omega0684
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:24 PM |
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Accidents
was just wondering whether any of you have had an accident in the snow yet?
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nib1980
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by omega0684
was just wondering whether any of you have had an accident in the snow yet?
i went for a walk, and couldn't find a toilet in time, does that count? 
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coozer
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:37 PM |
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In the snow! No chance, wrapped mine into a ditch during the summer!
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1980 Z750
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locoR1
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:42 PM |
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A mate at work had an accident today! inflicted by five of us lobbing snow balls at him poor sod had no chance!
6 hours later and hes finally started talking to us again
 
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r1_pete
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:47 PM |
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Some numpty in the car park here thought it would be good to run a snowman over the smokers had built, didn't realise it would drag him left and
hit the landscape retaining wall. Wish camera's were allowed in here.......
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chrisg
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:59 PM |
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I saw someone do that years ago, not realising that the snowman had been built over a bollard.
No seat belt on and smacked the windscreen with his head.
Silly boy
Cheers
Chris 
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McLannahan
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 04:59 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
Some numpty in the car park here thought it would be good to run a snowman over the smokers had built, didn't realise it would drag him left and
hit the landscape retaining wall. Wish camera's were allowed in here.......
They should have built the snowman over a bollard - That'd made a little scratch on his car
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chrisg
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 05:04 PM |
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Is there an echo(echo) in here?
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Meeerrrk
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 05:06 PM |
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not me but, on monday we had about 8-10inch of snow, some IDIOT tried to get to work in a TVR. needless to say i passed him and he had ventured off
the road, up the kurb, over the grass and through a fence.
Come on, really? A TVR in the snow...he deserved it i think!
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McLannahan
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 05:22 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisg
Is there an echo(echo) in here?
Spooky!
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Mark G
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 05:54 PM |
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Me me me, I crashed!!
Quite fun actually. My workshop is around 10 miles away from my house and I went over on monday. Having some fun with the handbrake on the way and
loved it so much I decided to do the same on the way home.
Loved it too much, set up for a corner perfect... Turns out its a little sharper than I remember, too late. Thinking its ok, I'll just bounce
off that hedge. Didn't realise the hedge was 3 ft below the level of the road!
Needless to say I had to be winched out by the RAC.
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Danozeman
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 05:58 PM |
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I havent but iv seen several.
Dan
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JoelP
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 06:43 PM |
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many years ago i was handbraking a rover 800 in the snow for practice, got a bit blase and went no far off 90 degrees, without thinking hit the brakes
and took a wheel off on the kurb!
[Edited on 5/2/09 by JoelP]
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asl
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 07:51 PM |
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Managed to spin my wifes smart car while practicing drifting on a country road... No damage luckily...
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chrisg
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 07:59 PM |
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Looking out of my living room window at the moment watching a double decker wedged between a renault and a mini - sideways.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 08:39 PM |
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We have a pub right of way over our land and decided to build a wall part way across the 50' opening. Prior to starting the wall I put a piece
of thick 3"x3" angle sunk into the ground about 3 foot I the put a traffic cone over the top. This was simply to see if the beer trucks
could still get in and we didn't want anyone to move the cone. First truck decided he would cut the corner and drive over the cone a little
You would not believe the damage it did, glass, lights, bodywork, fluids everywhere. he drove off swearing at us. We weren't there watching and
laughing or anything we tried to warn him but he took the corner so fast we didn't get a chance
a little OT but similar to running a snowman over
[Edited on 5/2/09 by liam.mccaffrey]
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MikeR
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 08:43 PM |
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i did the sideways on the company overflow carpark. Did a great 4 wheel drift - although did start to panic at the end of it as i realised i was
getting close to a car (explaining that one would have been difficult - esp as you could follow my tracks and see the other 3 or 4 hand brake turns
before it.
On the way into work someone went too fast into an s bend and managed to stop by parking against a car on the opposite side of the road. I only
realised as i drove past thinking "strange parking ...... oh crumpled bonnet"
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owelly
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| posted on 5/2/09 at 10:25 PM |
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I ALMOST did the crashy thing. Trundling home from work on Monday morning, approached a step hill with a big heap of caution. Just as I got to the
brow of the hill, I could see a snow plough stuck behind a truck and a few cars stopped. I touched the brakes and started to slide. I then flicked the
Hill Descent Control button and started to slowly spin around. I was barely moving! As a last resort, I un-flicked the HDC and just had to let the car
trundle past evrything on the wrong side of the road praying thet there was nothing coming up the hill!!
Range Rovers with 325/45/20 tyres are rubbish in the snow.........
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trogdor
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| posted on 6/2/09 at 09:02 AM |
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yep i have had an accident, first time for driving in the snow but its been mostly fine here. Most roads are gritted. However my parents road
wasn't and the last 90 degree corner i took at slow speed but not slow enough as instead the car went straight ahead into a sandstone wall.
Has put a nice big dent in the front wing, smashed a side light and the headlight is all wobbly. Need to get it fixed as its rusting very quickly!
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owelly
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| posted on 7/2/09 at 09:48 PM |
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Further to my previous post......
whilst out playing in the snow today, I hit a big snowdrift and it took off my front number plate!!!!
I was driving the Cherokee (the Range Rover would have been hopeless!) over to my Ma's house when a blizzard blow up. Within 10 minutes the road
had completely filled in amd when the snow eased off a bit, it became apparant that the road was very deep where the snow had blown in between where
the snow was piled on the sides of the roads by the diggers. I had to keep momentum to keep pushing through the snow and there were drifts as high as
the bonnet. The good old Jeep just ploughed over, through under the drifts.......
I had to stop at a clear bit to scoop the snow from the radiator grill and headlights and that's when I noticed the missing number plate.
I'm off to look for it tomorrow.....
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