Haven't crashed a car since the 70’s, as far as I can remember, though there have been a couple of near-death motorcycle crashes.
So tonight I was driving home, round a roundabout, then peeling off onto a main road – don’t think I was doing more than 35 or so. Accelerating gently out of the roundabout, the back end broke away, car spun round, front end crashed up the kerb with a fearful bang, then the rear (still rotating), flew up a steep grass bank, then back down again, coming to rest half on the footpath (good thing nobody was walking along it at the time) with both front tyres flat, engine still running.
Had to get the breakdown truck out, and of course my breakdown insurance doesn't cover accidents, so £100 later… anyway, I can’t get a proper look at it till it’s light, but I can’t see any bad damage underneath – yet.
Front wheels are I suppose suspect – can’t see any obvious damage to the rims (other than kerbing), but I suppose they might be cracked?
Guess the next stage is to get a pair of 2nd-hand front wheels/tyres, and drive it carefully to the garage and get the man to put it up and check everything out underneath.
Could have been a lot worse – there was a lot of traffic, and that coming the other way going fairly quickly. And if anybody had been walking on the footpath
I used to drive an M3, and you kind of expected this kind of thing, with 320bhp and rear wheel drive, so drove very carefully when the road was slippery. But it wasn’t wet or frosty tonight (maybe there was diesel on the road or something), and I was just accelerating gently with 135bhp…
So tonight I was driving home, round a roundabout, then peeling off onto a main road – don’t think I was doing more than 35 or so. Accelerating gently out of the roundabout, the back end broke away, car spun round, front end crashed up the kerb with a fearful bang, then the rear (still rotating), flew up a steep grass bank, then back down again, coming to rest half on the footpath (good thing nobody was walking along it at the time) with both front tyres flat, engine still running.
Had to get the breakdown truck out, and of course my breakdown insurance doesn't cover accidents, so £100 later… anyway, I can’t get a proper look at it till it’s light, but I can’t see any bad damage underneath – yet.
Front wheels are I suppose suspect – can’t see any obvious damage to the rims (other than kerbing), but I suppose they might be cracked?
Guess the next stage is to get a pair of 2nd-hand front wheels/tyres, and drive it carefully to the garage and get the man to put it up and check everything out underneath.
Could have been a lot worse – there was a lot of traffic, and that coming the other way going fairly quickly. And if anybody had been walking on the footpath
I used to drive an M3, and you kind of expected this kind of thing, with 320bhp and rear wheel drive, so drove very carefully when the road was slippery. But it wasn’t wet or frosty tonight (maybe there was diesel on the road or something), and I was just accelerating gently with 135bhp…