Miraculous survival in car crash

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Wed 10 Dec 2014 10:58
Miraculous survival in car crash - hillman

From the Telegraph today. An unintentional advertisement for the Golf, although it will please VW no end.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-tran...l

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Wed 10 Dec 2014 17:31
Miraculous survival in car crash - gordonbennet

Very lucky young woman, though she probably doesn't think so at the moment.

Luckily for her the anti run-under bar on the back of the semi trailer appears to have been flimsy and collapsed, had it not, and many wouldn't, the car would have been crushed to pulp between the two lorries.

Many run under bars on the back of artics are really hefty items, many double as mounting points for Moffet mobile fork trucks which clamp to the back of the trailer, you can imagine how solidly one of those is built.

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Wed 10 Dec 2014 18:17
Miraculous survival in car crash - RT

Under-run bars "should" absorb the energy and collapse progressively - but as you say, they don't all do that.

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 00:10
Miraculous survival in car crash - Wackyracer

When I first heard of this accident on the radio, They said it was another involving a fatality. I can easily see why this was reported as such.

A very unlucky and lucky woman.

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 09:31
Miraculous survival in car crash - oldroverboy.

We now live in Colchester and the traffic on the A12 frightens me. It is a stretch of road that should have been totally rebuilt. It has been "bodged" up or should i say "down" for too many years..

A friend of mine span his porsche a few years ago and hit the central barriers at speed and wrote the car off, but went and bought the same model as he had walked away..

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 11:46
Miraculous survival in car crash - Wackyracer

ORB I don't think it is the road to blame as much as the way people drive at that end of the A12, They all seem to drive like the worlds going to end tomorrow.

One thing I have noticed over the many years of driving around the UK is that there are regional driving variations. Around the Colchester end of the A12 the driving style seems to be fast and furious all the time. Not so long back I was going through a stretch of roadworks on the A12 near chelmsford where there is a 50mph limit and was being tailgated and flashed because I wasn't going faster than 50mph.

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 14:04
Miraculous survival in car crash - Ethan Edwards

Your spot on about that. I do that journey twice a day from just before Chelmsford thro to Colchester and back again at night.

Colchester itself gridlocks at the drop of a hat. 30 minutes to go two miles from North Station Hill to the A12. It's daft.

Every day there's the Boreham turnoff jam. No reason just a regular daily jam. Far worse if there's a shunt. Instant jams for miles.

It;s the old too far too close, far too fast. Undertaking becomes the norm. Indicating a thing of myth and legend. Big bully van drivers picking on small cars. Lorries Elephant racing for miles blocking both lanes. Foreign LGV drivers doing weird things. Vehicles with one working headlight but badly adjusted so it dazzles. Nobody knows what dipped headlights are. Foglights and sidelights are apparrently the norm. poor rear lighting....etc etc.

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 21:22
Miraculous survival in car crash - galileo

Exactly the same here in West Yorkshire, the poor state of car lights very noticeable now the days are shorter. The M62 has, I think, had at least one accident a day for months (including the 'managed motorway' bits and, of course, in the 50 limits toward Manchester where work is in progress to convert that bit to 'managed).

Congestion is now permanent in many places, alteration of junctions/lights/road markings to "improve traffic flow" generally seems to make it worse.

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 12:53
Miraculous survival in car crash - alan1302

We now live in Colchester and the traffic on the A12 frightens me. It is a stretch of road that should have been totally rebuilt. It has been "bodged" up or should i say "down" for too many years..

A friend of mine span his porsche a few years ago and hit the central barriers at speed and wrote the car off, but went and bought the same model as he had walked away..

So what caused him to spin?

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 16:10
Miraculous survival in car crash - oldroverboy.

We now live in Colchester and the traffic on the A12 frightens me. It is a stretch of road that should have been totally rebuilt. It has been "bodged" up or should i say "down" for too many years..

A friend of mine span his porsche a few years ago and hit the central barriers at speed and wrote the car off, but went and bought the same model as he had walked away..

So what caused him to spin?

Some bright spark suddenly pulled out. excuse was didn't see him, not speeding but unable to avoid.

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