Worst crash you have walked away from?

[Guest yelookinit]

Just been speaking to the old man and somehow got onto talking about crashes, he has had a few inc a mk1 escort Vs rear end of a bedford Tk at about 50, Capri Vs imp (give you a clue capri won)

But worst 1 in which he walked away minus 5 teeth though was when he was in a mini and got tagged on rear 3/4 by some tool in a mk2 Astra gte, sent him into a spin which was only stopped by the central reservation. The mini was fubar!! He reckons that by changing the big metal mini wheel for a small sport 1 saved him!

Cnut in astra was never caught!

Got me on to thinking about how safe where cars really in the past?

Stories and Pics welcome guys!!!

[Matt]

My worst has to be the time I was driving along in my MK2 Astra GTE when some berk cut me off in a Mini, smashed right into his 3/4 panel.

 

In all seriousness my dad pulled out on some guy in a French supermarket, MK1 Clio into the side of our Scenic. Drivers door on the Scenic wouldn't open due to bent wing and the Frenchist tried to say the gap between his bonnet and wing was bigger than it was before (which is massive on them in the first place).

[warren t claim]

Mk 4 Cortina 2.0S. 60 mph, sandstone wall. Telegraph pole. Hedge. Field. No seatbelt. Walked away without a scratch. 

[STUNO]

In 1968 ish. Driving 1957 Holden home from work. Got hit from the lh side by a driver who was a bit wobbly on his feet      . My car barrel rolled twice and landed on it's  lh side. Not a scratch. climbing out was the hardest bit because doors are heavy when you have to push them upwards.

[ifc63]

In a car, this one : 

[ifc63]

On a bike, this one:

[Jim Bell]

Think Junkman might win this one.

[Bren]

I was hit by a mini while riding my pushbike - a beautiful peugeot racer.

 

I walked away and my bike was fooked, however the damage I caused to the mini put me off ever owning one.

 

The police officer attending stated that he had seen some horrendous rtc's involving mini's.

[philibusmo]

Think Junkman might win this one.

 

Oh no, I think I might.

 

I was zipping around the round-about at the end of Paris Street in Exeter in my old XM (just after a sale had been agreed) when a Silver Corsa C pulled out quickly right in front of me leaving me no-where to go. I jammed on the anchors and just stopped but he kept on coming and smacked into the front corner of the XM at about 15MPH, knocking the bumper askew, cracking the nose cone and smashing the side light lens. I walked away UNSCATHED! He drove off with an exploded headlamp, crumpled wing and his bumper dragging along the ground,  I didn't bother trying to chase him down and fixed the damage in 45 mins that evening.

 

Look at the DESTRUCTION caused

[purplebargeken]

I'd had my freebie Volvo 940 Wentworth estate (turbo version you know) for about a week when I was driving to work on a bright and cheerful December morning. I pulled out of the connecting road from Crews Hill to Botany Bay (miserable place) just outside of Enfield Town. The road was clear and off I went. However as the rear end of the Volvo was just about to cross the white line, a blue Pug came hurtling round the corner and clipped the car. 

 

I pulled over and much to my surprise, there was no damage other than a slight chip to the paint about the size of a match head. The Pug however, had its bumper, O/S wing, bonnet and headlight killed. The bloke driving it asked if my car was damaged, I said no. He said ok and drove off. I reckon he was homeward bound after a works do and was still a bit illegal. I was bloody impressed with the Volvo as there was quite a bit bang.

 

I kind of missed the point of the thread slightly didn't I. Soz.

[Pillock]

I saw one on Police Interceptors once, that was pretty bad.

 

I've never had a crash though so I feel all left out. He says, just about to set out across the country.

[saucedoctor]

Here, in 1989, when I was 16. Where the Armco now is in the picture was just hedge. It's hard to see in the photo, but there's about an 8 foot drop into that field. I went into the bend too hot, hit the bank and ended up in said field. Knocked the puff out of me a bit, and I got clarried in cow shit, but was otherwise fine.

 

 

My steed was the MIGHTY Honda MT-5, albeit with a 65cc BBK.

 

The Armco was put up a couple of years later when a chap put a Capri 1.6LS through it.

[Billy - Medhurst]

Transit van won.

 

SEPTEMBER 1977 MINI 1000 998cc SON351S by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

 

SEPTEMBER 1977 MINI 1000 998cc SON351S by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

 

SEPTEMBER 1977 MINI 1000 998cc SON351S by Midlands Vehicle Photographer., on Flickr

 

Floor had moved as subframe came backwards - Speedo moved as the engine came back.

[Hertz]

I've been quite lucky really and only had a few minor bumps* over the years. Worst one was probably this:

 

 

Basically going too fast down a slip road in the wet. When I walked back up the embankment there were the remnants of a lamp post which someone had taken out the week before I was told by the police. I had gone right over it   which would have been messy otherwise.

 

Car was repaired and I sold it to Richard Dredge from Practical Classics. There have been a few articles on it recently.

