![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:16 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
My sister was involved in an accident yesterday. 5 teens in this car, everyone had seatbelts and everyone walked away.
On the other side of that guard rail is a 50~ foot cliff. Be careful out there everyone, this could have easily been a real shitty weekend.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:24 |
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Wow. Glad everyone is okay, what was the car?
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:25 |
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Looks like a 2004 Civic.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:26 |
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Glad everyone is ok.
I think one of the first responders might have stolen her cat and resonator though.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:27 |
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Yikes. Glad everyone is ok - cars can be replaced.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:28 |
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I love seatbelts
(What was that, I can’t even tell what kind of car...)
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:28 |
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Looks about as wet as the back roads I was tearing up on Saturday, good that everyone is ok.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:32 |
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Seatbelts are the shit.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:33 |
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How did it happen?
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:33 |
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I’ve torn up some wet roads (and tracks) but, teenage drivers don’t have the experience and having more people in the car just makes things harder.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:34 |
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Too fast, not enough brake on wet roads.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:41 |
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You sure the crash didn’t just shake the exhaust off its mounting hooks?
Glad everyone is OK.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:45 |
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7th gen Civic.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 22:51 |
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A severe enough crash could have conceivably both severed them, while simultaneously replacing them with standard exhaust tubing that just happened to be lying on the ground... I guess.
Or a lot has changed on Civic exhausts since 2000, when I last worked on one. Either one is plausible.
![]() 05/20/2018 at 23:11 |
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They’re going to be sore in the morning, but glad to hear that is the worst of it. Understeer?
![]() 05/20/2018 at 23:13 |
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Wasn’t this generation of Civic extremely prone to understeer? Lots of extra weight + wet roads + excessive speed = the front end just plowed right into that bank. She might have been going a speed similar to what she normally does on that stretch, but add in the extra weight from the passengers, maybe the road was a little more slick... Either way, the moral is be careful out there and don’t get complacent!
![]() 05/20/2018 at 23:27 |
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Probably this, she wasn’t driving but it’ll be a wake up call. I will be heavily advocating the BMW CCA defensive driving school.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 00:00 |
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My 03 Civic (hated that car) broke the back loose on wet a couple times and I sorta remember reading about that in a review.
Also had a 93 Civic; Many years ago on a rainy morning I accidentally did a 540 on lake shore drive on the S-curve in front of the Drake hotel. In morning heavy traffic I spun it from the left lane to the right shoulder facing the wrong way WITHOUT HITTING ANYTHING.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 00:11 |
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Yes. I just can’t believe how easy it is to get a driver’s license in this country... I’m a gun owner and a car owner, and I think both are deadly weapons that are way too accessible to irresponsible and untrained people.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 00:53 |
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Tire Rack Street Survival (which is sponsored by BMW CCA) has saved me from at least 3 or 4 accidents in the 5 years since I did it. Totally worth.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 01:32 |
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It might have one of those combo manifold/cat converters
![]() 05/21/2018 at 01:40 |
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Glad they are ok! People always find it weird when I wear my seatbelt in the back seat, I should bookmark this
![]() 05/21/2018 at 06:33 |
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I tell everyone I meet that the best thing I did for my street driving was track days. A safe place for you to figure out what happens when the situation goes pear shaped, and do it enough times and you learn how to properly react.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 06:36 |
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Glad everyone walked away. I’ve been there. Icy roads, too young to know any better, flipped car. Subaru G Wagon, my first car. Saved my butt.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 06:48 |
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5 teens in this car,
I think I see a big part of the problem.
That’s not even allowed in MI when you first get your license.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 08:06 |
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Yeah, probably, just odd not to see anything at all on the midpipe.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 09:43 |
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I’ve been in six car wrecks during the last fifty-two years. In two of them I didn’t have a seat belt on and I spent days in the hospital; the other four I did have a seat belt on and I never got anything worse than shook up and once a bruise on my shoulder. “Anec-data” for sure, but I’m sold anyway.
![]() 05/21/2018 at 12:24 |
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I just put shoulder (3-point) belts in my 1961 truck; it came with no seat belts at all, and I threw some lap belts in it at first, just for
something.
But I feel much better driving it now. I am very defensive in it, but things can happen.
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Glad to hear everyone walked away