UMMMM....

[clivvy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916129

[stinka]

Yeh just seen this, lucky it was early hours of morning when folks were in bed

What's the betting he was drunk ... ?

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by stinka

Yeh just seen this, lucky it was early hours of morning when folks were in bed

What's the betting he was drunk ... ?

wouldn't surprise me. We all know how fast you have to drive, to make a sports car take off-he either accidentally floored it, or was showing off. To be fair, its easy to floor it by accident in those cars, like when you swap acceleration for braking...see, easy to get those two mixed up officer...

[Lazy-Ferret]

What I would love to know is how fast he must have been going...not that he would ever admit it.

I can not see, even if you kept your foot on the floor for the whole time, how you can go through a hedge, and hit 2 cars, and still end up that high, and that far through the corner of the house, which is basically must be the strongest part of the house.

Scary

[rustic]

Fancy having both cars wrecked, your garage roof torn, and your house made structurally unsound, all by one person in a car.

I hope the driver is ok, after all he is going to be paying for this damage for quite a while.

So conditions were icy, who in their right frame of mind would drive at a speed at or below the legal speed limit that would make a car do this?

Could the car have left the road say from a close by dual carriageway, at say 70 mph, and this is only the outcome.
These events happen regularly on motorways, but the final outcome is less severe.

As usual we can't really speculate on the cause, as we don't have all the facts.

[Midlander]

Sgt Bob Patterson, of Suffolk Police, said: "Collision investigators will be at the scene today as we try to ascertain exactly what has occurred.

"At this early stage we could not speculate as to what has caused the crash."

Err, Let me take a wild guess,,,,,,,Speeding / Driving too fast for te given road conditions?

[stinka]

Guys in a bad way, unsurprisingly tho, looks like he took a house to the face at 60mph

The house will have the roof tempory supported while they rebuild that corner of the house, well that's the way I'd want to do it, but they might want to strip the roof and take half of it off. Either way in reckon the full insurance claim could be £60k

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by stinka

Guys in a bad way, unsurprisingly tho, looks like he took a house to the face at 60mph

The house will have the roof tempory supported while they rebuild that corner of the house, well that's the way I'd want to do it, but they might want to strip the roof and take half of it off. Either way in reckon the full insurance claim could be £60k

lol, "house in the face at 60mph" brilliant!

[rustic]

For a newish house, it doesn't seem to have cavity wall insulation.

Sales opportunity there.

Other sites say it was on a corner, and others say i was an Audi Quattro implying that it would be ok to drive fast on ice and still get around corners at speed.

Driver in his 20's early hours, implies little experience in driving powerful cars in poor conditions.

[stinka]

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview...90.36,,0,13.43

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by stinka

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview...90.36,,0,13.43

nice work! and there you go, the guy was simply driving TOO fast, has to have been. Looking at the "snow", its just a dusting, but perhaps this guy figured there'd be no ICE, and continued to drive like a nob in a built up area...its a possibility...just saying

[kitchenman]

There was one like that a while ago on a cop car series, two cars speeding, seen on traffic cams a mile or so away, both got nicked. I think that one ended on garage roof

[firebobby]

If you follow the bend away from the house, there's a very long straight, so he would have got a good lick of speed along there and didn't factor in the bend, then hit the grass verge opposite the hedge and suddenly he's flying like a bird

[clivvy]

Originally Posted by firebobby

If you follow the bend away from the house, there's a very long straight, so he would have got a good lick of speed along there and didn't factor in the bend, then hit the grass verge opposite the hedge and suddenly he's flying like a bird

I hope he survives, I really do. Lessons need to be learnt. I wonder if this sort of news story will make some people think? It will certainly make "Audi" drivers think, whether they go around driving too fast or not, the headlines become instantly recognisable because of the Audi.

The TT is a great car, but its dangerous in the wrong hands, and no offence to the driver, he is clearly an incapable driver, and wrong in the head.

[fridgman]

I know the stretch well, and if it had been daytime I would think he came round the bend too quick as someone pulled out the side road forcing him round behind them. But at that time of day he must have either been going some or the car had a serious fault. Even double peddling would have created some braking and stopped him flying surely!