6 November 2008

Boffo bingle at North Ainslie Primary

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[First filed: November 05, 2008 @ 10:09]

Thanks to Gungahlin Al for the tip.

In the small hours of the morning (one resident reckons 3.30am) someone managed to get the Majura-Davenport roundabout very badly wrong.

It looks like the car clipped a tree on the wrong side and rolled before coming to rest in the school’s fence.

UPDATED: Apparently a 25yr old from Goulburn was pulled from the passenger seat and blew over for DUI. There’s a media release from the police somewhere, but not online.

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Oversteer is your friend.

Understeer introduces you to large trees.

haha…as another poster has already said….this is not entirely true however it reminds me of the following explanations given by a speedway driver some years ago
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“Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you.”

this is the second time in recent history a car has driven into that primary school fence. Maybe they should reinforce it?

Jesus what a crash. I think the worst thing is that in all these comments about this poor bastard not one person has asked if any one was hurt or thank God no one was. From the looks of it the guy driving was lucky to be alive, thank god it was late an no one else was around. Instead of riding this guy maybe we should hope he learned his lesson.
By the way sounds like Al the tip off for this was a real help to everyone bloody gossip

It would be like going into DJs in the Canberra Centre to shoplift a cardigan.

This must be digitally modified, no Camry can go fast enough to do that sort of damage!!!

If the car was stolen what sort of loser steals a Camry!!?

Holden Caulfield12:19 pm 06 Nov 08

Oversteer is your friend.

Understeer introduces you to large trees.

For the mug punter middle Australian Camry driver nothing could be further from the truth.

Natural reaction to big understeer is to back off the gas, steering input is already likely to be at full lock in the intended direction of travel. Most “family” FWD will be tuned so neutrally that this will simply slow the car down (hopefully before impact) and allow the driver to regain control.

Similarly, most mug punters will back off the gas in RWD, but, crucially, steering input is in the opposite direction of intended travel. Therefore you need to correct steering angles and this is when an mug punter will usually fk things up big time.

That said, you and peterh are both right. Get things badly wrong in any car, and the laws of physics tend to take over. But, importantly, if you know what you’re doing, then, yes, oversteer can be stacks of fun (no pun intended!).

It’s just not fair. I want to skid through a giant clay pan on the Nullarbor in a Camry!

when you are over the limit, ANY vehicle becomes a pinball for trees and fences.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy11:00 am 06 Nov 08

Driven sensibly, there’s not much difference between front and rear wheel drive cars these days.

Holden Caulfield10:42 am 06 Nov 08

An HSV is an oversteering, rear wheel drive, point A to point B taxi…and nothing more. But you’re right, the mere sight of a corner would be enough to send it ploughing off the road in a blithering mess, haha!

I went to the Nullarbor and back (with five people and a trailer) in a camry like that, it actually went pretty well. There was some excitement when in the middle of nowhere on a giant clay pan, it decided to rain on us, but we slid through it. Wouldn’t have liked to be drunk though… not that there was really anything to hit though..

H1NG0 said :

Someone forgot the Camry was an understeering, front wheel drive, point A to point B car….and nothing more.

oh, come on. I have a camry. newer model than this one. maybe the fact that the driver was well over the limit had something to do with it?

imagine if that was an HSV commodore in the fence? car or driver?

I want Loose Brown to write a story about The Camry That Wanted To Fly.

Someone forgot the Camry was an understeering, front wheel drive, point A to point B car….and nothing more.

mutley said :

A 25-year-old Goulburn man
Can I be first to call Todd Carney?

Todd is only 22 lol

One way to total your car and not get an insurance payout. I can’t even see how he managed to do that, must have been going at speed and straight over the middle of the roundabout.

Weaselburger8:44 pm 05 Nov 08

By the Look of it I hope they Didn’t Have any Passengers

It looks like it flew like a bird and landed like a hippopotamus.

Such a waste of a damn fine automobile. Not many of them getting aroud these days.

A 25-year-old Goulburn man
Can I be first to call Todd Carney?

Here’s the police release… they’ve now issued a correction to Ainslie.

Goulburn eh..

For immediate release

Alleged drink driver almost three times over limit

A 25-year-old Goulburn man will face a drink driving charge after the vehicle he was driving collided with a fence in Hackett earlier today (November 5).

About 4.40am, police conducting routine patrols found a grey Toyota Camry sedan with significant damage to the front end and the rear of the vehicle resting on a steel mesh fence at Hackett Primary School, Majura Avenue, Hackett.

The alleged driver returned a positive result to an initial roadside breath screening test and was conveyed to the City Police Station where he recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.135 grams of alcohol per 100mL of blood – almost three times over the 0.05 limit.

The man will be summonsed to face the ACT Magistrates Court on February 18, 2009.

What are they worried about, it’ll buff out…

Even if it wasn’t stolen, how much you want to bet that the owner tells the police it was? Hope they are OK, that looks like a pretty decent crash to wander away from without getting at least a checkup.

If it is stolen, then they left $5 on the dash for the damage.

neanderthalsis10:36 am 05 Nov 08

I reckon the tree will need a few more hits on the other side before it is fully ringbarked.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

Bloody Canberra drivers!

Normally I’d agree V8, but them be NSW Licence Plates.

Sniff, Sniff….I’m smelling stolen vehicle.

The impression I’d got was that the driver didn’t hang around to talk to the authorities.

But I’m happy to be corrected on that.

Did they get a breath test?? Melbourne Cup – write off car at 3:30am.. Coincidence??

Bloody hell!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy10:16 am 05 Nov 08

Bloody Canberra drivers!

Holden Caulfield10:10 am 05 Nov 08

Bloody Camry drivers!

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