Well it's that time of the month again here in the Namib Desert, Payday ...boozing and invincibility ....... Last night..... some individual thought he was invincible...and could drive through the circle on 5th avenue.......
Thanks to our roving photographer for the professional images...
Thanks to Oranjemund Spar for donating a trolley to NAMPOL to secure the accident scene...
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bravo how's the driver though ha ha
Good aim , he /she hit the tree almost center on ...
Hope the drivers OK!! ..........................What a stupid place to leave a TREE............. ape
You see they dont have Palm trees in Keetmans,,,,That palm has grown since I last saw it,is it the one half way to checkpoint or the other one going up 5th out of town????
You're not supposed to go AROUND roundabouts are you?
Malcolm
:emot112_2: Trust Mike to notice his missing trolley...
Do you think we should report this accident to Toyota? With all their recent recalls, I wonder if they'r aware that the model in question obviously has an airbag deployment problem...lol
Then again, no seatbelt = no airbag deployment or so they say. But then how does this explain the lack of a head shaped dent in the driver side windscreen. The plot thickens... or maybe I've been watching too many CSI episodes again.
Err! .... the tape around the accident is that stopping the police from entering.................... a bit of an oxymoron ....................................... image031 image04
Is it my imagination or is the SPAR trolley standing on bricks? Did the car maybe swerve to miss the trolley.... I see a negligence case coming on.
Wonder if the driver knew the next morning which of the two causes for his headache he should blame... the accident, or the dop?
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Quote from: Bertie Horak on April 06, 2010, 01:53:28 PM
Did the car maybe swerve to miss the trolley....
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or was he maybe towing the trolley... it's Africa, anything's possible...
no,you guys got it all wrong the driver bought too much groceries at spar,he used the trolley to push his car home......... image201 image281 image04 the trolley had brakes ,the car didn't affe-red
I don't have the exact details, but I believe another local tired his hand at F1 racing down 5th avenue again last night and landed up placing his vehicle through a fence..... A close friend of the individual mentioned to me this afternoon that this was now the 4th time that this particular person had trashed his car.......
In an effort to show that they were still in control of law enforcement in Oranjemund, the local police and traffic chaps decided to setup a roadblock between the bank and the community church to ask drivers on this quiet public holiday to produce their drivers licenses..... Mmmh! Should'nt they have been out last night rather asking people why they were parking their cars on people's fences?
ape ha ha
Down 8th Street from Industrial Road towards town, the street with all the bends in it... straight into the garden of the corner house on 4th Ave. Lucky for the BIG tree which he connected, prevented the car from parking inside the garage... through the side wall. The connection with BIG tree mad car do funny acrobatic manouvre ending gently upside down.
From behind the car looks unscathed, all windows intact, windscreen can't be seen though. The front... a little different.
Ok, he parked his car. Also went to have a look (typical nosy Oranjemunder) and later in the day found out that this guy works for my husband!
I actually saw one or two things at the scene that I would like to share. Did anybody notice that the front piece (bumper) of this Yaris is filled with ... foamalite! What do we pay for when we buy a car?
Another observation was the oil on the crossing which could not have come from that car. The oil was not even absorbed in the tar. Someone else lost an engine there before the accident and spilled oil all over that roadway. Maybe that assisted the other speeding(?) vehicle to end up parked in the yard. Nosy as I am I followed an oily trail which disappeared down the bottom of 2nd avenue near the petrol station. Interesting?
Inspector Nada is on a mission ... msn emoticon (9) ...
Wise observations Nada, any photo;s ..... Thanks for putting the tale in the correct position Andy! Is this the same house that we discussed somewhere else on the forum, about why that house is there and not a straight road like the rest of the streets in Omund?
And it was a RunX and not a Yaris!!! Blonde moment there, need to touch up the roots! No news on the oil spill but we have our ears to the ground.
Well spotted Nada, I found a gold cooured Polo (older model) parked wher the oil trail makes a U-turn at the end of 2nd Ave, can't say if it is from that car though, definitely not from the RunX though.
