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The_Boy_Mac
17-01-2002, 12:08
So, what was everyones worst car crash and any pics to go with the story??
I'll start us off
On A329M Back stepped out, fish tailed down road before shooting off motorway and down embankment taking most of the trees with me!
Police arrived and let me go with just a producer.
Luckily no injury except bruise where seatbelt did its job
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Never really had much to speak of - there was the one where the 84 year old woman ina metro stopped dead on a clear 60 mph A road because she thought there was a roundabout (nearest one was about 25 miles forward and she had just gone round one) http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/rolleyes.gif http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/mad.gif
And the Nova, where I met these Toffs in a kebab shop, gave them a lift home, drunk champagne, got pissed, stoved the motor about 500 yards down the road and narrowly avoided ending up on the bonnet http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/eek.gif
Went back to have a look the day after with a fat joint (knew I was going to need it http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/smile.gif) and the old Bill were there, so I got rid of it pretty quick and gave it the "cat ran out in front of me" http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif
No pics, but they werent really badly damamged. Enough to write both vehicles off though ......... http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/frown.gif
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Never had a crash as such. Unless you count someone impaling themselves on the tow-bar.
I've had some fairly entertaining near misses though.
Most scary was driving in thick fog at about 40mph (OK 50!), when suddenly a white Land-Rover crossed my path at 90 degrees! Turned out the roundabout was closer than I thought, and had to take avoiding action over the island. Rallycross city! Went back the next day to see the tyre marks, and it turned out I'd missed all the road-signs by about 2 inches.....
Funniest was when I missed a left hander in the dark, playing chase with my mate in his X1/9. Trouble was the driveway had white stones marking the edges, (as did a lot of the roads, except of course, the left hander!) so up the drive I went. At 70mph!
As luck would have it, it was quite a long drive covered in lots of neat and tidy gravel, which made a superb noise as I broadsided to a halt. I don't think anyone was home as there was no response to the windows and doors being showered with a few hundredweight of limestone. Or they were terrified!
Well, I was out of there fairly sharpish, as you can imagine, pausing only briefly to admire the new gravel arrangement. Just as well too, as the X1/9 driver said that if he hadn't seen my lights coming towards him, he would have done exactly the same thing!
My most humble apologies go, of course, to the householder who found the UFO crash site in their front garden the following morning..... http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/rolleyes.gif
BabyBrother
17-01-2002, 18:35
Worst I had was in my convertible sports car. Going up a dual carriageway in January at about 90mph, pulled out to overtake and hit black ice. Car span through 180 degrees, continued up the road backwards, hit the kerb, rolled over three times (in a soft top remember) down an embankment and into a field. Don't ask me how, missed all the trees and every other solid thing. Went to open the door to get out, there wasn't one. It was perched in a tree branch halfway down the embankment with the glass still intact.
Got out as the driver I had overtaken came running back to see how many bits I was in.
Scared the sh*t out of me, but the only damage to me was when I cut my finger pushing the car into the field.
I've still got the car which I managed to repair, but I'm always a bit more careful on icy roads now !!
BB
Much the same as billy actually.
Playing sideways Sid in my Company Car - 1997 BMW 323i Coupe.
Lost it a bit (an old rally driver losing it a bit you understand) and left the roundabout the wrong way. Over the verge, missed a lamp post by about a foot, an oak tree by about 6 inches.
Through a very very nicely kept hedge into someones front garden.
The carnage didn't stop there though.....
The Bimmer had stopped in this fella's hedge. There was no one in - fortunately. I couldn't get out as the hedge was holding both doors shut - I could only go forwards.
But.... Little did I know the hedge was part of a raised rockery.
The Bimmers floorpan destroyed most of that, and the Pirelli's did for the immaculately manicured lawn.
I also knocked over a large stone ornament of some description on the way out, and convinced that somebody was watching me destroy this Garden, I floored it and showered the house with the pea shingle from the driveway.
The local rag reckoned on £4000 worth of damage to a respectable families home, and the police were reported to have witnesses seeing a large black saloon car (the bimmer was red) with several drunken louts in it (it was just me, sober) wilfully destroying the garden.
Interestingly, these louts also allegedly broke into the house and stole a TV & Video, and a Lawnmower from the shed!!!!
Proves that we're all as dodgy as one another.
Did I own up to it?????
Did I f***!!
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LOL!!!
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Modded Damson S14a
Originally posted by J595HAS:
Billy, Class old boy!
