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I was stopped at the lights northbound on Yamba drive beside Mawson (80 zone, 2 lanes each way, with a grassy median), when a black 626 came flying up from behind in the right lane, the light was still red. At night you can ‘pre stage’ the lights cause you can see the reflections of the other lights go amber then red. But this was daytime and this person had no indication our light was about to go green, she was doing about 60ks when the lights changed 2 car lengths before the intersection. :blink:

I nailed it and was still about 3 car lengths behind at the next intersection, which was not traffic light controlled.

A giant telstra van approaching from the opposite direction turned across in front from the right and I remember thinking “not much daylight between these two” :censored:

Bang, the van got her square at the rear drivers side rear wheel, she spun clockwise (as viewed from above) 180 deg and hit the gutter on the corner with the drivers rear wheel.

Bash the car was flung 2 meters in the air and violently spun horizontally back CCW 720 deg and landed on the grass about 5 meters from the side of the road.

I was so close it was just like the in car footage from the V8’s, so close that once she landed, I looked back to the road and had to dodge bumper bars, lights, wheels and all sorts of crap still rolling about on the road.

I pulled up and rushed to the car sure the driver would be unconscious from such a violent collision. She was sitting there stunned but said she was ok, and getting upset. She asked if I thought she would need to call a tow.

I tried to use a bit of humour to cheer her up and said

“that depends, did your car have 3 or 4 wheels before?”

pointing to her rear wheel and associated suspension componentry lying on the ground, near the intersection. :censored:

She just started blubbering hysterically, it was at this point I realised humour is not always the best medicine.

:oooh:

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  • Location: Canberra, Australia
  YCL said:
I tried to use a bit of humour to cheer her up and said

“that depends, did your car have 3 or 4 wheels before?”

pointing to her rear wheel and associated suspension componentry lying on the ground, near the intersection. :smilielol:

She just started blubbering hysterically, it was at this point I realised humour is not always the best medicine.

:argue:

:lol: That line made me laugh :thumbsup:

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Two interesting ones:

** Crash 1: Hobart, Tassy. 1990 or 1991.

A guy has a brand new BMW M5. Nice fast car. Worth lots of bikies.

He has just had it delivered the day beforehand, it was shipped straight from BMW to one of the European hotting up houses, who fixed a nice turbo to it. They then shipped it to him in Australia.

Now it was a nice, VERY FAST car.

Day after it finally arrived, he managed to put a little scratch on one of the doors whilst it was in his garage. Being a bit of a car freak, and it being a new car he was going to (rightfully) show off to his friends, he took it to a panel beater and asked them to touch it up. They said when they finished their current job, they would fix it for him. He should come back in a couple of hours and it will be done by then.

He gets a call from the police an hour later, and they fill him in on what happened.

Joe Panelbeater's apprentice decided it would be nice to take the new car for a spin. He didnt know it was a turbo, and hadnt even driven a normal M5 before.

He takes it on the big downhill sweeping freeway near Christ College in Sandy Bay (Cant remember its name...you can see it from the College if you are sober). He was coming up behind a semi-trailer and decided to overtake. So he dropped it back a gear or two and floored it. The car started to accelerate, and then WHOOSH hit powerband and max turbo boost. Joe Panelbeater mistimed his overtake, and the punch of acceleration hit with more power than he expected. He was planning to get close to the truck, start accelerating, then pull out close behind the truck and overtake.

He managed the get close to the truck bit. What he did do was accelerate.....and suddenly it hit full power and he went straight into the back of the truck at about 180kmh. He wasnt quite epxecting to catch up to the truck so fast.

Result? One dead apprentice panelbeater. One written off brand new tuned M5. One highly pissed off ex-M5 owner.

** Crash 2: Halfway between Hobart and Launceston (Cant remember the road that goes pretty much straight up the middle of Tassy....in fact cant remember much of 1991...). 1991.

Guy in a V8 ute that I imagine had a bit done to it. Hooning up the highway (as you do). He is doing just under 220kmh.

When out pops the drive shaft from the front of the car. It drops down and gouges into the road at 220kmh. It carves through the road until it finally grips.

Result (I saw this for myself): a 40m long 1 foot deep furrough in the highway where the drive shaft dug in, pushed by the car. At the end of the furrough it was a bit deeper and also skewed a bit. This is where the driveshaft changed it job to a pole-vault pole. The ute was pole-vaulted when the drive shaft suddenly stopped in the road, and shot up and then tumbled down the road about a million times (probably still doing 180+ kmh). Not sure if they guy lived but I have a feeling he did.

This accident resulted in new design rules being introduced about driveshaft designs in certain situations/designs, including U bolt type fixtures to stop driveshafts dropping down near the front of the car and digging into the road.

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  • Member For: 21y 3m 25d
  • Location: Cairns

had my turbo citric ute for 11 days / 1863kms on clock. Going down Palmerston range near cairns,wet & thick fog, 90km/h, double white lines.

see three lots of headlights coming toward me. Old kingswood (turns out to be unregistered) trying to overtake to semi trailers uphill. he sees me locks up brakes goes sideways. I see him going sideways take on concrete V drain Back end of his car hits my drivers side.

:unsure::unsure: $9635 damage and 5 weeks off road

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