Definitely an Oranjemund thing, the nosey part. We could probably do all the detective work for Nampol and solve some of their cases sooner that the authorities themselves...
@Mike, yep that's the house...
One day a man thought lets give this town some character...all these straight roads..lets have a bendy one. drinking-41
Just for info the original metallic green parked car is to my opnion a Camry ...
woo_hoo Came to work this morning, and on the main drag opposite Savannah Cafe (The Old Butchery), was a cordoned off area, with a BMW, rammed up against the middle isle, with it's front right wheel ripped off....... chap was apparently boozing and showing off how his car could rail the corners and whack...... so there's our latest crash....
I also believe on thursday, A policer from neighbouring Rosh Pinah, bought a car in Alexander bay and half way between Oranjemund and Rosh Pinah he rolled the car..... No Insurance.......
I have pics of the BMW accident, will post later.....
It's only a matter of time, before a kid gets killed on the roads in this here town of ours.....
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Here are two snaps of this weeks idiot parking! ape I-T-O ha ha
Asshole ... agreed when is some child gonna get knocked over ...
Add to the list the pics Mike S posted of the sign at the Community church that lost its position from a car in a an inappropriate place.
I hear that another car lost its tracks near Swartkops on Sunday or early Monday... anyone catch that with a camera?
And another one bites the dust!! woo_hoo
Way to go CHarles, but that okie is a bit early for payday, perhaps just a practice run?
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Think he might just skip a few future paydays!! image031
Uhm... I noticed that vehicle (in a better state) parked at Continuous Improvement offices... I wonder what's next on the agenda of improvement projects... gently sloping kerbs on the traffic circles???
Sloping kerbs, yeah...... And then floating palm trees....... ha ha
@Charles - what's quite ironic is that most of these cars that connect with this type of fixed structure are of the sportier or more luxury types. Now we are not outwardly known as party animals who jump behind the wheel and behave like Schumies when the wine gets too much. Yet if we had to make unwanted aquaintance with the fixed structures our little lower-end-of-the-market vehicles won't leave us wishing we had rather drowned in the wine... En die mense wil vir ONS lag...
What about the missing speedbumps on 11th? Why not return them to 5th , then the okies can try and ramp the circles at least....
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Ramping is gonne be a problem with the floating palm trees. I think we will need to teach the trees to grow horizontal..... image16
I'm always amazed at the early sunday morning revellers on their way home carnage .. every sunday I drive down hospital hill I see more new sets of skid marks and barriers smashed ,,,, hell man they must be out of their brackets ,,,
I wonder how many folk have taken that spot out before on that particular island. Khon-khon was there once many years ago, Andrew Bews had the other side from town along with a certain doctor. If those palm trees could talk I think we wouldn't sleep at night...
If I don't have it wrong Doc Doppies took is out from the Spar side...
We can change the circles all we want, but it won't help.
You'll NEVER hear:
1. I was pissed out of my skull....
2. I was slip-streaming Schummie when....
You'll ALWAYS hear:
I was slowly drive down 5th when this "random" gemsbok, dog, strand wolf or dark thing ran in front of my car. HAD to swerve. Don't like killing animals > I'd rather wrack my expensive car......
My 2 cents.
The cicles are going to be removed, the area filled with quick sand imported from Japan, this has been proven to slow dow anything
This is what happens when you remove your banged up car from the scene of the accident.... 23_146_26
Way to go charles, Was that this weekend then?
Yes, Saterday.....
Is that car burnt out?
Yes, they towed it away before the police got on the scene and caught fire at home. Fire team was called out. The fence was also on fire..
Will not post it on here, but I have just heard a very very strange story to this flaming car....
Will hear more 2morrow.....
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Something 2 do with company property??
er.... more to do with setting things on fire after the incident......
Nice, the plot thickens....
That car looks very familiar
Soooooo...whats happening...don't tell us half a story..... notfair
Dianna is that not your burnt out car ??? sorriso2
I'm a bit late on this one, but I have heard of two different accidents that have occurred at the small circle in the middle of the town during the past week.....
Anyone know anything?
