haddy:
According to our local news the driver,who is in his early twentys,is in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and his condition is described as life threatening. That’s if anyone is interested in his condition. Doesn’t seem like it so far!
im not surprised, the human head isnt really designed for holding houses up structurally.
It says ERF not RAF:
‘AUDI’, Say no more…
■■■■■ extender.
That looks expensive. I’m going to make a wild guess and say his insurance premiums might be increasing slightly. 
Contraflow:
That looks expensive. I’m going to make a wild guess and say his insurance premiums might be increasing slightly.
Yeah! If he lives to his renewal date!
Im gonna make a wild guess and say he was ■■■■■■
chapsigh:
Im gonna make a wild guess and say he was ■■■■■■
If it had been a lorry embedded in that house and you had said that, you would have been ripped to pieces by now. Funny old forum, ain’t it?
This is incredible!
However what made me laugh was the news reporter this morning said they were unsure what caused the accident?
mmm let me think…going too fast 
As no one at this stage knows the ins and outs of the cause to this accident, i will reserve judgement. But if i were to speculate,I would of thought speed was an issue, very unlikely to happen at residential speed limits. 
Let’s hope the driver lives to give his account of what happened - subject to him recovering that is and remembering for that matter.
briscoe05:
As no one at this stage knows the ins and outs of the cause to this accident, i will reserve judgement. But if i were to speculate,I would of thought speed was an issue, very unlikely to happen at residential speed limits.Let’s hope the driver lives to give his account of what happened - subject to him recovering that is and remembering for that matter.
What’s the betting he “can’t remember” … or “a cat / dog / fox ran across and he swerved to avoid running it over” 
Look at the crack below the upstairs window: when the car comes out the house will fall down.
When I did RTC recovery this sort of job came up 2 or 3 times a year.
I remember pulling some pi$$heads Focus ST out of the front room of a house in Nottingham at 2am while the householder obstinately refused to move from his telly !
We used to let Loughborough University come visit the yard to examine casualties, they run courses for accident examiners & do a lot of research into real world damage sustained by modern vehicles with crumple zones & safety cells etc.
Apparently, even travelling at 100mph+ you usually get a split second chance to dab the brakes, this can be incredibly effective at reducing speed. Add to that any skidding & any love taps, which also acts as a brake, before finally coming to the one that stops all motion & you can reasonably expect to survive a loss of control at silly speeds . . . even if only for a few days.
Hit something unmovable, like a tree or an oncoming vehicle early on the timespan of the incident & death is pretty much instant. The G force rips your heart away.
On some of the really bad ones I attended, like the 6wk old baby one, it was somehow comforting that death came quickly for them. Dead bodies don’t bleed. Where there’s no blood there’s no suffering.
Hit something that launches your vehicle into the air, where nothing except wind resistance is acting as a brake & you can expect a 2ton sports car to fly between 30 & 100 ft.
Fascinating subject if you ever get the chance.
BTW. The software that official accident investigators use to plot & recreate crash’s so they can be animated & played back on computer is available F.O.C to anyone not connected to the official process. If the subject interests you, you’d know where to look 
I guess it’s a human self defence mechanism to make jokes but behind them I am sure we all spare a thought for the driver and any relatives hoping for his recovery.
That said my first thought was for the house holder trying to explain that lot to some insurance claims desk with their fixed set of questions on a computer screen.
Where were you at the time of the accident.
So how fast we’re you going at the time.
We’re there any other vehicles involved.
Most of the answers would make no sense unless you see this picture 
Went past the house on the way to shops after work today, it’s still standing, the TT did one heck of a jump from where it hit the curb !
iDriver:
I guess it’s a human self defence mechanism to make jokes but behind them I am sure we all spare a thought for the driver and any relatives hoping for his recovery.That said my first thought was for the house holder trying to explain that lot to some insurance claims desk with their fixed set of questions on a computer screen.
Where were you at the time of the accident.
So how fast we’re you going at the time.
We’re there any other vehicles involved.Most of the answers would make no sense unless you see this picture
Good post mate! One or two of the people on this thread seem to think this crash was hilarious. There’s no doubt he was driving like a prat but he is someone’s son, maybe he has a wife/partner and a young family.
FarnboroughBoy11:
haddy:
According to our local news the driver,who is in his early twentys,is in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge and his condition is described as life threatening. That’s if anyone is interested in his condition. Doesn’t seem like it so far!im not surprised, the human head isnt really designed for holding houses up structurally.
Bit sick really but that really made me giggle
Chas:
When I did RTC recovery this sort of job came up 2 or 3 times a year.I remember pulling some pi$$heads Focus ST out of the front room of a house in Nottingham at 2am while the householder obstinately refused to move from his telly !
We used to let Loughborough University come visit the yard to examine casualties, they run courses for accident examiners & do a lot of research into real world damage sustained by modern vehicles with crumple zones & safety cells etc.
Apparently, even travelling at 100mph+ you usually get a split second chance to dab the brakes, this can be incredibly effective at reducing speed. Add to that any skidding & any love taps, which also acts as a brake, before finally coming to the one that stops all motion & you can reasonably expect to survive a loss of control at silly speeds . . . even if only for a few days.
