Big pothole flips Range Rover Freelander on its roof.

[vit4]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349570/Ar...


Car pedanticism aside, at the size of that.

There's one local that they've had to patch three times since December

[bobr]

That, even by the Wail's standards, is a piss poor, ill-informed steaming mound of horse st.

[HereBeMonsters]

Since when have Freelanders been Range Rovers?

[croyde]

A Range Rover Freelander, is that what the early one's were called, mmmmmmm. Anyhow those old ones were sh!t3 nothing like the latest model but they must of hit that hole at speed to flip it.

[Magog]

vit4 said:

at the size of that.

The mother or the daughter?

[jbi]

They don't call it a gaylander for nothing :P

[powerstroke]

bobr said:

That, even by the Wail's standards, is a piss poor, ill-informed steaming mound of horse st.

Yep but then a crash caused by piss poor driving wouldnt make a good news item

Edited by powerstroke on Sunday 23 January 15:34

Edited by powerstroke on Sunday 23 January 15:38

[Mojooo]

They must have been SPEEDING for that to happen!

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By the way, will resurfacing a road make THAT much of a differnce? Yes it means that there will be no break in the surface and harder for the same pothole to reappear but surely potholes all appeared originally from a decent surface - so wont you just end up with potholes re-appearing eventually from a newly surfaced road - albeit it may take longer - but how much longer?

Its a cost benefot exercise I spose.

[Fort Jefferson]

If I were the local council, I would close the road, get a FreeLander, and just see how stupid you would have to drive to flip over because of that hole.

[randlemarcus]

Oddly enough, I came across that, and stopped to make sure they were OK. The mother said it happened when she had to swerve to avoid the pothole, so I'd put it down to crap driving rather than crap roads - oddly enough the 911 I was driving neither went into the pothole, nor flipped itself magically over.

[anonymous-user]

The Freelander was never a RR, is not a 4x4 (it's AWD not 4WD) and was a pile of poo not to be confused with a proper LR. It was such a pile of poo that here in the USA the Freelander name was dropped altogether and the current model is called an LR2.

[bigandclever]

article said:

John Skidmore, head of Streetscene Services

Brilliant.

[Silver Smudger]

"John Skidmore, head of Streetscene Services" - Excellent choice of name! (or choice of profession I suppose)

Beat me to it cos I had the tab open for ages while doing something else

Anyway, why are the Mail quoting the Daily Express? Are they just getting their news from other papers now?

Edited by Silver Smudger on Sunday 23 January 16:46

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Mojooo said:

surely potholes all appeared originally from a decent surface

Define decent, we make our roads of the cheapest stuff possible meaning they are completely unable to handle the cold unlike continental roads

[Mr Gearchange]

Irrespective of how good or bad the car is - potholes simply do not put vehicles on their roof.

Utter bullst and, I would wager, a measure to get the council to meet the cost of the vehicle.

The Mail really are a bunch of fking simpletons - I think I'll pop down the the newsroom tomorrow and see how many magic beans and bottles of snake oil I can shift.

[FourWheelDrift]

Mail said:

'If we hadn't been in a big 4x4 we could have been killed,' she told the Daily Express.

If they had been in a car instead it probably wouldn't have rolled over.

[Mojooo]

Mr Gearchange said:

Irrespective of how good or bad the car is - potholes simply do not put vehicles on their roof.

Utter bullst and, I would wager, a measure to get the council to meet the cost of the vehicle.

The Mail really are a bunch of fking simpletons - I think I'll pop down the the newsroom tomorrow and see how many magic beans and bottles of snake oil I can shift.

Well, poster above said it was caused by them swerving. Myabe he should have a word with the council to stop them paying out for the car!

[cptsideways]

bigandclever said:

article said:

John Skidmore, head of Streetscene Services

Brilliant.

Have another

[boredofmyoldname]

FourWheelDrift said:

Mail said:

'If we hadn't been in a big 4x4 we could have been killed,' she told the Daily Express.

If they had been in a car instead it probably wouldn't have rolled over.

If she hadn't been a ste driver then it probably wouldn't either.

[7mike]

Must have been a bad crash to do that to someone's face, they should put a claim in.