Not happy - crashed the fcuking car

[theresa]

Well, the local council decided again, not to bother gritting some of the busier 'little' roads

 

On the way to work this morning and I saw the road was icy, so I didn't brake, had the car in second gear, going dead slow, as the road has a slope and a bad bend and I still fcuking lost it.

 

I was heading for a car, so managed to steer away from that, then started sliding towards a wall on the drivers side, so managed to get away from that as well.

 

Started sliding towards a bad kerb and wall, so tried steering down a one way street, the wrong way, to keep away from the kerb, but I hit it.

 

I hit it fcuking hard as well and then slid away from it and parked up, facing the wrong way down the one way street.

 

The wheel is bent under the car a bit and pushed back into the arch and could't drive it, so had to get a recovery truck to take me up to work.

 

Before I crashed, one man was still at the scene, waiting for recovery, after wiping out the driver's side of his Chrysler, his was totally fcuked - loads of damage, as he hit the wall, kerb and lampost.

 

While I was on the phone to a local recovery yard, a mk3 Astra went straight up the kerb, but suffered no damage.

 

Then a Honda Civic lost control, managed to get round the bend, but hit a Focus head on.

 

Loads of people also had lucky escapes and I couldn't believe all these crashes happening front of me.

 

This was obviously a road that should have been gritted and wasn't and is also a 'school run' road, so lucky there were no kids around, as there was no where safe to stand.

 

Had a look at the damage to mine and it's not looking good so far.

 

The wheel has gone right back against the wing, which has taken the paint of the bottom of the wing and creased it.

That's also pushed my sideskirt off and the sideskirt is damaged underneath, due to going over the kerb.

 

The bottom arm was nearly bent in half, so I've replaced that, to try and straighten it all out a bit, but it's still fcked.

Can't drive it at the moment, as the steering is all over the place.

Hopefully, might get time and put a strut on, see what that does and then a hub and then hopefully, it might be ok.

Chassis leg is a little bit damaged, but that's from where the driveshaft was pushed against it.

 

Well fcuking p*ssed off

[theresa]

This is the road I slid down

 

 

Where the Escort is, is where I was trying to go, but ended up going down the one way street.

 

 

This is the wall, lamp post and kerb I was trying to avoid

 

 

The Honda, just after bouncing back from hitting the Focus

 

 

The damaged wheel (sorry Basskiddanny)

 

 

The wheel pushed into the arch

 

 

 

I forgot to take a photo of the bottom arm, but I will when I get it out of the car, as the car's up in work at the moment.

[plumber60]

i did a similar thing, you should at the very least remove anc check the bottom of the hub as this tapered when i did mine and went unnoticed until the wishbone and driveshaft popped! luckily while parking and not going round a bend. I hope you can get her fixed, lucky escape really

[Kirsty]

Shite thats what mine looked like... was a write off hope yours is easily fixed

[Scotteh]

oooo not good at least u avoided other cars and stuff

 

plus ur ok car can be replaced/sorted

 

i was going side ways round a roundabout on monday night cuz of ice, that was fun its a small one with no1 around so it was easy to control, but still unexpected, fkin ice

[DAVE W]

Bugger

 

Ice is a killer advantages of living in a big city gets gritted straight away but theres still a few roads they miss i try and stay off the side roads as much as possible at this time of year

[karina]

ouch

least ya ok!!!

ya no if the car is fixable?????

[RobMk6]

christ must've been some adventure.

 

glad ur okay tho

 

cars as fixable, as every1 sais

[ScORTED]

ouch.... the council are a bunch of cnuts... get the peoplewho crashed together and take them for all they're worth (about £5) shocking that its pants seeing all these crashed cars

[danposs86]

Nasty

 

Damn council!!

[sidrick]

Holy Shite.

 

I wouldn't even walk down that road!

[BlairM]

Ouch sorry to hear that.

 

 

Road looks real bad to me

[sortedford]

ouch, how much snow/ice

 

id get the numbers of the others that were there if you can- maybe from the towing place?

 

and all go to the council about it, you never know

[Lee R]

unfortunately the council cant grit everywhere

[bluliz]

blimey you alright Theresa?

 

i cant believe you only just got those alloys. hey all repairable so that ok.