The Prince Philip thing baffles me, how do you knock over a giant Land Rover by T-boning it with a Ford Ka?
Even more baffling is this one, from Yahoo:
Monks lost control of his Vauxhall Vectra, and crashed into Andrew Toms Car Sales, a car dealership, destroying 22 cars parked outside.
The photos show a row of badly damaged cars... with a row of apparently intact metal posts in front them. How did he manage to hit the cars without hitting the posts?
Here's one photo, click through to Yahoo for more:
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The outcome I'm more interested in is the retention, or otherwise, of the licence of the 91-yr-old involved in one of those crashes, with no further investigation.
Or whether his chauffeur too busy ironing his son's shoelaces.
Pjh, he's 98 and wasn't using a chauffeur.
Oh the overturning thing is easy. If the K[i]a was going fast enough it would tend to go under the Freelander and roll it over. The miracle is that the Ford Ka [sic] driver was not badly injured.
As to the Vectra crash, I would say 'skill'?
L, nobody says it was going particularly fast, the driver was not questioned or arrested.
And I have amended Kia to Ka.
MW. Oh, the Ka did not have to be going 'fast', just 'fast enough'. It's surprising how easy it is roll a car over like that.
Assuming you are not being funny...
The Yahoo pictures show a number of the posts are off vertical. Looks like the Vectra went up in the air hence the damage to the windscreen etc on the parked cars.
M, I don't think so. Go the article and scroll down. The posts to the left of the car are perfectly aligned and all present.
M, Google maps shows a slight embankment between road and cars at left hand end, so perhaps he flew over the posts? Must have been going one hell of a speed.
You can see the line the car took in one of the photos, the wheel marks are clear. It hit the bank and was pushed upwards by the post in front of the black car, hitting the bonnet of the black car rather than the wing, so was quite high at that point. It came in on an angle into the car lot so by the end was entirely inside the lot and behind the posts, it landed pretty much on the last car (the red one), which is why the posts in front of that are still upright. He will have been just about airborne at the point of passing the black car.
I had a case like it on my farm, a car came down to a T junction, and for some reason just never stopped, hit the verge on the other side of the road at some speed and took off and landed largely in my field, having cleared a ditch and most of the hedge. I found it there the next day walking the dogs. It was ahire car, no idea if they ever caught up with the driver.
S, brillian thanks, the fourth photo down shows where he went airborne.
Mark, if the driver of the Ka wasn't arrested or questioned, that does rather suggest that the D of E had a senior moment and pulled out in front of the Ka. Of course he wasn't arrested or questioned, although one wonders what would have happened if the Ka driver or one of their passengers had been killed. They should take the old bat's licence away, it's not as he needs to be able to drive.
Apropos of the council reducing the speed limit on that bit of road, we had a similar incident near me many years ago at election time, except in this case it was the Tory candidate for that constituency who pulled out without looking. Once again the Tory County Council wasted a lot of money in redesigning to the junction to "prove" that it wasn't the Tory candidate's fault.
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