>>Lucky
That's More Th>n lucky.
Sorry, I'll get my coat.
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/3973813.stm
As the article says, these girls were oh so lucky that the Clio didn't land on its roof.
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Sorry, guilty of a manual scan (which I did, twice), not a search!
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Amazing and shows safety levels of modern vehicles, although I've never regarded Renaults as the best built around....
But, just to be pedantic word wise, they didn't "escape" the car cliff plunge, they miraculously survived it....:-)
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Reading the article in the Times today, it appears they went around a corner too fast and lost control.
Can imagine exactly what happens - driver steps on it a bit to show off; sees corner, panics, stamps on brakes, over-corrects, all hell breaks loose, etc.
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The Mail states that the car is believed to have hit the kerb on a sharp corner and the driver then lost control.
As the accident occurred in Jersey it's unlikely speed was the main course, more like inexperience.
Judging by the photographs of the scene all four were very, very lucky to survive, let alone get away with one suspected broken ankle between them.
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Interesting legal point for the Moderators here.
Have you ever noticed how often the local paper will say "Man hurt as car leaves road", when what they really mean is "Man hurt by crashing his car". They are not allowed to say that he crashed his car.
I was puzzled to read in European newspapers many accounts of crashes where "a driver lost control of his vehicle", until I found out that it is an offence to, for whatever reason "lose control of one's vehicle".
This applies to black ice, mud, snow, wheelspins, wheelies; whatever has happened you should have thought about the conditions and been able to control your vehicle.
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Given that the driver had only passed her test a few hours before "losing control of her vehicle" I am sure it was inexperience!!
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It was also at night.....
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I definately think those girls had a lucky escape it jus shows u how inexperience can catch u. The evenin after i past my test i allmost crashed into a lampost on way back from work, that was becuz i was fiddling with the radio, but it cud of been an elderly lady!
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Fiddling with elderley ladies would definitely have got you in some kind of trouble... :-)
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