Overturning cars

juno10353

Lately there seems to be a crazy amount of cars overturning. Is this due to hitting footpaths or objects at speed or are there other reasons.

EmmetSpiceland

Probably down to phone use while driving, if I had to guess.

Jim_Hodge

Where are all these overturned cars?

walterking

Bad drivers. It's as simple as that.

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867203#Comment_119867203

On their roofs

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867249#Comment_119867249

Taller vehicles SUVs?

Sweet Talkin Romeo

maybe they were all watching Le Mans '66 [shown recently on Film4] and were trying to replicate some of the fancy manoeuvres they saw 😆

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867203#Comment_119867203

There was one on my road... narrow suburban Dublin street coming off a 50 kmh road during the day. Not a joy ride. Seemed unusual to me it would flip over.

I am guessing it is due to lighter cars / higher centre of gravity. But really dunno.

Montage of Feck

Stupid lifted crossovers with wobbly suspension.

elperello

Are there any statistics to show that more cars are overturning now than before or are we just going on a hunch?

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867408#Comment_119867408

Its AH. Your stat-tis-tics have no place here.

Hunch away.

Ubbquittious

Its aliens. They had a go at messing with humans a few decades ago with crop circles now they're getting a bit more brazen and turning their cars upside down.

20Wheel

Boggers.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867426#Comment_119867426

Pardon me I took a wrong turn at Motors 🙂

BENDYBINN

Obvious its climate change…cars and roads are getting warmer causing more bounce,

kirk.

Came across overturned cars twice at the same bend in a road

They must be going way too fast approaching

Larbre34

I was once behind a car driven by a young woman that leaned down to her handbag on the floor of the passenger side as she drove along at about 80 km/h, lost control of the car, clipped the verge, overcorrected and flipped it over.

It was the height of summer and her driver's window was fully open. Her long hair flopped out of it as the car rolled over, got caught under the roof at it scraped along the road and ripped about half of her scalp clean off her skull.

It happened on an R road in east Cork and with the luck of God, a fire engine was passing the other way after attending a minor incident and they managed to stabilise her wound and extract her until further units arrived.

I gave a witness statement to the Guards and learned she was unlikely to have any lasting damage, except some scarring under her hair.

This was back in about 1996, before mobile phones were popular, but ever since that I have never had so much as a loose tape cassette near me when I'm driving.

No phone, no phone holder, no sat nav unit, no bag, no pen and pad, no coat on the front seat, no drinks bottles or food, nothing. Ever.

These are the reasons people turn cars over and why its getting more prevalent. Distractions everywhere.

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119868715#Comment_119868715

Good advice.

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867249#Comment_119867249

roflol....Neat!

An Ri rua

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119867203#Comment_119867203

Turner's Cross, unusually, and Derrinturn (its hard enough to keep them upright, hoor of a road,always has been)...

Potential-Monke

The vast majority of people on the road shouldn't be on the road. They treat driving the same as walking, something they just do and not with the attention it requires. Too many people think they're great drivers when they don't even know the laws they're consistently breaking, are oblivious to them, or know and don't care. Too many people buying stupid lifted saloon "crossovers" so they can see better, with their 400k dipped headlights pointed towards the sky so they can see better again, and they wouldn't be able to manage a 70s Mini, let alone something 4 times the size of it.

The heightening of the "cars" is definitely attributing to it, but it's still down to driver incompetence. There's very rarely a traffic accident, but there's thousands of collisions.