My friend crashed his impreza

[JEMcG]

Before...

I think it was bad luck to be taking pics because later on he crashed while going over a little bridge right into another car.

 

[freedomweasel]

How do you lose your rear bumper from crashing into another car on a bridge?

 

[JEMcG]

Spun it.

 

[Stotty]

Looks like he got away quite lightly!

I owned my Impreza back in 95-96... you could do stupid things in it and it always sorted itself out... I always thought it was pretty much uncrashable

 

[Famine]

Three questions:

* What of the other car?
* Anyone hurt?
* Whose fault?

 

[stumpydino]

Is that it...?
How do you spin on a bridge anyway

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Looks like he got away quite lightly!

I owned my Impreza back in 95-96... you could do stupid things in it and it always sorted itself out... I always thought it was pretty much uncrashable

Yep, he got away lightly. You don't spin an Impreza at low speed. But they do suffer from lift-off oversteer. It's what killed mine.

Well, it wasn't so much the lift-off oversteer, it was the sideways at 80mph into an oncoming cement truck that killed it.

 

[Peterram430]

I think it was bad luck to be taking pics because later on he crashed while going over a little bridge right into another car.

Hopefully nobody was injured.

Although I don't know details of the circumstances, from the pictures and what you've told us so far (he drove over a bridge in such a way that he ended up spinning into another car) it sounds as if luck doesn't have much to do with it.

Obviously I'm being judgemental here, perhaps wrongly so, and I'd be happy to retract my statement if your friend was actually the innocent one, but it looks as if he was being a dick and hopefully appropriate action will be taken against him and he'll learn from what happened.

 

[Stotty]

Yep, he got away lightly. You don't spin an Impreza at low speed. But they do suffer from lift-off oversteer. It's what killed mine.

Well, it wasn't so much the lift-off oversteer, it was the sideways at 80mph into an oncoming cement truck that killed it.

Lift-off oversteer was my party trick for passengers... turn in, brake, slide, wait until it reaches a suitable angle, then hit the gas... no matter how sideways I got it, I always found mine would come back if I got back on the gas pedal

Anyhow, looks fairly easily repairable.

 

[JCE]

That'll buff out.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I used to have a friend that rode his STi up a concrete barrier and managed to drive away with nothing but a bent strut and curbed wheel.

 

[C-ZETA]

As a Mitsubishi fan, all I have to say to this is...

!

...I do apologize. I got carried away.

But that does look certainly rather ouch. .

And it really does take some fail to spin on a bridge.

 

[RenoRanes007]

Hopefully nobody was injured.

Although I don't know details of the circumstances, from the pictures and what you've told us so far (he drove over a bridge in such a way that he ended up spinning into another car) it sounds as if luck doesn't have much to do with it.

Obviously I'm being judgemental here, perhaps wrongly so, and I'd be happy to retract my statement if your friend was actually the innocent one, but it looks as if he was being a dick and hopefully appropriate action will be taken against him and he'll learn from what happened.

This was my first thought as well..... Out in what appears to be the middle of nowhere, great chance to be all "Hey lets play Rally Driver" otherwise known as driving like a bell end, but as near always the case it goes a bit wrong.

Likewise I will happily retract this if proven wrong but from the pictures and what 'happened' it really does sound like it.

 

[Eric.]

So he oversteered into a bridge, is what you meant to say.

 

[buickgnx88]

Must not have had the Cobb short throw shifter.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Must not have had the Cobb short throw shifter.

Or the rest of the "Stage Two" modifications.

 

[niky]

Come on guys... it was a bridge... not a tree...

But seriously... it takes an awful lot of stupid to spin a car on a public road.

I should know, I've been an awful lot of stupid in my time.

 

[Crash]

Well I hope your friend is ok and no one got hurt.

With that said, is he planning on getting it fixed, or is that now a salvage?

 

[JEMcG]

No one got hurt but thee car he crashed into was a ford puma the guy had just got the day before! He hit the front of the puma, poor little thing. Although it didn't look as bad as his... I think the impreza has more crumble structures or whatever it's called.

And it's very easy to crash on roads this tricky in Scotland no matter how good a machine your in. Especially when the guy parks his car right next to the road, and sets up camp next to it! But both were in the wrong. Doesn't matter anyway, my friend is fully insured and wanted a new car anyway. The puma guy and him have sorted things out.

 

[Eric.]

So your friend crashed (ass-first, I must add) into a parked car. Congratulations to him.

 

[daan]

And it's very easy to crash on roads this tricky in Scotland no matter how good a machine your in. Especially when the guy parks his car right next to the road, and sets up camp next to it! But both were in the wrong.

You can't blame a car that wasn't moving in an accident. Any driver should always be able to stop in the distance he can see.

 

[Silent7Sniper7]

oh god NO

I'm a huge Subaru fan and that impreza is or was beautiful

how dare you ruin it

 

[eiriksmil]

So your friend crashed (ass-first, I must add) into a parked car. Congratulations to him.

Bad luck was the reason for this bud, don't try to turn this into something it ain't.. lol

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

Bad luck was the reason for this bud, don't try to turn this into something it ain't.. lol

Driving too fast isn't luck, it doesn't just magically happen.

 

[Moglet]

You can't blame a car that wasn't moving in an accident. Any driver should always be able to stop in the distance he can see.

This is very true. I've been reading Roadcraft lately and it's full of brilliant information on avoiding stuff like this. It's easy to forget that there could be something unexpected just ahead.

James Bond, for example, flipped his Aston Martin after he failed to take into consideration there may have been a young lady laying acting on the road ahead.

Luckily he was insured, but he lost his no claims bonus which is why he was driving a Ford Ka in Quantum of Solace.

 

[buickgnx88]

I think Q just took away his driving privileges, so he had to rent a car.

 

[niky]

I've had my fair share of scrapes... and every time I've had the rear end of a car come around, no bad luck was involved... just bad judgement on how fast I could go on that road.

Whatever excuses I make for those incidents in the past, I can fully admit that I was going way too fast for the conditions in the first place.

If you're unsure, slow down. Every time we use a deserted road for photography and dynamic or tail-out shots, we scout the area extensively before ever turning a wheel in anger. Simply, if you can't see it, it can definitely kill you.