How not to drive in a residential area...

Bing

Bing

The Legend
 Exiled Scot in Maidstone
Just up from the rugby club, driving home, saw the accident below. What you need to know :

- It's a 30 limit in a residential area, leisure centre, park, rugby club and school either side of the road, houses all around
- on a hill, two double roundabouts close together - first one allows a turn right into the leisure centre (there is a zebra crossing just before the roundabout as you approach), second one 10m down allows a left turn into a residential street or carries straight on.
- If there was no crossing, no houses, no traffic and a higher speed limit then traversing the two at 40mph would be 'exciting' , any more and it would be reckless / scary / feckin' Stoopid...
- the accident is just after the second one, the railings you can see are always bent a little from people misjudging the corner, and are very sturdy solid steel
- it has been raining a lot and there are loads of big trees shedding leaves in the wind - you just don't go fast here... Otherwise you will hit the roundabout, kerb, railing, or all three... Never seen this before though :

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There's no other cars involved (the plastic wheel cover has been there for weeks), and there's no way he could get up to a speed to cause that if he'd slowed properly for the first roundabout. So I reckon that he's blasted over a zebra crossing and the first junction at 40 or 50, kept going to the second one, tried to turn right intending to straighten and continue, hit some leaves, lost it, hit the railing at high speed... The railing has bent but not flattened so the car has carried on up the slope of the railings and flipped over.

Tw@t :thumbsdown:
 
this is why speed limits in residential area should be more strictly enforced, i see it much safer to do 100mph on a deserted motorway in good conditions than for ppl to drive 40 in an area with kids etc.
car held up ok though??
 
Yeah, it held up... Not sure about casualties though. The driver window was punched out, no ambulance around but I think I saw one heading from the general area through the centre of town not long before.
 
Jeez, is a residential area too, what an idiot.

Least he did the decent thing and only blocked his side of the road :lol: unless someone pushed the car out of the way.

Well hopefully this has taught them a lesson, and they will be more careful, and not risk lives again.
 
Jeez, is a residential area too, what an idiot.

Least he did the decent thing and only blocked his side of the road :lol: unless someone pushed the car out of the way.

Well hopefully this has taught them a lesson, and they will be more careful, and not risk lives again.
 
It's actually not as hard to flip a car as you'd imagine, if you hit the kerb and then "climb" a crash barrier just wrong it can turnover pretty easily.

Although even giving a massive benefit of the doubt I think he was doing more than 30mph...
 
I don't doubt he's an idiot and was driving in a fashion that reflected this, but you'd be surprised how easy it is to turn over a car if the wheels on one side go up a ramp. Aged 17 I rolled a Mk I Fiesta at 20mph on a single track road when the nearside wheels went up a six-foot earth bank on the inside of a 90 degree corner. It rolled over extremely slowly coming to rest pretty much as shown in your photographs. He may have understeered at a relatively modest speed on the wet roundabout and turned hard to the right to avoid a head on collision with the railings such that the nearside wheels alone drove up the damaged railing...
 
See this to prove my point -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Ffm1FYoXk

In fact, thinking about it, the fact the car held up so well tells me he almost certainly wasn't going THAT far over the limit, if he had rolled at 50mph the car would have carried on much further down the road and the roof would be much more seriously damaged...
 
As blue says, looks like a gentle rollover. Not much distance travelled between the collision damage to the railing and the final resting point of the vehicle
 
Fair points - I have never rolled a car, and I didn't hang around to do a detailed accident investigation as the copper was giving me the eye... I was going on the speed I have often seen some people driving down there. Still reckon he wasn't driving in a wholly competent manner though :wink:
 
i agree with the above posts. doubtful he was actually going that fast. perhaps too fast for the conditions though.
 
That he was going too fast and somewhat lacking in ability cannot be argued as evidenced by Mr Bing's paparazzi snaps! Bet he looked a bit red of face whilst he picked the broken glass out of his hands and knees :P
 
I work in AE seen some bizzar RTC and photos taken by the police and paramedics. anything above 30 is high speed when i come to an accident. whenever there is a car vs lamp post/tree/railing. the car never wins
 
RLiu, where are you working (I'm an ortho reg)? Until October I was at King's in London, which is a Major Trauma Centre, so we routinely dealt with high speed RTCs.
 
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