Member Since: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Tas
Posts: 170
What price do you put on your safety and wellbeing
I have been working with a fellow D3 owner who was recently involved in a head on car crash, an on coming car crossed into his lane, the road was wet and both cars were travelling at 100km/hr.
The D3 owner can not remember the on coming car coming onto his side of the road, all he can remember was a white flash of the airbags and a loud noise. The other car was a Toyota corolla, the driver was rushed to hospital with major injuries, The D3 owner was admitted to hospital for monitoring and released the next day with only a sore neck.
Paramedics at the scene said they have never seen someone in such good condition after a high speed impact and said that buying the disco3 was the best investment he has ever made.
Glad he's alright. Might print a couple of those and nail them to the head of the next Green to throw abuse at meI know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
4th Apr 2008 12:35 pm
simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 18296
Holy Cow
Glad he was OK.
And an amazing lack of damage TBH considering - even the LR lettering is still in place
Just goes to show that buying a smaller vehicle maybe is not the best idea as you have no control over the other vehicle coming towards you
4th Apr 2008 1:03 pm
BarryG
Member Since: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Eire
Posts: 1333
Hows the Guy in toyota doing razzle ?
4th Apr 2008 1:17 pm
npinks
Member Since: 31 Jan 2008
Location: Leeds
Posts: 1943
WOW that has stood up very well
This is what happened to my old car (A 55 Kia Sportage) before i got my FL2
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Car parked on side of road, hit by Transit Van doing 40mph'ish
4th Apr 2008 7:19 pm
norto
Member Since: 10 Apr 2006
Location: batemans bay
Posts: 1605
Razzle
Lucky he was in a D3
Any idea if the D3 is a write off and
where the car is....may be a good source for parts......(read mirrors)Pete
4th Apr 2008 8:46 pm
Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
Bit polish and it'll be good as new! With the news about foreign lorry drivers and the accidents they cause I'm bloody glad I have a D3DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
4th Apr 2008 9:26 pm
integrale
Member Since: 10 Mar 2008
Location: Aarhus
Posts: 230
Re: What price do you put on your safety and wellbeing
razzle wrote:
I have been working with a fellow D3 owner who was recently involved in a head on car crash, an on coming car crossed into his lane, the road was wet and both cars were travelling at 100km/hr.
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OMG. At least the Esky is alright.
On this story I'm glad I have a D3.Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
2005 TDV6 S with Terrain Response (& all that entails), Tasmods (gorn). 2008 TDV6 HSE (gone). A Dark Side umbrella (here) & car (here).
Member Since: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Tas
Posts: 170
The other drive survived, he had a ruptured spleen, torn liver etc.
Car was a write off, Chassis must off been bent, there is a silver lining to the story, apparently the D3 was a petrol S model that was brought at a very good drive away special, Insurance replaced it with a Diesel S model as petrol S model are allegedly not available.
The accident happened several months ago and I imagine the car will be auctioned off at one of those “Write off†Auctions.Trust me, what could go wrong?
4th Apr 2008 10:52 pm
Neil Pettersen
Member Since: 23 Nov 2007
Location: Cutting the grass
Posts: 1254
Good job the other vehicle was a light car with off-set impact.
The D3 would have kept moving in the same direction....anything is better than being reversed instantly.
Being hit by something also weighing two and a half tons ....... would be a different matter.
Front right tyre is still inflated ........ excellent impact energy distribution in our D3's
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