink