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YOREVOL

Active Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #1

P38 drove into a garage on penistone road huddersfield yesterday.
not a problem you'd think, but it hit the dividing wall causing the roof to collapse on the driver. apparantly the driver had a sneezing fit. the car veered across the other lane of traffic before hitting the garages.
hope it was noone on here.

 

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tomcat59alan

Well-Known Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #2

Oh bless him, Photo's? did the car roof hold up? Hope he's ok

 

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YOREVOL

Active Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #3

photos are on the huddersfield examiner website.

 

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Pete The Biker

Active Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #4

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/drivers-coughing-fit-ends-spectacular-9737230

 

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Thor1950

Well-Known Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #5

Coughing so she says

 

brianp38dse

Well-Known Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #6

Shame looks like it was in tidy condition before that.

 

ukadamwest

Well-Known Member

• Jul 28, 2015

• #7

Looks like that P38 met its Waterloo!

 

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YOREVOL

Active Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #8

Thor1950 said:

Coughing so she says

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she was a he! i watched the paramedics stretcher him out of the rear window.

 

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tomcat59alan

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #9

YOREVOL said:

she was a he! i watched the paramedics stretcher him out of the rear window.

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It looks like a he, in drag.

 

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tomcat59alan

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #10

Wonder if he want to sell his wheels? pm me if he's a forum member.

 

Grrrrrr

Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd

Full Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #11

A bit of compound and that garage will buff right out.

 

ukadamwest

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #12

I noticed the emergency services elected to bust the rear window and wrestle the driver out through window space, rather than press the boot release and open the tailgates to have more space to work with

 

Grrrrrr

Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd

Full Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #13

Maybe the battery was goosed when it hit or his arm had locked everything.

 

SpanishTony

Active Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #14

Tailgate probably didn't work.....

 

ukadamwest

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #15

Grrrrrr said:

Maybe the battery was goosed when it hit or his arm had locked everything.

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They would have had to have electrics to move the seat to remove the driver backwards. otherwise it would do more damage than just opening the door

 

ukadamwest

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #16

SpanishTony said:

Tailgate probably didn't work.....

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Are you saying that the electrics on a Land Rover can be sketchy ??

Away with you, heretic !!!

 

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odyssey

Active Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #17

A bit weird this, doesn't look like the airbags activated, and seems to be enough room to get the drivers door open to extract a coughing person. I would guess - given the position of the impact that the battery was smashed, so no power for the tailgate catches. Or, maybe one of the emergency services used to own a RR and had a bad experience and was getting his revenge. . .

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Grrrrrr

Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd

Full Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #18

ukadamwest said:

They would have had to have electrics to move the seat to remove the driver backwards. otherwise it would do more damage than just opening the door

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If they smashed the window they probably just snipped the back off the seat. I think the doors must all have been locked.

 

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tomcat59alan

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #19

ukadamwest said:

I noticed the emergency services elected to bust the rear window and wrestle the driver out through window space, rather than press the boot release and open the tailgates to have more space to work with

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Better than cutting the roof off I suppose.

 

ukadamwest

Well-Known Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #20

odyssey said:

A bit weird this, doesn't look like the airbags activated, and seems to be enough room to get the drivers door open to extract a coughing person. I would guess - given the position of the impact that the battery was smashed, so no power for the tailgate catches. Or, maybe one of the emergency services used to own a RR and had a bad experience and was getting his revenge. . .

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I think it's an SOP now to remove anyone from an RTA on a spinal board. Probably the Emergency services are petrified of a compo claim for injury.