Someone in front of me yesterday on the way to work decided to turn right at the last minute without looking to see if anything was coming the other way....

Everyone walked away and the only one that ended up in hospital was the bloke that caused it...just a gash to the head.


The Alfa:




The Pug that caused it:




The 2 week old Merc he collected:




Pug's engine ended up in the ditch:



And the Pug's 'box ended up in the road behind me....

Bloody hell - glad everyone is more-or-less OK. Bummer. Good luck getting everything sorted.

I was surprised quite how much that 206 disintegrated!

I bet - quite shocking to see how it's come to bits - especially compared to the other two cars.

Glad everyone walked away. But how did you t-bone the pug?

I didn't. The merc did, and one or other ploughed into me as they went past.

Frightening stuff

Pleased everyone walked away ok, the pug was destroyed!

Wow, glad to hear all were ok!

Glad all are ok.

What are you going to get as a replacement?

Not sure yet. I keep going through the trader and looking at the 1-2 grand range...

Bummer for you OS

The pug, in spite of its being blitzed, seems to have held at least some of its shape in the saloon, luckily for the driver.

Yeah go back to a car of even 20 years or so they would have been scraping at least one of us off the tarmac.

Bloody EU insisting on cars passing crash test standards.... ;-)

Glad you're ok Steve

My Coupe is 18 years old

Glad you and the others are OK, does show how well protected we are in cars now.

That's some serious bad luck. I hope you get a decent resolution from the insurer.

Just seen this, obviously it's good nobody was seriously hurt. The damage was very extensive, again I'm being obvious. Just out of curiousity what was the speed when this occurred? The Pug looks really bad! A wake up call in the morning or what?!

It's a NSL road, so the pug turning would have been sub 20 mph I guess, and the Merc could have been doing 60, but I think he was braking.

I know I should hate that Vauxhall that EDz put on the other cars for sale section....but somehow I can't.

A 240 bhp V6 Turbo in an overgrown hatch.....

I did say I needed something a bit of a lugger.

Glad you're ok Steve. Its got me thinking about the missus 206 though

Glad everyone walked away.
My mom was looking at a 206 as a winter runaround....
Maybe not!

If the approaching Merc was doing around 60 mph I get the impression that the right sort of things happened in order for the cabin to stay intact? I admit it looks dramatic to have large parts strewn across the road but in theory these are replaceable....

I think you are right, dissipate the energy in knocking bits off rather than sending it all through the mushy bit behind the wheel.

The 206 did what it was designed to do in a crash.

It dissipated a lot of energy by the crumple zones crumpling and the engine breaking loose.

This meant that the important reinforced part where humans are located stayed relatively intact and the driver survived with only minor injuries.

I kinda agree with the energy dissipation - but once it's dissipated that protection is gone. A second hit or a hit by a bigger object (articulated lorry) and it's not looking too clever.

The bigger and stronger the car, the better chance you have in a crash but it is good to see that all cars have got better over the years. However, some manufacturers do just enough to collect the points in the standard test and a non-standard crash causes more damage than one would hope and expect from the original test results. This is another case of where the tests need to be made more thorough and realistic.

Well they have given me a pretty new Volvo V70 estate. Far too bloody complicated by half!

Not pretty and new?

The archetypal safe car

Glad you were all OK.

Electric handbrake, stupid keyless entry, totally digital dash....

What's wrong with people!

My daily is a 206

It's rather impressive that nobody was seriously injured.
My youngest brother had a 206, it disintegrated spectacularly when he hit a traffic island whilst distracted by his passenger, but again, no injuries.