BMW Hits House

[Brian WH]

A BMW driven by a 23 year old who lost control and after hitting various objects ended up slidding sideways on into a house. Fortunately the house occupants had just retired upstairs to bed. The car ended up in the hallway side on as shown here.

 

[Brian WH]

Further Picture.

 

[pammy]

 

[Howard]

Best place for it.........

 

[PJH]

Not sure, is it a new 5 series ?

I'm beginnig to think that a two-tier driving licence should be introduced, or
perhaps a restriction on what car you can drive within say 5 years of passing the driving test.

In 10 years time 17 year old (Corsa boys) will be able to pass their test and buy an Imprezza Turbo for peanuts.

Special driving licences are required for PSV & HGV etc so why not a classification for 'High Power Cars'.

 

[Steve_Perry]

Not sure, is it a new 5 series ?

Looks like an older 3 series to me.


You had me worried for a sec Bri. I thought your house had been the victim. Poor peeps, imagine all the hassle and iconvenience of getting the house repaired. At least the house owners weren't hurt you kind of believe that you should be safe in your own house.

S.

 

[Howard]

From the piccys in the paper today, i thought it looked like an M3 or 328i - the exhausts are round like the M3's rather than oval like the 328i's.

I gather it belonged to an ex-footballers son or something......


So prob. an M3, seems like a footballers sons sort of car.... 'Dad, can i have an M3 ?' ....... 'Sure son, it's only 2 days wages.....'

Whatever it is it's toast now.........

 

[marcos]

It's an M3 and bloody good riddance to it

 

[Deleted member 2227]

I bet as its a BMW driver, "The house moved into his lane"

 

[GrahamC230K]

Golf clubs still in the boot!

 

[Big Ed]

It was a E36 M3 - 321bhp and no traction control on a slippery road - not the best recipe with a 23 year old behind the wheel!

Can pick these up for ~£10k now - well within reach of youngsters - don't think I would have trusted myself with one of these at that age......

 

[GrahamC230K]

I think I had better defend the younger members of the forum and say, that at 23 years old, sure the purchase price of an E36 M3 would not have been a problem.

If I hadn't spent all my money on fast women, I probably would have had one instead of the C200, a mate of mine had one at that age.

However, idiots can be found in all age groups!

Although I can't recall the last middle aged driver news story

 

[pepper&boulou]

The new compact sliding garage system. Don't know about the car but the house looks a write off>

 

[sym]

shoulda' done the skid-pan course

 

[andyw]

"Fore!!"

 

[Big Ed]

I think I had better defend the younger members of the forum and say, that at 23 years old, sure the purchase price of an E36 M3 would not have been a problem.

If I hadn't spent all my money on fast women, I probably would have had one instead of the C200, a mate of mine had one at that age.

However, idiots can be found in all age groups!

Although I can't recall the last middle aged driver news story

Completely agree Graham - plenty of idiots on the road from 17 (or younger!!) up to 90, can find them in all catagories. Likewise, you can finding driving geniuses like half the F1 field in the young driver category, so guess that my sweeping statements could be disproven quite easily.

Suppose I was generalising a fair bit, using myself as a reference - when I was in my teens / early 20s I thought I was gods gift to driving, and that F1 was unlucky not to have me (assuming they started making larger cockpits!). At that age I thought that I could drive a powerful sports car with no problems - looking back, I'm pretty sure that if I had owned a car faster than a hot hatch at those ages it would not have had a happy ending.

My own experience having owned a M3 is that these things can bite the unwary, and as a general statement, I would not be keen on my kid having one of these at a young age, at least without some decent driver training.

Didn't mean to offend - middle age criticism creeps up on you sooner than you think! 'Youth of today', and all that.....

P.s. Have to admit - it looks pretty impressive parking - must have been desperate to keep it off the double yellow lines!!

 

[GrahamC230K]

You didn't offend at all Ed. I've been your passenger after all, I believe everything you say about your driving!!

I think it's possibly more to how the 23 yr old came to be driving. Someone who has saved up or has a loan for the next 24 months to pay for it drives a little differently to one where Dad has got it for you.

That I know from my own experience.

 

[pluggers]

I bet he wanted an integral garage realy

 

[miro]

A BMW driven by a 23 year old who lost control and after hitting various objects ended up slidding sideways on into a house. Fortunately the house occupants had just retired upstairs to bed. The car ended up in the hallway side on as shown here.

The driver got confused when the operations manual said the car was installed with i-drive. That ultimately led to the driver seeing just how effective the technology was.

 

[Flash]

It would not surprise me if he/she did not have any insurance.... half of the max power lot don't and like smeone said the E36 can be picked up cheap now. When I was 23 pretty much all the insurance companies put the phone down on me or told me to go away politely when I was a named driver on my father's CL.

You wont see too many people in their young 20s in the current M3 (which is hot stuff... and is a £40G plus car... unless Daddy bought it.... I have to admit though the only reason I have ben privillaged to have access/drive/keep in my posession some of the cars I have done i.e. CL600 has been down to my Father but I treated them with the utmost respect like my own and never abused them or fobbed peopel off saying I owned them myself.

Flash