I thank yew!!
Funny how you can feel proud of the worst mistakes, and embarassed by the little ones.... http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/rolleyes.gif
SteveCarter200
18-01-2002, 18:03
Sort of similar to Dunks.
Coming up to a T junction in my dodgy old Cortina (it was my first car, 12 years ago) and had a slight problem stopping due to crap tyres, wet road and panic at locking up. I hurtled straight across the road and straight through a brick wall. Bugger. Ended up parked in some ones back garden. After sitting there for a moment or two my mate, who was following me in his Escort Mk2, taps on the window and suggests that I have two options- confess to the owners of the house or reverse out of their garden and scarper. So off I go down the road with a totalled front end, head lights pointing at the sky, desperately thinking what i could say tomy parents about the state of my car.
The funniest bit about this though, is that 2 weeks later me and my mate are going down the same road with my mate in front by about a minute. I arrive at the T juction to see my mate parked in the hole in the wall. "Fookin hell, hes done it as well" I think, jump out of my car to go over to him only for him to jump out himself, laughing his head off, shouting "only joking". Bastard. So he reverses out goes down the road to a twisty downwards hill, again I'm about a 30 seconds behind him. I come round the bend to see him parked across the road. Hahaha I thought, hes not getting me again. He gets out of the car, wobbling all over the place, white faced. He says "what am I gonna tell my Dad" in a sort of wobbly voice. He had gone down the hill, lost the back end which hit a bank and barrel rolled the car through 360degs, landing back on its wheels.
That'll teach him to take the piss out of me. http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/biggrin.gif
Also.....
Loads of rallying crashes, motorbike crashes, lorry crashes (I drove lorrys while at Uni)
But the funniest two that spring to mind that weren't mine:
My mate crashing into a loaded hearse on its way to the church!
Another mate of mine with a stripped & roll-caged mk1 Fiesta was driving along stoned out of his head one evening when he drops his fag into the kickwell. As he bends down to pick the offending lung bleeder up he enters a cut away section on the road with steep banks up either side going to vertical.
Anyway, he manages, without looking, to drive up the embankment and roll said Festa onto its roof.
Being upside down, the fag falls out of the kickwell. Smoke duly recovered, he gets out the car, inspects the damage, and basically rolls this thing back onto its wheels. (He's a bit of a Gorilla and car weighed about 500kgs) and drives home!
I've had some good ones. In my first car, a Nova SR (on twin Webers, scrabbly scrabbly indeed!) I managed to reverse over someone's front garden (in the dark, of course!) then make a horrible mess of it trying to scarper and wheelspinning away a large proportion of their lawn.
But more impressive was when a sticky front caliper caused me to skid across the road I was on as I locked up in the wet, resulting in me hitting the kerb and turning the car onto it's roof. Bugger!
But what took the biscuit was when a silly bint failed to stop at a crossroads where I had right of way in my second car, a 309GTI, and I went into the side of her at about 30 or 40 mph. She later said she thought she was on the road I was on, driving towards the lights I'd just come from at the time! D'OH! She said this to the plod who attended the scene, and he said he couldn't put it in his report cos then he'd have to charge her with driving without due care and attention - you can bet if I'd been at fault his response would not have been the same, chief!
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AshT_200
18-01-2002, 19:15
In the snow, I skidded towards a parked car. Managed to avoid car and went head on into a lamp post. Said lamp post was subsequently bent horizontal, destroying the fence behind it and the conservatory that it hit.
I also scarpered, but I'm surprised I was never caught, considering I left a trail of Antifreeze on the snow.
Hahaha
If anybody wants to have a laugh and can be bothered to figure out how to upload a pic (which I can't) drop me a line and I'll email one of my 309 being taken away on the tow truck.
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I used to play in a band. Driving round the M25 at 3 in the morning knackered having played a gig in Oxford.Doing about 70mph in a FULLY LOADED transit luton van containing about £15,0000 worth of musical equipment. I then "DROVE,WITH EYES SHUT" down the embankment, thro a post and rail fence.............across a field (narrowly missing a feckin big oak tree!)......... back thro the fence and ended up laying on our side in a ditch. One of the fence rails speared my foot thro the bulkhead of the van and another missed my mates head(he was zzzzzzzzz'ing), which was against the door pillar. It went off the door pillar, thro the side of the van, thro an aluminium flightcase and then wrecked the drummers Tama base drum!!!!!!! I WAS NOT POPULAR! :EEK: It was a learning experience!!!!
