worst crash you have ever had

323GT-R · Post by **323GT-R** » Wed May 12, 2004 11:26 am

Neil F wrote:When I was about 16, I was lying across the back seat of a Datsun eating a chip bap (120Y I think, it's a fair few years ago) when my brother, who was driving, and an Audi of some description decided to drive head on into each other, I hit the front seats and bent them both seriously outwards, the passenger one with my knees (ouch) and the drivers one with my forehead (I had a headache for a few days and still have the scar). Worst concern was that I had a crate of beer in the back and I thought I was going to get done for underage drinking....

Wow! You were very lucky there, that could have been a real disaster! I mean, just think what would have happened if you'd spilt the beers... :shock:

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Wed May 12, 2004 12:26 pm

Never been in a crash while driving (thank god) but been in 1 and witnessed 2 of my dads. All minor.

1. When I was really young a tractor decided to turn right without indicating into a concealed farm entrance just as dad was overtaking. Managed to get away with a snapped off wingmirror and a stressed mother (she was in the passenger seat).
That was in a Morris Ital 1.3

2. When I was about 12 I was in my cousins car following my dad, when a guy coming the other way refused to drive on his side of the road, forcing my dad to go partly in a ditch at the side of the road, again taking off the windmirror. My dad ended up with wingmirror glass embedded in his head. Very lucky I wasn't in the back, as the back seat was covered in glass. That was in a volvo 244DL

3. When I was walking home from college one day I pressed the button on a pedestrian crossing, saw a car stop out the corner of my eye, then heard a squeel of tyres and a bang. Turns out my dad had stopped at the lights (coincidentally) and the escort behind him hadn't. The idiot in the escort sped up to go through.
I walked over so find the volvo (244) had a bend in towbar, while the escort had a folded bonnet and wings, smashed lights and part of the radiator hanging out the front. Very funny.

I'm just glad I haven't had any crashes myself yet (drivin 3 years). I have driven my mums citroen AX a lot and if i hit anything bigger than a squirrel in that I probably wouldn't survive.

Alex

marko · Post by **marko** » Wed May 12, 2004 12:32 pm

Sheaf wrote:I'm just glad I haven't had any crashes myself yet (drivin 3 years). I have driven my mums citroen AX a lot and if i hit anything bigger than a squirrel in that I probably wouldn't survive.
Alex

Naah - a squirrel would just cause /tens/ of pounds worth of damage. Clipping a small sheep on the other hand is enough to shorten the wheelbase 1" and write off an AX. :shock:

Was the best thing for it though, the cash was infinitely more useful than the car... :twisted:

xr4x4 · Post by **xr4x4** » Wed May 12, 2004 6:21 pm

Sheaf wrote:just as dad was overtaking.

Sheaf wrote:That was in a Morris Ital 1.3

U sure?? did your dad have a Nos model or someting?

I didnt think overtaking was part of the design.

:twisted:

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » Wed May 12, 2004 6:53 pm

IrishRover wrote:
Lisa220 wrote:Obviously wrote off my flame red coupe turbo just before Christmas as someone drove in to me head on (I have to admit it was my fault though)

I remember when this happened, but I don't remember the details. How was it your fault if someone else drove into you?

Well umm - I was on their side of the road turning right when he came round a corner and drove staright in to me. I don't really think that it was my fault as there was nothing I could do and being as he was speeding - the accident would have been avoided had he stuck to the 30mph limit. The insurance deemed it my fault as I was on his side of the road but luckily the guy never had any insurance so I only had to pay for my repairs and my no claims bonus was not affected as he could not claim against me.

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Wed May 12, 2004 8:02 pm

Lisa220 wrote:Well umm - I was on their side of the road

women drivers :roll:

<ducks>

Leighroy · Post by **Leighroy** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:04 pm

I was 17, 2 days after I passed my test I went on a cruise with my mates, going 70 in a 60 zone following my friends. I was going along and came to a corner which I took on the other side of the road as the handling in a Rover 216 mk doesnt handle very well. So my inexperience was just about to happen. I then slowed down to get my breathe back as the cae leaned really badly and shook me up. I noticed me mates where gettin away so I put the pedal down and got to about 80 mph when I saw 3 nice sharp corner <<< signs. :shock:

. Well i whacked me foot on the brake and tried to turn the corner. Inexperienced showing! When trying to get round the corner I hit a curb which sent the car another way which i then went into another curb and into a big ditch. :cry:

Funny thing was the slo mo thing that you said was true and the silence thing after I shouted S H I T about 6 times. Finally when the car was pulled out of the ditch by the RAC he said "your car is perfectly fine, a bit of T-Cut will get the scrathes out" I turned round in shock :shock:

to see all that happened was a few scrathes after entering a ditch at abt 30 mph. Somebody definatly was looking over me that night and my friend in the back who took his seat belt off like a idiot!

