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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Steve B on 18 January 2014, 02:29:01
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Pun a cavalier through a fence :(
How bout you, Big? :-\
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I was driving a bus and a fire engine decided to pick a fight with me, via the central reserve. Big bang.
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Went through the windscreen of mates Mini when I was 17, pre seat belt law. Thats why I,m so ugly ;D ;D
Keith B
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The worst one for me was being run over (literally) by a car coming from the opposite direction after being knocked off my bike by someone who decided to make a right turn just as I was overtaking them.
Cost me 3 weeks in intensive care, followed by another 8 weeks on a normal ward.
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The one that shook me up the most was a head-on. Although the reason that it affected me was not the accident itself, but something far, far more frightening.
I guess the Rover incident was pretty extreme as well, when you think about it - losing an argument with 3 cars and a central reservation does bring a certain reality to how fragile a bit of tin is.
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I took a tumble on my bike a few years ago while turning right on a roundabout. :( Stupid bint coming the other way didn't give way and I hit her. :o Luckily I saw that she wasn't going to stop so had slowed right down by the time I'd hit her, so it wasn't too dramatic. ::)
Unlike the fight I had with her insurance company after! >:(
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As a driver, either spinning my Granada Cosworth into a fence on a dual carriageway... hit both ends within ten feet, making the car two feet shorter and a foot wider ::)
Or ripping the front and underside off my first Vectra C when I buried it into Beare Green roundabout via the central resevation, hit a solitary post hard enough to crack the sump :-[ it was either that or roll it :-X
The most frightening ones have been totally out of the blue... when a third car hit a car that was passing me whilst stationary causing it to spin into the back of the Omega, punching it up the road... or when some numpty decided that it would be a good idea to drive an artic behind a reversing truck at well over 20mph in a truck stop. That was a horrible experience as everything in the cab went flying as it spun round. Only lasted a couple of seconds if that, but seemed like minutes, and all I could think was WTF :o only found out what had happened once I got out :-\
As a passenger, worst was probably when Dad decided to bury his '76 P reg Renault 5 into the back of a stationary Ford Cortina estate at speed on the dual carriageway... the Renault actually took it quite well as Dad managed to hit it square on. Probably helped that the Cortina folded up like a tissue... it bent far enough for the dashboard to collapse :o
Luckily I've walked away from every single one with minor bumps and bruises.
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a few years ago, was driving over a large common, up in Beverley ( the Westwood), and was dazzeled by an oncoming landrover, and did not see a group of cows in the road, and hit one at 40mph, it went over the roof and crushed the bonnet of my first car, a red Austin Montego, I saw the car the following day, and what a mess, the cow had to be put down tho :( The land has quite a few cows roaming "free", and quite a few have been killed over the years, and as its common land, there is no comeback on the drivers somehow
Peter
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Full fuel tank , full load of test instrumentation , wet bad cambered road and driving too fast ..........Tough old cars the Mk2's :)
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Falling asleep on the M5, early 82.
Woke up when half on the hard shoulder and half on the grass, milliseconds later the car hit the (sloping) start of the Armco and took off, things got bit hazy then but there was an almighty bang.....then only the sound of the wind as the car flew about 30ft (measured afterwards) came down again slightly skewed to the left front and started to somersault, this is where (I think) I was thrown out of the drivers window or even door and flew through the air to land on my front, feet facing down the bank, sliding downwards while watching the car continue somersaulting twice more before landing upside down in the concrete sided drainage ditch.
The back of the Mk3 Cortina estate had folded under itself, the roof was completely stove in and the front near side wheel was in the passenger footwell, right up to the seat.
I was heading down to Plymouth from Arbroath and had ALL my gear with me for leave then a transfer back to barracks so the back 'was' full!
That had been spread all over the bank and was mostly all around me.
2 drivers stopped, one had been following me sounding his horn, he said for about 3 miles, as he saw I was driving in a perfectly straight line and not following the road!!! The other was a removal truck, they had tea and blankets so I was able to negate the shock.
My injuries consisted of a wet sock (I had lost a shoe) and 6 thin parallel scratches across my back!
I had driven from Scotland down as far as the M6/M5 interchange then stopped for a kip at 02:00, woke up at 07:00, had a good breakfast then set off again, by 08:00 I was fast asleep!!
