Girl Friend had a near miss!

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:03 pm

i got a call from my girlfriend at about 6.30 on wednesday nite saying she had had an accident. i asked her if she was ok and where she was. she said she was ok and was about 10 miles away!

when i got along the road where she said she was (60mph road with no street lights), i couldn't see her car but two other cars and a police car. i pulled up, got out of the car and started walking towards the police car and got ment by a policeman. it was at that point that in the darkness i spotted my girlfriends car, down in a ditch!

she was going along the road at about 50mph behind another car, when she hit something, swerved and lost control, she went across the road through on coming traffic and down the ditch backwards! the car was pirched in the ditch ontop of a wall which i supose was to stop the earth under the road coming into the field and the back of the car was wedged against where the field raises back up!

thankfully, my girlfriend was fine, the person behind her saw what happened and stopped to help her. she couldn't get out the door cause of the angle the car was sat at (45 degrees down on the passenger side). the people who stopped helped her out. meanwhile, two off duty paramedics had stopped to make sure everything was ok! they gave her a check over and she was fine!

the car, a pug 206 no more than 1 year old, you couldn't see the car from the road, the ditch was at least 6 ft deep! the condition of the car was amazingly good! the only visual damage was the front lower spoiler thing hanging off! apart from that, no damage could be seen! the engine, axles, exhaust were all off the wall by about 3inchs and were undamaged! even the part where the impact happended was there any damage! of course, under where we couldn't see there was going to be damage but it looked like the car was in one piece!
now the problem was getting the car back out the ditch! the first recoverly lorry turned up and said there was no way he could get it out (well, he could but the car would of had to of been a definate write off for him to drag it out, it wouldn't matter how much more damaged it got by him dragging it out). so we had to wait longer for a recovery lorry with the crane on the back! unfortunatly, they couldn't use the four pronged thing which goes under the tyres as you couldn't get to one of them. so he had to put a sling through the windows and hoist it by the roof! it was a sad sight to see this year old car being raised out of a ditch!

this raising of the car damaged the doors badly and the windows would no longer shut! they have taken the car away for assessments, but i believe it might be a write off! if however they didn't need to do it this way, you probably would of been able to drive the car away!

my girlfriend had minor wiplash but going in to the ditch backwards probably helped in her not being injured as she had much more support from the seat!

still waiting to hear from the garage about it its a write off or not!

in total, the accident happened at 6.30, we didn't get home until 12 that nite! that was a long time to sit in the middle of no where!

dub envy · Post by **dub envy** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:26 pm

Glad she's ok..

Sounds like a strange one. I like cars that have been driven into ditches. Wanna sell it??

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:46 pm

christ that must have been scary
luckily it sounded worse than it actually was
glad shes ok!
-Ben-

SiDaBa · Post by **SiDaBa** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:27 am

Ouch, glad she's alright though considering the circumstances

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:35 am

Yeah, glad she's ok mate.

Appears she was a very lucky girl!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:57 am

Scary stuff

Glad she's alright though.. sounds like the 206 is somewhat tougher than we tend to give it credit for

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:30 pm

yeezers! happy ending to that scare!

any idea what she hit / what caused the car to spin out?

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:58 pm

we're not really sure what happened! she was following a red van just before it happened, no i didn't pay much attention to this at the time, but i spotted a bit of red trim at the side of the road just after where she spun off! so something might of come off the van, picking at straws really, its a bit late now!

workinprogress · Post by **workinprogress** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:55 pm

mate as long as your missus is ok its only a car at the end of the day! my missus has got a 206 as well i keep telling her to get a vw but i might just let her keep it now

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:32 pm

Apparently a rising concern with the biking community is diesel spillages on the road, perhaps she got unlucky with one of those......