Hit something unmovable, like a tree or an oncoming vehicle early on the timespan of the incident & death is pretty much instant. The G force rips your heart away.
On some of the really bad ones I attended, like the 6wk old baby one, it was somehow comforting that death came quickly for them. Dead bodies don’t bleed. Where there’s no blood there’s no suffering.
Hit something that launches your vehicle into the air, where nothing except wind resistance is acting as a brake & you can expect a 2ton sports car to fly between 30 & 100 ft.
Fascinating subject if you ever get the chance.
BTW. The software that official accident investigators use to plot & recreate crash’s so they can be animated & played back on computer is available F.O.C to anyone not connected to the official process. If the subject interests you, you’d know where to look
Hmmm that sounds quite a difficult job Did you ever have to start the recovery with deceased people still in the cars where it was a prolonged extraction? That must be hard.
bazza123:
Chas:
When I did RTC recovery this sort of job came up 2 or 3 times a year.I remember pulling some pi$$heads Focus ST out of the front room of a house in Nottingham at 2am while the householder obstinately refused to move from his telly !
We used to let Loughborough University come visit the yard to examine casualties, they run courses for accident examiners & do a lot of research into real world damage sustained by modern vehicles with crumple zones & safety cells etc.
Apparently, even travelling at 100mph+ you usually get a split second chance to dab the brakes, this can be incredibly effective at reducing speed. Add to that any skidding & any love taps, which also acts as a brake, before finally coming to the one that stops all motion & you can reasonably expect to survive a loss of control at silly speeds . . . even if only for a few days.
Hit something unmovable, like a tree or an oncoming vehicle early on the timespan of the incident & death is pretty much instant. The G force rips your heart away.
On some of the really bad ones I attended, like the 6wk old baby one, it was somehow comforting that death came quickly for them. Dead bodies don’t bleed. Where there’s no blood there’s no suffering.
Hit something that launches your vehicle into the air, where nothing except wind resistance is acting as a brake & you can expect a 2ton sports car to fly between 30 & 100 ft.
Fascinating subject if you ever get the chance.
BTW. The software that official accident investigators use to plot & recreate crash’s so they can be animated & played back on computer is available F.O.C to anyone not connected to the official process. If the subject interests you, you’d know where to look
Hmmm that sounds quite a difficult job
A colleague of mine used to do heavy recovery for Hammonds of Halesworth. I was talking to him about this and he told me he went out to a Dutch artic that had run off the road and hit an oak tree at Thorington on the A12 a few years back. To get the poor bloke out (who was still alive at this point) my mate had to climb in the cab with him and put two cables through the cab basically pull the cab front away from the cab wall between two wreckers. They got the chap out but he passed away.He says you just had to get on and do it, but as Bazza says if children were involved he found it extremely harrowing. For all the bad jobs he had to do he says he found the job rewarding and also saw some incredible things where people walked away unscathed, vehicles ending up in very unusual situations and the initial “how the hell are we going to get this out!”.
bazza123:
Hmmm that sounds quite a difficult job
Very rarely but it can happen. Sometimes using the recovery equipment is the only way to do it.
I took a newbie out on a fatal where a car was upside down & perfectly plugged in a dry ditch, the car had caught fire in the engine bay but the lack of oxygen meant the interior was relatively untouched. They’d used a camera to get inside & knew there were 2 bodies. The fire brigade estimated 3-4hrs to dig out the side of the ditch to extract them.
We were asked to volunteer & lift the car just enough to clear the ditch, they’d then do the necessary while we wandered off somewhere. My mate attached the chains to each wheel & it was an easy job to lift it clear of the ditch.
What we saw was horrific, not even Hollywood could recreate it. That’s an image I know I can never get out of my mind.
Back at the yard, the newbie gathered his things & left. Never said a word just packed up & went.
I found the job a lot easier after I stopped reading the news, knowing who they were somehow made it a little more personal but you never get over the little unexpected things, like the ballet dancers shoe or the mobile phones ringing.
I attended one on the M25 when I was a paramedic - one of those flat fronted vans. He missed (didn’t see!)the coned off lanes for about 1/4 mile before hitting the back of one of those motorway maintenance lorries with the huge flashing signs and crumple bumper on the back.
The bed of the maintenance lorry was broken and bent up a couple of inches in the middle - I’ll leave it to your imagination what he was like, however his mobile phone was still in his hand when we arrived - with a half written text to a woman…
It was decided between the police/us/fire service that the simplest option was to put the whole thing on a recovery truck, cover with tarps and remove to a non public place for cutting the body out - it took around 4 hours to get all of him out.
I felt sorry for who was waiting for the text, the workers that witnessed it and the family - he died because of his actions and was lucky he took no one with him. Harsh? Maybe - but true.
PW
PilotWolf:
I felt sorry for who was waiting for the text, the workers that witnessed it and the family - he died because of his actions and was lucky he took no one with him. Harsh? Maybe - but true.PW
This is the bit I could never work out. You can be the bestest, safest, most careful & skilled driver out on the roads, but it doesn’t stop you being a victim of someone else’s carelessness.