I consider myself very lucky indeed, if it had been a few months later ( when the seatbelt law came into effect) I would probably not be typing this now!
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I took a tumble on my bike a few years ago while turning right on a roundabout. :( Stupid bint coming the other way didn't give way and I hit her. :o Luckily I saw that she wasn't going to stop so had slowed right down by the time I'd hit her, so it wasn't too dramatic. ::)
Unlike the fight I had with her insurance company after! >:(
Ah, well if we're talking bikes, that would be a high side at Snetterton out of the old turn 2. The guy behind said "you where flung 12feet in the air". Luckily landing flat on me back, so nothing but bruising.
I have this memory of the bike disappearing under me, to be replaced by the sky and obviously a loud bang, then a strange reluctance to breath. :o
Black and blue for a month. ;D
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Rolled my brand new (not a single payment made) Astra GTE into a field writing it off ,November 1985 my mate in passenger seat suffered no harm after feeling the cold of the soil no fewer than 5 times as the nearside door was ripped open. Passenger in rear suffered broken ankle (pre-rear seatbelts)as his foot was trapped under seat. I got away with a cut head as car ended on roof with Deep purple still blasting out! Look back on crash now and was very,very lucky as the other side of road was a forest of trees which wouldn'thave been nice!
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As a driver, either spinning my Granada Cosworth into a fence on a dual carriageway... hit both ends within ten feet, making the car two feet shorter and a foot wider ::)
Or ripping the front and underside off my first Vectra C when I buried it into Beare Green roundabout via the central resevation, hit a solitary post hard enough to crack the sump :-[ it was either that or roll it :-X
The most frightening ones have been totally out of the blue... when a third car hit a car that was passing me whilst stationary causing it to spin into the back of the Omega, punching it up the road... or when some numpty decided that it would be a good idea to drive an artic behind a reversing truck at well over 20mph in a truck stop. That was a horrible experience as everything in the cab went flying as it spun round. Only lasted a couple of seconds if that, but seemed like minutes, and all I could think was WTF :o only found out what had happened once I got out :-\
As a passenger, worst was probably when Dad decided to bury his '76 P reg Renault 5 into the back of a stationary Ford Cortina estate at speed on the dual carriageway... the Renault actually took it quite well as Dad managed to hit it square on. Probably helped that the Cortina folded up like a tissue... it bent far enough for the dashboard to collapse :o
Luckily I've walked away from every single one with minor bumps and bruises.
Bugger driving out with you Al, let me know when your,e in my area and i will stay in bed. :y
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I'll have you know, with the exception of that Vectra, I have been on my own in the car for my fault accidents... actually only four in 18 years >:( and the majority of prangs have been someone elses fault. So there :P
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First car accident, a crappy Renault. Drove round a corner to a lorry starting to reverse across the road, hit the back wheel hard. no one watching and lorry drivers boyfriend said I was speeding (50 in a 60)
Police not interested self-abuser went to bed afterwards and I had total loss TPFT as they would not assign blame.
I had to wake up self-abuser to get more details.
This was the event that made me lose ALL FAITH in Police in that area, it was already weak at the time*, one small reason I moved away.
* Nearly causing a head on with a lorry on a blind bend, I bollocked that copper. Ineffectual against burgularies in the area and prosecuting a friend for speeding simply because he was on a bike being overtaken by lots of cars.
I am NOT anti Police, never had any issues elsewhere just where I grew up.
And the most recent, BMW insurance admitted blame, time to screw them for Omegacide.
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I Was going along a country road doing about 40mph, A car had stopped at the junction on the right giving way to traffic on the road i was on.
just when i got near the junction the woman pulled out,
my J reg escort van went straight into the two nearside doors from 40mph to 0mph.
In the back of the escort i had a windscreen (pole rack)And was carrying three screens,
when i hit the car the screens shot forward and all got smashed and went straight into the front screen on the van.
Both vehicles were right offs,
And after that day i never carried screens like that again.
And That is one accident i wont forget :y
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bloody hell you lot and i thought my deart attack was bad jeeeez!!!
