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Title: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 13 February 2017, 09:10:30
Spotted this earlier. Not sure if it's been posted before or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC4VYLK2NBA


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2.2 16v GLS (manual)
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 13 February 2017, 11:59:58
Inexperience, excess speed and a spacesaver  :-X
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 13 February 2017, 12:02:57
Inexperience, excess speed and a spacesaver  :-X

Not to mention the "powerful" RWD car. :-X

Some nice doors by the roadside in rare star silver. Anyone interested? ;)
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: aaronjb on 13 February 2017, 12:15:06
Not to mention the "powerful" RWD car. :-X

Yeah, a 2.5 litre according to the voiceover.  Who apparently hadn't looked at the boot badge...

And no license, no insurance, no tax, no MOT. ::)
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 13 February 2017, 12:17:21
Inexperience, excess speed and a spacesaver  :-X

Not to mention the "powerful" RWD car. :-X

Some nice doors by the roadside in rare star silver. Anyone interested? ;)
Windows might need a wipe...

If he was in top, then he was going fast enough to break summat :-\
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: omega2018 on 13 February 2017, 14:58:09
don't seem to be any airbags deployed, damage to front doesn't look that much.    big head shaped bump in the roof but passenger walked i assume driver wasn't wearing a seat belt as well as no licence, mot, insurance.
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 13 February 2017, 15:09:58
This video makes me realise how lucky I was to survive my teens and early twenties.

If it wasn't cars, bikes, alcohol, illegal substances or loose women, it was something else.

Still, hopefully I'm a responsible adult now. ::)
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: 2boxerdogs on 13 February 2017, 15:55:58
Just proves what I said about spacesaver wheels recently.
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 13 February 2017, 17:00:37
don't seem to be any airbags deployed, damage to front doesn't look that much.    big head shaped bump in the roof but passenger walked i assume driver wasn't wearing a seat belt as well as no licence, mot, insurance.
Driver seat airbag has popped. Steering wheel airbag doesn't fire if the impact doesn't warrant it... When I buried one of mine into the back of a lorry at 20ish it didn't go off... Nor did the pretensions for that matter.
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: flyer 0712 on 13 February 2017, 19:25:16
That happened at Caddington in Bedfordshire some time ago now...
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: STEMO on 13 February 2017, 20:07:20
That happened at Caddington in Bedfordshire some time ago now...
I'd guess around 2009/10?  ::)
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: grifter on 13 February 2017, 20:32:19
Luckily they weren't driving a saxo  ;D still, justifies my thinking they should send all new drivers on a skid awareness course
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: STEMO on 13 February 2017, 20:34:57
Luckily they weren't driving a saxo  ;D still, justifies my thinking they should send all new drivers on a skid awareness course
There were plenty of skid marks, both outside and inside the car.
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Pmacca2000 on 13 February 2017, 21:44:38
I notice they referred to the car having a space saver on it, clearly not much of one as if I've got this right it's a 15" steel as used by the police?
What a waist of a perfectly good GLS
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: X30XE on 14 February 2017, 00:58:42
I notice they referred to the car having a space saver on it, clearly not much of one as if I've got this right it's a 15" steel as used by the police?
What a waist of a perfectly good GLS

Exactly. 15/205. More than adequate. Was probably the only legal tyre on it as well.  ::)

PC Shona Gillen. What a joke she is. Couldn't catch a cold.
Title: Re: Someone crashes a 2.2 Omega...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 14 February 2017, 04:53:29
I notice they referred to the car having a space saver on it, clearly not much of one as if I've got this right it's a 15" steel as used by the police?
What a waist of a perfectly good GLS
Only upto MY2000... 16" alloys thereafter ;)

The issue isn't the wheel/tyre size per se, but rather the fact that it is a very different size to the other wheel on the same axle, hence the 50mph caveat as clearly borne out by the yellow sticker on it ::)