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Originally posted by JUT:
She later said she thought she was on the road I was on, driving towards the lights I'd just come from at the time! D'OH! She said this to the plod who attended the scene, and he said he couldn't put it in his report cos then he'd have to charge her with driving without due care and attention - you can bet if I'd been at fault his response would not have been the same, chief!
Strange you should say that, but if you look at my "old lady vs non-existant roundabout" post up there, pretty much the same thing happened to me http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/frown.gif
You can imagine the hilarity that ensued when I got a letter from her solicitor saying they were going to sue me for dangerous driving! http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/rolleyes.gif http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/eek.gif
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92 200SX, grey
K+N 57i (Im ready for max power now!!)
Jap spec engine fitted by yours truly
Nismo paddle clutch
Uprated cams
Bit of ICE, cant be arsed to take the dash off to put more in
Never refuse a challenge!!
gentlemen prefer blondes ......
Me and a friend were sitting in his Astra GTE, stationary, waiting to pull out onto a fairly busy a-road.
We were turning right.
Presently a Volvo appears coming from the right on this road.
We sit there
She indicates left to turn into the road we're waiting to pull out of.
We still sit there.
She drives straight into us.
She backs up and rips most of the rear wing of this Astra.
We still sit there.
Police show up
She accuses us of driving like lunatics!!!!!!
Despite three witnesses saying we were stationary, and had been for several minutes!
Ah, women hey?
I saw a funny one, when this tiny Asian lady who could barely see over the dashboard, pulled out of a side road into the path of another car, which skidded into her. Mrs. Kumar then floored her throttle for no apparent reason, which spun her Cortina estate into a line of about five parked cars, before bouncing off (foot still floored) and into the back of the car that had hit her!
When the smoke (for there was lots) cleared, she was already out of the car and was attacking the car that first hit her, screaming that the driver should look where he's going, and most incredibly, accusing him of reversing into her at the "end" of the crash!
Needless to say, I was not a witness. I offered, but the policeman said I was laughing to much to make a coherent statement!
The other drivers face was a picture though, ducking the swinging handbag pounding on his roof, and looking like he'd just arrived in Broadmoor!
I'm damn lucky not to have had any accident more hideous than someone clipping the rear wing on my '69 Beetle on the first day I drove it to school...
Still, I've been run off a motorway slip road, had someone pull out in front of me with 10 feet to spare (me in a '74 Beetle, wet road, doing 45-50) - that was an interesting slide...
Cut ups, near shunts, near broadsides, you name it. Somehow still intact though http://300zx.co.uk/200sx/ubb/smile.gif
I just pity the guy I saw coming back from Bournemouth - submarined the front of his Vaux under a coach! Top of the engine was removed... everyone was OK though, so that was good...
Long may being intact continue!!!
OK, got it now. I was screwing when this happened cos I'd only just fitted a new windscreen that day and I thought the silly cow had written it off!
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crazy_eddie
27-01-2002, 20:39
Here's what I did to my 200 last November.
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cliobeats
28-02-2004, 00:03
old one, i know :wave: But have to keep the board happy so...
Did four on ten years,
first was on a parking lot, had my license for one day and got playing with a colleague. We where parked right next to each other and playing dare you who's to get out first. I won and at the same time smashed into a mondeo. Mine ('79 polo) was scratchless while the mondeo was scattered from front to backside.
Second one was when i wrapped the same polo round a lamppost. My first drunk drive :o
Third one was with my second car, wich i bought without any MOT. Went out to get it checked when i drove into a BMW 'caused by lack of brakes :annoyed:
Fourth was a very serious one, on a night out was following a friend. for a reason i'm still not quite sure of he slammed he's brakes causing me to hit into him @80 miles/hour. We both got catapulted against a wall. It wouldn't have been so bad if he wasn't carrying two passengers as well. One severed serious injuries and wasn't sure to make it out alive. The other one got smashed into the dashboard breaking his face entirely. my friend only had a cut on his head from flying around glass. I severed serious headtrauma ( still shows) from smashing into the windshield and managed to get my leg dislocated out of my hip.
