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Old 10-04-2007, 11:49 PM   #61
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please tell me this wasnt all YOUR work?
No, I'd have been black listed to buggery with all the insurance companies and I'd probably be facing a lengthy disqualification period.

And you would've probably seen me on Today Tonight's Bad Driver episode with the slow motion walking, dangerous threat to the community music and a stamp on me saying something like "Dangerous P-Plater."
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Old 10-04-2007, 11:52 PM   #62
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Wow .... all that due to wet roads and 2 way differential!! I would have thought that was due to the drivers foot on the accelerator :hihi:
No no, like the petty juvenile criminals, its not 'their' fault, it's mechanical + weather + plus the curveture of the road and the distance of the moon from the earths crust that caused it.

He's a VICTIM.
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Mates hilux, rolled 500km from home...



the windscreen was completely ripped out...they never found it either....
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500k's is a long roll.... must have been carrying some serious, serious speed.
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Old 11-04-2007, 12:22 AM   #65
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Post Your Pics Of Your Accidents Here!!!
Im wondering about your motivation for posting this thread at all. Can you find NOTHING more amusing, interesting or satisfying to talk about on a Ford Forum??? And I note you havent had much further input into the thread.

Still, I reckon that the thread has taken a mind of its own and may demonstrate how dangerous some stupid behaviour can be...
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Old 11-04-2007, 01:11 AM   #66
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White Toyota Yaris - Long journey, boring straight road...
Bahahahaha I can just imagine the driver's train of thought:

"Stupid long, straight road. Stupid White Toyota Echo......hmmm ditch!"

*SWERVE*
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Im wondering about your motivation for posting this thread at all. Can you find NOTHING more amusing, interesting or satisfying to talk about on a Ford Forum??? And I note you havent had much further input into the thread.
I sense more of a personal dislike for the O.P. rather than the thread itself :

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Still, I reckon that the thread has taken a mind of its own and may demonstrate how dangerous some stupid behaviour can be...
I see it in a different light. We can look at the cars and realise that they are merely just 'stages' in our life. And we should never get too emotionally attached to them as you never know when stuff like this may happen and then, well, it just breaks your heart :(.
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now i really wish i had a picture of one of my old highschool teachers when he rolled the minibus on camp off the side of a steep hill :P
he decided he could tow a trailer up a steep hill and soon found out the wheels just spin. so in his effort to turn around or reverse back or something. he managed to go off the side of the road and roll the bus a few times.
that was years ago and untill the day i left the story was still being told every year.
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BUCKNAKED, Tell your mate yes it OK to run over a rabbit or fox as they are small, but no to a KANGAROO!!! If you got a massive roo bar and your at 4WD height then it OK!
Its hard where he lives. After the car was repaired, he hit another cracking the front bar. It stayed like this and was repaired by the dealership after he traded it. His new F6 has also hit a roo. Been repaired as only minor cracking around the mounts of the bar and the bonnet was slightly bent in 1 corner. Its a visious circle.
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Focus


As mum was crossing the road, a green commodore t-boned her (she ran a red) and managed to spin the Focus 360 degrees. She argued, went to court and we won 100%.

Fiesta



Traveling inbound on the Monash at 12am going 100kmph, lady in a Laser rams the Fiesta from behind, makes me swerve then comes back and collects my side. Was guessing she was traveling way faster than I was. Called police to the scene and pressed charges against her.


Late night, behind my friend at the lights. He edges forward and I mistake that for taking off. Took my foot off the gas (auto) and rolled into him.
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Traveling inbound on the Monash at 12am going 100kmph, lady in a Laser rams the Fiesta from behind, makes me swerve then comes back and collects my side. Was guessing she was traveling way faster than I was. Called police to the scene and pressed charges against her.
What lane (left/middle/right or left/right, and was the weather clear?

Was the other driver blind or simply not paying attention??
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the end result of my rollover
this was an HN80 prime mover pulling 28tonne of french fries for macdonalds that literally ended up all over the great western highway in katoombe

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when was that? , i live here and never heard bout that
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Never, EVER let your mates drive you car.

