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C63 test drive ends with a golf in the boot!

Dizwen

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Had one of them invites from Benz to the AMG day at Derby benz. Me and my mate went. The SLS is a nice looking machine if abit out of my price range!

Had a look round a white C63 with ppp. looks great in white. Anyway I asked for a test drive in the C63, a quick copy of my driving licence and off we dove. Ed from Benz drove it for a few miles up the A52. We pulled off at borrowash junction and pulled into a small car park. I jumped in the driving seat and pulled off. we drove over the bridge and went to rejoin the A52. I pulled down the slip road and stopped at the giveway lines. I waited for a gap to pull out into... I spotted a corsa coming down the road toward me and it was changeing lane so I could pull out, so I crawled forward, but the tw*t in the corsa decided to pull back into his lane so I braked and stopped. The 02 reg golf behind me didn't stop and rammed straight into the back of the C63, almost pushing us out onto a 70mph dual carriageway.

A a*se twitching moment later and I pulled over into a chevroned area and got out. The golf was a mess, both head lights smashed, front bumper and grill smashed and it's radiator had emptied all over the floor. the C63s rear bumper was scuffed to bits, but it wasn't split and the black under tray with the fins on was popped out but it looked ok. Ed from Benz jumped out and was on the phone in about 2 seconds. the other driver was ok, if abit shell shocked. Me and Ed were ok but my mate in the back has taken a good knock, he hit his head on the roof!

Ed and the golf driver swapped details as me and my mate stood looking at the state at the golf, still can't get over the damage to it. a steady drive back to the dealership and we parked the C63 round the side of the dealers out of sight...

I filled out a statment for Benz, who offered me another test drive in a C63, and when home. My mate is now complaining of a bad neck, it was a good wallop, and he's not the bullshi**ing type...
 
I pulled down the slip road and stopped at the giveway lines.

I was quite alarmed when I read at, but looking at Google Earth, if it's the junction I think it is, then it is much more of a junction than a slip road.
 
Get him off to the Dr. NOW! DO NOT DELAY!!! Seriously! These things do not show up right away but his symptoms are shared by people who have proven to have had cracked vertebrae. Swelling can also be a problem. Seriously, get him to see a Dr. TODAY!
 
How did he hit his head on the roof of the car - surely the safety belt would have restrained him in his seat?
 
I spotted a corsa coming down the road toward me and it was changeing lane so I could pull out, so I crawled forward, but the tw*t in the corsa decided to pull back into his lane so I braked and stopped. The 02 reg golf behind me didn't stop and rammed straight into the back of the C63, almost pushing us out onto a 70mph dual carriageway.

Sorry to read your news. I've heard of this type of accident quite a few times now, mostly at roundabouts though.
 
I was quite alarmed when I read at, but looking at Google Earth, if it's the junction I think it is, then it is much more of a junction than a slip road.
I know this junction well, and you do need a good gap in the traffic in order to join the dual carriageway. If some twonk in a coarser moves back in, then it doesn't matter how many ponies you have on tap. Hope everyone is okay.

My AMG invite must still be in the post. :o
 
You can't tell people enough times, at junctions watch the car in front, and nothing else until you see it has moved off and continued on it's way. The Golf driver saw you move off and then looked away, making the worst kind of assumption...that you will continue...bang!
 
You can't tell people enough times, at junctions watch the car in front, and nothing else until you see it has moved off and continued on it's way. The Golf driver saw you move off and then looked away, making the worst kind of assumption...that you will continue...bang!

Never a truer word was spoken. It's so easy to see the car in front of you pulling out into a roundabout, and then to look into the roundabout to pull out yourself whilst edging forwards, only to be met with a sickening crunch when you realise the car in front has hesitated and not actually pulled into the traffic..Always watch the car in front until it has actually gone..:wallbash:
 
That junction is close to my parents house and can be a pain to get out of. I hope your friend has not suffered any long term damage.
 
How did he hit his head on the roof of the car - surely the safety belt would have restrained him in his seat?

My mate was wearing his seat belt, but he is over 6 foot tall. maybe there isn't to much head room in the back of a c-class?
 
Never a truer word was spoken. It's so easy to see the car in front of you pulling out into a roundabout, and then to look into the roundabout to pull out yourself whilst edging forwards, only to be met with a sickening crunch when you realise the car in front has hesitated and not actually pulled into the traffic..Always watch the car in front until it has actually gone..:wallbash:

It's one of those "accidents" that the people who initiate them could avoid by not pretending to go and then stopping again!

It's easier said than done though, particularly in an unfamiliar car.
 
i'm off to the doctors tomorrow afternoon. had a slight pain across my shoulders and a head ache allday. weird how the problems start hours after the event. Spoke to Ed at benz, repair bill to the C63 is 6K+. exhausts got damaged by the shunt...
 
hope your ok mate, not great but at least it wasn't YOUR car!!

and any crash you walk away from, is a good one.


one word of advice though... if your going to tell us about crashes.. we need some pics!!
 
weird how the problems start hours after the event.

Whiplash type injuries usually do that - that's why people who haven't had them are suspicious that the compensation culture has cut in when everything seemed OK at the scene but then injury reports arise a few days later.
 
Glad you weren't hurt too bad in the accident, hope the doctors visit goes OK.
 
I know that junction quite well too. I travel into Derby quite frequently along the A52.

The speed some @$$holes go along there is quite amazing, and as has been said 'slip road' is a bit of a generous term for that junction: there is little opportunity (distance) to gain speed so it is effectively only a T-junction.

Years ago, when travelling in an old girlfriend (now Mrs corned)'s car, we approached a very acute-angled T-junction and stopped as a car was coming towards us. A pregnant pause later and bang! - the car behind bounced us out into the junction, fortunately missing the car we were waiting to pass. 'Oh - sorry - I thought you had got out in front of that car'. He was actually accelerating to join in behind the car we had had to stop for!

Unfortunately, it is all too easily done.
 
My mate was wearing his seat belt, but he is over 6 foot tall. maybe there isn't to much head room in the back of a c-class?

It must have been a big impact - ouch. When I was rammed in the rear recently there was just a sense of being shoved backwards into the seat, it was all quite calm really, despite causing thousands in damage.
 
It's one of those "accidents" that the people who initiate them could avoid by not pretending to go and then stopping again!

Since when has it been the responsibility of the driver in front to ensure the driver behind can STOP?
 
It's one of those "accidents" that the people who initiate them could avoid by not pretending to go and then stopping again!

It's easier said than done though, particularly in an unfamiliar car.

What do you mean by "pretending to go"? There are circumstances when just as you go something occurs (as in the op) to make you stop. That's not pretending. The Golf driver was very clearly at fault. The only person who could have avoided this accident was the driver who stopped looking at the car in front.

Imagine the scene if the C63 driver had stopped looking at the Corsa and proceeded on his way because the last time he looked the Corsa had moved over but then (when he wasn't looking ) had moved back again...big bang!
 
"Hangs his head in shame" ....I did that once on the North Circular in mid '70s in a Renault 16....my fault completely..:o:o:o:o:o:o:o
 

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