Crash On The A2 (Near Gravesend)

Silva_B!tch_Owner · Post by **Silva_B!tch_Owner** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:44 am

Was on my way to work this morning, driving down the A2 towards Gravesend, just after the turning for Bean i think, i know there was some electricity lines and a it was after you go down a slope on the motorway then theres a right hand bend, quite a long bend anyway before this i turned into the middle lane doing maybe 60-70. This Silver Jaguar speeds past me in the right lane probably doing 80 plus, bare in mind this morning its raining like mad and there ALOT of water on the road and spray from other cars too makes it hard to see also. Next minute i turn back into the right hand lane and in the distance i just see this silver car (The Jaguar) slide across the whole motorway and smash sideways, facing the opposite way into the fence where the hard shoulder is. I didn't actually stop, but called the emergency services for the person. First time i've ever seen anything like that, kinda makes you think sometimes.

But why go so fast in the rain? I do not know. Done my good deed for today.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:38 am

thats what happens when you put an idiot in a high performance car.. they cant handle it....
U did ur bit... hope u was using a hands free

Silky V · Post by **Silky V** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:58 am

Bloody hell

! I would have s**t myself if I had seen that. I guess its too late now to go have a look now

. But you make a good point. Why go soo fast in the rain.

Well done for calling the emergency services. I like the way you said you didn't stop

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Silva_B!tch_Owner · Post by **Silva_B!tch_Owner** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:13 pm

Silky V wrote:Bloody hell ! I would have s**t myself if I had seen that. I guess its too late now to go have a look now . But you make a good point. Why go soo fast in the rain.

Well done for calling the emergency services. I like the way you said you didn't stop ?

Yeah i got a bit scared, soon as i saw that i made sure i slowed down. Luckly there wasn't any cars within reach of him otherwise he would have taken someone else out.

I would have stopped but you know, its was raining and if i'd have stopped i'd have had to cross the motorway and all, park up etc plus it was raining down hard.

As for using a hands free, well i had a free hand

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:16 pm

Must have been doing some pace to do that. What a dumb ass especially in the rain.

Hats off to you Mr. Silver Jag Driver

Alex_6n2 · Post by **Alex_6n2** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:33 pm

I remember about 6 years ago my parents where taking me back from rugby down some country roads and theres this one point on a hill where the road bend to the left by at least 90 degrees

we were going up the hill and litterally 2 seconds before we reached the corner some bloke came flying round in an astra van, went straight on, up the bank on the other side, drove UP a tree, before coming back down on his roof..... THEN the van started to roll towards us. Ive never seen someone reverse so fast in my life

scared the crap outta me!

my grandad got out and went over to the bloke and he turned out to be drunk!

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:52 pm

HAH Ive never seen a prober bad accident.....
but damn that one sound Fukkkked!!
Up a tree haha..damn

When I did my lessons I had a big slogo saying DONT DRINK AND DRIVE
getting the message across...

..

Silva_B!tch_Owner · Post by **Silva_B!tch_Owner** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:01 pm

I wrote off my Polo last summer, i had a 1.4 E model, same silver colour. had it for 2 weeks and managed to flip the car once. Happened in North London near Northolt Firestation. It happened so fast, my car was f**ked, couldnt even drive it after that, I had a lucky escape cos i got out the car no bumps no bruises and didnt even have to go hospitial.

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:17 pm

What time of the morning was this btw?

Worst smash i saw was last friday night in the Medway area (chatham/gillingham... i can't destiguish between places) a long industrial road, new scooby must've gone tearing down it at some pace and there's a sharpish bend (in the dark it's hard to see) and well he didn't see the bend (plus it was slippery) straight over the curb into the bushes/trees.

Result - very heavy front passenger side of the car damage. Amazingly the driver in it was fine other than a cut on his arm and bruised ribs

Driver was just stupid not drunk.

Silva_B!tch_Owner · Post by **Silva_B!tch_Owner** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:57 am

This was at about 8:50am.

nuttinnew · Post by **nuttinnew** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:47 pm

Swanscombe Cutting; thankfully they removed the cameras after the roadworks

If you're London bound and have some time to spare take the slip part way up and do a lap of the new offslip and roundabouts; it's tight at first but opens up, excellent fun

Worst crash I saw in that location was a lorry into the old petrol station on the downhill

waveydavey · Post by **waveydavey** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:51 pm

Reminds me of a time earlier this year when i was heading to work along the M18 one morning.......... It was February time i think and about quarter past six in the morning so pretty damned dark!!!! I was tootlin' along in the outside lane when i saw something about three or four hundred yards away..... It's hard to explain but it looked a little odd, then i realised what it was...... It was the front sidelights of a vehicle staring straight at me in the fast lane

Anyhows i got straight off the gas and ducked in behind the car i was overtaking and right enough as i got nearer a Mercedes sprinter van makes it's way out of the darkness stood facing the wrong way in the fast lane.... Looked as though he'd swerved, spun and hit the central reservation.

The two worst bits were.....

