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Rogan Josh
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Coming to work the other day, I managed to write off my car. 
I am not sure what happened, since I can't remember the accident. I can remember driving along the road, only half a mile or so from my house, and then the next thing I remember is the car being smashed against a tree, with the airbag in my face. Apparently it is quite normal for your brain to wipe the memory of a car crash, but I find it rather disconcerting.
There was no other car involved. For some reason, I just drove off the road and into a tree. I think I was doing about 50mph.
I must say, I am impressed with BMW's safety standards. I drove my car head on into a tree and walked away without even a bruise. 
The police came and breathalised me but I was fine. No-one saw the accident, and the police initially suggested I might have been avoiding a dog or something.
However, on returning home that night, my neighbour told me the tyres of her car had been slashed the night before. Our cars sit right next to each other in the driveway (the houses are joined), so I am wondering if someone tried to slash my tyres too. I have my winter tyres on, which are very thick, so maybe the vandal only managed to damage them - not breaking right through. Then I could have driven half a mile on the damaged tyre before it burst, making me lose control.
I phoned the garage where the car is right now and they say that one of the tyres is completely shredded, which is consistent with a burst tyre, but they can't tell if it was deliberate. The police are going to look into it.
What do you think? I can't imagine a vandal bothering to slash my neighbour's tyres (a small car) and ignoring the BMW sitting next to it.
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CerberusIV
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Sounds plausible. When I had a company car and was doing high mileages there were three or four occasions when the garage refused to repair a punctured tyre because it had a damaged sidewall. If the sidewall does let go the tyre generally fails catastrophically rather than the controlled deflation a puncture in the tread area leads to.
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Zylka
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quote:
Originally posted by Boddington's
Me bro used have em. |
I was always told the English created English?
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Rogan Josh
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Originally posted by TheStinger
My Gran kept doing soemthing similar, it turned out she was having petty mal seizures for about 5-10 seconds.
You shoul dgo and get checked out |
Funnily enough, I sometimes have grand mal siezures from scarring in my brain (MS), but I didn't have one that morning. I went to my neurologist to check and he said no (actually I am sure I would know because it gives you a very peculiar feeling afterwards, and it is murder on my back). He says I was completely normal, and it is fairly usual to lose the memory of the crash afterwards.
I am on drugs to supress the siezures.
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Saras
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Apr 1999
time: 06:26
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How about this - I drove on a country road to a party on a birght summer day that my friend, whose parets' country place we were headed to (he said I know the roads here by heart) , was telling me to step on it before a small hill, so that we could all get this fun empty stomach feeling whensort of hopping at the top of that hill, so I was doing over 140 km/h, there was a 90 degree left turn almost immediately after the top of the hill... I thought we were gonna die when we virtually flew off the road into a minor ditch, but, by some miracle, I managed to stop the car, we did not roll, and the damage was limited to one tyre just removing itself from the wheel WITHOUT damage to the tyre.
Oh, and it wasn't a BWM, it was my lovely $1000 1984 Audi Coupe that I then managed to sell  .
I never push my luck since then.
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