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Written off in a small village in the east of the Neterlands. Passengers are OK(ish). Light injuries.
Written off in a small village in the east of the Neterlands. Passengers are OK(ish). Light injuries.
NAS said:
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Written off in a small village in the east of the Neterlands. Passengers are OK(ish). Light injuries.
There bloody lucky judging by the state of that !!!!!
Considering that the car is made of biscuits and shortbread I think that picture shows how bloody clever the Porsche engineers are - and how bloody lucky the passengers were to be in a Porsche.
Despite the car flying to bits it would appear that the passenger cabin is in remarkably good shape. Quite something to have built such an effective safety cell in such a low volume, high-tech vehicle.
Despite the car flying to bits it would appear that the passenger cabin is in remarkably good shape. Quite something to have built such an effective safety cell in such a low volume, high-tech vehicle.
Given the value of those things, it might be worth considering a rebuild!!! Not sure you'd get a catD on it though.
Looking at the pics I couldn't really work out what had happened. The front half obviously stoved into the tree in the end. But the rear section is in the middle of the road not far away. So at what point did it break in two, and why? The force needed to split the cockpit would suggest it happened at high speed, yet the front has not hit the tree with too much force. I'm guessing that it split in half quite a way back, but both sections came to a halt within yards of each other???
Looking at the pics I couldn't really work out what had happened. The front half obviously stoved into the tree in the end. But the rear section is in the middle of the road not far away. So at what point did it break in two, and why? The force needed to split the cockpit would suggest it happened at high speed, yet the front has not hit the tree with too much force. I'm guessing that it split in half quite a way back, but both sections came to a halt within yards of each other???
Yeah I noticed that two trees had been hit, but they are so close together that I found it a bit difficult to believe that a car could hit the first one with so much force/speed it would break it in two, and yet still come to rest so near by.
Surely to do that much damage to a car it would have to be going REALLY fast, in which case it should travel a good way before stopping. My guess is the initial accident/impact was way up the road from the trees in the pics.
Surely to do that much damage to a car it would have to be going REALLY fast, in which case it should travel a good way before stopping. My guess is the initial accident/impact was way up the road from the trees in the pics.
a993lad said:
Perhaps we should contact the occupants of the car. They might have recorded some great cockpit video on their mobile phones!!
You may well have hit the nail on the head, given the arrow straight nature of the road they were on, they must have been pratting about with something. Or being the netherlands
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The South African woman who drove it was 'heavily' injured. Pax very light injuries.
Wasn't their car, a fellow guest of a hotel they were staying at tossed them the keys for a quick test-drive.
http://home.hccnet.nl/rm.de.nijs/carreragt.jpg
The South African woman who drove it was 'heavily' injured. Pax very light injuries.
Wasn't their car, a fellow guest of a hotel they were staying at tossed them the keys for a quick test-drive.
Translating...in my bad Dutch.....she was cut out of the car by the local fire-brigade, and went to hospital, her passenger, a Belgian man, walked away with minor injuries.
The owner was a Swiss gent who gave them the keys for a test drive....the engine ended up going beyond the rest of the car, which was 'stopped' by the second tree!!
Wonder if it was insured for 'all drivers'?
The owner was a Swiss gent who gave them the keys for a test drive....the engine ended up going beyond the rest of the car, which was 'stopped' by the second tree!!
Wonder if it was insured for 'all drivers'?
Andrew D said:
I wonder in what condition the occupants would have been had it been a Zonda (which is of comparable cost)...
Just goes to show the difference between kit cars and supercars.
There were some pictures on the forum a while back of a stacked Zonda. And yes, it wasn't pretty, and no, the driver didn't survive.
Still my absolute dream car though...!
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