Never failed to wear my seatbelt since that day. It's been six and a half years now since my last accident and hope never to have to go trough such a thing again. *holding wooden table mode on*
TimmyTock
28-02-2004, 00:31
ok my turn,
the famous citroen 2cv, driving round a corner, too fast , she starts sliding and the backend clips the kerb and starts fish tailing, i steer into the skid, and the backend goes the other way, i steer the opposite way, and then the other way, so im slowing down, and the whole car is rocking from side to side, until eventually at like 10mph, it leans over to one side and bump, im now on my side, sliced the petrol cap off, £20 of petrol guzzling outta the car, so i quickly get out and run, no boom :( , was a write off, at least fireworks would have been fun.
Oh, then i wrote off my mondeo the xmas just gone, in the wet at night, went round a corner (diferent one) and didnt grip, slid across the road into a ditch............................which was quite fortunate, as my current sx was the replacement!!:D :D
Think im gonna keep this one ;)
Mine was on a motorbike and i had had a really bac day at work , it was hot and i decided to go for a ride.
Hit a wall between 60 and 100 mph and spent the next 5 months in Hospital 4 of which were in traction . still being repaired now 5 years later :(
I won't list the injurys :hurl: but i was in a coma and wasn't expected to live :annoyed:
Oh and hit a cow in my first car . some nice BMW driver left the gate open as they came through . :censored:
Lets see,
1. Drove across an intersection in Japan, a Japanese guy ran a red light and hit the rear of my integra, spun me in a 180.
2. Came around a corner to see a car passing another about 100 meters up the road, went in between both of them, hitting both of them and was forced into a Golf head-on which stopped me immediately from about 70 k an hour. Got a wicked bruise from the steering wheel and the seatbelt, whiplash too. Got on a plane four hours later for a 3 month deployment.
3. As a passenger, too fast around a corner, slid over a guardrail, down a 10 foot cliff, came to rest on the side of car. Got a scratch on my right eyebrow from my glasses, blood all down my face.
4. Passenger, too fast around a corner, did a 180 into a ditch, no injury, drove away.
5. Passenger, driver didnt turn around a corner, down a five foot drop, ran over about 5 5inch trees and stopped, my feet were on the dash and I broke the windshield from pushing so hard to stay in place. Bruised my elbow on the door, glass came down my shorts which was very uncomfortable.
Thats it for now.
voodoo_melon
28-02-2004, 08:05
Drove my first sx over a tree stump, sideways. Wrote the car off, but no injuries. Bit of a stiff neck that afternoon but it could have been a lot worse.
Managed to spin my 80bhp, fwd cavalier at 20mph on a roundabout :wack: bumper nudged the wall round the inside of the roundabout and made a little scrape (this was when I was trying to sell it too :mad: ) although nothing that didn't buff out :). Absolutely no chance to react, it just snapped round. Only just managed to get the clutch down in time.
Nudged someone in a carpark in my Astra, made a black mark on their bumper which just wiped off.
That's it so far, and hopefully there won't be any additions.
My ex mate stacked his 2 litre corsa on a bend. He was driving "progressively" with a prelude and lost it. He to the outside of the bend, bounced back inside, demolished two sets of iron railings and stopped at the top ofa 30 foot embankment which overlooked a main trainline into Southampton. The recovery man (friend of a friend) said it was basically the handbrake cable holding it up.
I cam round the bend afterwards and ran over half his bodykit, stopped and called 999. I went over and saw a hand sticking out the hole where the windscreen was and it looked like the two passengers were both dead. None was moving and that was scary! The passenger started moving so I decided to get them out as the car looked like it might drop. The door was bent up but it opened eventually and he climbed out. Some pedestrian helped the driver out cos he had a broken leg. The car was a right state and was written off. I doubt it could have been repaired.
The passenger was let of hospital that night and the driver when his leg healed. The police questioned us, but didnt take it further.
Whilst at uni I had a job driving a rig for a local haulage firm. I was once backing up whilst manoevering in the yard and felt this slight bump from the back. Looked in the mirrors and couldn't see anything much except the trailer was at a rather odd angle. Got out to take a look and found I'd driven over the dispatch managers Dutton kit car, which was now just splintered fibre glass under the rear axle.
It didn't go down very well, but somehow I managed to keep my job.
PulsatingStar
28-02-2004, 12:54
Coming off a roundabout round a slight left hand bend. Rear end stepped out, overcorrected twice and then the right rear wheel hit the kurb. All the spokes on the wheel snapped, and the wheel went under the car flipping it onto the roof where it slid down the road to here, where a nice ambulance driver took this photo:
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Lee
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