Totally Gutted

[Dieselman]

With regards to stopping distances, they concern the vehicle you are following, not one pushed or slid from another lane across your path.

He hit the one he was following.

 

[MercedesDriver]

Good to see you and other involved where fine. It looks like a really bad accident.

 

[Dieselman]

The condition of the tyres are but one factor. What about condition of the brakes, distance from the vehicle in front, and driver reaction time?

Not sure that the insurance company will be overly sympathetic.

Brakes have virtually no bearing on stopping distances, unless obviously faulty.

Every car's brakes can get the wheels to the point of locking, so there is no further stopping power available.

 

[WDB124066]

My Starlet stops way quicker when I pull the handbrake on a little bit first.

 

[Giantvanman]

Its difficult to suddenly turn on the brains reaction if you have been droiding along a motorway for a while

It is quite telling that when reconstructing collisions, a reaction time of three seconds on motorways is quite often used as the benchmark/average in calculations for comparison and rationale………(I can't quote the research from which this figure comes off the top of my head anymore).

 

[simon1966]

Gutted for you and really glad you are OK.

Your car was a rare and lovely beast, I'm sure it would be worth rebuilding.

 

[C43AMG]

Glad your okay Andy and sorry for the 43.

 

[Pitts Pilot]

This is really bad news.

I'm so sorry about your car, but at least you're OK.

Remember: Your car can be replaced, but you can't....

Don't be surprised if you don't feel able to drive for a few days. Shock can be very debilitating - it numbs out your head.

Wishing you a quick recovery, and a swift result for the car insurance, etc,


Speaking of insurance. How is your whip-lashed neck?
You should pop over to A & E to have it looked at -and the visit recorded.

£2K compensation would be as useful as 'gap insurance' when buying a replacement car.

Robert

 

[nick mercedes]

Speaking of insurance. How is your whip-lashed neck?
You should pop over to A & E to have it looked at -and the visit recorded.

£2K compensation would be as useful as 'gap insurance' when buying a replacement car.

Robert

Given he'll be claiming off his own insurance and needs a positive outcome due to the fortune spent on the car involved, perhaps pretending to have whiplash is not a good first move?

 

[The _Don]

Sorry to hear your situation!

Good luck with getting it sorted.

 

[Pitts Pilot]

Given he'll be claiming off his own insurance and needs a positive outcome due to the fortune spent on the car involved, perhaps pretending to have whiplash is not a good first move?

I take your point

But I am constrained to say that I was not suggesting he 'pretend' he has whip lash, that would be dishonest.

Whip-lash is a common injury in high speed coalitions. I just assumed that in his 'shocked' state he had not thought about it.......

Good point though!

Robert

 

[markmifsud]

Sorry to hear of your bad news Andy, I know how much you enjoyed that car. As others have said at least your unhurt.

 

[meeeb]

This is really bad news.

I'm so sorry about your car, but at least you're OK.

Remember: Your car can be replaced, but you can't....

Don't be surprised if you don't feel able to drive for a few days. Shock can be very debilitating - it numbs out your head.

Wishing you a quick recovery, and a swift result for the car insurance, etc,


Speaking of insurance. How is your whip-lashed neck?
You should pop over to A & E to have it looked at -and the visit recorded.

£2K compensation would be as useful as 'gap insurance' when buying a replacement car.

Robert

That should help to raise all our premiums!

 

[paul_c]

Did the airbags deploy?

 

[MancMike]

My Starlet stops way quicker when I pull the handbrake on a little bit first.

Then your auto adjusters in your rear brake drums have seized and you're taking up the slack with the handbrake.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

In order to keep the discussions in this thread solely to Andy's incident, I have started another thread on what's considered safe gaps and stopping distances: http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/driving-incidents-roadrage/179923-mind-gap.html#post1993040

Hopefully Andy manages to resolve his situation without too much stress. As someone else rightly commented, he'll be gutted enough as it is without any inferences that he may have been partly at fault in some way.

 

[Pitts Pilot]

That should help to raise all our premiums!

Fair point!

I apologise for letting my loathing, contempt, disgust, anger, and disrespect, of those weasel, slimy, arrogant, dishonest, self-serving, money grabbing, cartel joining, nauseating, evading, denying, and reneging ‘Bar Stewards’ of insurance companies get in the way of my normally rational and balanced judgement.

A momentary lapse.

Sorry

Robert

 

[nb_racing]

Fair point!

I apologise for letting my loathing, contempt, disgust, anger, and disrespect, of those weasel, slimy, arrogant, dishonest, self-serving, money grabbing, cartel joining, nauseating, evading, denying, and reneging ‘Bar Stewards’ of insurance companies get in the way of my normally rational and balanced judgement.

A momentary lapse.

Sorry

Robert

I think it's more the people who feel it necessary to make a fraudulant claim who are the problem.

 

[MidnightBeauty]

Watch out for headaches & having a short fuse in the next couple of weeks...even if there are no physical injuries. The brain does not like being shaken about.

 

[Lenny63]

Andy I have just seen this - absolutely gutted for you, I had watched your build thread closely

I have 2015 brings you all that you wish for and glad you were npt injured

Lenny