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[monster]

Originally Posted by glatt

WTF? It's legal to drive like that there?

No-one is injured, it's not worth the police time to try and prove the driver was negligent. if the insurer of the basement owner wants to persue it, or the council wanting to get their bollards fixed.... If you hit another car, you just exchange insurance details. Several years ago I learned the hard way that here in the US you should call the police regardless. So this time I did and it proved a very good call. But I feel a tit calling 911 for a fender bender, it's just not how I was brought up.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by monster

...But I feel a tit calling 911 for a fender bender, it's just not how I was brought up.

Put the regular (non-emergency) number for the police in your phone.

[Carruthers]

I think that a bidding war has started in London to see who can 'bend' the most expensive car.

That Range Rover was peanuts. This Lamborghini cost £300,000. Now yer talkin'

Lamborghini Aventador worth £300,000 towed away after three-car crash.

The supercar has been filmed being driven around London in the past with flames firing out of its exhaust.

Daily Telegraph.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

I think that a bidding war has started in London to see who can 'bend' the most expensive car.

That Range Rover was peanuts. This Lamborghini cost £300,000. Now yer talkin'



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Daily Telegraph.

The moment of impact/takeoff.


ps, I know the vid is embedded in the daily telegraph link, but it was exasperatingly slow to load, youtube was much more responsive.

[Carruthers]

Thanks V, I hadn't seen that video. I think the site was updated after I posted the link. Unfortunately, you have to sit through a commercial for most videos on the DT site which is a pain in the fundament.
Perhaps the ads are restricted to the UK audience and you have the great good fortune not to be troubled by them!

I was thinking earlier today, which is a rare event in itself, but if I could afford a Lamborghini, the last thing I would spend £300,000 ($497,500) on, would be a Lamborghini, or any other similarly pricey car.

Maybe it's an age thing.

[Gravdigr]

They've pulled the last Corvette outta the sinkhole. This is what the 2001 Z-06 Mallet Hammer looks like now:



Before:



Last Corvette pulled from museum sinkhole will need some extra TLC

[glatt]

Makes me wonder how Vettes perform in crash tests. I'm sure they have to meet some minimum standard, but what is that? And how do they fare compared to other sports cars?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Put the regular (non-emergency) number for the police in your phone.

Easier said than done, within 20 minutes drive from home I could be in one of dozens of police jurisdictions, in three states.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Put the regular (non-emergency) number for the police in your phone.

here, they tell you to call 911

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by monster

here, they tell you to call 911

For non-emergency calls? That's odd.

Around here, we're almost bombarded with ads on tv, radio, and billboards not to call 911 unless it's an actual emergency. They even use 'fender benders w/o injury' as an example of a non-emergency situation.