Car Crash!

agw_01 · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:19

Gaverick said:
lol, we hadn't even tested the car that much tbh, it was a 214 16v. Must have been at around 4-5k rpm in second so i don't know what speed that would equal

Around 43mph

Bad luck about the crash though. The smoking and hissing was probably water spraying out of the cracked radiator onto the exhaust.

Can I have the dash?

ZXSpectrum · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:19

BBC Website said:
The weekend's terrible toll began on Friday as two teenage friends died when their Citroen Saxo crashed into trees after coming off the Forres to Grantown on Spey road in Moray.

One of these lads was one of my work colleagues' nephew...

clv101 · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:29

Gaverick said:
Started skidding on the road for about 200m then eventually hit a tree at 30mph...

Gaverick said:
Basically we were doing 35mph in a 40mph zone, and hit a patch of mud. This initiated the skid...

Gaverick said:
It was left in 2nd gear so could only have been doing 35-40mph at most.

How do you manage to skid for 200m and shed only 5-10 mph? I suspect you could shed more speed than that on an ice rink!

Gaverick · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:44

well we didn't want to brake too much while slidding round the corner, it was downhill leading upto the part we crashed too

Daveyboy · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:45

That'll teach ya

aceface57 · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:54

There has been quite a number of crashes last weekend, two lads died from my hometown in forres. There always seems to be a crash in the moray area at least once a month involving younger drivers.

Gaverick · 1 Feb 2007 at 17:56

Daveyboy said:
That'll teach ya

Definately did, think it's made the whole 6th form slow down also

acharris · 1 Feb 2007 at 18:05

Wow, glad you are all ok after the crash and that the main thing. Though on a road as straight as that, I am amazed that you lost control even if you were doing 50 - 60mph and he must have really flooring the car in 2nd gear if a slight patch of mud cause a loss of control then hitting the brakes increased the skid for 200 metres :eek:

Were the tyres bald or was the brakes on the metal

Even on really greasy roads I have never skidded for a whole 200 metres without getting it back under control and the tyres gripping at some point, even the 1st 2 years of passing. And also I have never lost control a skid at speeds from 20 - 75 mph cause by braking and trust me I have had cars backends out under braking on various conditions and speeds in various weather.

This is just my opinion and should be taken as such. It just that over the last 5 months that all I have read and heard is car accidents and deaths via car crashes, makes me wonder if the new theory test and driving test is actually making young drivers safer or more dangerous due to the teaching methods.

Gaverick · 1 Feb 2007 at 18:17

Well the part of road you see isn't the part we were traveeling on, we came from the other direction travelling down towards the train crossing. There are two bends before the part we crashed at and that was where we lost it, sort of drifted round the first heading towards the ditch, then caught it round the second bend to turn it round towards the left side of the road where we mounted the curb and were promptly stopped by a tree which span us round 90 degrees

here you can see the two bends i'm on about

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=54.846906&lon=-1.36202&z=18.4&r=0&src=msl

Wile E. Coyote · 1 Feb 2007 at 18:23

Van_Dammesque said:
Is that Lord Byron's Walk in Seaham? Looks like it to me! If so that is my home town!

Glad your ok because that is a notorious black spot! Wasn't that long ago a crash killed several people, pretty much where you ended up except they went into a tree as that fence wasn't there! In fact you can still see the bark damage where they had hit the tree!

Same here I'm from Seaham small world. Live in Sunderland now. Looks like a nasty smash glad you are ok like van dammesque says its a bad stretch of road, I remember when it used to be national speed limit :eek:

Gaverick · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:18

Who would have thought 3 people from Seaham on this forum lol

Wile E. Coyote · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:23

Gaverick said:
Who would have thought 3 people from Seaham on this forum lol

Yeah small world eh? Moved from Seaham about 3 years ago, mam still lives there so im though quiet often.

ZXSpectrum · 1 Feb 2007 at 19:28

aceface57 said:
There has been quite a number of crashes last weekend, two lads died from my hometown in forres. There always seems to be a crash in the moray area at least once a month involving younger drivers.

Yeah like i said it was my colleagues nephew... Still dont know what happened though...