The rear subframe needed welding for it's MOT last year. It just went through another MOT a month ago and I didn't realise the subframe was so bad on the opposite side or I would have asked for that to be welded as well. To be honest I'm surprised it passed like that. But you can see just how badly cars corrode in the salty air up here and this one hasn't spent it's whole life up here. It was brought up from the mainland some years ago by the previous owner. I made the decision a while back never to buy another Shetland car. They're money pits.
At first I suspected that something had gone wrong with the car to cause the accident as my wife's description of what happened sounded a little odd. But having spoken to other people who use that road, including the police officers who visited the house later that day, it seems there might have been some slippy contaminant on the road, possibly waste from overspilling salmon farm wagons, and it was raining, because other people reported sliding round that bend. It's a particularly bad one heading downhill with a bit of adverse camber.
It doesn't help that there are massive ditches along almost all of the roads in Shetland so going off the road almost always means you're not getting back on under your own steam and any accident outcome is aggravated by that. There also happened to be some massive concrete structure in the bottom of the ditch at that point which she was unlucky enough to hit and that's what's caused all the damage.
But hey, the outcome could have been much worse so I don't give a monkeys about the hows and whys and who's fault it might have been. My wife is OK. That's all that matters.