Just Had A Big Accident! Pics Now Up!

[FSTR32]

as the topic suggest i just crashed my skyline r32 which is pretty modified. Before you's all fry me for driving like a dick i wasn't. had one other person in the car. speed limit was 80 i was going speed limit and went to make a turn up a hill that dips at the crest. just at the top of crest some kind of fkn big ass animal jumps out in the middle of the road so i swerved to try and avoid it but as i swerved i lost it out to the left and ended up on side of road which was dirt/bark etc. Lsd and lost control + dirt road = traction disaster so i tryed to pull out of it back onto road to correct but then i hit a steep rut on side of road which sent me sliding across to the other side of road, up an embankment and straight into a metal pole which hit rear quarter panel only inches from my door. Damage include rear quarter now bent in over my rear wheel side skirts stuffed, front bar stuffed front corner of car eg lights and bonnet stuffed. good news is no one was hurt and there was no damage to my newly built engine

pretty pissed off right now but theres not alot i can do about it!

post thoughts/comments. Please dont be harsh as im pretty shocked right now and my pride and joy is looking a little worse for wear. just put primer on damaged panels to prevent rust etc. anyone have any other practical ideas i dunno im just a little shaken up right now.

will post pics when i take photos in daylight.

Edited June 5, 2007 by FSTR32

[ignuz]

That reminds me a lot of my accident haha, minus the big fury animal.

[FSTR32]

sorry to bring back those memories for ya.

[SS8_Gohan]

kangaroo?

sorry to hear about the crash mate. I hope you have insurance??

something i should have invested in when my car was un-rego'd for months, a battery charger. Apparently only $60 or something, but yeah, if your car is sitting around for a while, chances are the battery will go flat. Buy one of those battery chargers, leave it hooked up to the car the night before you need to move it, and you won't have to worry about manouvering a dead car to get it jumped started

where bouts was the accident?

[FSTR32]

nope insurance wont cover it. im probly just gonna have to source a bare shell and transfer all my running gear over into it as im pretty sure the chassis is twisted and the rear quarter will probly end up costing too much for it to be worth it. possibly a kangaroo but more likely a wallaby up where i live. accident happed in yellow rock which is in the blue mountains, NSW.

Edited June 5, 2007 by FSTR32

[G3TFKD]

sorry to hear about the accident. definately good thing that no one was hurt

[SS8_Gohan]

why the hell won't insurance cover it? write-off payout?

did you have third party or full comp?

[FSTR32]

no insurance policy...stupid i know but i had just been lazy in renewing it as i hadnt driven the car for a long time and its all locked up in a secure garage. my fault but you get that

[ignuz]

Hope it all works out for you..

I've seen so many threads on SAU about people crashing/having their car stolen and it being uninsured.. Some sort of correlation?

[writeoff]

Sorry to hear about this. I've had my share of accidents and they truely suck arse. At least no one was hurt and that really is the main thing. Were you able to drive it home afterwards? Too bad about not being insured - that truely sucks. I've had some driver training and the thing the instructor told me is to just hit the animal if they are small. It sounds harsh I know but he listed heaps of examples where people have been seriously injured or worse because someone tried to avoid a small animal. Sorry - I'm aware that hindsight advice is worth very little.

[ztuned]

arh that sucks dude

like somone else mentioned, for some reason all the crashes that are posted on SAU

either dun have insurance or are 3rd party

next time just run over the fury animal if it isnt that big, its not worth it(i know natural reaction is to serve), but sometimes its someones life in excahnge of the animals life instead of the car's damage

goodluck in fixing it

[Shell]

sorry to hear

i don't think anyone will be harsh, it wasn't your fault and you werent doing anything stupid

so you're back home now i guess... is the car home with you?

[FSTR32]

thanks guys appreciate all the support. gotta start planning what to do next. Car is drivable...did drive it back to my bro's gf's house as it was close. that was a trek and a half tho. i had to let tyre pressure down so it released my back wheel far enough so it could actually move and even then i could smell burnt rubber from the tyre pushin againt the bent rear guard.

[FSTR32]

nah cars all safe at my bros gf's house...will get a mate to tow it back to mine 2moz so i can assess the damage. doesnt look good tho and that was in the dark so its not gonna be pretty in day light thats for sure and its not just a simple case of bang it out and she'll be right. chassis plus roof is twisted for sure. im lucky i didnt roll it actually.

[FSTR32]

anyone know where to get a gtr r32 rolling shell from (all bits minus engine/gearbox etc) and roughly how much just off the top of your head. I will call my guys tommorrow but i was just after an estimate. thanks

Edited May 31, 2007 by FSTR32

[Ashy Larry]

Bad news mate, Hope you sort it all out

Mike

[Zilch*]

Damn, sorry to hear about this mate, as has been said, just hit the animal if isn't too big, better than potentially killing yourself or someone else by swerving and losing control. I hit a wallaby and just did minor damage to the front bar and it hopped away quite happily. Just don't hit a wombat!!

Hope it all gets sorted.

[SLYLNE]

sad to hear about such a thing but what can you do? running over a wallaby/kanga/wombat and then chances of it hittin the windscreen and causing more injury is more likely than actually going 'over' it. best thing would be to do is go slowly at night and try slow down if somethings in the way.

in your case i guess its not something you could hav seen in time to actually slow down. ive had my share of runnin over lil fury animals (mostly rabbits)... doin 110 on country roads at night...not much you can do if something runs across the road..

the way to look at it is atleast no one was hurt...yeh our liners are our pride n joy...but in the end we are able to find replacements but none such for a life..

anyways unfortunately livin in melb..dun kno of any one here that has a runnin shell of r32 gtr..if i do find out..ill pm ya..either way..good luck

[Modena]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck.

I see once every couple of months, some guy writes off his car and has no full comprehensive insurance cover on it. Why wont you people learn that every time you own a car (even if its sitting in your garage locked away) you risk losing it to some one else. Quiet often if you dont smash it, someone will steal it... most of the times all the thieves need to do is break into your house and take the car keys... so in theory your car is as secure at home as your house is. So avoid all the hassles and insure it

Edited May 31, 2007 by Modena

[DECIM8]

Obviously you need a gatling gun on the r32 just incase a big fury animal pops out again .. james bond style with heaps more rwkws