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Driving my last Senator in Norfolk when a guy in a Golf turned right straight across the front of us,I'd got about 15 feet to try and stop the Senny from just under 50mph before I hit him.Needless to say I didn't quite make it and basically T-boned him punched the Golf through someones front garden hedge[it turned upside down in the process]and the Senny finished half way through the hole in the hedge that the Golf made.Senator radiator was smashed and bent all over the front of the engine.The fire brigade cut the roof off to get the dragonlady out of the passenger seat-but that was only because the hedge was in the way of the door opening.The way she was gasping for breath after the impact I thought she was going to have another heart attack fortunately she was just winded.Worst injury was to passenger in Golf who I heard had suffered a broken hip.Golf driver admitted liability straight away.I had to blow breathalyser three times,first time officer said I hadn't blown hard enough,second time he said that it might work better if he actually turned it on!!!,third time and all clear as I knew it would be as I don't drink.
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Slight thread drift this, as it's really about the worst accident a friend of mine nearly had. ;)
He was driving a big rigid truck through the night across Botswana, where the roads are long and straight and it's just empty bush for miles and miles. So he's probably driving at about 60 - 70 mph at around 3 -4.00 am and likely to be on 'autopilot' when all of a sudden a sodding great herd of elephants appears in his headlights!!! :o :o :o
He said that without thinking he swerved off into the bush, which luckily was quite flat and managed to keep the truck on all fours, whilst crashing through the trees and just about steered around the elephants and back onto the road!! 8)
He said he was so shook up that he stopped and got out, sat down on the road and had a fag to calm down. The only sounds were the night sounds of the bush, the ticking of a cooling engine and a frightened herd of elephants trumpeting off into the bush!!! :D ;D
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I think my most expensive accident was about 15 years ago
Driving a 35k Merc (3 months old) one morning on wet couintry road.....i was fiddling with the stereo and didnt notice until too late that a 6 month old 3 series bmw convertabile had stopped in the road to turn right.....I thought i was doing well braking wise (thinking im gonna stop in time!) Then the merc decided i wasnt braking hard enough (it had brake assist on it) and the brake pedal just sunk to the floor....and the merc went for a slide on the wet road (dont ask why the abs didnt cut in, maybe it did.....couldnt tell as the brake pedal was on the floor
Result was wacking the bmw so hard up the arris......that its antil roll bars fired off....straight thro the rag top ;D
Women passenger of bmw went mental at me.....driver calmed her down.....
Interestingly the bmw had a private plate on it.....making it look like a female name.....we exchanged details, but i didnt have my insurance details with me....i never heard from them, nor did my insurance company....hmmm male driver not insured to be driving the bmw?? :-\
My insurance comp....coughed up £8.5k for the repair plus a rental car for me for 3 weeks (got the piss taken out of me by mates for the rental car.....fiat cinquecento ;D )
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...Fiat Cinquecento
;D
There be a lesson right there, if ever there was... ;D
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...Fiat Cinquecento
;D
There be a lesson right there, if ever there was... ;D
Yeah ;D But if your gonna hit a car.....hit a bmw ;D It looked funny with the anti roll bars poking through the rag top......thats gotta be £5k for a new roof ;D
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Never mind a new rear end... ;D
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Driving a 35k Merc (3 months old) one morning on wet couintry road.....
....and the merc went for a slide on the wet road (dont ask why the abs didnt cut in, maybe it did.....couldnt tell as the brake pedal was on the floor
Mercs from that era, and even now, are known to have such poor chassis that they filled the cars with electronics to try to overcome the deficiencies, often with even worse results.
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Which reminds me, saw the chicken advert on telly last night, just waiting for the Jag one ;D
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Which reminds me, saw the chicken advert on telly last night, just waiting for the Jag one ;D
Every time we see it, Mrs TB says its about time we saw the Jag one ;D
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Driving a 35k Merc (3 months old) one morning on wet couintry road.....
....and the merc went for a slide on the wet road (dont ask why the abs didnt cut in, maybe it did.....couldnt tell as the brake pedal was on the floor
Mercs from that era, and even now, are known to have such poor chassis that they filled the cars with electronics to try to overcome the deficiencies, often with even worse results.
