Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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Jesus christ it's slippy out there....came across this on the A127 coming back from Southend tonight, women lost it approaching a roundabout, reckons she was doing 20 but I don't think so.
Anyway in the time we were there, a Clio locked up trying to slow for the roundabout, an Audi had all systems go (ABS etc) trying to stop, an old school Merc span out and almost hit the barriers, an E36 320 went sideways but managed to control it, various understeers from lots of cars, proper crazy shit. Scariest one was a Sainsburys Lorry starting to slide, fortunately he controlled it quite well but that could have turned nasty.
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James_H
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Registered: 16th Sep 07
Location: Slough, Berkshire
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Jesus 
Just went to town to get some money out and i thought 'na stuff taking my bike, its hard enough in the car!'
Dosnt look like 20mph though.
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
Location: West Sussex Drives: E46 M3
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Oops. It isn't too bad out there if you're driving carefully - I'm far more out in the sticks than that too!!
Had 1 slightly dodgy corner where I ended up sliding the van round it last night, other than that it was ok?
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BarnshaW
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Registered: 25th Oct 06
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she wasnt travelling at 20mph, unless the trees were travelling 20mph towards her to 
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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The speed camera is there and isn't it a 30mph limit?
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antmashed
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Registered: 2nd Aug 06
Location: Hertford
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i saw about 5 crashes at lakeside too
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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This porsche that was at the NYE Tunnel run meet...
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Was that on the tunnel run Matt?
I didnt know you were a PH'er 
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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No. he crashed yesterday! I accidentlyh stumbled across the tunnel run meet thread so signed up and went along, I always wanted to go in the corsa but i was too embarassed  Ive started posting on there a bit though now
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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but one guy in a dark blue drift beemer got the arse end out big time on the roundabout in front of me, i came round the corner and saw him parked half on the roundabout half on the road and trying to reverse it back onto the road Saw it later parked up in Ikea and one of the rear tyres had a nice golf ball sized bump sticking out of it. Apparently it was only put on new the week before, gutted!
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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i went sideways round a roundabout unintentialy in the Alpina earlier. Also overtook a car on a dual carriageway wasnt used to the auto box and it suddenly kicked down mid manoveur and the back started to fishtail! Thank god for T/C
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
The speed camera is there and isn't it a 30mph limit?
Speed camera is covered up mate, and it's a 40. It still doesn't look like 20 to me, she's wedged herself straight through the trees, gone through all the crash bars and strengthening behind the bumper!
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Originally posted by antmashed
i saw about 5 crashes at lakeside too
Yeah I heard about a Pulsar that had it's front end missing. Was a car overturned on the A127 and another that had lost it and hit a telegraph pole, crazy shit
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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my car slipped round a few roundabouts last night was quite scary on one of them as i felt all the car go light not just the front end like normal. and if i had of kept sliding i cant imagine it being to much fun potentially going through barriers and falling onto a dual carriage way
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Tiesto
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TC light keeps going off on the Z4, so at least it's doing its job!
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sand-eel
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Registered: 15th Mar 07
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my back end went out by accident in 3rd gear at about 15 mph, i actually deliberatly put it in 3rd just in case and it happened anyway
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
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I just had a 4 wheel slide going round a roundabout, it felt cool as fuck but I was quite relieved when it gripped and I had control again
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
Location: Dartford Kent Drives: 330cd
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You always end up present at someone elses misfortune
I'd feel a cunt taking pics of someones accident infront of them
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Graham88
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Maybe I'm a jinx 
I did ask tbf
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AlunJ
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Registered: 3rd Apr 07
Location: Newport
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I slipped a bit yesterday, came out of the one road, and it curves round quite tightly through the roundabout into the next left, going round there not particularly quick and back end slid out a fair bit. Terrible out there.
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Gez G
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Registered: 12th May 04
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Roads are slidey - pulled out of a junction in the Polo GTi, put it into second - mega understeer - not good!
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
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The thing is people need to slow down and having grit out doesnt really help? How the hell do people in Russia cope with RWD ladas yet we can't deal with mild subzero temperatures?
I saw some guy in a Ford lightening truck go sideways off a roundabout when driving through Roydon yesterday! Dunno why he tried to carry so much speedinto a roundabout especially considering it has a live rear axle
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Graham88
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Oh yeah that's a point, the amount of people actually trying to get sideways around it was funny too
My mate was shitting it in his 200sx though, diff didn't know what to do and kept locking up going down the M25 @ 70
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
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Thats about as fucked up as my mate taking his snap off steering wheel off at 70 to scare his g/f
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oceansoul
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
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poor omega =[
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
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Yer it was mega slippy last night. Thats why I went to southend and that was it
There is also so much salt on the road its unreal. They are white round this way
Drives supercharged Tec with torque 
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