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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: JC on 03 August 2012, 22:06

Title: No one from here I hope
Post by: JC on 03 August 2012, 22:06: Sad times

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183209/Ambulance-carrying-crash-victim-head-collision-vehicle-horror-smash-left-car-driver-dead.html
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Post by: barrym381 on 03 August 2012, 22:11: I feel sorry for the family of the driver :sad:
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Post by: Mr Blue on 03 August 2012, 23:09: as above.

Remember these cars are not safe at all. They crease badly and this is another reason why I refuse to do a big engine conversion.
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Post by: tomp on 04 August 2012, 00:10: The Golf I had before I built a mk2 16v Turbo!

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/tommympuk/GolfCrashed.jpg)

It was a coach that went over it mind...

In all seriousness, above is awful..
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Post by: X4MGS on 04 August 2012, 01:57: Quote from: Chuff on 03 August 2012, 22:06
Sad times

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183209/Ambulance-carrying-crash-victim-head-collision-vehicle-horror-smash-left-car-driver-dead.html

Ouch....

Gotta feel for everyone involved... :sad: :cry:
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Post by: JimR on 04 August 2012, 07:06: http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?654205-Have-I-just-had-the-worst-day-in-CS-history
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Post by: Diamond Hell on 04 August 2012, 08:56: Quote from: JimR on 04 August 2012, 07:06
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?654205-Have-I-just-had-the-worst-day-in-CS-history

Needs logged in or been deleted.
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Post by: JimR on 04 August 2012, 10:54: Ah, sorry, Im a member (had a 172 cup), it's the story from the guy involved in the first accident that was un the back air the ambulance when it crashed.
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Post by: pinson on 04 August 2012, 11:31: I have just seen this in the paper, really hope it is no-one from here
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Post by: Chris. on 04 August 2012, 20:36: Log in and you can see it

Sorry to hear of everyone unfortune.
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Post by: dubber36 on 04 August 2012, 20:58: I heard about this on the local radio just after it happened. They said it was a Blue Golf GTI, but I never imagined it was a Mk2.

I'm not going to speculate on what happened, although you'll get a pretty good idea from the pictures, but it goes to show that 20+ year old cars are more suited to cruising slowly and looking cool.
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Post by: Loynes on 04 August 2012, 22:06: Easy done, don't want to think about all the overtakes I'vegot away with over the last 20 years, sad times indeed.
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Post by: Jord_GTI on 05 August 2012, 01:22: Got to love how all of the ignorant DM readers become RTA investagors after reading the story.

"Souped up golf. Says it all really." :rolleyes:

My condolences for everyone involved.
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Post by: X4MGS on 05 August 2012, 01:55: Quote from: Jord_GTI on 05 August 2012, 01:22

"Souped up golf. Says it all really." :rolleyes:

My condolences for everyone involved.

REAL LIFE - won't sell papers or get us interested....

make it "Sensational" Then we become interested...

Such is life.... One reason why I'm backing off giving my son a GTI when he is 19....
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Post by: dubber36 on 05 August 2012, 07:59: Quote from: X4MGS on 05 August 2012, 01:55

Such is life.... One reason why I'm backing off giving my son a GTI when he is 19....

The thing is Ken, we all know that a Mk2 GTI isn't an especially fast car, so I don't think the car is too blame. When I think back to my late night charges home from Young Farmers dances not long after passing my test, in a 1.0 Daihatsu Charade, many times it could have gone so horribly wrong.

My boy is 8 and he can drive a car around the farm fairly well. He can even make a fair effort at reversing a trailer. My thinking is that by the time he's out on the road on his own, he won't see driving as any big deal and feel he needs to push his limits.
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Post by: danny_p on 05 August 2012, 11:18: rallying round on a farm can teach you a lot. its saved my arse a number of times on the road and i know of meany situations / crashes that have happend where if one of the drivers had had same oppotunity they would have been abel to avoid crashing.

that said the A49 is a weird road it dosent seem that nasty when you drive it, but a lot of people manage to have a lot of nasty crashes on it. when i was younger it may as well have been a race track but i don't think its speed thats causeing the crashes on it. drive down it when it's busy and it turns into a game of follow the snail with not much chance of getting past and yoour mind dose end up wandering
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Post by: dubber36 on 05 August 2012, 16:07: Quote from: danny_p on 05 August 2012, 11:18

that said the A49 is a weird road it dosent seem that nasty when you drive it, but a lot of people manage to have a lot of nasty crashes on it. when i was younger it may as well have been a race track but i don't think its speed thats causeing the crashes on it. drive down it when it's busy and it turns into a game of follow the snail with not much chance of getting past and yoour mind dose end up wandering

You're right, but the problem with playing follow the snail, is that very few people leave enough room for overtaking cars to get back in. When you know the road and how to drive it, there are lots of very safe places to overtake, the problem is when you banked on overtaking 2-3 cars, suddenly the door gets closed and you end up having to go past a lot more.

I just sit back and go with the flow at whatever speed it is nowadays. A car can overtake me at Craven Arms, and by the time I get to Dobbies Island, I more often than not pull up along site him in the next lane.