My car....absolutely ruined!
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The flashbacks will go Oli, trust me. I crashed my old motorbike head on into a van at about 50mph. Broken bones, heart surgery........the lot! Took a while but it does get easier. Glad you're OK though, metal is a lot easier to fix than flesh
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@unknownuser said:
And from experience the flashbacks do go away
Ditto. Had two very bad car crashes when I was younger with car's overturn, but no more bad dreams after a while.
Glad you're well Oli.
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As long as you are not hurt, that's the main thing. I hope you had yourself FULLY checked out! You may not be experiencing problems at the moment apart from the bad dreams but be sure to visit a doc and have a quick check over. Its better to be sure about these things even if you feel a bit stupid doing so
Can it be fixed or is it a right off? I think you have personalized number plates, so no worries about modding the pic I imagine?
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I did a similar thing several years ago, plus the airbag meshed up my face quite badly. I'm surprised your airbag did not deploy?
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@solo said:
Bloody hell, all that damage at only 25mph?
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really sad. Looked like a nice car. . .
oh. .. and I am glad you're okay too. by the way.
Seriously though. . .glad you're still around. I need you on the forum to inspire me with cool stuff.
See . .. I can take almost anything and make it about me!!!
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Hi thanks for all the kind words. David it was my pride and joy (sad i know), completely immaculate....I only started driving 18 months ago but i drove it 35000 miles!!...I couldn't afford a car when I was 17 so I kept saving up til I could afford one. Most of the driver side was fine, the repair shop took the parts off to see if there was any further damage so it looks a bit worse than it is really. But yeah its a write off!Something happened to the gearbox which pushed the costs over the edge....so I got a cheque on the way instead. I didn't really fancy having it repaired to be honest! definitely getting a quattro next, this one was front wheel drive. The mechanics said if the gearbox wasnt damaged they could have just bolted on a whole new front end, I think they are designed to crumple like that.
Chris fullmer: you kinda put it into perspective! cheers, mine isnt bad really I just thought the pics looked pretty cool and you guys would appreciate!! maybe some inspiration could come of all the twisted metal!
apparently airbags won't deploy if there isn't enough sudden impact. It was a gradual deceleration across a barrier then a big thud into a pole. Airbags only deploy when necessary, they can cause serious injuries especially if your seat is too low. The car literally spun sideways in the blink of an eye, i couldnt do anything about it. I rang the ambulance to check my mother over (she's fine by the way) and one of the female paramedics said to me "that's what you get for driving a flash car".....I couldn't believe it, to try and mock me after I've had a crash! I was actually gobsmacked I didnt even respond.
thanks for hiding my reg plate i wasnt thinking.
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oli,
I am glad you are ok. this is the main thing. cars are objects that can be replaced. you cannot...
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@edson said:
I am glad you are ok. this is the main thing. cars are objects that can be replaced. you cannot...
+1
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oli Super glad to hear that you were not injured. Sorry about your baby though. I had to say goodbye to my first car a 1972 camero after I hit five cars with it and completely totaled it.
Yes the flashbacks do go away. One thing I clearly remember though is that in the moments that the accident is happening it seems like time is standing still. I remember watching the windshield as it was cracking it seemed as if I was watching every single fissure and it was a time laps video or something. I remember spinning around etc. all in slow motion and then all of a sudden BAM real time returned.
Again great to see that you are fine.
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Oli, I have been thinking about your wreck all weekend and it took me back to high school. I was driving in the countryside on a beautiful day when I rounded a banking corner and caught a patch of gravel. I slid off the road and there was a telephone pole to greet my car. Maybe we can reserve this thread as a support group
It took me a while but I found some before and after pictures. Yes that is me polishing the tires back in 1986. That was my beautiful '77 Toyota Celica GT.
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This is what happens when you drive and render on your laptop at the same time.
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Yes time seems mixed with a middle crash
Flashback and inverse and lost memory for some hours!
It's very curious when somebody ask you what is your name, where do you come from etc...and you can speak but can't ask! A very astonished situatuion!
It's because brain is in a sort of water box, so when your head hurt wheel (air bag don't exist at this date
it's some disconnection!
But hoppfully all comeback in some hours
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eric thats a seriously cool car! I bet you were gutted weren't you? i love the wheels
Had to get the bus this morning, it was more traumatic than the actual crash! so expensive as well, its cheaper to drive.
I've got a new one on order from auction (ex-lease cars), exactly the same car but 4 wheel drive this time (80% rear wheel) The crash will probably save me lots of money, that audi was a lemon. It was very fast but had non-stop problems. Had to spend £4000 on it in 18 months!! new turbo, new intake pipe, new intake manifold flap, new radiator, new starter motor, new suspension, £750 on 3 sets of tyres (high powered front wheel drive murders tyres). apparently the 2007 common rail engines are much better than the 2005 one I had so hopefully it'll be more reliable. flasbacks aren't as frequent now....alcohol is helping lol
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@olishea said:
alcohol is helping
Umm don't let it "help" you after you get your replacement car...We don't want to have you start another crash thread.
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God Oli thats a shocker!
Reminds me of a crash I had in my PUG about 3 years ago and only the second time I'd hit anything. I was approaching an old bridge that goes over the main northern rail line out of Sydney, the short bridge actually does a slightly rising "S" on approach and any banked traffic isn't visible.
As per normal I knocked it back a gear and gave it a boot full to get a bit of drift onto the bridge and unfortunately yep the traffic was banked back on the bridge, touching the brake at that point led to no good and the back overtook the front and I plowed into the bridge's brick safety wall. I broke out a section of the wall but fortunately the rail bolted along the top held the panel inplace and stopped it from dropping onto the rail line below!
The most unfortunate thing though was the car was due for rego and I was awaiting my mechanic to replace the brake pads for rego inspection and as he was busy the car was out of rego by a week and thus uninsured! $9000 dollars out of pocket for the repairs and $1200 in fines! Though my god how fortunate the wall didn't fall and put the rail line out of action!
So guessing who now doesn't put the boot into corners!
The first was traveling at about 100km/h in the wet and spun into a tree, fortunately I went in completely backwards, wrote the car off but didn't get a scratch!
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Thank god though mate yours was a write off! I've since had a speedo reading 90 km/h whilst I'm sitting still and the taco says it idling at 4500 revs and they cant work out whats wrong. Now I have no idea how fast I'm going!
Take it easy in the new wheels mate, even 4wd can come unstuck!
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