Glad this wasn't me!

xarr · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:46

Little accident caught on CCTV at my mums work last week, wonder who will pick up the bill?

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2009/1/Car-Oops-641639.html

InvaderGIR · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:50

He doesn't seem at all fussed about what he's just done either.

mjt · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:51

there's not a lot he can do tbh

and it doesn't look like it's caused much damage anyway
serves the owner right for having a rover

Finglonga · 5 Jan 2009 at 17:51

Probably the car owner for not informing the driver about the bollards, unless they were informed then the AA.

Either way . . . :eek:

Ben643 · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:25

Haha, whoops! I remember seeing another video where that happened... people were trying to follow a bus into a bus only road and the bollards came up.

GingerNinja1989 · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:33

Absolute muppetry!

Wicksta · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:41

HGF was the trigger of this sequence of events.

Ricochet J · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:49

Wouldn't it be the AA driver's fault? He should know he's entering a controlled zone with rising bollards and should anticipate the bollards rising up. I can't see how it can be the fault of the car owner.

Mr-White · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:49

thats awesome, its suprising how much lift those barriers have

MW

Lethagized · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:50

It's only a 200 quid rover 400 anyway. LOL

mark66 · 5 Jan 2009 at 18:54

Wow, thats a bit naughty! As for damage, it could be quite significant depending on where it made contact....some bollards like those wrote off a brand new Volvo in Aylesbury town centre when they were first introduced!

Peter Diffey · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:09

Good one putting that on youtube

shifty_uk · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:17

I might've done the same. Surely the barriers should leave more than enough time for the car to get across? Seemed to come down pretty quickly.

edit: unless it's operated by sensors, in which case, fair enough.

[TW]Fox · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:22

These barriers are a bit stupid, really. I mean he did indeed wait until the lights went green and they let him through. It seems wreckless to have bollards which don't have some sort of sensor before they rise?

cheets64 · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:26

The barriers only came up when the horizontal barrier had gone down, so not that quick.

Tee Hee Johnson · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:37

Haha... i loved that

Unlucky tho... and no idea whos fault, id go with aa guy tho!

NathanE · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:54

craig_kennedy83 said:
Haha... i loved that

Unlucky tho... and no idea whos fault, id go with aa guy tho!

Of course it is. If you look closely the AA guy is TOWING the car behind....

There was no way that he could tow a car through those barriers.

ineed2upgrade · 5 Jan 2009 at 19:58

RobRX-7 said:
It's only a 200 quid rover 400 anyway. LOL

so if it was your car and i said,who cares its only a poxy mazda how would that make you feel?

the blame would lie with the AA guy as he was in charge of both vehicles but in the end it was a simple mistake that could have happened to anyone in that situation

Lethagized · 5 Jan 2009 at 22:16

ineed2upgrade said:
so if it was your car and i said,who cares its only a poxy mazda how would that make you feel?

the blame would lie with the AA guy as he was in charge of both vehicles but in the end it was a simple mistake that could have happened to anyone in that situation

^^Someones got a rover lol^^ I wouldn't give a crap if anyone said anything. I don't get upset over cars, unless they break.

schumi84 · 5 Jan 2009 at 22:56

[TW]Fox;13220482 said:
These barriers are a bit stupid, really. I mean he did indeed wait until the lights went green and they let him through. It seems wreckless to have bollards which don't have some sort of sensor before they rise?

Barriers like that are designed to let one car/van through i would have thought, arent they? Unless the barriers knew that 2 vehicles were going through then it is natural that the barrier will drop and the bollards will rise once it senses the 1st vehicle has gone through.