My imaginary flooded car.

Skeeter · 3 Jan 2014 at 13:42

What if I had done what you suggest and then the road clears and someone comes round the corner and smashes into the back of me, killing everyone in the vehicle?

If you could drive from one puddle to the next, could you not have also got your car off the road? Theres plenty of space looking at the pics?

logic dictated better to get to that than block the whole road on some dodgy corner in the middle of the night with no rear lights or hazard lights?

Which is exactly what you did?

konicky · 3 Jan 2014 at 13:44

86JR said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25589676&postcount=31

Driving 100 miles home on public highway with no brakes suggests that I shouldn't take anything you say about legality seriously

HA HA Skeeter FAIL !!

Skeeter · 3 Jan 2014 at 13:47

konicky said:
HA HA Skeeter FAIL !!

Surely I'd have to create a thread to convince people I did it first, while simultaneously trying to convince people I wasn't an idiot for doing it?

Driving home with a missing brake pad is a stupid thing to do kids, don't do it.

Duke · 3 Jan 2014 at 13:52

Skeeter said:
Surely I'd have to create a thread to convince people I did it first, while simultaneously trying to convince people I wasn't an idiot for doing it?

Driving home with a missing brake pad is a stupid thing to do kids, don't do it.

Don't forget to change the story to say it was just your handbrake that went or something.

Muffin` · 3 Jan 2014 at 13:55

Skeeter said:
Surely it should go through a bunch of bizarre and different iterations before the true username actually comes to light?

threeblacklines
oneblackline
noblacklines
flickeringblacklines
twowhitelines
imaginaryblacklines
bob
twoblacklines

twoblackpuddles

So deep light could not penetrate it

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:07

Skeeter · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:09

I thought you said the first puddle was only 30m before the one you got stuck in?

86JR said:
TO clarify my headlights were working up until I drove through the "puddle" which was about 30 meters before the one I got stranded in.

Now it appears to be miles away?

Matt82 · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:11

Just speculating

You drive through the first puddle and practically ruin your car, realise its going to be a right ball ache to sort out with all the electrics and gearbox dead.

Then the "good idea" light bulb flickers into life. Drown it, take it properly swimming, wont have anything to fix then, thats what insurance is for.

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:21

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:22

JRS · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:26

You know, for a guy who said he was done explaining himself (post #48) you do seem to be trying to explain yourself an awful lot....

Vita · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:28

TBL, did you ever find out how much the car was to buy back from the insurance? You could have broken it, bar the electrics/engine.

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:29

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:29

Skeeter · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:31

86JR said:
Sigh, the road Trurulefoot to Torpoint is 9 miles long.

The section of road between that corner and Polbathic, where I got stuck eventually, is just round the corner you can see. I don't know what speed I was doing (i was in first gear work it out if you like) but it didn't take me long at all to get to the other puddle.

My Google Maps skills put puddle 1 1.5 miles before puddle 2, and puddle 2 a further 2.2 miles from the Shell garage.

So your plan was to drive 3.7 miles on roads 'too dangerous to stop on' with no lights, in 1st gear, with a broken gearbox, at 2am?

ci_newman · 3 Jan 2014 at 14:37

86JR said:
That's because people would rather assume and take things out of context to make me look bad, if I don't right their assumptions it will just end up with me looking bad.

You've already done that, now you're just trying to save a sinking ship..

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 15:30

Blackhawk47 · 3 Jan 2014 at 19:17

Honestly don't see the point to this thread. It's not like it just happened either.

As soon as things started to break after puddle 1, I would have called the AA out and put the hazards on/got the warning triangle out. Rather than keep driving and then deciding to risk it for a biscuit going through puddle 2.

86JR · 3 Jan 2014 at 19:37

Abyss · 3 Jan 2014 at 19:40

86JR said:
I think what I did was safer than stopping on a blind bend with no hazard lights or headlights, getting out and trying to find somewhere safe...where is this exactly because as we know the road ahead was flooded too.

Like I said before, someone else got caught where I did initially and their car got carried into the river by the tide... if I had left my car there they would have crashed into it..

Got to love the internet armchair experts, I bet if it happened to you "touch" you wouldn't take your own advice. Get off the high horse!

When will you give up and admit that you made a mistake? If your vision of the road in front was that impaired you could have knocked someone else over, or driven into another stranded vehicle. The logical thing to do in your scenario was to move the car to safety and stop and it's worrying you believe you actions were correct, have learnt nothing from it and by the sounds of it will do the same thing again. We all learn from our actions on the road and make mistakes.

To help my understanding is this the route with a blind corner and no stopping points you speak of?

And view towards where your car was stranded (i take is this is after the first puddle given it is on a hill?)