Alas, N471YBL is no more
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:51 pm
As I type it lies embedded in a bus shelter on the A35 near Axminster. My wife was on her way back from Trago Mills about 50 miles away and about 3 miles from home she inexplicably hit an island, demolished the keep left sign, the light and one way sign, the veered across into the bus shelter.
She had our daughter in law and the two grandchildren in the car with her, fortunatly no one was seriously injured, but I expect she will be sore tommorrow.
The AA wouldn't recover it, but as its off the road (in the bus shelter) the police said it would be OK for the night, fortunatly the central locking still works, so my friendly local man is going to recover it tommorrow and bring whats left of it back here. The o/s front is completely demolished, no sign of the wheel or the inner ond outer wing, windscreen broken. Still, I wont have to change the oil now, and I also have 3/4 set of spares. I found the suspension and ABS ECUs, both bent and battered, about 50 yards away. There is also a full 47kg gas cylinder in the back which had buried itself in the rear inner wing!
If you saw the state of the car, its amazing that no one was seriously injured and a credit to the cars strength.
Peter
She had our daughter in law and the two grandchildren in the car with her, fortunatly no one was seriously injured, but I expect she will be sore tommorrow.
The AA wouldn't recover it, but as its off the road (in the bus shelter) the police said it would be OK for the night, fortunatly the central locking still works, so my friendly local man is going to recover it tommorrow and bring whats left of it back here. The o/s front is completely demolished, no sign of the wheel or the inner ond outer wing, windscreen broken. Still, I wont have to change the oil now, and I also have 3/4 set of spares. I found the suspension and ABS ECUs, both bent and battered, about 50 yards away. There is also a full 47kg gas cylinder in the back which had buried itself in the rear inner wing!
If you saw the state of the car, its amazing that no one was seriously injured and a credit to the cars strength.
Peter
, sorry to hear about the accident hope the family recover quickly, could have been a lot worse if they had been in a modern eco car