That'll buff out....Or maybe not. Post your wreckage.

[bub2006]

2 hours ago, bigfella2 said:

@bub2006what about the Vectra pics?

Got non of them and to be honest that was just cosmetics. 

[MJK 24]

On 11/21/2020 at 10:31 PM, The Old Bloke Next Door said:

R reg Corsa T-boned by a Seat Leon, the Corsa drove home, the Seat didn't, no injuries to both drivers.

You can see how safety is always improving.  One of the good aspects of new cars I guess.

Theres clearly impact beams in the doors of the Corsa which have resisted going fully inwards.  I think if that was a Vauxhall Nova, the impact would have lead to life changing injuries for the passenger.  Or worse.

[dozeydustman]

19 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Hopefully your brother learned something from the experience!

Indeed. It didn’t stop him driving like a knob when he was learning or riding his 125 though.

[task]

Flipped my RRC on New Years Eve 2007 I think.

Came round a corner, mud on road, and there was a guy swung right over onto my side trying to get his trailer into a driveway. Slammed the anchors on and it went a bit sideways before burying its face into the bank and rolling onto the roof skidding sideways towards the other guys bonnet, where it came to rest. My biggest memory is the scraping noise of the roof with my head resting on it.

I calmly switched the engine off and clambered out the hole where the windscreen once was. The other guy had called the police already and was just about to call an Ambulance but I told him not to bother. Police arrived, seemed diss-interested but breathalysed me.

Local farmer flipped it back onto the wheels and I drove it home, broke it for parts, kept some bits and sold the rest.

Years later I re-used the ABS ECU on a different RRC and it turned out to have an intermittent fault that would kick the ABS in below 30mph, which I'm convinced was a contributing factor.

[fordperv]

On 11/21/2020 at 5:50 PM, sutty2006 said:

60mph Head on into an Audi A4 that turned into my path. Had I been in the Senator/Sierra/Mercury/manta at the time I’d have probably died. 
 

this is one reason I love Mk3 mondeos. 

Pre accident this was a beautiful car, I will always remember shitting myself receiving the call from the lady witness at the scene on your phone, me arriving avoiding the traffic backed up by driving along the pavement in the capri caused some amusement though, that was your lucky night for sure bud, 

[sutty2006]

1 hour ago, fordperv said:

Pre accident this was a beautiful car, I will always remember shitting myself receiving the call from the lady witness at the scene on your phone, me arriving avoiding the traffic backed up by driving along the pavement in the capri caused some amusement though, that was your lucky night for sure bud, 

Deffo mate very lucky. I’ve still got the bonnet up the farm. Lol. 

[rickvw72]

Indestructible. Apparently.

Peugeot 1.9 turbo diesel. XUD thingy. 
If I can find more pics, there good. Conrod on no 4 cylinder cleaved the sump in two, before punching the diff to death as it’s final act. The carnage and vibration shattered the gearbox Housing too, there was not one single salvageable engine or gearbox part.

[Steve79]

On 11/22/2020 at 11:48 AM, bub2006 said:

Me and @chompy_snake were on way back from thornaby. Was on bypass near thirsk when was hit from behind. We both walked away. Coming up to 5 years now and I've just bought another. 

I remember showing the future MrsSteve79 the pic of your van and we were both amazed no-one died!

Wasn't it some twat in a bmw that hit you at about 90? Did the police prosecute him?

[Steve79]

Answered my own question

 

 

 

[Talbot]

I'm sure I've described this elsewhere on the forum, but here seems to be a reasonable place to recount the story.  No picures because ages ago hence wasn't carrying a camera.

Almost exactly 27 years ago.  November 1993.  Barreling down the M3 just north of Winchester (heading south) on the two-lane-per-side section, the candles in jamjars that the Talbot Horizon I was driving picked up the silhouette of a brown Mini parked at 45 degrees in lane 2.  This brought my attention back from the rear-view mirror where I was checking to see if I had completely passed the Volvo 7-series in lane 1.  This gave me about 50' of warning that there was a parked vehicle in my lane while I was doing all of 80mph.  So it hit it.  No braking, smack-hard on the offside rear quarter, and was knocked unconcious.

On waking up, it transpired I had pulled on the seatbelt so hard that it had locked in the reciever, meaning that to get out I had to pull out all the excess belt and slide out under it.  I also could not work out why the hazard lights wouldn't work. (I later found out that the battery, along with both headlamps, was about 100' further down the road, smashed into a billion pieces).