[SambaS]

 

[mercrocker]

Managed to roll a renner 4 van chasing my mate in his Singer Vague.   Hit a slick of farm slurry, lost it but managed to keep it at full throttle so that it climbed a bank and flipped backwards onto its roof.   Amazingly disorientating trying to work an R4 door handle upside down...No seat belt which was handy for keeping my head out of the way of a trailer leg that I had in the back of the van.   First thing I did was fish my brand new Zippo out of the ditch to spark one up.   Not hurt but the van was WOF even though we managed to get it back upright and I drove it home with the bonnet gaffer taped back on.   A memorable weekend that was  - went to the Custom Car show on the Saturday at Ally Pally (where I bought the Zippo), did a blues gig in town that evening where a full-on Western-style bar fight took place involving fire extinguishers being thrown at optics and then I went and wankered the van on the Sunday morning.   Still remember the tune on the tape player when it happened - Sound of the Suburbs by The Members.   Lucky to keep my job really - firms van, Sunday morning (not at work at all) full tank of firms gas and it was less than five months old.   Got given another Renner though! 

[steve_earwig]

My first car

 

 

 

I have a scar on my left hand...

[fotorabia]

 

I was front seat passenger in this free Wartburg via a squat in Potsdam..we had it 24hrs..i was front seat passenger.100kms from Lyon..pulled over for a coffee..my friend let the arse of the car a wee bit to much on the road..we got rammed by a drunk farmer in a renault 5...id already released my safety belt...i headbutted the dash..i broke the seat in the recoil...fuel tank got split open so i thought we would explode..a flood of fumes ejected me thru the sunroof...i took photos...nobody checked on me...we then abandoned shit as a storm drew in..we got to Lyon, I was eventually hospitalised with severe whiplash and concussion.My friend had no insurance.I got hit with a huge hospital bill...and she got into trouble for abandoning the Wartburg. At the scene of the accident..one of the fireman asked me what kind of car it was..whats that he asked..an East German Porsche i replied..

[Split_Pin]

Eeehh..., Steve Earwig wins. What the feck did that car used to be?

[EssDeeWon]

Travelling in the back of my dads old Rover SD1 2600 back in late 80s, obvs no seat belts in the back then and I was only a small kid so I used to travel sitting on the big hump kinda between/behind the two front seats......anyway a white mk2 Escort van pulled out in Great Wakering High Street, I remember my dad telling me to hold on as we smashed into the side of it....

 

APY 414T was written off and taken to Shoebury Metal Recylers in October 1988 (according to DVLA records)

[steve_earwig]

Eeehh..., Steve Earwig wins. What the feck did that car used to be?

It's in the file names,1979 Morris Marina 1.3 giffer, RIP UVY 256V

[chaseracer]

Four-door Marina 2.

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Beaten to it by the owner! 

[steve_earwig]

5 door...

[chaseracer]

The 'GS into the side of the copper at 40' was interesting, but the best was 'M1 lane 1 80+mph Dyane bonnet catch failure'.  Never known three lanes of speeding traffic clear so quickly.

 

Not that I could actually see much...

[Bucketeer]

The double-decker bus lost.

I was fine.

 

 

Also, I broke many, many things in a motorbike/dry stone wall interface incident. No gory photos of that though.

[steve_earwig]

The 'GS into the side of the copper at 40' was interesting, but the best was 'M1 lane 1 80+mph Dyane bonnet catch failure'.  Never known three lanes of speeding traffic clear so quickly.

 

Not that I could actually see much...

I'd have thought at 80+ everything would fail on a Dyane

 

I, too, have a seriously busted up on a motorcycle tale involving an Audi driver, a pothole and a lamp post. Sadly I don't have any pictures but anyway it doesn't qualify as the thread title requires that I walked away from it which I most certainly didn't and didn't actually do much in the way of walking for a year afterwards.

[plasticvandan]

Robin 1, lamppost 0,twat in Volvo who caused it,10.

[Partridge]

My first car

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I have a scar on my left hand...

Shit

[Guest yelookinit]

Great story's guys keep em coming!

I "touch wood" have never been in a crash....although i have been run over and fubared my back lol

[Spiny Norman]

In 1990 I bought a Y reg Sierra, with a '666' number plate. My old granny was NOT happy when she saw it and refused ever to ride in it. As it turned out she needn't have worried.

Exactly a week after I bought it another Sierra pulled right out in front of me at a junction, didn't have time to even think about braking, in fact I remember lifting my feet away from the pedals just before I rammed into him at 35-ish mph.

 

Luckily for his passengers (It was a taxi) I hit him on his front wheel rather than the doors, and I distinctly remember him being pushed round while I headed up a grass verge towards Boots the Chemist.

 

When everything stopped being so loud and confusing I checked all my bits still seemed to be working and after giving the door a bit of a shove, managed to get out.

No-one was seriously hurt, just bruises and stiff necks in the morning and when I inspected my car I could see the extent of the damage. All the bodywork forward of the windscreen was utterly mangled, the screen was broken and the A pillars had moved, but not much. The body's crumple zones had done their job, luckily and dissipated what had been quite a heavy hit.

The engine had broken off its mounts and along with the gearbox, had pushed their way into the cabin, distorting the transmission tunnel and causing the gear lever, which had been in 3rd, to lie flat down as if it were a handbrake. The pedals had all lifted right up under the steering column. The prop had somehow locked the rear axle and with both front wheels pointing different ways and the rear wheels not moving at all, it took the recovery guys quite a few goes to drag the thing off the verge onto their wagon.

 

Next morning when I went along to the garage to pick up my belongings out the car, (I'd just fitted a posh Blaupunkt stereo and was worried it might go 'walkies') the bloke at the garage took me round to where it was sitting. He was genuinely surprised when I told him I'd been driving it and seemed OK, such was the damage.

I'm not a superstitious person at all, but it's put me off buying another 'Number of the beast' car again, that's for sure.