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530 in the morning on the 29 dec 2009 on the way to work in the rain heading north in the right hand lane on the M1 at Springwood. I hit a patch of water on the road doing 100kph and it sent me sideways off the road and into a 20 meter high steel light pole, I kept spinning up the bank along the guard rail until I hit one of the rail posts which sent me spinning back onto the road.I walked away with a sore side and couldnt lift my arm higher than my shoulder for a week. $57000 to fix so they wrote it off.

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530 in the morning on the 29 dec 2009 on the way to work in the rain heading north in the right hand lane on the M1 at Springwood. I hit a patch of water on the road doing 100kph and it sent me sideways off the road and into a 20 meter high steel light pole, I kept spinning up the bank along the guard rail until I hit one of the rail posts which sent me spinning back onto the road.I walked away with a sore side and couldnt lift my arm higher than my shoulder for a week. $57000 to fix so they wrote it off.

thats enough to make a man cry :D good to see you walked away relatively ok

530 in the morning on the 29 dec 2009 on the way to work in the rain heading north in the right hand lane on the M1 at Springwood. I hit a patch of water on the road doing 100kph and it sent me sideways off the road and into a 20 meter high steel light pole, I kept spinning up the bank along the guard rail until I hit one of the rail posts which sent me spinning back onto the road.I walked away with a sore side and couldnt lift my arm higher than my shoulder for a week. $57000 to fix so they wrote it off.

Wasn't at the Springwood I live in. Glad you're OK.

This was my car earlier this year. Luckily for me I wasn't the driver. The car was stolen from my house and was going about 80km/h when it hit a prado head-on! obviously a write-off lol The driver was just barely alive only because he was drunk and high

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was your car a 4dr r33?, its hard to tell. Did you get payed out?

yea it was a 4 door r33 and i got paid out $10k. minus $500 for excess and minus another $300 as I bought back the wreck from the insurance company. That was with 3rd party fire and theft with 'just car'. It only took 2 weeks for them to pay me out as well which I was very happy with :D

this is what happened after a nasho run a few years back. its my brother in laws car, we both worked for a demolition company at the time so we had a yard and a workshop to strip it (had a 2.5L import motor and dog box + suspension work). enjoy!

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Wow, there are some nasty crashes in here...and a hell of alot of escape artists...

Here's (one of) mine, for which I was in the front passenger seat...I didn't buy any lotto tickets because I had a feeling I had used up all my luck on this one.

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Wow, there are some nasty crashes in here...and a hell of alot of escape artists...

Here's (one of) mine, for which I was in the front passenger seat...I didn't buy any lotto tickets because I had a feeling I had used up all my luck on this one.

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:P What happened?????

Wow, there are some nasty crashes in here...and a hell of alot of escape artists...

Here's (one of) mine, for which I was in the front passenger seat...I didn't buy any lotto tickets because I had a feeling I had used up all my luck on this one.

Not wrong you are one lucky guy, what happened?

Oops sorry, there is a bit of a pub story to go with that!

We were on a spirited midnight drive through a mountain pass in what used to be a 1.6 litre Pulsar (~165fwkw). Mate had just installed a rear sway bar, so he wasn't used to the oversteer in a FWD...driving way too fast for his ability. We slid out on a corner and he over-corrected (trust it to happen on a corner with no guard rail), then slid off the edge of the road / a hill into pitch blackness. I remember alot of darkness and alot of swearing. We rolled over 3-4 times down a hill and bounced off 2 trees, landing upside down. Ironically, the seatbelt started to slowly choke me, so it was a desperate scramble for the release buckle. I pulled out my phone to call a fire truck and dropped it onto the roof, which doesn't usually happen :)

I would have waited for the fire truck but I had no idea where we were and the fear of every action movie's upside down car fire/explosion scene made it very easy to snake crawl through the broken glass (didn't feel it cutting in!) and that rear window^^^. The ambos told us they had seen some bad accidents in their time and did not expect survivors when they rocked up to this one. I was at the gymnasium the next day though :(

530 in the morning on the 29 dec 2009 on the way to work in the rain heading north in the right hand lane on the M1 at Springwood. I hit a patch of water on the road doing 100kph and it sent me sideways off the road and into a 20 meter high steel light pole, I kept spinning up the bank along the guard rail until I hit one of the rail posts which sent me spinning back onto the road.I walked away with a sore side and couldnt lift my arm higher than my shoulder for a week. $57000 to fix so they wrote it off.

from the pics i think i know exactly where this is - i've nearly put my skyline into the centre divide a few times in the wet, it has the poorest drainage around springwood.. that coupled with crap roads, its a death trap.. I can barely manage 80km/h in the wet going through springwood.

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