Piecing together the sequence of events, it transpired that the driver of the Mini had pulled from one lane to the other without looking and had clipped a Maestro 500 van.  He'd spun it quite a few times, and then just got out and ran.  He'd left a dark brown Mini in the outside lane of the M3, at night with no lights on, and at sufficient of an angle that the reflectors were useless too.  I was the next car down the road.

After hitting it (and knocking it "fucking miles" down the road according to one witness) I was sent slewing across the first lane, where the Lolvo 700 I had just passed was suddenly presented with a Horizon side-on in front of him.  So he hit me.  So hard in fact that the passenger door burst *into* the car, and was most of the way across the passenger seat.  If I had been carrying a passenger, they would have been Jam.

The Maestro was barely damaged.  The Volvo had the usual inverted-V bonnet and  reasonably significant front-end damage.  The Horizon had very significant front-end damage and a passenger door in the middle of the car.  The Mini.... well.  The impact had crushed the driver-side rear pillar/wing/lamp/quarter bit of the car and pushed it through the back seat area and into the front.  There was no interior left to speak of.  There was a bonnet, a roof, most of the nearside and a fucking massive cavity where the rest of the car should have been.  Anyone in it would have been dead.

It was a big mess to say the least.  By odd co-incidence I ended up working at the same petrol station that we were recovered off the motorway to about 6 months later, and one evening a Police officer came in (as they often did.  only 24h garage around for miles).  He looked at me.  I looked at him.  We both realised we recognised each other, but couldn't work out from where.  Then it clicked that he was the officer in charge of the incident that night.  He confided in me that he'd never seen a car as badly damaged as mine (the Horizon) that someone had been pulled out alive, never mind got out and walked away.  Sobering stuff indeed.

I had a bruise in the exact shape of a seatbelt across my chest and abdomen for about 2 weeks thereafter.  I still walk with a limp at times.

[Schaefft]

This was my first Mark VIII back in 2012. Only had it for about a month before I wrote it off on the Czech motorway because of aquaplaning. It also happened to be 3 days before I was going to have my first day at work here in Newcastle😐

The car was parted out shortly after although much more could have gotten salvaged (the car was in Germany, I was in the UK). I've made a few hundred quid back and still got the engine/transmission and quite a few spares left, some of which went into my 2nd Mark VIII (the ivory LSC). A wheel bearing from that very car is soon going into my black '98 while a door was sent to Poland and one of the wheels was sold to a friend of mine. Theres still a pile of parts (and the drivetrain) in my parents garage which my dad never forgets to remind me about...

Didn't have a scratch on me, the rear took all the force and the cushy seat always kept me in perfect comfort while wildly spinning across the lanes.

[Zelandeth]

8 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

This was my first Mark VIII back in 2012. Only had it for about a month before I wrote it off on the Czech motorway because of aquaplaning. It also happened to be 3 days before I was going to have my first day at work here in Newcastle😐

The car was parted out shortly after although much more could have gotten salvaged (the car was in Germany, I was in the UK). I've made a few hundred quid back and still got the engine/transmission and quite a few spares left, some of which went into my 2nd Mark VIII (the ivory LSC). A wheel bearing from that very car is soon going into my black '98 while a door was sent to Poland and one of the wheels was sold to a friend of mine. Theres still a pile of parts (and the drivetrain) in my parents garage which my dad never forgets to remind me about...

Didn't have a scratch on me, the rear took all the force and the cushy seat always kept me in perfect comfort while wildly spinning across the lanes.

Was thinking "That doesn't look all that ba....Oooh..." when I saw the back.

I really need to have a shot of one of these someday as they're appealing to me a lot more these days.  I used to hate the jellybean styling, but it's enough of its own thing that it's really grown on me in the last few years.

[Schaefft]

3 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Was thinking "That doesn't look all that ba....Oooh..." when I saw the back.

I really need to have a shot of one of these someday as they're appealing to me a lot more these days.  I used to hate the jellybean styling, but it's enough of its own thing that it's really grown on me in the last few years.

Well, I can tell you that they still hold up when it comes to safety, even today😅 They are good cars, their biggest appeal is their uniqueness (even in the states by now), but as with every rare car, you have to be prepared to spend time keeping them on the road if things are supposed to stay reasonable financially.

[bub2006]

8 hours ago, Steve79 said:

I remember showing the future MrsSteve79 the pic of your van and we were both amazed no-one died!

Wasn't it some twat in a bmw that hit you at about 90? Did the police prosecute him?

From investigations afterwards the bmw was apparently doing 147 when airbags deployed. No further action taken on him due to mental incapacity.

[brownnova]

On 22/11/2020 at 22:51, MJK 24 said:

You can see how safety is always improving.  One of the good aspects of new cars I guess.

