******* Tractors

StevePolo · Post by **StevePolo** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:11 pm

Just been driving down a country road, maybe a little too quickly and came round a corner to be faced by a big tractor and trailer chugging down the middle of the road, time for mucho skidding and fishtailing around it and up someones drive! any way managed to avoid him just, god knows how i managed it, proper sh!t me up!!!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:03 pm

Coming towards you or going away? Towards = major brickage

Had similar recently faced with a small convoy of big flatbeds pickup-type trucks (the monster 8-wheeler ones converted from a regular "tractor" cab) full of quarry stone charging towards a blind bend i just came round.... country road just wide enough for two cars to pass without banging mirrors, but not for anything bar a cyclist to get by those things! Crapped myself into the gateway of a farmers field with plenty of horn.

Where the hell were they going, especially at such a speed? There's nuff A-roads about and nowhere they could be taking that stuff that isn't on a main route... wiiierd.

Nice bit of fancy driving mate........... tractors should have big flashing lights and beepers (like for reversing trucks, or road sweepers) on them!

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:10 pm

I was having an ROSPA advanced driving lesson today and they encouraged me to stay slightly above the speed limit in the mid wales country side

Came around a bend quite fast and there was a police car in the middle of the road with it's blues on as they were cutting down a tree.

As I squeeled to a stop one of the police men came over and said 'ello, how fast were you coming around that bend then?'

Luckily the policeman knew my instructor as he was trained by him!!

What the chances of that happening,

lucky me. But I was bricking it for a while I wont tell you how fast I was actually going.

James.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:11 am

Hmmm, wales.......

about 25 mph then!! a perfect speed for enjoying the countryside and val-ehs.

(no love lost with the welsh road constabulary!)

StevePolo · Post by **StevePolo** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:21 pm

[quote="Tahrey1043"]Coming towards you or going away? Towards = major brickage

Coming towards, major brickage indeed, but it gives you a proper buzz!!not that i'd want to do it again!!

deadcat · Post by **deadcat** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:49 am

Tractors? Pah!

You wanna come round a corner and be faced with a fecking huge Combine harvester. Jinkies! Zoinks! and C'lammity! (as shaggy might say) have you seen how many fecking huge blades those things have on them?

I hope i never head towards one at high speed again.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:25 pm

and big enough that they're trimming back both hedges at the same time!

Sugar Muppet · Post by **Sugar Muppet** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:41 pm

Count your lucky stars you stopped!

My b/f came round a country corner to meet a milk tanker a couple of weeks ago.

He wrote off his beloved mk 4 Polo and was lucky to escape serious injury.
He wasn't wearing a seat belt and broke the steering wheel with his chest.

On another note, when we went to the scrap yard to collect what we could from the car all the VWs in the yard seemed to have faired well in crashes - the insides remaining intact. However Vaxhalls seemed worse - Vectras looking like Corsas and Corsas looking like match boxes! Very glad i have a trusty polo![/quote]

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:26 pm

s'why i could never drive them, all image and performance issues notwithstanding... they're made out of tinfoil. most deadly cars in a crash - Metros (ALL of them, not just early ones), Novas and old Corsas, and Minis! Even tho the Polo has little in the way of protection other than crumple zones and seatbelts, i'd feel a lot safer in a collision as it's got a bit more solid metal to absorb impact!

Love the name by the way

.... and hows the lucky guy?

Sugar Muppet · Post by **Sugar Muppet** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:24 am

Thanks! It came from my boyfriend. He used to call me "Sugar" which i really objected to and his favourite term is "You Muppet" so the two merged and i became sugar muppet (I am getting sugar muppet made up in stickers to go across my back window)

My boyfriend was lucky, 20 odd stiches in his arm, cut on the head and badly bruised ribs.

Hasn't put him off Polo's, he has already got another one, green this time. Will take him a long time to get it up to the standard that his last car was though.

OGDMX · Post by **OGDMX** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:08 pm

i had a crash in mine back in nov....still tryin to sort it out now

the other guy was in an m3 and cut across me head on...my polo has Â£2.5k of damage on it but it looks pretty much intact considering....prob cant say the same for his...

takin him to court soon...everything in my favour....his insurers arent pursuin it...mine have closed the file.....cops on my side....2 witnesses who didnt see the accident but came out after noted his attitude and all the debris was on my side of the road which contradicts his s**t story....im confident

hopefully get my car back on the road soon

heres my polo....in it poorly state

hows that for a unique mod