Modern Vespa

close call by one block, maybe even a half block

It's currently 11:20am...did this just happen?

Too much Jim Beam in the coffee this morning

about an hour or so ago

right after i left lincoln hardware

It's insane that the rear of that car didn't go through that window.

Is it horrible of me that I wish every wreck resulting from someone being careless ended up with the careless person being dead?

Not really..I mean...I never wish ill fate one anyone...but man, sometimes fools like this deserve it.

I cant imagine a scenario in which my car would end up upside down on the sidewalk, how does that happen?

A mixture of going to fast, and swerving will cause the car the flip over. I've seen it done on my way to Vegas...pretty crazy watching a corvette flip over so many times that I couldn't even keep count.

ouch. that's a B6 A4 1.8 or 2.0T, can't tell if it's quattro, but you'd really have to screw up to flip it like THAT. fresh rain after a dry spell? I've done some crazy stuff in my A6 4.2 which is a little bit more lopsided but faster and haven't ever come close to that.

hopefully everyone was ok. (by the looks of it they probably are, audis are tanks and pretty safe unless you're in the 3rd row of an avant, which is right in the crumple zone.)

it was crazy

the lady was fine and didn't spill a drop of her latte

there was another car involved

suv in the 2 lane and the audi in the 3lane

suv squeezed/cut her off and the audi cought the curb and then rode up the tree knocking down the tree at the same time rolling her

that is also a bus stop

no one hurt, the bus left the stop seconds before this happened

the car never touch ed the walgreens window which by the way had a employee in the window doing window dressing


by the way the guy on the bike just locked it to a pole and was walking the opposite direction, so when he turned around he could not see his bike 8)

Easy!

I hit a pickup head on with a Smart car and within mere seconds had the thing on it's roof.

sounds plausible, though they'd have to hit her HARD, that car weighs about 3700LBS. glad she was fine. it's one of the reasons I drive an audi: they're pretty resilient in an accident.

hmmm. maybe just a little. how about 'riddled with existential angst'? and perhaps hemorrhoids for repeat offenders.

Its got nothing to do with with luck it´s her vorsprung durch parkin technic, you know,

When I was in high school we had a kid in drivers education turn a car on it's roof while practicing a three point turn.

But in those two scenarios they can still drive.

In mine they can't.

Oh my God ... I've never seen something like this in my life ... I mean, I've seen, but only on the pics like in this case ...

From they way you describe each person just missing getting hit, why does this sound like another Final Destination movie?

i think timing is everything

any earlier and there may have been injuries

any later and i may have been injured

i love it

she crawled out with out a scratch

it made my morning in a twisted way

i'd have to say, the audi held up pretty well. germans build pretty safe cars.

glad no one was on that bicycle!

what?!? really?

one of the rovers was telling me at a past guys night that a girl in his drivers ed class had hit a house during the class and still received her drivers license.

He hit the gas and the car hit some bleachers and rolled over. He received his license as well.

i had drivers ed 21 years ago when it was still offered through high school. nobody failed. ever. now, they do not seem to offer it through the high schools anymore. probably because of liability. i wonder if it is better now. i can tell you that when i hand signal on my scooter. people seem to not have a clue.

See that's just not right. People like that should have to take the bus.

but they sure as hell fucking don't. in the detroit area, people driving on suspended licenses is the norm. and they justify it with "i have to go to work".

Surely this is crazy talk! Or you can now vouch for the assurances about cabin rigidity? That made me proper lol.

Suspended license usually equals no insurance. My minimum required payment for such an offense, at the scene of a collision: the bridge of your nose and your front teeth.

yieks crashing like that and have no bruse or scratch thats spooky