What happened here?

[Station]

http://ww2.copart.co.uk/uk/Lot/35630484?searchId=399234920

 

Back end shunt, followed by roof getting cut off?

 

 

 

Sad:

 

[messerschmitt owner]

neck or back injury

but you'd have thought they'd come back for the pressies?

[Bren]

Someone had a sniff of whipcash?

[messerschmitt owner]

Someone had a sniff of whipcash?

nah, look at the state of the back - that was a proper shunt.

[overrun]

I like the rat Golf.

[messerschmitt owner]

I like the rat Golf.

I like any golf that looks like that in a scrapyard!

[Mr Lobster]

Yep, fairly hard back end shunt, mention of back pain followed by trigger happy fireman = roof off. Wonder if theres anything else of interest besides some damp Christmas presents left in it?

[barefoot]

neck or back injury

but you'd have thought they'd come back for the pressies?

 

Might still be in traction!

That'd fuck your xmas.

[2MB]

Yep, fairly hard back end shunt, mention of back pain followed by trigger happy fireman = roof off. Wonder if theres anything else of interest besides some damp Christmas presents left in it?

A sewing machine Honda 12 valve (if it's a 213). Fond memories of my first car!

[panhard65]

neck or back injury

but you'd have thought they'd come back for the pressies?

I suspect it may of had a worse outcome than just an injury. The marks on the tyres are from the old bill so they can recreate the scene usually only done when it has been a fatal.

[vulgalour]

When you see the pictures the back driver's corner is nearly at the back of the driver's seat.  That's a real mess, it doesn't bear thinking about how fast someone plowed into the back of them.

[Stanky]

yeah, I'd suggest the intended recipiet of that present may not be in a position to receive it, given the destruction of the car.

[Station]

Wonder what the story behind it is - son borrowed his dad's Rover to drop off present to girlfriend on Christmas day? Got rear ended, spent the next month in hospital. Girlfriend never got present.

 

I think it would be a Category A if someone died in it. Or maybe not in hospital.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Wonder what the story behind it is - son borrowed his dad's Rover to drop off present to girlfriend on Christmas day? Got rear ended, spent the next month in hospital. Girlfriend never got present.

 

I think it would be a Category A if someone died in it. Or maybe not in hospital.

He got off lightly then, as the present appears to be a football net. The girlfriend would have battered him.

[STUNO]

Definitely a high-speed rear ending, I suspect a lot more than a bit of back pain. My first thought was of grandparents on the way to spend Christmas day with their grandchildren.

[Station]

Yes, I agree to that one ^.

[oldcars]

Those photos are grim, really hope no one was in the back seat. It must have taken some clatter 

[Junkman]

I suspect it may of had a worse outcome than just an injury. The marks on the tyres are from the old bill so they can recreate the scene usually only done when it has been a fatal.

^^

That.

 

Forensic marks on the wheels only if fatal.

That explains the left xmas gifts.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

That's grim. I see Copart have listed it as cat B breaker - if it was a death car, surely it would have to be crushed?

[Lankytim]

Police mark the car up for serious injury too or if they think someone could die at a later date. If the pressies were any good the salvage co employees would have pinched them. Tragic snapshot of someones misfortune there.

[Slappy]

Of course, there are added issues if it was the grandparents taking presents to grandkids scenario. It doesn't take as much to induce fatal injuries in an incident such as this. A friend of my Nan's died from an Aortic dissection from a much milder rear end shunt at a T-junction

[RayMK]

I refused to inspect my wife's Hyundia Atoz after her fatal accident in 2007, but my son decided to go with the police to view it.  My son said that the impact had caused severe damage to the nearside rear but the driver's area (where she was) was untouched and the door opened without binding i.e. no distortion of the frame.  According to the police, the Atoz ended up on its roof after being hit by a Mercedes Van at 70mph.  The air ambulance was there within minutes but was too late. - She was entering the dual carriageway from a minor road - one of those hazardous central reservation crossover affairs.  I'm not looking for sympathy and have no problem with the thread, but often the car withstands the physics rather better than the soft bits strapped inside.

 

Oh, and my son forgot to get my socket set out of the spare wheel well  . 

[Sudsprint]

Sorry, but I find this a ghoulish thread.

[STUNO]

As above, I lost 3 relatives who were sitting in the rear seat in a head-on crash, not a mark on them, it was the sudden stop that killed them. The two in the front slid down into where the floor space had been and despite serious injuries both survived.

[Lankytim]

It is a bit ghoulish but I guess stuff like this is all part and parcel of life.. and death. 

[dollywobbler]

Indeed. It's not as ghoulish as the footage of that plane going down in Taiwan that was plastered all over the Beeb news site. I'm very pleased that I was able to not click it, but still made me shiver. Why would I want to watch people actually dying?

[Louise2cv]

I think it was probably more the fact that people survived that Ian, including the guy in the car it hit.

[dollywobbler]

Some survived, yes. Quite miraculous I imagine. Someone may have survived in that Rover too. 

[Louise2cv]

Well yes but just saying people might have been looking for reasons other than macabre fascination.

[HillmanImp]

When you watch stuff like that its seeing the extraordinary.  We see more and more of this these days with cameras everywhere and its great. Don't think there is anything particularly macabre about watching a visually spectacular and moving image, even if people die, its fascinating. Do you avoid WW1& 2 documentaries for the same reason?

 

Okay you get the people like these IS lot who are filming peoples deaths FOR you to watch  and I would never watch that (although I did watch the Saddam Hussain hanging to see if I could see fear and regret in his eyes and was disappointed) but stuff like that plane crash is something that was happening anyhow and being able to take in the power of that moment puts you in your place. Its quite breathtaking IMO and really gives you some empathy with the people involved, you can feel the terror.