Beyond Salvation.

anotherbaldrick

How do they do it , it is a straight road.. Perhaps he was practising handbrake turns

pendulum

No idea. The skid marks on the road indicate he at least tried to slow down or stop before the road ended Some idiots can't even manage to hit the brakes at all before crashing so he gets some points there.

I can often notice evidence of past crashes every few hundred yards :rotfl: As well as the obvious, keep an eye out for shiny new replacement sections of railing, and a lone shiny new lamppost (usually on a bend) where all the other lamp posts are older!

Strider590

Very odd, skid marks but also the dark patch on the kerbstone which appears to continue into the grass!

The oil sump on that vehicle isn't low enough to contact the kerb and In order to get over that sign you'd have to be moving at a pace which even if the sump did get smashed off, the momentum would carry the oil past the kerbstone anyway.
Unless it's not oil and/or something mechanical went horribly wrong and the driver panicked?

jase1

T-junction + possible brake failure or driver missed the sign for the junction would be my guess.

spiro

Looks like it almost was a 'dead end', I think if he had been going match faster he would have ended up on the roof.

ElkyElky

The photo is fake, you can clearly see it has been photoshopped.

anotherbaldrick

ElkyElky wrote: »

The photo is fake, you can clearly see it has been photoshopped.

Only to obliterate the registration. I have other views if you wish to see them.

pendulum

Strider590 wrote: »

Very odd, skid marks but also the dark patch on the kerbstone which appears to continue into the grass!

The oil sump on that vehicle isn't low enough to contact the kerb...

The sump has hit the right post of the road sign rather than the kerb and that looks like a pretty solid post. My guess is that the van shed oil pretty quickly due to the engine running and some of this ran back down the earth mound and down the kerb face. I think there will be a bit more oil on the ground in the undergrowth than the pic suggests. There's no sign of fluid loss before the accident and the brakes worked, so chances are the van was just being driven by an idiot. Accidents caused by mechanical failure are so rare.

Strider590

^^ I conclude driver dropped lit fag in lap, didn't look back up at the road until it was too late

vaio

The left hand “skid mark” looks more like a grove, did he lose a wheel?

I’d go for the sump hitting the curb (see the missing lump of curb?) and dumping all the oil.

The posts don’t look substantial enough to do any serious damage, it looks like the sign has just folded flat on impact and has been pulled back up later.

Strider590

Joy riders, turned into cul-de-sac, turned lights off to fool rozzers, either knew an off road short cut and missed OR just lost the road and crashed.