Not pretty. !!!!

[m60ddy]

Hope everyone was ok. Not the best way to start the weekend.

[anothernameitist]

Foggy by any chance

[bobtail4x4]

probably Cleggy?

[Potatoes]

Damn

[Zad]

Hopefully its a good sign that the roof + windscreen isn't off the car at the back, which would have implied a trapped driver/passenger with damaged legs. Seems a bit odd that a light sportscar ran into the back of something somewhat less nimble, which in turn seems to have run into a bigger high-backed vehicle like a truck. Fingers crossed.

I have noticed that tarmac seems rather greasy around here today with the mist hanging around in the air, so I can imagine that braking distances might vary quite a lot.

[m60ddy]

Yes. Both foggy and greasy today. I'm not certain but I think the car lives in Holmfirth and I'm half convinced the owner is a member on here???

[giveitfish]

Zad said:

Hopefully its a good sign that the roof + windscreen isn't off the car at the back, which would have implied a trapped driver/passenger with damaged legs. Seems a bit odd that a light sportscar ran into the back of something somewhat less nimble, which in turn seems to have run into a bigger high-backed vehicle like a truck. Fingers crossed.

The Elise tub is very strong, I doubt it deformed at all in that crash, the front impact structure should have taken it all.

Bet he's glad it wasn't a lorry he slid in to. Hitting the back of a fixed-bed truck is the one thing that gives me nightmares in the Elise, the car wouldn't even slow down until the deck met the windscreen surround, which is fibreglass with no steel core. They slide very easily on the greasy roads at the moment too.

[fridaypassion]

This 100%

Elise bumps always look dramatic but at the front of the car you have a basic composite crash structure and fiberglass panels that shatter in a quite dramatic way. The tub is one of the strongest automotive structures there is.