This happened a couple of doors down from us, don't know the story behind it yet, maybe someone chose the wrong gear or had a heart attack, odd the way it ended up though. Hope the driver was ok, nobody turned up to remove the car yet. Saw the police driving away from the scene earlier.
Just a couple of days ago, I was sitting in my home office when I heard a massive bang outside - I ran outside and there was a smashed Camry at 45 degrees across the road from my driveway - I immediately opened her door and asked if she was OK, and she was. Then I saw what had happened - she was driving west down the road after a 12 hour shift, and fell asleep at the wheel - the car drifted across the road, and the right wheel ran up over the curb, just before the tree - she hit it at about 50-55kph because as she was asleep there was no braking. The impact threw the car off to the left with the entire front right wheel / axle assembly ripped from its mountings. Luckily, she didn't injure herself or any other persons or hit any other parked cars or property. That big chunk of bark in the picce weighed about 12 kgs and was flung about 25 metres further down the road past my driveway.
When you look at the piccie, if she had missed the tree by say 300mm, she would have rode up over the curb and probably straight into my Aliner. I was waiting on a mobile service bloke to come and do a little job before I put the van away - he was running 15 minutes late and arrived 5 minutes after the crash - if he had been on time he would have been parked between the two trees and taken the full impact of her car once it bounced off the tree. How lucky were we !!!
It was no accident. The driver needed to change the rear wheels and didn't have a jack, so backed it up the tree to get the rear wheels off the ground.
And some feral pushed a wheelie bin under their car.
That's why the police turned up and then left.
Simple - yes ????
Dougwe said
05:01 PM Sep 4, 2015
Bet ya the owner of the rubbish bin wasn't very happy.
Weevil said
05:33 PM Sep 4, 2015
That was lucky Shortnorth, glad all survived ok.
With the tree (yeh, right Bruce ), someone has picked up the rubbish and the airbags (must've cut them out) but car and bins are in exactly the same spot as of time of this post, still don't know what happened, waiting to catch the neighbourhood reporter who misses nothing to find out what happened.
I think those involved must have been carted off to hospital, but nobody seems to be in a hurry to remove the car from the tree and bins etc.
dishlicker said
08:33 AM Sep 5, 2015
Thats it bruce pure logic ihad a simalar thought
aussietraveller said
12:30 AM Sep 10, 2015
I wonder what wheely happened
Weevil said
06:13 PM Sep 16, 2015
A neighbour told me today that the car had been stolen, being chased by police and turned down that street to escape, trouble is the street is blocked off by bollards at one end, so tried the ram the bollards and when that didn't work tried to back up to drive out of the street again and ran over the bins and up the tree. Not sure if they caught them or not.
This happened a couple of doors down from us, don't know the story behind it yet, maybe someone chose the wrong gear or had a heart attack, odd the way it ended up though. Hope the driver was ok, nobody turned up to remove the car yet. Saw the police driving away from the scene earlier.
Looks like the air bags fell out.
Lance C
Just a couple of days ago, I was sitting in my home office when I heard a massive bang outside - I ran outside and there was a smashed Camry at 45 degrees across the road from my driveway - I immediately opened her door and asked if she was OK, and she was. Then I saw what had happened - she was driving west down the road after a 12 hour shift, and fell asleep at the wheel - the car drifted across the road, and the right wheel ran up over the curb, just before the tree - she hit it at about 50-55kph because as she was asleep there was no braking. The impact threw the car off to the left with the entire front right wheel / axle assembly ripped from its mountings. Luckily, she didn't injure herself or any other persons or hit any other parked cars or property. That big chunk of bark in the picce weighed about 12 kgs and was flung about 25 metres further down the road past my driveway.
When you look at the piccie, if she had missed the tree by say 300mm, she would have rode up over the curb and probably straight into my Aliner. I was waiting on a mobile service bloke to come and do a little job before I put the van away - he was running 15 minutes late and arrived 5 minutes after the crash - if he had been on time he would have been parked between the two trees and taken the full impact of her car once it bounced off the tree. How lucky were we !!!
Vic. Its bloody obvious what happened here!
It was no accident. The driver needed to change the rear wheels and didn't have a jack, so backed it up the tree to get the rear wheels off the ground.
And some feral pushed a wheelie bin under their car.
That's why the police turned up and then left.
Simple - yes ????
That was lucky Shortnorth, glad all survived ok.
With the tree (yeh, right Bruce
), someone has picked up the rubbish and the airbags (must've cut them out) but car and bins are in exactly the same spot as of time of this post, still don't know what happened, waiting to catch the neighbourhood reporter who misses nothing to find out what happened.
I think those involved must have been carted off to hospital, but nobody seems to be in a hurry to remove the car from the tree and bins etc.
Thats it bruce pure logic ihad a simalar thought
A neighbour told me today that the car had been stolen, being chased by police and turned down that street to escape, trouble is the street is blocked off by bollards at one end, so tried the ram the bollards and when that didn't work tried to back up to drive out of the street again and ran over the bins and up the tree. Not sure if they caught them or not.