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No no, like the petty juvenile criminals, its not 'their' fault, it's mechanical + weather + plus the curveture of the road and the distance of the moon from the earths crust that caused it.

He's a VICTIM.
because HE was a MATE, it couldn't have been HIS fault.
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Keepleft: Clear night, freeway was empty, middle lane. When I asked her what happened, she said she was trying to light a cigarette, but couldn't find her lighter and used the car lighter instead. But then again she looked like she was off her face.
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This happened about 2 years ago around the corner from my place.

The truck was going around the large roundabout and just happened to some how land on its side.

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they are a lot eaiser to service like that
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they are a lot eaiser to service like that
you'd have trouble making the oil stay in surely... :evilking:
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back at uni in 05... made a meal of my car :( was in EXCELLENT condition too. oh well.

funnily enough, the photos with the ford logo were taken on a disposable ford camera i found when emptying the car out.





at the NRMA assessment place. dented the roof and everything



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3 tonne land cruiser + ve commo pulling out in front of me from a side road = easily written off ve and lightly scratched bull bar on cruiser. Sadly no pics of the commo.

I know it looks slightly caved in but it isn't, and the alignment under the headlight has always been like that.
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Old 11-04-2007, 10:57 PM   #82
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Heres one of mine from a few years back
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The Mrs ED a couple of years ago near " Coppers Crossing" ? Canberra by-pass , just after dark at less than 50 kph , couldn't have been any faster , was at 5-30 pm . $4,000 worth of "Roopairs"


: : : : Drove home 160 k's , night time with one headlight on low beam ....
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This is from my brother's crash on the atherton tablelands. It's a late model commodore wagon that only had several thousand k's. It was a hire car :

He went off the edge of the road while playing with the dash controls and hit a culvet with cruise set on 110kmh. Flipped end on end twice and rolled sideways several more times. The front drivers door was bent back to the bonnet so he had no trouble getting out! Injuries included bruise from seatbelt and fat lip from airbag. Sorry for the quality of photos, they were taken with his phone that he found wedged under the rear seat.

And yes he did pay for "extra" insurance cover.






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Whilst not a sedan or coupe, compare how much less the roof is crushed compared to say ummm, the Skyline pic taken earlier in thread under similar circumstances.

Euros tend to have under their regs high roof crush resistance (ECE), they are then adopted for world administration (UNECE), the east asian makes are or sorry, were not made to such requirement. Nippon makes increasingly so - as that place adopts better requirement.

The Americans are toughening up their roof crush strength requirements right now.

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Woodsy 109 - was their a straight panel left on the car ????? Lucky lucky man....
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Who's being doing the very heavy editing in here? Part of LilMissDrift's original message is missing and my first post that said "you go first" is gone completely!

Anyway... on with the show.


Never EVER attempt a 'U' turn whlist talking to your passenger. There could be a Truck in the way!

Yes it was a lady driver and yes, she said she never saw me!!

The good news is that both driver and passenger got out without a scratch!

The Truck



A Subaru right front guard.



The rest



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Bwahahaha, how can you not see you. you have the biggest vehicle on the road. Thats just plain ignorance. Its like driving up a runway, getting hit by a plane and saying, I didnt know planes landed here.
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Whilst not a sedan or coupe, compare how much less the roof is crushed compared to say ummm, the Skyline pic taken earlier in thread under similar circumstances.

Euros tend to have under their regs high roof crush resistance (ECE), they are then adopted for world administration (UNECE), the east asian makes are or sorry, were not made to such requirement. Nippon makes increasingly so - as that place adopts better requirement.

The Americans are toughening up their roof crush strength requirements right now.

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True.....my daughters Skyline crumpled compared to that wagon in the post a couple above....
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I don't know about this accident, but it looks like one of the worst Territory wrecks I have seen.

http://www.manheimfowles.com.au/find...rm=view_detail
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