HELP!!! VEE CRASHED!! WHAT SHOULD I DO?

[Anonymous]

was pulling away from a set of traffic lights under moderate acceleration, went over a manhole in the road and the car span, it was raining heavily at the time but still wouldnt have thought that would happen

 

[Anonymous]

dont know about not gettin hurt lol! 2 broken ribs, 1 collapsed lung, 1 infected lung and jaw broken in 2 places!! was on life support for a couple days, police reckon NOT wearing a seatbelt saved my life!!

 

[Kett]

dont know about not gettin hurt lol! 2 broken ribs, 1 collapsed lung, 1 infected lung and jaw broken in 2 places!! was on life support for a couple days, police reckon NOT wearing a seatbelt saved my life!!

Shit-city, Arizona! [smilie=icon_eek.gif]
Hope you're on the mend. :approve:

 

[Anonymous]

yep, is looking more likely that i will have to break it as not realistic enough to fund a repair, and to think i was only doing 20mph! lost control on a straight road to, i wasnt expecting it at all.

dont know about not gettin hurt lol! 2 broken ribs, 1 collapsed lung, 1 infected lung and jaw broken in 2 places!! was on life support for a couple days, police reckon NOT wearing a seatbelt saved my life!!

The more I read this, the stranger it looks to me. A bit curious, you were only doing 20mph. You hit a pole or something sideways.
I've done quite a few spins deliberately, but the car stops almost immediately at speeds up to 50km/hr, also on wet. Only on snow (skidpads) it slides for ever.

 

[k1ano]

Why weren't you wearing a seatbelt ? I don't mean that you should have not survived but that is not a sensible thing to do IMHO ...

I am also glad you are OK after receiving those injuries, and I think you should have learnt a couple of serious lessons.

Martin

 

[Anonymous]

it was a manhole in the middle of the road which the car span immediately on, the wall was roughly 6 meters from the manhole and there was no pavement to stop the car, i agree that you should always wear a seatbelt, the scenario of my impact is the one example of when not wearing a seatbelt helps.

 

[mid.engine]

are there air bags in the mk1?, if there are, they didn`t do their job.
martin

 

[Anonymous]

well only the side airbag in the seat activated because of the angle of the impact

 

[Ali]

Gutted for you!!! Really am! To fix i would estimate about 10-15k

 

[philthy]

all you can do is salvage that for parts, lucky to get 3-4k back for the bits.

cant help but say you shouldnt be driving that under 3rd party insurance but the deed has been done...

 

[Fred]

only 20mph you sure??????

 

[stevev6]

only 20mph you sure??????

Lol @ Fred.

"Yeah officer, really and truely, only 20 mate" - righto :badgrin:

As for the insurancing of a group 20 car, i'm not sure about not being able to have third party FF&T or not, although I did try to insure mine once for third party fire and theft only (whilst it was off the road through winter) but the insurance companies I spoke to said they wouldn't be able to do it due to its value i.e. they would not insure a car third party only if its worth more than 10k.

 

[oatz]

It's absolutely amazing every vee owner who manages to write their vees off were all traveling at 20mph [smilie=icon_eek.gif] Anyone got the number to The Guiness Book of Records? :wink:

It's only a car at the end of the day at least you're still around :approve:

 

[SimonLM]

are u stripping the car?

 

[maxi.man]

like i said in my other post found a shell with no front panels has rear panels and a few bits and pieces on it comes with the engine in france so left hand drive 5thousand euros

 

[tapias]

It's absolutely amazing every vee owner who manages to write their vees off were all traveling at 20mph [smilie=icon_eek.gif]

i was going about double that when it let go and hit a stationary item, mine didnt look half that bad tho [smilie=hide.gif]

 

[nick_d]

little bit more than a call to Dr. Dent!

Any bits going yet??

 

[maxi.man]

well its on ebay think someone might buy it insure it and set it alight ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ [smilie=icon_eek.gif] [smilie=icon_cry.gif]

 

[Jainy]

dont know about not gettin hurt lol! 2 broken ribs, 1 collapsed lung, 1 infected lung and jaw broken in 2 places!! was on life support for a couple days, police reckon NOT wearing a seatbelt saved my life!!

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Holy shit....... hope you're on the mend...

Jainy
:s

 

[weeian]

[smilie=icon_eek.gif] sorry to hear about ure misfortune, that looks seriously nasty, thats beyond economical repair for sure !

Insurance job of some sort me thinks