Craig and Karen · Post by **Craig and Karen** » Thu May 13, 2004 8:27 pm

Mini.hit black just outside marchwiel took out the sign and into grass bank and hedge

roverspeed · Post by **roverspeed** » Fri May 14, 2004 1:22 am

Two Crashes, 1 in a car, 1 on a mountain Bike,

1st crash was 3 ish years ago, i used to race a MK2 fiesta in a one make race series, at bishops court and nutts corner in northern ireland.

Was flying through a set of chicanes at around an indicated 80mph, diving up the inside of the guy in front, going for second place, *sniff* I love u! behind me thought he would do the same thing at the same time, clipped me and sent me sideways on the grass, which was wet, tried turning left and right and braking, none of which had any effect, remember thinking, o doggies! hit a tyre wall made out of car tires, went straight through it, then hit one made of truck tires, which had spectators standing on top of them!!!! they stopped me. The car drove back to the pits ok, but the front end was gone, the rad was p i s sing out steam, and the downpipe was cracked, my foot put a hole in the foot well and bent the steering wheel gripping it on impact!!! I was fine apart from a sore neck, car had a rollcage, race seat and a four point harness. Got out of the car threw my helmet, and proceeded to pick a fit with the guy that hit me, who buried his own car into the tires as well!

2. Woman in a audi cut across me approaching a roundabout, i went into the back of the car at full speed, hit my head of the rear wiper arm, cut my forehead open down to the skull, 6 inches long, went over the car boucned on the bonnet and landed on the roundabout. I wear a helmet all the time now funnyily enough!!! Taking to hospital, no fracture, got 13 staples put on my forehead, GOD that hurt like hell, home that night, back on bike within 2 weeks.

Ps if anyone would like a laugh i have pictures of my face the next day if someone will post for me

Warren.

PSS I think that was my longest post ever!!! :shock:

malcolm_durant · Post by **malcolm_durant** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:19 am

Luckily nothing serious for me...

My most annoyingly stupid one was in my newly acquired Mk1 216 Vitesse EFi at Uni (Keele, near Stoke on Trent). Decided to take it for a burn soon after I'd started and found the A-road to Crewe (A55?).

Blatted up the road revelling in 103bhp (loads more than anything I'd had before) and came to a newly constructed round-about. Careered round and saw an exit that looked like a new A-road and thought that it'd be fun to see what the car could really do.

Only at the last moment did I realise that the road wasn't opened yet and they'd blocked it off with a row of concrete railway sleepers. I skidded straight into them at about 20ish and pushed one a fair few yards...

No injuries or anything like that and the car got off really lightly too. But I did feel a prize twonk...

Also almost killed my a mate in my mum's knackered Sierra estate a couple of years before that (wing-mirror on his side just clipped a huge telegraph pole that "stepped out in front of me"...). We both were unscathed but needed new underwear - "well close" doesn't convey how lucky we were.

I broke and bent loads of steering and suspension components bouncing over a kerb in front of the pole and somehow drove it home like that. Aside from the bumper and wing-mirror there was absolutely no panel damage though...tough old buses those Sierra's.

The NSF tyre was bald when I finally got home as it was no longer connected to the steering rack. Quite rightly my dad made me pay for the bits and repair everything myself and then pay for the local Ford dealership to inspect the work.

Taught me a lot about responsibility that night! :oops:

Malcolm

C2K · Post by **C2K** » Fri May 14, 2004 10:02 am

Only been in one touch wood, when I wrote off my SEi. Just got some drive through nosh with a mate, and was en-route to consume. Navigating a rather tiny roundabout I got two extremely close exits confused. Thought I was aiming for No2, when realising no 1 was the one I should be aiming for tried to fling it into the exit without thinking. Was going far too quick, back end stepped out on a greasy road, and by the time I got the thing pointing in a relative direction (about half a micro second) it was too late. Smacked the kerb with drivers side front, and the steering was ripped out of my hands. Went head first into a freaking ENORMOUS rock. (about 6 foot wide, 4 foot high, 5 foot deep :shock:

). Car ended up with that front wheel on top of the rock, and the car pointing skywards.

People came rushing out as I jumped out of the car (yes, jumped :shock:

) and I was alright (or so I thought). Got towed home on the cheap, with a rather fubared car. Next day woke up with a blood-soaked pillow and no taste buds. Mmm, looked in the mirror and I had bitten through my tongue without realising (shock). Had 8 teeth marks top and bottom on my tongue, it went a horrible shade of dark red/black and I couldn't taste anything for a week.

Someone was watching over me though, because only 10 minutes earlier I noticed for the first time ever my mate wasn't wearing his belt in the car. he would have gone through the window if I hadn't told him to buckle up beforehand. Quite unsurprisingly, I always make my passengers wear their belts now!