crash

Pulled this from the Piston Heads site: It's believed woman have a better chance of surviving an impact than men If a new study is to be believed, female drivers will be safer in an accident than their male counterparts because of the fact that females have a thicker skull than men...

Carrera GT Crash Settled for $4.5m The lawsuit was recently settled for a reported total of approximately $4.5 million. The contributions to the settlement were about 49% from the estate of the driver, 41% from the track owners and the event organizers, 8% from Porsche, and 2% from the driver of...

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http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16092007/58/mcrae-feared-killed-chopper-crash.html Tragic news.:( A lovely character and amazing driver. Will be missed:(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6988623.stm

Renault Modus or Volvo 740, which is safer..?? place your bets. I'll go for the Renault..

.....Chefs and Hairdressers! Anything to do with the cars they drive? :rolleyes:

With all the weekends fuss over Alonso & Hamilton, Dario Franchitti's crash was almost un-noticed. :eek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT4HAnbtirY

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/safety-recalls/carcrashtest/crashtestvideo.htm C, E and M class'es are there, along with quite a few other makes/models of cars! (p.s. don't watch if the sight of perfectly valid cars being wrecked makes you cringe ;) ) Michele

So, some kid in a VW Polo just went into the back of me. We were on a congested roundabout, the car two cars in front of me stopped, the car in front of me stopped, I stopped, the car behind me didn't :-( My rear bumper is trashed, and the lip of the tailgate is scratched. He came off far...

Very sad, after watching some of the previous runs footage it was a matter of time before this happened....http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1264048,00.html ...leaving the scene of any accident is bad enough but that is just wrong! :mad:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6248515.stm I don't know if this has come up before, but it makes interesting reading. Cheers.

Local to me a Ferrari Driver in his early 40's was killed. His 15 year old daughter was thrown clear and managed to telephone for help. Local paper said that it was well alight and upside down in a ditch. No other car was involved. Ferrari Crash on A50

Former Grand Prix driver Gianclaudio "Clay" Regazzoni has been killed in a road accident. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6184347.stm http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=38123

I was prompted to post on this phenomenon again by an item on yesterdays news and by another post on insurance costs. This was covered on video on the BBC some time ago. http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=deliberate+car+crash&x=0&y=0&scope=all&tab=all&recipe=all see video...

After my 300 was written off on Monday (see thread 'Death of my 300') , we had another incident yesterday morning (Saturday) when a BMW left the road and wrote off Jan's Primera Since Monday's event I have been complaining and stirring it with everyone . One of the things I have been doing...

The girlfriend was involved in an accident yesterday on a roundabout and so its gonna be a tough one to prove so your advice is needed. She was on a dual carriage way travelling towards Bluewater shopping centre. She was in the outside lane because a road sign said both lanes for Bluewater...

As some of you may know , I work as a photographer for the Fire Service and , yesterday , we held a 'Crash Rescue Challenge' in which various fire crews from around the country compete to see who can cut a victim out of a car quickest. In order to do this we obtain a number of scrap cars from...

This crash happened in ireland at the weekend. Head on collison between a mondeo and a w124. 3 guys in the modeo died and the guy in the w124 only suffered a broken hip!

I'm sitting at a mini roundabout with a BM 7 series in front of me , the roundabout and 2 oncoming roads are completely clear..... The guy drives off and takes exit 2 and ploughs straight into a belisha beacon which is attached to a lamp post .... The car stops dead, and is trashed...