Payday Parking Pastime on 5th!

[Michael Alexander]

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...

[Patricia Lotte]

     how's the driver though 

[SandyB]

Good  aim  ,  he /she  hit  the tree almost  center on ...   

[toonfandangl]

Hope the drivers OK!! ..........................What a stupid place to leave a TREE.............

[Chris Macpherson]

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????

[Malcolm Bertoni]

You're not supposed to go AROUND roundabouts are you?

Malcolm

[Carl Wrbka]

  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.

[toonfandangl]

Err! .... the tape around the accident is that stopping the police from entering....................   a bit of an oxymoron .......................................                 

         

[Bertie Horak]

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?

[Carl Wrbka]

Did the car maybe swerve to miss the trolley....

or was he maybe towing the trolley... it's Africa, anything's possible...

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

no,you guys got it all wrong the driver bought too much groceries at spar,he used the trolley to push his car home......... the trolley had brakes ,the car didn't  

[Michael Alexander]

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?

 

[Andrew Darné]

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.

[Nada Ulbrich (Rall)(RIP)]

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?

[Patricia Lotte]

Inspector Nada is on a mission ...  ...