LUCKY 2 B ALIVE!!!!!!!

[RS Grant]

Sorry to hear about the accident mate.... main thing is that both of you were able to walk away.

Hopefully you'll be back in a Scoob once you've got the insurance payout.

Cheers,

Grant

[D4WGY]

Gutted for you mate

At the end of the day, cars can be replaced, people can't! Glad to hear everybody came out relatively unscathed

Shep

[classicwagon]

A big thanks to every 1 who has taken the time to wish well.

As for getting another i dont think al be allowed especially if it has been to andy f.

[ScoobyAndy]

Sorry to hear about the car. The roads on Mull are something else and with rally mode engaged theyre even worse

Glad you were both ok. Hope you get another car soon

<< As for getting another i dont think al be allowed especially if it has been to andy f. >>

Just dont tell the wife

[=Robbo=]

Scary stuff. At least everyone can have a laugh about it (even if it's not funny!).

For anyone that thinks a wrx is going to fair well in an accident then think again. Doors do not fly off of Ford Mondeos!

The Impreza has no NCAP rating at all, it?s not even been put up for testing by Subaru!

My gut feeling is that without airbags the car would be a death trap in a big accident.

Why?

The Impreza, as we all know, is build for handling and performance, and so needs to be as light as possible, doh! Structural strength without weight can only be achieved using Carbon Fibre, Composites or Aluminium (expensive bloody materials).

Subaru Imprezas are neither Heavy nor Expensive.

Crash performance, handling, acceleration and cost of manufacture are at odds with each other.

No NCAP rating + 0-60 in 5.4s + sub 20k cost = DON?T CRASH INTO A MONDEO!

Someone please prove me wrong. I drive the thing 30mph slower than I could on a back road, as I did my mk1/2 Escorts, and for exactly the same reason, I feel as though if I leave the road - I?ve had it.

Maybe I'm just a boring git who likes fast cars?

Robbo

[classicwagon]

<< Just dont tell the wife >>

The wife sees all!!!

From the Wife.

[ScoobyAndy]

<<

<< Just dont tell the wife >>

The wife sees all!!!

From the Wife. >>

LOL damn thats that idea fooked then

[sharon_mccall]

<< just dont tell the wife

The wife sees all!!!

From the Wife. >>

LMAO

Excellent stuff mrs classicwagon

[Guest]

hi,i already posted on another thread

glad to hear you 2 guys are OK.

i had a good look at your car from above(on the ferry)(dont know if you seen me or not).noticed that the seats were missing and thought you might have to have been removed from the car in them(feared the worst for you).sorry to hear some f*ck*r stole them.surprised they left your alloys as they looked as good new

where about was your accident as i dont know Mull too well,but was on the griblin stage on sat pm,then headed back into tobermory for a bite to eat before the night stages

cheers

graham

[craigdmcd]

Myself and Chris (he was driving), finished watching the rally on Saturday afternoon come over the Hill road twice (and the trophy rally as well). After this, we decided, like yourself, to head to Tobermory for the evening before the night time stages again. We headed from the junction of the Hill road and Calgary bay road back to Dervaig with Chris's brother and soon to be sister-in-law behind us in their Vectra SRi diesel. We decided to try to go over the Mishnish Lochs road, foolishly forgetting that the road was still closed for the rally, so doubled back to head over the Glen Aros road towards Salen, and then go up to Tobermory from there. As we headed out of Dervaig, we were stuck behind a camper van, that within a few passing places on the single track, very kindly pulled into let us past. As we rounded the corner after this, the road straightened out down a hill and then back up again with excellent views of the road ahead for oncoming traffic. Chris opened up the Subaru (as we all like to do), but by no means was on "full chat". After reaching the bottom of the hill, for some reason or another, the Subaru started getting a little out of shape (road surface, slightly touching the grass, undulations???), and we hit the first of 2 small jumps up the hill whilst out of shape, which from what I can remember sent us all wrong into the second "jump", which spat us out very nastily. The only two things that I can remember from that point on is after the first roll, I noticed that the window was open (it turned out that the door had flown open upon impact and bent under the car), and so I crossed my arms like I had seen Nicky Grist doing in his crash with Colin McRae on the RAC Rally (2002?). The second was seeing us travelling towards a telegraph pole, which really was S-it scary. We ended up landing on our roof, with myself asking if Chris was alright, releasing ourselves, and climbing out my "open" door. Thanks to the rally just finishing on some stages, the Rallies rescue services were very quick to the scene, even though by rights, they didn't have to attend. The actual crash was no more than 0.5 mile from Dervaig.

Vincent (Chris's brother) received a very nice phone call from the Traffic Police last night to check that all four of us were all right (Both Vincent and Lorna were quite upset at watching a family member and a close friend in such a major accident). The Officer did hope that we had learned a valuable lesson from this, and stated that he can't remember many accidents as serious as this where there was as little injuries caused. He did also state that this was the case closed for them, which in itself, goes to show that they have classed this as an accident, and not decided to pursue it further.

A day I will quite gladly foget if I can.

Craig

PS Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone that has, it proves that we are generally a close knit community.

[craigdmcd]

Sorry if my last post is doing much the same as Chris's first post, but I just thought I'd let you know how I remember it. If anybody wants any more detail, I think we'll have to do a documentary.

Graham, thanks, not only for the concern, but also for not taking pictures and posting them, very decent of you. If Chris wishes pictures to be posted, he can decide that on his own.

Craig