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Re: Well....this morning at 12:45am....It happened
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Wed, 05 February 2003 23:28
 
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I'm truly sorry to hear about your accident mate, i have seen this sort of thing happen all too often to my mates and know how hard it can be. Luckily it has never happened to myself, although i have come quite close, it was under the exact same curcumstances as your accident as well. Poor roads. I'll try to cheer you up by telling you my story so you can see your not the only one!
I was travelling down the Barton Highway at 90 clicks on what seemed to be a damp road (wasn't raining, must have just finished not long ago) and my car hit a pothole that the workers had decided to have-a-look-at-it-today-and-do-the-rest-tomorrow sorta job. Well needless to say, the little TA22 with extremely stiff (I'm talking you sit on the front 1/4 panel and it doesn't move kinda stiff!)suspension and 35-series rubber on 18's didn't like the hole and spat me off to the side on the way out of it. Unfortunately i was under hard braking just as i entered the puddle-hidden hole and when it spat me out the other side (still on the brakes) my two left wheels ended up on a big fat SLIPPERY-AS-HELL brand-new-painted white road line. Of course as only 2 wheels were on it the car instantaneously spun 180degrees and spat me off the other side of the road and down a (luckily) smooth embankment of grass and muddy slush, miraculously missing all the trees in the area. Three cars stopped when they saw the big spray of water, mud and wet grass flying everywhere, and when i spoke to the guy that was travelling directly behind me he said that when i hit the hole he could see about 3 inches of clear daylight under the wheels of my car! I was so lucky that the only damage was two front wheels (18inch Simmons FR's ARGGGG!!!  ) and a need 4 a serious wheel alignment. I was so pissed, i couldn't beleive how i had been dumb enough to drive into the puddle and everyone else had either driven around it or made it through unscathed. However the following day i was speaking to an off-duty officer and he informed me that 4 (!) other cars had also lost control hitting that particular hole, and one of them hit one of the trees down the embankment that i had narrowly missed!
Anyway, that's my story, hopefully this has just ligtened your day up a bit knowing that heaps of other people come across the same thing, it's just worse knowing that your car was one of a kind and not just another Commondoor or other run-of-the-mill vehicle. My sympathies go out to you mate.
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