Yep, and that prowess reached its' peak in their '99 Le Mans entry, which I witnessed. ::)
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Blimey, there are some pretty naff drivers on oof though I must admit running into the back of a Volvo Estate in a Mini Traveler, no damage to the Volvo....... ::) ::)
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I agree Vamps. I can see the headlines now... ''Another OOFer causes Motorway carnage'' ;D
I wrote my first car off (2000 W Reg.) Astra. Tried to turn whilst on a winding slip road up to the A43. Turned wheel and car carried on straight. Horrible thing under steer :'( 40mph straight in to a tree. I'll never forget that airbag smell :o :o :o only injury was getting a smack in the face from the rear-view mirror ::)
First person to stop... copper on a bike. He was really good with a shaken up teenager :y
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I agree Vamps. I can see the headlines now... ''Another OOFer causes Motorway carnage'' ;D
I wrote my first car off (2000 W Reg.) Astra. Tried to turn whilst on a winding slip road up to the A43. Turned wheel and car carried on straight. Horrible thing under steer :'( 40mph straight in to a tree. I'll never forget that airbag smell :o :o :o only injury was getting a smack in the face from the rear-view mirror ::)
First person to stop... copper on a bike. He was really good with a shaken up teenager :y
Wimp! we faced solid metal dashboards with no seat belts........ :D :D ::)
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I agree Vamps. I can see the headlines now... ''Another OOFer causes Motorway carnage'' ;D
I wrote my first car off (2000 W Reg.) Astra. Tried to turn whilst on a winding slip road up to the A43. Turned wheel and car carried on straight. Horrible thing under steer :'( 40mph straight in to a tree. I'll never forget that airbag smell :o :o :o only injury was getting a smack in the face from the rear-view mirror ::)
First person to stop... copper on a bike. He was really good with a shaken up teenager :y
Wimp! we faced solid metal dashboards with no seat belts........ :D :D ::)
Very true! ;D ;D ;D
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I agree Vamps. I can see the headlines now... ''Another OOFer causes Motorway carnage'' ;D
I wrote my first car off (2000 W Reg.) Astra. Tried to turn whilst on a winding slip road up to the A43. Turned wheel and car carried on straight. Horrible thing under steer :'( 40mph straight in to a tree. I'll never forget that airbag smell :o :o :o only injury was getting a smack in the face from the rear-view mirror ::)
First person to stop... copper on a bike. He was really good with a shaken up teenager :y
Wimp! we faced solid metal dashboards with no seat belts........ :D :D ::)
Very true! ;D ;D ;D
;) ;) :D
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running into the back of a Volvo Estate in a Mini Traveler, no damage to the Volvo....... ::) ::)
I was in my first car, a Triumph Acclaim, took one hard up the arse from a big Volvo estate. The rear of mine all caved in, yet his rather headlights still worked...
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I agree Vamps. I can see the headlines now... ''Another OOFer causes Motorway carnage'' ;D
I wrote my first car off (2000 W Reg.) Astra. Tried to turn whilst on a winding slip road up to the A43. Turned wheel and car carried on straight. Horrible thing under steer :'( 40mph straight in to a tree. I'll never forget that airbag smell :o :o :o only injury was getting a smack in the face from the rear-view mirror ::)
First person to stop... copper on a bike. He was really good with a shaken up teenager :y
Bike cops are pretty good, met a few, all decent people. Area (I think) cars though, usually driven by knobs who think they are traffic but are not (I know a few in traffic and they told me this - knew them through hobbies.)
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Ripped the back end off a highly tweaked mini which myself and a couple of lads on the squadron built out in Germany in the 80's.
We stripped it out and welded in our version of a full rally spec roll cage and a couple of bucket seats.
Never drove it off the airfield, it was just a weekend toy for the lads on the squadron.
The deal was if you broke it, you fixed it ::)
Hit a bump mid corner.
Car took off side wards and came into contact with one of Germanys finest trees.
I spent the next few days with the worse headache ever
The car was well and truly dead :-X
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4x4 smashed into the side of my vectra estate at 30 mph >:( I was passing a junction doing about 20 mph after just picking up a washing machine then BAM !!!! out of no where the 4x4 stoved all the drivers side in pushing me 60ft up the road :( Woman driver said oh i didnt see you ::) Just had an engine re-build in the vectra as well ... center post was pushed in to bad to repair :'(