Theres clearly impact beams in the doors of the Corsa which have resisted going fully inwards.  I think if that was a Vauxhall Nova, the impact would have lead to life changing injuries for the passenger.  Or worse.

Nah the only car I ever had a bang (with another car) in was my Nova... I was fine. 5* NCAP I reckon.... 

[garellikatia]

I got T boned on the A15 doing 60mph. Gutted as I'd just spent a few nights the week before replacing the engine mounts!! 

[iainrcz]

I wrote my Rover off when I was younger, not massively damaged but it was only worth about £16.

Also someone killed my Saxo by punting it up the arse on the A180 outside Grimsby.

[bunglebus]

Me ol' mate's Shovit, after he found out old tyres don't allow you to stop very well

Car is currently on eBay with a 1300 Crossflow in it, I do wonder if it was properly straightened though as the O/S was bent downwards

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133581894947

[Lankytim]

10 hours ago, bub2006 said:

From investigations afterwards the bmw was apparently doing 147 when airbags deployed. No further action taken on him due to mental incapacity.

147????!?!?! Now we know what happened to Beagle 2, it got hit by an escort van while leaving orbit.

[Slappy]

Not quite the same, but around 1995, I would have been about 9 years old, with my Mum and sister waiting on one of two buses that had their respective stops at slightly different points. I saw one approaching from the south so I ran about 50m to that bus stop and signalled to an approaching Leyland National as I had done many times before due to my Mum having physical disabilities and making sure we didn't get driven past. Not entirely sure what happened and I wasn't in a particularly dangerous position relative to the kerb but the driver misjudged the braking distance and swing after passing some parked cars that were always there and clattered into the cantilever bus shelter above and behind me showering me with glass/perspex and lifting the roof part up but fortunately not off the upright part of the shelter. Had I actually been standing closer to the kerb I would have been toast. (scene, some 15 years later...)   

Somewhat inexplicably my Mum who I do love dearly made one of the stupidest mistakes of her parenting life by continuing our journey to a swimming lesson where I was considerably (and I was comprehending it at the time too) suffering from quite a large bout of shock!

The driver who was a lovely person, we'd ridden with them several times in the past and was one of the nicer kinder ones, I think I only saw a couple more times afterwards, which was a shame.

[christian6984]

Only had two accidents and neither is anything like some of these, first one was my diesel fiesta on a right angle country lane when got side swiped by an uninsured driver. Car was on 157k so not worth much but it was clean for the age and miles. Had a new clutch weeks before.

https://i.imgur.com/x55T0B8h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZdCUjV1h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IaZ6bLVh.jpg

 

Second one was in a New Mini Cooper i won for a year in a competition when they launched the F56. 4 months later on a country lane in winter, Thankfully no one else was involved, braked going up to a corner and the car went straight on, hit the pavement, spun and landed between two massive trees and went though a garden fence, Thankfully only 4x2's and the landlord lived in spain which was good news for me that I only had to speak with him on the phone. The car was insured by BMW on my behalf and they also paid for his new fence as quoted me some ridiculous amount, if it was reasonable would have paid it myself. Also took the Properties tenants some flowers and wine a couple of days later as a thank you for taking me inside and making me a brew, was shaking like mad with adrenaline. Also wasn't aware it was possible to snap a brake disk. 

https://i.imgur.com/itQmHZ2h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/x8noq59h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/StBY6k7h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lCVuls2h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/a82Qvjeh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HU7rBhDh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mPO1uGrh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5ilycEzh.jpg

[sloth]

aged 20 i had a 1988 e reg mustard yellow nova merit, with the back stripped and limo tint to make it a van, known as the "mustard machine" by my mates.  a bit later i put a spare half cage in it, and some cheap harnesses and buckets.   my missus at the time lived in the middle of farmer country along some lovely small tarmac lanes. id left hers at 3am one sunday morning, and was doing the speed limit, and came to a series of 90 deg left rights. the last of which made the road run parralel to a 15 foot deep open drain. upon coming around said corner i found farmer ol' balls reversing out of a field directly in front of me. i swerved into the drain.... and barrelrolled and landed upside down. i came to to a flash light and a ghost white farmer thinking i was dead. he towed the nova up out the drain and turned it right way up with his tines. i then called a mate to come get me. the cage stopped the roof coming in. otherwise id be dead.  said nova actually drove onto the truck too. 

[New POD]

I read the bit where you were doing the speed limit and laughed.  The nievety of youth? 

