Now that's a car crash!

[Kayless]

http://news.sky.com/h...news/article/16123773

[jomifl]

why is everyone suddenly smiling :-)

[benny3008]

Whoops! lucky scrapman.

[Frank97]

So is everyone feeling sympathetic ?


No me neither, lol!

[SpikeyBush]

Reminds me why insurers charge 15 grand for a 17-year-old to drive a Suzuki Wagon R. OK so they may charge you 15 times the car's value. They don't necessarily mean they think you will write it off 15 times a year. A pal of mine back in the 80s had a 1976 Mk. III 'coke-bottle' Cortina. He didn't take much care of his brakes and at a T-junction failed to stop and as a result caused, with his £500 jalopy, £8500 worth of damage to a Rolls-Royce.

That was in 1988. With inflation imagine what that would be now.

[DTCwordfan]

saw a 19 car crash of Porsches and two ferraris (out of 30 cars) in a side event to the 1991 Macau Grand Prix (F3) - obviously a race track - right on the 110 degree Lisboa Corner. The crash in Japan is pretty impressive and the police shouldnt have too many problems with that boy-racers' club in the days/weeks/months to come.....

[DTCwordfan]

pretty good too but not like the Lisboa which is at the other end of the two straights (small kink bend in between them which can be taken flat out)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W65i9MGdEk

[askyourgran]

Are these every-day commuter cars for the Japs? When I think of our poor little Rodneys driving their clapped out Fords to work it makes me wonder where do the Japanese get that sort of money.

[EDDIE51]

The main reason for high insurance for young drivers is not the cost of the cars in a crash it is the possible personal injury costs which can be tens of thousands or even millions of£s
As 1 in 3 teenage drivers have a crash in the 1st year you can see why it is so expensive.