The Stretton hairpin claims another victim....

JRS

JRS

JRS

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Not sure how many of you know the A38 near Burton. If you're heading towards Derby, you get a junction to turn off into Stretton village - the junction is a hairpin bend after a reasonable braking zone, and so many people get it all wrong.

The latest one happened a short while ago. Someone driving what looked like a Seat Ibiza understeered right into the barrier that runs around the outside of the hairpin. I was on my way into Derby, pulled up when I saw the accident to check if they were okay. The police and recovery vehicles are there now.

The bend is such a deceptive little sod. It's tighter than it looks, and because you're supposed to be coming down from 60-70mph to 15-20, you can think you're going slower than you really are. Seen so many people go off there now thinking they had slowed down enough....first time I went round it at 30mph I could feel the car coming unglued, since then I'm a lot more careful about what speed I take it at!
 
Yeah i know the one, drove past it everyday for 18months. Luckily I never had to turn up it.

They do like short sliproads on the A38, leaving the petrol stations must be a nightmare in a slow car.
 
Simon said:
They do like short sliproads on the A38, leaving the petrol stations must be a nightmare in a slow car.
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Driving a 39hp car, I can safely say that you're right :)
 
its not that bad...i road tested my first fiesta turbo from Branston to Clay mills scared **** out of the salesman though. :D
 
Think yourselves lucky that you weren't driving a rwd car. That would have meant instant death if you take into account usual comments on the forum.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Think yourselves lucky that you weren't driving a rwd car. That would have meant instant death if you take into account usual comments on the forum.
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and comments like that are any better? ;]
 
Sounds to me like a fairly local section of road not yet visited & conquered by Tax_Evader, and his silvery-grey drift bitch - Thanks for the heads-up :D
 
I can wholely understand how a car can lose control on what sounds like a tricky bit of road with an unexpected bend. However, how two cars can have a head-on collision in traffic outside the station near me and require an ambulance escapes me :confused:
 
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