Funniest Accident?
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Accidents are usually not laughing matters, but sometimes you can't help it...
A couple of years ago a colleague was driving between Derby and Notts on the A52 (dual carriageway). His hire car broke down on a bit of the road with no hard shoulder.
A juggernaut travelling behind him didn't stop and ploughed into the hire car (my colleague jumped out in the nick of time).
Then a funeral procession piled into the wreckage, the coffin shot out of the hearse and skidded down the road, its occupant emerging looking the worse for wear. The greaving relatives got into a punchup and in the confusion the deceased corpse was apparently loaded into an ambulance for a last ditch effort at resusitation...
Wish it had been caught on Police Camera Action!
A couple of years ago a colleague was driving between Derby and Notts on the A52 (dual carriageway). His hire car broke down on a bit of the road with no hard shoulder.
A juggernaut travelling behind him didn't stop and ploughed into the hire car (my colleague jumped out in the nick of time).
Then a funeral procession piled into the wreckage, the coffin shot out of the hearse and skidded down the road, its occupant emerging looking the worse for wear. The greaving relatives got into a punchup and in the confusion the deceased corpse was apparently loaded into an ambulance for a last ditch effort at resusitation...
Wish it had been caught on Police Camera Action!
I once met a guy who'd been in a Robin Reliant, when it roller over.
It was his fathers car - him & dad in the front, and his sister in the back.
Remarkably, the only injury sustained by any of them, was a nasty cut near the bridge of his sister's nose where the rapidly ejected, tape cassette hit her as the car rolled.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
It was his fathers car - him & dad in the front, and his sister in the back.
Remarkably, the only injury sustained by any of them, was a nasty cut near the bridge of his sister's nose where the rapidly ejected, tape cassette hit her as the car rolled.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
Once round at a friends just looking out of the window waiting to go out. He lived in a cul-de-sac and not much happens. Anyway, over the road had not one, but two Reliant Robins! Wife then attempts to reverse the car and clips the kerb with the back of the car.
Long story short - the Reliant rolls onto its side and Husband comes out to help her out of the car. Well, how do I put this - neither of them were lean and fit.... Many struggles and heaves she comes out of the window in the door...
Short break and he then tips the car back onto all three wheels again. Now, I thought that they arent that easy to roll, and had anyone told me this in the pub, I wouldnt have believed it - but having seen it with my own eyes...well, makes for great stories down the pub....
And we laughed - and so did all of the neighbours too..
Cheers,
Paul
Long story short - the Reliant rolls onto its side and Husband comes out to help her out of the car. Well, how do I put this - neither of them were lean and fit.... Many struggles and heaves she comes out of the window in the door...
Short break and he then tips the car back onto all three wheels again. Now, I thought that they arent that easy to roll, and had anyone told me this in the pub, I wouldnt have believed it - but having seen it with my own eyes...well, makes for great stories down the pub....
And we laughed - and so did all of the neighbours too..
Cheers,
Paul
I was at HR Owen's garage one time & one of the guys pointed out an almost-new Diablo in the body shop.
Apparently, when reversing a Diablo, the only way to see where you're going is to open the door and essentially look around the outside sitting on the sill
The poor bloke who'd bought it reversed out of his garage, forgetting the open door scissors up.....
Apparently, when reversing a Diablo, the only way to see where you're going is to open the door and essentially look around the outside sitting on the sill
The poor bloke who'd bought it reversed out of his garage, forgetting the open door scissors up.....
quote:I'm told that they are. "Understeer, oversteer, overturn" was always the phrase applied to the Robin.
tips the car back onto all three wheels again. Now, I thought that they arent that easy to roll
I had a boss many years ago who used to run them. He'd rolled on so many occasions that he'd fabricated his own roll cage. Not to protect himself, he said, but because he was fed up with the windscreen popping out when he rolled.
Many, many years ago (when I was but a boy)… I was travelling in my VW Beetle along a country road when a spider casually lowered itself into my line of vision. I became transfixed by it and calmly caught its thread and lowered it onto the seat beside me. At this point it occurred to me that I hadn’t looked where I was going for an unbelievable length of time. I looked up to see a hedge directly in front of me… a sharp turn wasn’t enough and I hit it with a glancing blow which sent the car high up onto two wheels. The adrenaline was flowing and I was just beginning to think I could hold it - and return the car to all four wheels - when I ran out of road and piled into the hedge on the other side!