1. The Knob who came thundering along in the outside lane after me and nearly took the whole right-side of the polo off trying to nip between the van (half on the fast lane half in the central verge) and myself. Put it this way...... if i'd been in the Lexus that morning rather than the Polo he wouldn't have fitted through the gap!!!!!!!

.....and 2. The bemused white van driver who was just calmly stood next to the van in the centre of the moteorway waiting to walk / run over to the hard shoulder!!!!!

Cheers

Dave.

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:04 am

While everyone is on a "I remember when..."

I was 18 and just passed my driving test. drove down from cardiff to plymouth for work in a corsa turbo diesel. It was raining pretty bad and the car didn't feel good going over 70mph (a corsa!) so I took it easy.

On the was back it the rain was even worse, I was driving along the m5 no traffic ahead of me, going around 75mph. and the rear passenger side tyre blew. I absolutly crapped myself as the car spinned around I remember seeing cars coming towards me thinking I was going to die. When the car finally stopped spinning (I think it only did a 360 but it felt like forever) I was in the middle lane of the motorway facing the right way doing around 20mph. car overtaking on both sides with blowing their horns. I couldn't beleive how lucky I was.

I pulled over, there was no hard sholder along that stretch of road and not everyone had mobile phones in those days

so I tried to change the wheel. Everything went wrong. The jack snapped but I somehow managed to get my tool box under the rear axle (works car) to hold it up while I got the wheel on. Then I could get it out from under so had to drive over it and break it. I almost got hit by a few cars. It was very dark but I had my lights on. Then when I got in the car it wouldn't start as I'd drained the battery taking so long. luckily I left it off for 5 mins then tried again, it finally started.

Ah that was one of the crappiest days ever, the wheel I took off was completely flat and when they checked the tyres the next day every one of them were under the legal limit, even the spare! I didn't think to check in those days as it wasn't my car.

I hate that stretch of road, when I was 7 we were travelling down it and my dad was driving an old citreon bx (with the 'fun' suspension) and the bonnet popped up whilst he was over taking in the fast lane. I've never been able to sleep in a car since. and I get very nervous driving along that part of the m5.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:00 am

i've been lucky so far in that i've never seen many accidents - not even in my wake. my own scrapes are usually the worst. til today it literally came down to seeing some poor chav sitting on the edge of a ditch on a country road, staring forlornly at his upside-down saxo, also in the ditch. (stopped and checked things out with him, rescue truck was enroute)

today though, a good one, and one that has me baffled. didnt get to stop and stare, but from the amount of police and ambulance presence and the look of the scene, there was possible severe nastiness both inside and outside the car. sort of thing that makes me think i should start carrying the digicam in the car to illustrate better than words can.

this map should do for now. it's only a tiddler, dont worry

a jet black audi TT. resting neatly on it's right hand side A-pillar. all busted up quite badly, nearly in the middle of the carriageway, close to a smashed and almost horizontal light-up advertising hoarding (still lit!) that wasn't so much on the pavement as behind it, at the threshold of a branch of maplins.
upside down, smashed TT, not so unusual you might think, as its usually rich playboys and other dislikable fools with more money than skills that buy and abuse them (the only other TT story i know involves a drunken rich guy driving one home from the ex-work nightclub and being found in a ditch by colleagues living in the same direction as him when they left 90 minutes later, at the end of some v-e-r-y long alcohol induced skidmarks suggesting he was three figures up when he stacked it. on a near-straight road).
the unusual and notable thing was more the sheer amount of emergency services presence. many police cars, more than i know the immediately local force to have, lots of officers wandering about, and at least one ambulance in attendance. it was visible aways back, from a crossing i had to stop at, and produced visions of grandeur - i was expecting that someone had travelled up from lozells, started some sh*t and got a blood bath as reward. a little too much reaction for a single crashed car.

and then there was the position of it. as noted on the map, this area is a bit of a bottleneck, with the A5127 (towards city centre, M6, A38(M)) and A4040 (outer ring road) plus a busy local B-road all coming together. it's not so bad heading home (as i was) compared to the insane mornings, but you still wouldn't count on reliably peaking at more than 25mph (indicated) through this section and the immediate surrounds. that you could tip a reliant robin at that speed, let enough get together enough force to turn a TT, is something else - they must have been doing a fair whack ....... somehow. there's not exactly a great deal of acceleration room even if the road was clear, and there's an obvious choice between the side road which carries straight on, and the main one which curves round sharply (25 is ample, 30 or 35 for thrills) to follow the roundabout - sharper and far more evil than the map suggests). guess numpty tried to go the hard way, strong off the line, and failed.

I just hope no-one was standing in front of that advert board when he smacked into it, as the remaining traces might not bear looking at. with the timing of it, and all the bus stops (and many people waiting at them), the consequences of losing it a few yards to the right, or a few to left would have been far worse

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:59 pm

ahem .... anyway .... more briefly

S_B_O - that's exactly the sort of idiocy people should be getting fines and points for (as are the other couple of original examples up top) ... but is there much chance of that happening? Is there b*llocks. Even if something did come from it I bet it would be a slap on the wrist compared to a speeding fine.