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Have you ever over turned a vehicle?

and yet . . . 20 short years later I'm still here . . . so obviously not me then . . .

More by luck than judgement tho eh?

Anyone who crashes a car and then next time they approach the same piece of road actually take it faster rather than more cautiously deserves not to be around contributing to the gene pool.
 
I have overturned motorcycles on a number of occassions which is expensive because it usually involved quite a lot of damage to surfaces which should not be in contact with tarmac.

Re Cars: Only nearly overturned a pickup truck on a dusty road when I lost control of it.
 
My older sister wrote off my dad's car 3 weeks after passing her test, with dad in the passenger seat
 
Not fully rolled, but managed to put a Fiesta into a ditch when I was 17 and it was about 3/4's all the way over.
My mate beside me, after we'd come to a halt, just looked at me said "handbrake"
:D
I got mine up to about 30 degrees off the horizontal. Best I've managed *shrug*
 
More by luck than judgement tho eh?

Anyone who crashes a car and then next time they approach the same piece of road actually take it faster rather than more cautiously deserves not to be around contributing to the gene pool.

Pah.

Another subscriber to the "speed only ever the cause of accidents" canard?
 
I haven't yet, and sincerely hope I don't as I drive an MX5 and thus would land on my head. Sliding into a kerb at the wrong angle and rolling it is the stuff my nightmares are made of. I'm saving up for a roll cage before I put a supercharger on it!
 
I've rolled a Hilman Imp.

No injuries and save for the mud and grass a virtually undamaged car.

Tough little fuckers them Imps... and drunk 17 year olds too come to that.
 
if motorcycles count I highsided on denbigh moors in what my mate describes as an awesome manner.

i was a bit busy at the time avoiding doing an egg\eggslicer impression with the wire fence to take too much notice of my artistic style.

bike was a write off (nice honda ns400) but i walked away with just a few bruises thanks to soggy ground
 
second car i've maanged to do it too.:(

Which is definatly one to many. First ones good for the story but twice is pointless.


dave
 
you should and i can't belive i was waiting that long for someone to ask quiet frankly!:mad::p

I don't really get what hapend to be honest. Came into a corner at about 50-55 which might have been a tiny bit fast on reflection(not a lot fast though) and the fucker just refused to turn, must have flicked some ice or something i guess, was about to plough into a lorry coming the other way managed to get round that but went off the road.

Was expecting to come to stop and then reverse out without much problem. Ploughed through a hedge again wasn't expecting much nose dug into the ground and launched the car over. Ending up on the roof.

Twas a weird one to be honest. I normally change down to 4th for it but other then that even baring in mind the rain i did nothing differently.

Insurance company had better not dick me about.

dave
 
I rolled mine last month. Coming back up the A3, longish right-hander, I was in the outside lane. Hit a patch of black ice, and the back end started coming round. Steering, brakes; nothing. We went sideways down the dual carriageway for what seemed like ages - fuck only knows how we managed to avoid any other cars - then the front driver's wheel hit the kerb. We were probably still doing between sixty and seventy at this point.

Apparently the first roll was more of a somersault. Then it landed on a side, and rolled a couple of times. We eventually landed at about 45 degrees, right-side-up, on a wide verge at the side. I'd got a cut on my head where I'd smacked into the door pillar, and my girlfriend had to be taken to hospital with a suspected fractured pelvis (fortunately this turned out not to be the case). Apparently it took four fire crews to cut us from the wreckage.

I'd say it was pretty much the most horribly unpleasant experience of my life.
 
I rolled mine last month. Coming back up the A3, longish right-hander, I was in the outside lane. Hit a patch of black ice, and the back end started coming round. Steering, brakes; nothing. We went sideways down the dual carriageway for what seemed like ages - fuck only knows how we managed to avoid any other cars - then the front driver's wheel hit the kerb. We were probably still doing between sixty and seventy at this point.

Apparently the first roll was more of a somersault. Then it landed on a side, and rolled a couple of times. We eventually landed at about 45 degrees, right-side-up, on a wide verge at the side. I'd got a cut on my head where I'd smacked into the door pillar, and my girlfriend had to be taken to hospital with a suspected fractured pelvis (fortunately this turned out not to be the case). Apparently it took four fire crews to cut us from the wreckage.

I'd say it was pretty much the most horribly unpleasant experience of my life.


jeebus - hope youre both ok now :eek:
 
Yeah, cheers :) Neck is still a bit stiff, gonna get some physio on that I think. The paramedics told us to expect it, but the stiffness and aches the next day were shocking. I had no external bruises but we were both pretty much unable to move; it felt like I'd done a cycle in a washing machine.

Be careful on those roads :(
 
yeah when i said i had no injuries i didn't count on not being able to move my neck left today and have found a lovely bruise where im guessing ether the steering wheel or hand brake or random car clutter hit my leg.

and callie like i wuould ever let you in my car(y'know if i had one at the second). Depreciation would be very very big.

dave
 
As a kid me and a few mates tipped a lada onto its roof if that counts. We werent scumbags living in a street full of upturned cars and burning couches, we were just 10 and amazed that five of us could tip a car over :)
 
4th gear round the corner?

*note to self: never accept a lift from Dave :D*

Sometimes 4th on a corner isn't that loony...

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(mine has 6, now. Doesn't stop me looking for No 7 on the motorway, sometimes, though...)
 
Not personally, but fella at work has a bit of a habit of rolling some pretty large construction plant, one week a 100 ton earthmover, then a few weeks later a loading shovel.

Not sure what hes going to do next...we can but wait!
 
Sometimes 4th on a corner isn't that loony...

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(mine has 6, now. Doesn't stop me looking for No 7 on the motorway, sometimes, though...)

Mine has 5, I don't think I have ventured that far yet - I'm still learning. Still time to flip nicecar!! woo :eek:
 
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