No other cars for miles so no-one saw my huge embarrassment (and quite why I’m telling you lot I don’t know!)
No other cars for miles so no-one saw my huge embarrassment (and quite why I’m telling you lot I don’t know!)
Fell asleep one morning - open sports car before the days of seat belts - woke up in field. No shoes on. Car nearby, upside down. Put shoes back on. Looked at car. Not good. Looked at fence. Hole in it. Thumbed a lift.
Arranged rescue of car, and discovered field belonged to old school pal. Offered to pay for damage to fence. No, no, said he, no need.
B*****d sent me a bill for fence three months later. About ten times the cost of fencing the entire field. Not pals any more.
Apparently your feet shrink in this sort of accident. Can't recommend it!
Arranged rescue of car, and discovered field belonged to old school pal. Offered to pay for damage to fence. No, no, said he, no need.
B*****d sent me a bill for fence three months later. About ten times the cost of fencing the entire field. Not pals any more.
Apparently your feet shrink in this sort of accident. Can't recommend it!
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Apparently your feet shrink in this sort of accident. Can't recommend it!
Hmmm, interesting. I feel a PhD coming on lol !
Not an accident as such, but watching a junior Devonshire (Chatsworth) dig his shiny Range Rover in up to its sills in the perfectly flat car park at the country fair this year was quite amusing (particularly as we drove straight out in a Beemer) !
In the 60's with a souped mini took an S-bended humpback bridge near Bulford camp at toooooo high a speed. Took off, cleared the hedge and landed splat into the cow-ploughed edge of the river. No damage but up to my thighs in mire trying to get out. Farmer Garge laughed his tits off... rightly so. But at least he had the civility to tow me out... Ahhh the prattishness of youth! Duuuuhhhh!!!
That last comment jogged my memory... around 18 months ago a group of us had been go-karting outdoors.... Well we all returned to the pub where the cars had been left...
I had lent brother my "spare" car a 1 owner mini cooper suitable tweeked for backroad blasting...
So he scooted off I finished my conversation and followed him a few seconds later..
Rounding the next corner I was just in time to see a red mini launched into spectacular two wheeled flight, very gracefully go broadside on to the road then rotate straight onto its roof and slide down the tarmac on its lid...
A few seconds passed and a very white faced `bruv emerged (fell) out of the drivers door onto the road.
He had accidently put 2 wheels on the verge while looking for a cassette on the floor, unfortunately there was a 30mph sign on the verge at that point - which made an excellent launch post for a mini....
But not content with ripping a sign out of the ground, demolishing a fence, rolling the car (mine!) blocking the road for 2 hours..,
When he landed the car on its roof the vehicle used a rabbit as a crash mat.... Which I only discovered when we rolled the car over again - yuck!
We laugh about it now! But at the time I seriously considered doing the same thing to him as to the rabbit...
Haz
I had lent brother my "spare" car a 1 owner mini cooper suitable tweeked for backroad blasting...
So he scooted off I finished my conversation and followed him a few seconds later..
Rounding the next corner I was just in time to see a red mini launched into spectacular two wheeled flight, very gracefully go broadside on to the road then rotate straight onto its roof and slide down the tarmac on its lid...
A few seconds passed and a very white faced `bruv emerged (fell) out of the drivers door onto the road.
He had accidently put 2 wheels on the verge while looking for a cassette on the floor, unfortunately there was a 30mph sign on the verge at that point - which made an excellent launch post for a mini....
But not content with ripping a sign out of the ground, demolishing a fence, rolling the car (mine!) blocking the road for 2 hours..,
When he landed the car on its roof the vehicle used a rabbit as a crash mat.... Which I only discovered when we rolled the car over again - yuck!
We laugh about it now! But at the time I seriously considered doing the same thing to him as to the rabbit...
Haz
My uncle lives in Argentina but used to work on the Mull of Kintyre ... which is a long commute by anyone's standards. He got flown back to see his family every few months, but would usually work all night before the flight, then drive in the early hours the substantial journey to Heathrow (you're starting level with Glasgow, but you have to go north for at least 50 miles before you can start coming south again on the mainland). So he was always exhausted and usually late. His technique was to drive the hired Cavalier bloody fast, windows down, head out and shovel crisps and chocolate down his gob to stay awake.
