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F me you are one lucky fella. Glad you are recovering but that is proper fubar
On the lighter side could you choose me some lottery numbers please.
All the best fella

john-e89 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:25 pm

Boris wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:20 pm It looks like you have been really lucky their mate, as you say a few seconds later and it could have been a nasty one.

I hope you are recovering well.

Cheers Boris,

Of course, if he was really lucky, he would have been on a different road miles from where the girls crashed
John, I preferred it before your bodged front end modifications

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I know.....there was just one....tiny.....little.....dent....needed tapping out....

Glad you came out this ,looks and sounds like the z took some hit,but as said,it took it well given the speeds,and size of the car,front ends large proportion(in respect of its nearly 1/3 of the cars length), probably helped.
Had a 4x4 hit my ,then ,as new Seat Leon Choral years ago,and it looked very similar,with the crumple zones in the roof twist in a bit also.,....mine was only 6months old at he time,so I know how you felt,with the car being in such good condition and your p&j.

Glad you survived

Wow, good to hear you're ok. Here's a pic of my first ever roadster after a run-in with a pickup truck.

That must have been a hell of a blow.
You're very lucky not to be hurt. Too bad the young girl got injured seriously.

Sets you thinking about other drivers.

Wow that’s a lot of twisted metal, did you even get a glimpse of it coming at any point? Sad to see such a nice car like that! You were unlucky to have been there in the first place just a few seconds either way and it’s a miss, but very lucky not to have been hurt at all must have been a hell of a shock!
Hope your on the mend now as well!

The Fiat and the Z4 have remarkably similar patterns of damage. You were both very lucky I would say, particularly with the Fiat as there were not as many safety features back then - if any!

I was told that a modern drop top can often withstand a bigger impact than it's tin top equivalent as the shell is so much stronger with all the reinforcing needed. They tend to be heavier as well.

Sorry to hear about the car mate, the main thing is you are ok.

Thats a serious shunt and you were very lucky to walk away.

Looks like the germans built 2 very strong cars.

Those girls learnt the hard way lets hope they learn for there mistakes.

Just think if you had the M at the time, you would have been further ahead and it might have been worse

Joking apart - not a good experience at all. Nor are your additional ailments I was just reading up on.

pvr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:00 pm Just think if you had the M at the time, you would have been further ahead and it might have been worse

Joking apart - not a good experience at all. Nor are your additional ailments I was just reading up on.

The irony is Paul had I been doing the speed limit, 60 on that stretch of road, instead of dawdling along at 50 as I was, I’d have been well past the junction when Thelma and Louise decided to ignore basic road laws and stop signs, so the moral of the story is; if you don’t want a nasty accident, drive like a nutter..!!

Oh how I love man maths....

Bloody hell John! Hope you luck gets better soon mate.

john-e89 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2017 12:07 am
The irony is Paul had I been doing the speed limit, 60 on that stretch of road, instead of dawdling along at 50 as I was, I’d have been well past the junction when Thelma and Louise decided to ignore basic road laws and stop signs, so the moral of the story is; if you don’t want a nasty accident, drive like a nutter..!!

Sound advice OP.