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Northbound M1

  • 06-06-2011 12:18pm
    #1
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,449 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone hear on the news, I was coming in southbound on the M1 and I seen a crane hoisting a Evo VI out of the embankment, looked totalled. Cops were stopping people heading northbound. Anyone hear if the driver is ok?


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  • #2
    Dub XV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Dub XV


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Anyone hear on the news, I was coming in southbound on the M1 and I seen a crane hoisting a Evo VI out of the embankment, looked totalled. Cops were stopping people heading northbound. Anyone hear if the driver is ok?

    Assume this is it, not good anyway:

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/man-killed-in-dublin-crash-five-injured-in-kildare-collision-507884.html


  • #3
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,727 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    This is the Civic that crashed in Celbridge, looked to be a woman driving according to other sources

    2quuttsq.jpg


  • #4
    Dub XV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 579 ✭✭✭Dub XV


    Jaysis thats some smash!


  • #5
    Armadillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Armadillo


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    This is the Civic that crashed in Celbridge, looked to be a woman driving according to other sources

    2quuttsq.jpg


    How did she manage that in a 50\60kph zone? :confused:


  • #6
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,727 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    Armadillo wrote: »
    How did she manage that in a 50\60kph zone? :confused:
    By not doing 50 or 60 obviously...:rolleyes:


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  • #7
    Technoprisoner
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    what colour was the car?


  • #8
    T-Maxx
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056287446

    Evo :rolleyes: and Civic :rolleyes:


  • #9
    Graham_B18C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,620 ✭✭✭Graham_B18C


    T-Maxx wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056287446

    Evo :rolleyes: and Civic :rolleyes:
    Why are either of those the most dangerous cars on the road? It's not the car that gets people into trouble, it's the driver. A car will only go as fast as your right foot tells it to


  • #10
    ION08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    Yeah, I think he's implying that evo's and civic's tend to be driven by those sort of drivers.

    Anyway, it's mental to see how easy the roof just caves in like that. It baffles me why cars dont have some sort of reinforcement in the roof structure. Not full on roll cages but impact beams like you would find in doors and bumpers.

    .. Could easily be the difference between life and death in such a crash


  • #11
    ION08
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    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    By not doing 50 or 60 obviously...:rolleyes:

    You could easily roll a car at 50 or 60 by clipping something too. Doesn't necessarily mean they were speeding :rolleyes:


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  • #12
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    ION08 wrote: »
    Anyway, it's mental to see how easy the roof just caves in like that. It baffles me why cars dont have some sort of reinforcement in the roof structure. Not full on roll cages but impact beams like you would find in doors and bumpers.

    .. Could easily be the difference between life and death in such a crash
    They do, but their strength is finite.


  • #13
    ION08
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    Scary stuff. I'm fairly tall and head is close enough to roof. Don't think I'd survive if a roof folds in that easily!


  • #14
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    ION08 wrote: »
    You could easily roll a car at 50 or 60 by clipping something too. Doesn't necessarily mean they were speeding :rolleyes:
    Agreed on the rollover at 60kph but the damage to that civic above is inconsistent with 60kph. Here's a crash test done at just under 50kph: (it's not 60kph but it's all i have for now!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyNxxTZJjqo


  • #15
    Technoprisoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Technoprisoner


    anybody any idea what colour the evo was?


  • #16
    Absurdum
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    let's not jump to conclusions :rolleyes:


  • #17
    cyclopath2001
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    Vicxas wrote: »
    Anyone hear on the news, I was coming in southbound on the M1 and I seen a crane hoisting a Evo VI out of the embankment, looked totalled. Cops were stopping people heading northbound. Anyone hear if the driver is ok?
    The driver survived, but a passenger did not.
    Evening Herald, June 6

    A man was killed when a car smashed into a barrier in the middle of the M1 motorway early today.

    The car ploughed into the central reservation on the northbound carriageway at Donabate at 3.30am.

    A man in his 20s, a backseat passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene.

    Two other young men were taken to Beaumont Hospital where they were discharged after treatment.


  • #18
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    cyclopath2001 wrote: »
    The driver survived, but a passenger did not.
    a backseat passenger, was pronounced dead at the scene.
    I would put money on it that he wasn't wearing his seatbelt.
    RIP.


  • #19
    -Chris-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,035 ✭✭✭✭-Chris-


    Let's all remember as we post, that this is a thread about a very recent road death - someone's brother/son/boyfriend/father - who are obviously shocked and distraught at the moment, and who possibly read boards.ie.

    Please keep it tasteful and respectful, and presume your posts will be read by a family member or loved one at some point.

    Thanks


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