Spotted this on Facebook.. sorriso2
Toyota Bulldozer?? Must be a new model!! bravo
That there would be Mr.Bezuidenhouts car parked next door to my house, it was....
Heard one of the 5th avenue circles jump in front of a white citi golf on Wednesday night, the golf was still stuck to the palm tree yesterday morning.
Anybody see it... ?
Ha ha, those moving circles are a serious threat to our ability to drink and drive effectively!!!!!
I also heard that the guy in the white golf was lucky to be wearing his seatbelt..... otherwise he might not have been with us at this stage.,..... he only got to spend 2 days in hospital.......
Ja I heard the golf accident the son of a ex namdeb employee, glad to knowe he's ok think the car must be a little buggared
I believe that a SH bakkie decided to plough into a tree at the entrance to town last night.... coming into town, on THAT curve, the driver thought it would be amusing to mount the curb and park his bakkie against the tree......
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Got ripped from my pleasant dreams this morning around 3 by a loud bang. Truned out that someone skipped the STOP and then Topaz Guesthouse stopped him. bravo image201
Looks like a VW Polo in the photo's. Judging by the hefty knock it received to the front right side it's weird that the airbag didn't deploy? There's no head shaped dent in the driver side windscreen so he must have been wearing his seat belt at the time. (No seat belt disables the front airbags in VW Polo's).
Makes me worry a bit as I also drive a Polo. Looks like the airbags are factory set nowadays to random mode...lol
It was a side impact. The airbag will only deploy with a front impact. Should the airbag deploy with a side impact it (airbag) will probably kill you.
Airbags is actually a very poorly understood subject. If you take a bakkie and fit a bullbar to it, you are screwing around with the factory test setting. Vehicles get safety tested without all the trimming people put on.
Hi Charles,
Your reply makes absolute sense, but I don't think all vehicle manufacturers have got their airbag trigger mechanisms (accelerometers) completely sorted out yet. Front and side impacts seem to still be a "grey" area with VW. One of my colleagues in a VW Golf got side swiped at a robot last week. The impact was perpendicular to the passenger door behind the driver, and yet both front airbags deployed. Another colleague in a Polo went off the road into the veld and got smacked in the face by his airbag after being exposed to this off-road experience.
Airbags myths are plentiful on the internet. Mythbusters recently had an airbag special on Discovery Channel. The myth was that holding your steering wheel in a certain way could result in you losing both your thumbs in an airbag deployment. I believe that myth was busted in the end.
Mmmmh! Rumour bird indicates that there might have been 4 "unofficial" parking pastimes this fine payday weekend in Oranjemund...
1) A tree with three
2) Cement barrier next to infamous speedbump
3) Car Glass scattered on the NW corner of St.George's Square
4) Street Sign bent over near the parking lot at Sportmans!
Yawn...... like gemsboks merging into the early morning mist...... nothing too see here, move along, move along!
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quickdop i heard rumours that a Toyota failed to stop in time in 8th avenue (east). The driver slammed on his brakes for about 50meters before it stopped against a tree. Apparently the car is a write off
Quote from: Sydney on March 04, 2013, 01:06:25 PM
quickdop i heard rumours that a Toyota failed to stop in time in 8th avenue (east). The driver slammed on his brakes for about 50meters before it stopped against a tree. Apparently the car is a write off
That would be incident number one...
I can confirm the barrier next to speed bump incident, saw the. Ehoe driving off after the. Rash, not too bad but will have some bumper damage
No1 heard that a private volvo crashed against a namdeb combi last night in front of sportsmans? any details?
Mike,maybe its time to open a official crash site,.......
Not quite payday, a source informs me that a vehicle ploughed through a Stop Street and landed up in the school parking lot, destroying plants and pavements in the process..... this happened two days ago, anyone got something to add?
I also noticed a tonsil driving speeding down 7th avenue towards the Stop street opposite the post office in a long Canter truck belonging to a contracting company...... The guy had to have been doing 70km/hr about 120m from the Stop..... it is only a matter of time before one of these fella's is going to take a life....
BoomSmilie_anim apparently a BMW also overtook the bus (chevron) as he was coming from the sea quickdop