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cappy01

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after reading mike306's thread about his zx, i want to know who has made the best effort of wrecking a car with no serious injury.

ill start with my mazda 3 mps, not flying but possibly a little quick for the road. came around a right hander got dazzled by the sun and just drifted wide slightly caught the grass verge. it spun right round on me, crossed the road, threw a wall, hit a tree and went around 50 foot across the front of the wood glancing trees. pulled the engine out smashed 2 alloys, ripped the boot lid off and got abit bent. i came away with nothing more than an airbag burn.

Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 09:45
simonjames

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On way home from work on a Friday evening, dropping the car off to have harness points welded in (so no belts fitted)and meeting the mrs at the garage for a lift home, driving along a road i'd driven every day for 12-13 years so knew it well was driving at about 70mph (in a 50mph yeah i know we've all done it though) came over a brow to see a car on my side of the road next thing i knew i had nurses waking me up in hospital on the follwing Tuesday

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 10:03
cappy01

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jesus bet that hurt
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 10:07
xaero1

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Wow!

"Lucky escapes"??? I'm tempted to post a picture of an ex girlfriend on here!

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 11:18
tcrallye

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xaero1 wrote:
Wow!

"Lucky escapes"??? I'm tempted to post a picture of an ex girlfriend on here!


Is she hot? If so... Do!
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 12:12
darrengti

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tcrallye wrote:

Is she hot? If so... Do!


And how would that be a lucky escape...??!!? LOL

Here's mine, old D Turbo. Was on cheapo tyres and had a massive case of loos into a stone wall, a tree, then eventually a house. Walked away until I stumbled out into on coming traffic and got knocked down breaking my leg. Oh, and that on coming traffic, my best mate!



Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 13:29
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darrengti wrote:
tcrallye wrote:

Is she hot? If so... Do!


And how would that be a lucky escape...??!!? LOL



Just because it was a lucky escape doesn't mean she couldn't be hot... She could have had aids!
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 13:36
darrengti

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tcrallye wrote:
She could have had aids!


No point worrying too much, you can only catch it once!
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 13:38
ballardpaul

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simonjames wrote:






On way home from work on a Friday evening, dropping the car off to have harness points welded in (so no belts fitted)and meeting the mrs at the garage for a lift home, driving along a road i'd driven every day for 12-13 years so knew it well was driving at about 70mph (in a 50mph yeah i know we've all done it though) came over a brow to see a car on my side of the road next thing i knew i had nurses waking me up in hospital on the follwing Tuesday


Hmm duno if I would do 70 in a 50 with no belts fitted. Scary stuff.

The car you hit were they ok?

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 13:50
simonjames

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Yeah they were fine just bruised from belts

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 14:15
tcrallye

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Yeah they were fine just bruised from belts


Aaah see, should'nt have had any like you Si!
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 14:32
cappy01

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my lasses dturbo, had it 2 weeks and she was coming to pick me up from work,stopped at a zebra crossing and a brand spanking a3 s line doing around 45 ran into the back of her. she ran the poor fella over on the crossing and there was 2 sliding hand prints up the bonnet
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 15:11
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Been in 2 other crashes in mates cars over the last few years. Most recently was this one-

Heading from the other direction, tying to keep up with a mate. Took a tight right hander about 50% too quickly, fishtailed into the ditch and spun round 180 degrees (I think, it was dark and raining at the time) Hit my knee on the dashboard and ended up with a blood clot. Wasn't as painful as the zx crash though No







On a random drive in the lakes on night around october/november time 5 years ago and we decided to go over kirkstone pass. Everything was fine until we got about 3/4 the way up when it started snowing Doh Anyway on the way back down, around 15mph in 2nd when the tyres lost grip and the car pinballed its way down before wiping out part of the wall, eventually coming to rest perched on top of it. Honestly don't think it could be recreated! LOL No injuries, but opening the back door and seeing darkness below was a bit unnerving! He'd only had the car a few days aswell Roll eyes






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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 15:22
cappy01

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what a road kirkstone is. have you tried hartside?
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 20:03
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You're all pussy's as far as im concerned.My mate survived this in his old 6




Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 20:39
musclebeach

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My effort........it was a bad car mechanically anyway,

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 20:51
musclebeach

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Jesus Mike 306 you are one lucky man...........not far from flying over the edge!

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 20:59
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Laugh my ass off I remember Phil's VRS, always made me giggle. How the f*ck he got it up there I don't know! He took that out on finance from brand new didn't he? When he was working at the Wintergardens? Dunno

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 21:46
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If alarm siren still works I'll take it Laugh

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 22:12
mike306

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cwspellowe wrote:
Laugh my ass off I remember Phil's VRS, always made me giggle. How the f*ck he got it up there I don't know! He took that out on finance from brand new didn't he? When he was working at the Wintergardens? Dunno


Certainly was bizarre, had plenty of intrigued looks from people driving past the next day! And yup, it wasn't far off new. He took out a 10k loan without a moment's hesitation LOL

Haven't been over Hartside Pass yet Cappy, will have to add that one to the list. Want to have a trip over Honister pass too next year some time Thumbs up

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:14
sarahsix

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worst ive done is smash one headlight and crumpled the bonnet on my first car (1.4 306) by driving into the back of a zafira (its brand new car brakes were a lot sharper than a 10 year old french shit box's brakes!).......and you guys say us women are bad drivers??

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:15
lewisdmz

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roland rat wrote:
You're all pussy's as far as im concerned.My mate survived this in his old 6




How the f*ck? Is he very short or something?



This doesn't look that bad but it was caused by a ~2ft x 4ft metal chevron sign which sliced through the screen and just got caught on the roof by about 2inches. Stopped about 30cm away from my face.
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:16
roland rat

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lewisdmz wrote:
roland rat wrote:
You're all pussy's as far as im concerned.My mate survived this in his old 6




How the f*ck? Is he very short or something?


He's about 5'8 so not the tallest of chaps LOL
Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:20
musclebeach

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Must drive with his seat right back, then you can be 6'3 and still live!

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:23
ian7675

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roland rat wrote:
You're all pussy's as far as im concerned.My mate survived this in his old 6




Meh, that's nothing....I climbed out of this Thumbs up

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Posted 6th Oct 2011 at 23:23

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