Wow..just wow.

TS7 said:
A lot of idiots on the road. One of the worst I saw was (luckily no one was injured) was at a pedestrian crossing. The lights were red and there were about five cars waiting, an Astra VXR comes from behind, overtakes the five waiting cars and speeds through the red pedestrian crossing! Luckily no one was crossing.

The worst thing was the guy pulled over around 10 seconds later.
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This happened to my grandparents a few years back. Guy also had no insurance if I remember right.

****** scum.
 
Peño said:
That is really sad, hope she survives. I take it that's an immediate ban for the driver then?
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Depends on the charge. Careless driving would probably be a lengthy ban and big fine, dangerous driving could be a prison sentence. If the passenger in the A class dies he could be looking at quite a long stretch.
 
taximike said:
Pretty scary a mini could do that much damage at such low speed! What if it had been a Range Rover doing the t-boning?? Guess without side/curtain airbags there's not a lot of protect the occupants!
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I once T boned a Ford Focus with my dad's Discovery (driver didn't stop at a T junction). Fortunately I hit the rear passenger door and there was no one in the back but the door and most of the side of the Focus had concertinaed inside the car but barely a dent on the Discovery.

Driver of the car were fine though, only injury was my ankle from the impact and me having foot hard on the brake!
 
InvaderGIR said:
It's certainly not nice witnessing an accident, the one proper one I saw, head on, both cars rear ends went up in the air and one did a pirouette and spun off the road...luckily all occupants of the cars were fine, just shocked.

As has been said, it's usually the impatient idiots that get out of these things fine and their passengers or the other car's occupants that get injured badly. :(
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ive only ever been in a minor accident and it seemed pretty bad at the time it was only like 30mph vs 40mph with the 40mph car hitting the front left of the car i was a passenger in.

its like you brain realises the inevitable collision is about to take place and slows down time to give you a chance to realise and brace yourself, pretty scary
 
I hate it when someone's idiocy causes someone else's injury.

Why can't people just be a little more patient? Even if he had made the light then he'd probably have not got that much further than if he had just waited at the light. Why can't people see this?
 
Justintime said:
Couldn't give an exact location as i was passing through with Sat nav assistance ( :o ) but it was in Croydon.
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Really!? I always thought the roads around here were pretty 'safe' in the sense that you can't really build up enough speed to do any real kind of damage. Was this actually in town or on the out-shirks?

It must have been pretty bad if she was airlifted and not just taken to the very local Mayday hospital :(
 
Yeah, people can never seem to be patient on the road.

I always end up with an idiot behind me shaking his head as I'm doing 30(well just over) through a 30...

Sorry, would you like me to speed when theres often police with hairdryers down the side roads? Idiots.

I was overtaken once outside a school by some impatient tool aswell, that was quite special :p
 
I've seen impatient nuts like that 'almost' get into situations like the one you describe before, I have never actually seen it happen like that though. I don't understand what people get so impatient about on the roads, it's not like you are going to get anywhere much quicker by pulling this sort of jackassary.

I hope the girl is ok anyway, sounds like the driver needs to lose his license at the least ...and if the girl isn't ok, he needs to go to prison for a bit to reflect on his moment of madness.

I nearly T-boned a Volvo S60 at a set of lights once, he was waiting at the lights as he should have been and I was crossing the lights as they were green for me and then he just pulled out in front of me for no apparent reason, fortunately I was the only person using the road around me (there were 2 lanes) as the other driver in the left lane turned left and the Volvo came from the right, so I was able to slam my brakes on and dive left to avoid him, I stopped and he stopped with his bumper about a foot from my back door.

I have no idea what happened to cause him to do that, he looked slightly bewildered actually ...I didn't say anything though or get mad, I just drove on thanking my lucky stars that I was able to get the hell across the road or I might have seriously injured his passenger, ploughing a Jaguar XJ into a passenger door at that speed, even a Volvo one is going to hurt. The driver and his passenger, who I assume was his wife were both in their '60s I reckon maybe it was a bit of 'elder' driver madness that came over him or something, although they don't usually get into that bracket until they reach 75+.

On reflection I would have been better off swerving and then flooring it not swerving and braking as he nearly ended up T-boning me in the end, the way it worked out, then again at the time I didn't know if he was speeding up or not, I just saw a car crossing in front of me when it should not have been at the lights and I would have hit him it if I hadn't done something.
 
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Moeks said:
I've seen impatient nuts like that 'almost' get into situations like the one you describe before, I have never actually seen it happen like that though. I don't understand what people get so impatient about on the roads, it's not like you are going to get anywhere much quicker by pulling this sort of jackassary.

I hope the girl is ok anyway, sounds like the driver needs to lose his license at the least ...and if the girl isn't ok, he needs to go to prison for a bit to reflect on his moment of madness.

I nearly T-boned a Volvo S60 at a set of lights once, he was waiting at the lights as he should have been and I was crossing the lights as they were green for me and then he just pulled out in front of me for no apparent reason, fortunately I was the only person using the road around me (there were 2 lanes) as the other driver in the left lane turned left and the Volvo came from the right, so I was able to slam my brakes on and dive left to avoid him, I stopped and he stopped with his bumper about a foot from my back door.

I have no idea what happened to cause him to do that, he looked slightly bewildered actually ...I didn't say anything though or get mad, I just drove on thanking my lucky stars that I was able to get the hell across the road or I might have seriously injured his passenger, ploughing a Jaguar XJ into a passenger door at that speed, even a Volvo one is going to hurt. The driver and his passenger, who I assume was his wife were both in their '60s I reckon maybe it was a bit of 'elder' driver madness that came over him or something, although they don't usually get into that bracket until they reach 75+.

On reflection I would have been better off swerving and then flooring it not swerving and braking as he nearly ended up T-boning me in the end, the way it worked out, then again at the time I didn't know if he was speeding up or not, I just saw a car crossing in front of me when it should not have been at the lights and I would have hit him it if I hadn't done something.
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Sounds a lot like my 1st nearly incident. Within weeks of passing my test, I'm driving past the police station in Windermre, there's a gold Volvo waiting to pull out of a T-Junction. Next thing I know I'm mid swerve driving around him with his nose in the road, look in my mirror and he waves at me.

I can only assume I blanked out the part where he pulled out and I started to swerve. Not surprising given my lack of experience at the time, I can't see any way I could have been at fault.
 
I nearly ran into the back of someone because the light was turning from red to green and he decided that green meant stop.
 
Clown said:
I nearly ran into the back of someone because the light was turning from red to green and he decided that green meant stop.
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The best way to drive is to assume that everyone else on the road is an utter idiot and liable to do the most idiotic thing available at any given point.

It's done me well, 21 years and no accidents.

Unfortunately if you'd hit him, it would be classed as your liability.
 
Gladly I didn't :)

I remember another incident where I was pootling around town at around 25 mph which is decent in stop-go London. This muppet in a white van behind me was on my tail and swerving all over the place as if he was planning to overtake then pulling back in because, well, this is London.

Anyway, he passes me on the inside (which I wasn't fussed about, other people can do whatever they want) and continues filtering through traffic. I catch up to him at a set of traffic lights with two lanes so I ended up behind him in the next lane. I could hear him revving the engine, eager to go. Me and my friends are pointing at him and laughing at making no progress at all.

As soon as the lights started turning green, he goes. Except the little Peugot in front of him wasn't in as much of a hurry, taking her time as women do at lights. The white van goes straight into the back of the car just as the rest of the traffic starts leaving them behind. I couldn't really make out his face in the rear-view mirror but I could imagine it was "FFFFFUUUUUUUU".

I just laughed.
 
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