One time he woke up sliding down the M25 on the roof. Car ended up on its side minus various windows, few collapsed pillars, few scuff marks. He calmly pushed it back on to its wheels and thrashed the smoking wreck to the Hertz drop off point at Heathrow figuring the crash had cost him 20 minutes. Parked it round the corner, took out his luggage, dropped off the keys at the desk and hightailed it to Terminal 4 and away on his flight.
One time he woke up sliding down the M25 on the roof. Car ended up on its side minus various windows, few collapsed pillars, few scuff marks. He calmly pushed it back on to its wheels and thrashed the smoking wreck to the Hertz drop off point at Heathrow figuring the crash had cost him 20 minutes. Parked it round the corner, took out his luggage, dropped off the keys at the desk and hightailed it to Terminal 4 and away on his flight.
One of the best I've seen. Good friend and absolute mutt (got grazed by a sniper when caught out of his tank with trousers down in WW2) bought wondrous bike and asked us all along for demo.
Couldn't start it. Opted for 'run and jump on'.
Worked fine. Jumped clean over the bike and landed on backside in middle of road. Bike last seen running straight and true thru hedge into someone's garden 1/4 mile away....
jaydee, do feet really shrink like that? In other two 'throw-outs' I had boots on and they stayed on (well-laced).
Couldn't start it. Opted for 'run and jump on'.
Worked fine. Jumped clean over the bike and landed on backside in middle of road. Bike last seen running straight and true thru hedge into someone's garden 1/4 mile away....
jaydee, do feet really shrink like that? In other two 'throw-outs' I had boots on and they stayed on (well-laced).
Back in school days when we lads felt we had to be impressive, pal of mine tried a 'J' turn in his old Renault 5, got round just about but with the knackered suspension it then popped itself onto it's roof. Muppet in the passenger seat (not me, I was safe in my Fiat 127 at the time!) was unharmed until he forgot he was upsidedown when he undid his seatbelt, my how we laughed..
this wasn't funny at the time, but in the beginning of my biking career...
Got nearly new ThunderCat as 2nd bike. Step up in power from my last machine, and it has "ram air".
Well it was a cold morning, and I gave way at a roundabout, thought "why give way, I'm on a powerful bike", and let the clutch out.
Nothing happened, carbs were icing.
Give it some revs, not a lot, think "'eck, car getting close!", give it a huge handful to get it past the misfire.
Big mistake. Misfire clears, bike takes off with large wheelie, and I break my foot on the pegs when the bike stops dead on the crash barrier !!
Written off, naturally.
Got nearly new ThunderCat as 2nd bike. Step up in power from my last machine, and it has "ram air".
Well it was a cold morning, and I gave way at a roundabout, thought "why give way, I'm on a powerful bike", and let the clutch out.
Nothing happened, carbs were icing.
Give it some revs, not a lot, think "'eck, car getting close!", give it a huge handful to get it past the misfire.
Big mistake. Misfire clears, bike takes off with large wheelie, and I break my foot on the pegs when the bike stops dead on the crash barrier !!
Written off, naturally.
I read in the Washington Post of a dog that fell out of an apartment window several floors up, landing on a pedestrian and breaking his neck. An elderly passerby fainted at the shock cracking her head on the pavement as she went down and a doctor, racing over the road to attend to the victims was struck and killed by a motorist.
Dogs 3: Humans 0
Dogs 3: Humans 0
For another non-motoring one try this, reported in the news here a couple of weeks ago. In Hungary lots of people keep pigs for the meat. When attempting to kill a pig the man managed to electrocute himself, his brother failed to turn off the electricity and also electrocuted himself, the house-owner had a heart-attack and died, meanwhile the pig was running around totally unharmed.
Pig:3 Humans:0
Pig:3 Humans:0
I've never heard of feet shrinking in accidents McN, who suggested this ?
A myth from the dawn of motoring is that it was unsuitable for more well-endowed ladies as their corsets frequently came undone in accidents... (not a strong argument for road safety IMHO
)
www.darwinawards.com/main.shtml
has lots of tragic/funny accidents.
A myth from the dawn of motoring is that it was unsuitable for more well-endowed ladies as their corsets frequently came undone in accidents... (not a strong argument for road safety IMHO
) www.darwinawards.com/main.shtml
has lots of tragic/funny accidents.
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