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Panda Tofu ^_^ Regular Location: Adelaide Registered: January 2004	4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget... Tue, 09 March 2004 07:02 A lesson to all those drivers out there who think they are invincible... It was early sunday morning around 3am in the eastern foot hills of Adelaide, where me and 3 other guys went for a cruise with a Pulsar GTiR and a S4 Rx7. We decided to take the Summit road that night, and as some of u south aussies will know its not the best place to go driving when u dont know the road. Bout half way through all was good and my 86 was easily keeping pace with the Rx7 who was taking it quite easy as he was still learning manual. Overtaking the Rx7 as he took a wrong turn I took chase for the GTiR infront of me, comfortably drifting 2 mild corners I caught up to the GTiR, however he sped off again on a straight which lead into a slow left...where the scariest event in my life was to take place...not knowing the road and not observing the partially hidden hairpin warning sign telling drivers to take the corner at 25km/h i continued traveling at 70km/h round the corner where it suddenly tightened on me and caught me totally on surprise...I downshifted to 2nd and breaked atempting to slow down and try to drift the corner as it was the only option left as i was going to fast to stop. Though with the other 3 guys in the car the momentum was too much and the cars right wheels were dumped into the start of which turned out the be a very very steep gradient embankment, rittled with trees...I tried to countersteer out of the ditch but the tires just sank into the soil and the inevitable happend. The front right quater hit a tree at around 50km/ph i am guessing almost stopping us instantly, but also causing the engine and entire bonnet to catch fire...at this point all i am thinking about is getting out of the car but the event just got worse as the car began to slide and roll down the embankent hitting trees on the way down which stopped out roll...luckilly a large tree caught us and the car stopped on all four wheels. At this point the front of the car was engulfed in flames and i looked over to my right to the pasangers in the car telling them to climb out of the pasanger window that had broke in the roll. Some how all of us got out of the car without injury, however the car was absolutly gutted as i could see monday morning when we towed the car out. As the copper said when he questioned me about the accident, we were very very lucky to get out alive, especially without any injuries apart from scratches and bruises. The third party covers the damage caused to everything apart from the car, however i am just glad we all got out safe and sound. Guys this was an expensive and well learnt lesson for me and i hope it is for anyone atempting to go on a "hills cruise" and have some "fun" because we are not invincible i was just lucky to get out of this one alive, and i can tell you that i wont be driving for a while as something that almost takes your life away in a blink of an eye will deter you for some time. I was taking it fairly badly at first however after the copper talked to me about the road up there, i got a different view on it. He said, that corner had taken many lives and that me and my passangers were among the few that had escaped it alive. So i consider my self extreamly lucky, and i hope this will make others more cautious of their driving as anything can happen at anytime, so please guys be careful when u have fun. Cheers. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	Panda Tofu ^_^	Tue, 09 March 2004 07:02
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	BlackSupra	Tue, 09 March 2004 07:08
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	lang	Tue, 09 March 2004 07:47
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	finney	Tue, 09 March 2004 09:40
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	bbaacchhyy	Tue, 09 March 2004 23:20
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	RobST162	Wed, 10 March 2004 05:06
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	finney	Wed, 10 March 2004 06:04
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	lang	Wed, 10 March 2004 06:16
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	BlackSupra	Tue, 09 March 2004 09:49
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	DiZ_	Tue, 09 March 2004 09:59
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	finney	Tue, 09 March 2004 10:16
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	BlackSupra	Tue, 09 March 2004 10:35
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	finney	Tue, 09 March 2004 10:41
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	ae86drift	Tue, 09 March 2004 15:21
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	draven	Tue, 09 March 2004 23:03
	Re: 4 guys, a stock sprinter and a night i will never forget...	hotrolla	Tue, 09 March 2004 23:11

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