back in the 90s lived on a dual carriageway which was 40, just coming off a 70. coming towards us it was downhill, flatten out and a turn to the right. even at 70/80 it was easy to turn.
Middle of one night crash CRASH! crash crash... wake up there's a lump of rock on the upstairs landing with a hole in the roof. go outside to find a car in 2 neighbours away front garden, halfway up it.
this looney in an escort rs turbo was piling down the road. too fast for the right turn even after braking (you can see the tyremarks). backs steps out. he goes *thump* up onto the central reservation. *thump* down again. across oncoming dual road. *thump* up the kerb then *thump* down on to the cycle lane (like single lane road wide), *thump* up that kerb, across pavement to the start of neighbours garden. but all our houses were raised up, and it was at least a 20-30 degree incline. he's coming in about 45 degree angle, up the grass, hit the wall (which sends a lump about 70 foot up the garden to go through our roof), launched into the air now doing a barrel roll because of the angle. across 3/4 gardens. narrowly miss our mature willow (lucky). lands.
he had a broken arm, that's all.
(, Wed 22 Apr 2026, 21:34, Reply)
a saffer barbecue, christ there's a lot of them down there and nearby southfields is like little joberg. Anyway we were only a few hundred meters from the tube walking across a roundabout when we saw a house with a car boot half sticking out of the middle of the front wall of the place. It looked like it had gone straight over the roundabout and launched itself through their fence and into someone's living room. The weird thing was we didn't hear the accident, it was all quiet, and I thought at first it was well after it, as there was no one else around. But it seemed like within a minute of stopping to stare at it there materialised quite a crowd of people, some on their (sony erikson era) mobiles, and approaching sirens. I was already stoned, so didn't want to stick around to be interviewed by cops, so we took off to the barbie
(, Thu 23 Apr 2026, 1:24, Reply)
Did they deploy a stinger on him and he went straight into the roundabout?
(, Fri 24 Apr 2026, 14:23, Reply)