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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Andy B on 27 December 2013, 20:05:30
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-25529589
Amazing that nobody was hurt! Was it a Lexus 4x4 ..... Rx? :-\
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Whoops a daisy :o
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bloody hell somebody was looking after them :ohttp://images.omegaowners.com/forum/smf2000/Smileys/oofstd/shocked.gif :o :o
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Very lucky. Horrific scene.
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Horrific :o :o
Reminds me of a cut n shut :-\
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:o :o
Very lucky indeed
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Anyone have a guess as to what the car was?
My guess is a Lexus Rx 4x4 :-\
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Horrific :o :o
Reminds me of a cut n shut :-\
I thought the same. :y
Having said that I saw a 5.3 V12 Jag in 1978 that hit a a big lamppost on a dual carriageway, while being chased by the police at around 130mph - in the wet. It looked like someone had chopped through it with a giant machete. The front half was 100 yards from the lamppost and the back half was a hundred yards further still.
The drivers scalp and brains were stuck all over the back seat.
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Very lucky to get out of that, when I was in the ambulance service we attended an accident near Biggin Hill airport, a mini had collided with a lamp post which had sliced it in two, the female driver was unmarked, still sitting in the drivers seat clinging on to the steering wheel for dear life..
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Looking at the remains of what you would think is a modern well built car,I was just wondering wether there might have been a slight element of excessive speed as a contributory factor. :-X
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It is/was an RX300, and looking at the pics, must have struck the post at a slight angle just in front of the passenger A pillar. The signpost then cutting diagonally across the car, exiting through the off side rear footwell :o
Not necessarily excessive speed, just no braking... a hefty gust of wind at 70mph will knock a car off course readily enough, let alone an suv or truck... (note the truck stopped on the hard shoulder a little way down the road).
Very lucky indeed... a side effect of platform based cars is that they will literally fall apart if impacted in just the wrong way. Youtube and the like are full of pictures of crashed VW group cars in two or more pieces... they all start with a Polo/Golf floor pan, with extension panels attached in the rear footwell and wider sill panels for the larger cars... catch them hard enough between the front wheel and A post, and the sill/door frames that side simply unzips along the weld, with the floor pan tearing across at either the cross beam just behind the frontseats or where the floor ends at the leading edge of the front seats. What happens to the roof depends on what was hit, but estates/hatchbacks seem to come off alot worse :-\
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It is/was an RX300, ...
You agree with me, however various on the Merc forum are adamant it's a Mitsi Lancer :-\
(http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=24716&d=1388231507)
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They might be correct :-\
The current RX has a quarter light in the C pillar, whereas that doesn't... wheels look more Lexus though :-\
That said... (http://www.banpei.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mitsubishi-lancer-sportback-2013-01.jpg)
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That'll straighten out :o
VERY lucky escape.