Going too fast for the visability you had, and yet within the limit.  This is why safety campaigners, demand lower speed limits, because we (and I include myself) can't be trusted to use our own judgement to make sensible life saving decisions.  

There's a road on the way to my parents. A wide A road, used to be 60 now is 50 and sometimes 40.  I turn off down a single file road, with passing places, blind bends and grass down the middle and can do 60 by law. If I tried to do 60, I'd end up dead (or worse). 

[Dan_ZTT]

My first car, I was 18 and in the middle lane of the M4 on the way back from the 2005 Reading Festival, one of the rear tyres blew out completely, sent me sliding sideways off the road, luckily avoiding any other vehicles. Rolled over and back up again coming to rest at the bottom of a ditch as you see, quite a way from the motorway itself...

Had 2 passengers but we all walked away without a scratch. I still remember opening my door, stepping out onto my windscreen and being amazed everyone was alright. Police turned up, we all looked rough as anything having spent the last 4 days camped in a muddy field, I think I still had fake blood on my face from some silliness the night before, but once I blew clean on the breathalyser they were lovely. 

The Metro was a write-off of course but I seem to remember my dad did manage to get down to the scrapper a couple of days later and pull the radio out, it went into my replacement Corsa

[captain_70s]

Wet mini roundabout, slipped the clutch in 2nd, arse end kicked out, over-corrected, fishtailed. Over the kerb sideways and into a concrete/steel fence backwards.

 

Parking in the unlit car park at work, span the car around to reverse into the space. Never noticed it was occupied by a red Fiesta until I slammed into it backwards at 10mph and bent all the decent panels on my car...

Going along the motorway in a queue of traffic about to merge right, a few cars in front somebody weighs anchor and I slam on the brakes. A Corsa E behind me doesn't stop and rams into me, forces it's way into the traffic on the right and zooms off never to be seen again.

I haven't had any exciting crashes, but if I did I'd die, so I wouldn't be able to post about them...

[hairnet]

Hit from behind from at least 40 mph if not quicker while stationary

[Tartan58]

On 11/21/2020 at 3:21 PM, GeordieInExile said:

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/15055278.traffic-disruption-in-glasgow-as-car-faces-wrong-way-on-m8-charing-cross-off-slip/

 

Can't see it that clearly but this was my write off of a Twingo. Shame, I liked that car.

Funnily enough the only time I've written off a car was at this exact spot!

This was back in 2008 and I was in a 2004 Mondeo, like an idiot I drove into the back of a van in rushour traffic not at much speed but enough to pop both airbags and knacker the front end due to the BFO towbar on the van. No photos unfortunately.

Within a couple of weeks I'd decided I'd had enough of the Edinburgh-Glasgow commute and handed in my notice, best decision I ever made!

[Alfaisti]

Loads of stories, no pics unfortunately as long time ago!! Brother driving to Stirling via Alloa in his Alfasud doing around 65 lost control on a sharp bend stuck it on it's side riding a dry stane dyke as the wall of death for added effect. He walked away with just a scratch on his hand, got £5 scrap for the car. I hit someone on a dark road driving my mates home in my Chevette, he came in through the window and rested on the dashboard, luckily only broke his leg had glass embedded in my knuckles, ambulance to hospital and police recovered car. Picked it up couple of weeks later full of water as fuzz hadn't protected it from rain, drove it 15 miles sans windscreen to get one fitted.

[christian6984]

Not really sure what I did wrong to not get the pictures to work in above post so here they are 😕

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[barrett]

Only had one 'off'. Driving to Paris a few years ago, coming off a motorway sliproad at about 50mph, hit a patch of what I assume was diesel, rear end went in to a slide and no amount of correction could stop it. All a bit blurry after that, bit it slid into a ditch and almost toppled onto its roof, then flipped back out the ditch, bounced off the armco on the left side and back into the position you see here. Hardly a spot of visible damage, airbags never even went off, but the shell had compressed enough to stop the rear doors opening.

When the cops eventually arrived on the scene they rather nonchalantly said 'you're the fifth car to crash here today...' er, yeah, cheers for that. Behind that bit of plastic barrier on the left was piles of bumpers, hubcaps and mirrors from the other cars which they'd swept off the road, but nobody had thought to check why so many cars were coming off in the same place...

My top tip: dont crash a car in France. Normal insurance only covers you third party driving in France so we were pretty much just left to fend for ourselves, including paying a hefty fee to get the car transported off the motorway, and then another one (and a whole day of paperwork) to get the thing declared scrapped.

Also, this was probably the best Xantia in the world before this happened. Really early 'sinker' with a tweed interior and a 15k engine. And it wasn't even mine. RIP.