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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018   
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The Broom Wagon (@broomwagonblog) Tweeted: @Lease4wheels @AutoPap @mcnc59 @alastairfrance There's video of it crashing somewhere https://twitter.com/broomwagonblog/status/...60321?s=20  Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge |
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13th May 2020 11:53am |
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| Scoobeenut Member Since: 04 Mar 2015 Location: West London Posts: 310 
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Watched that video the other day, simply amazing that anyone got out alive.
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13th May 2020 11:59am |
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| Badger110 Member Since: 06 Feb 2018 Location: South hams Posts: 1039 
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Street furniture...
Outside of London, we just call them trees. |
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13th May 2020 1:26pm |
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| Thon Member Since: 22 Nov 2015 Location: Salisbury Plain Posts: 696
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The first thing it hit was a lamp post, hence the "Street furniture" comment.
The tree certainly finished the job off though  |
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13th May 2020 2:50pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2169 
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feck, that made some mess...........
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13th May 2020 3:52pm |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1319 
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It won't suffer from oil dilution any more!!
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13th May 2020 4:57pm |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6304  
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not seen the vid yet but I suspect the car may have been travelling in excess of the speed limit by a reasonable margin.
as said above the occupants would probably benefit from be seriously - or hanging which would likely increase the longevity of pedestrians  |
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13th May 2020 6:17pm |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6304
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f-in scum. how very unfortunate that they survived
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13th May 2020 6:22pm |
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| Naks Member Since: 27 Jan 2009 Location: Stellenbosch, ZA Posts: 2645  
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the mind boggles!
how did they lose control of this RRS on dry tar? From the initial footage, looks like they're going +-100kmh? I've done those speeds on GRAVEL and tried to lose control by swerving violently side-to-side, and the car just would not step out...  --
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13th May 2020 6:28pm |
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| Bluest Member Since: 23 Apr 2016 Location: Lancashire Posts: 4218 
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Blimey
It reminds me of a crash near my house a couple of years ago. Stolen Focus ST hit bus stop and was split clean in two. Driver/thief managed to leg it and but was found a few days later. How come they always get away without a scratch? 2007 110 TDCi Station Wagon XS |
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13th May 2020 7:19pm |
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| adafish Member Since: 30 Mar 2009 Location: atherstone Posts: 1385 
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Good job I build the rear of them things..... Putting Dreams on Drives at JLR Solihull..
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13th May 2020 8:31pm |
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| andydef90 Member Since: 09 Feb 2015 Location: yorkshire Posts: 617
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you know what gets me you can see someone running to help them putting there life at risk for a scumbag . many years ago I pulled a driver out of a upside-down car he was legless could not even stand police arrived and threw in a van . at the time my kids was 2 and 6 . I was so angry what he could have done
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18th May 2020 12:52pm |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6304
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none the less I'm still inclined to think it'll be a right off  |
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20th May 2020 6:18pm |
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| Grenadier Member Since: 23 Jul 2014 Location: The foot of Mont Blanc... Posts: 5839  
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This brought some memories back. In the 70s-90s I grew up in a house on the A316, one of the main arterial roads out of SW London. For those that know it, heading west, there is a bend just after Twickenham bridge, indeed at the end of its ramp. It's been softened now, and a speed camera added, (first in the UK I seem to remember), but in the 80s it was a lethal corner, lined by 100 year old trees. We'd hear a crash almost every weekend (long screech, thump - first tree, thump - second tree, more screeching, crash - through fence into a garden etc etc), often with serious injuries or deaths. Crap pre-80s cars and no seat belts helped. My old man is a retired doctor, but at the time was still practicing and had done time as a trauma specialist at St Mary's A&E, and he was always the first on the scene keeping people alive. It happened so often for the first decade we lived there, that the local plod got to know him and the local A&E supplied basic kits for him to use before they arrived on scene. But whilst most were just 'bad', we'd see something like this Range Rover at least once a month. The difference is that the speeder, thief, drink driver, boy racer was almost always dead at the scene. We could tell by the noise which were the really bad ones (how long the screeching tyres lasted, how many impacts, any other cars) and my old man would order us to stay in the house. Made for interesting Friday and Saturday nights, interrupting our take away curries. Monsieur Le Grenadier
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21st May 2020 7:34am |
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