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then comes a place somewhere near davanagere and a honda city is trying to play foolish and i try to showcase him the high speed handling power of my linea. @ 140kmph there was a big curve and on the big divider some kids were swaying hands and jumping, and were showing something on the road. it was too late before i realized that on the dark black newly laid road there is a dark black camouflaged huge speed breaker. i saw in the rear view mirror that the honda city was closing in. within microseconds i put on my hazard blinkers , cut the lane to extreme left and slammed my brakes the hardest ever in my life. this all drama happened at @ 100-110 kmph and the honda city driver too saw the breakers and he too slammed the brakes hard and was in parallel to me. what happened inside my linea was - my heart had stopped beating,the seat belts tightened on me and my cousin sitting on front seat, my wifey and cousins wifey tilted totally to front with the seat also almost tilted for a second. my linea stopped as if someone threw a 10ton anchor but still jumped over the speedbreaker with a big bang and a explosion like sound. what happened with honda city - heart of the driver came in his mouth, luckily only 2 people were in honda city, the honda city couldnt stop and banged with its nose over the breaker and a big exploding sound emerged and the honda city was flying in air for a second or 2 , it stopped with one tyre over the skirting of the divider. the front right tyre was burried inside the wheel arc, and lots of fluids leaking from engine bay and scratches on front bumper. i think the struts broke off. at this moment i felt very proud that my 10 lac rs spent on linea are "Paisa Wasool" we all cursed the govt a lot. the honda city driver was damn frustrated and was giving lot of dirty bad words to the road authorities. there was a huge crowd that gathered, and those kids were laughing merily at us. i gave a 20rs note to the kid for saving us ![]() the rest of the journey both myself and my cousin drove with eyes wide open and searching of speed breakers everywhere. and luckily we dint jump any further. when i reached ooty i went to TAFE access and put my linea on ramp and found that there is no evidence of any bang on the underbody anywhere. the engine guard is made of tank sheet metal. Last edited by amit_mechengg : 5th October 2011 at 21:49. | |
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Team-BHP Support ![]() ![]() | ![]() ABS will be activated when braking in a straight line not when your going sideways. From the skid marks it looks like 2 wheels were on grass and car fishtailed really badly. The tank slapper lead to the car going from median on right to shoulder on left. ABS won't help him when the car's fishtailing. |
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In spite of all, the incident is a sad sad one. Mr Ajaykumar's wife also succumbed to the injuries. May her soul also rest in peace. Our heart goes out to the poor daughter. May almighty give her all the courage to tide over the irreparable loss. The Nano is still lying there, I saw that an hour ago. Last edited by rajeev k : 5th October 2011 at 23:13. | |
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BTW, there are a lot of accidents involving dogs on the national highways. Folks are less likely to slow down for a dog than for a buffalo because of the potential for damage to their own vehicles? | |
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| ![]() You need to see what a real tank looks like ASAP ![]() I know Fiat owners like to use the word "tank" in every other line but the engine guard is regular sheet metal (on a side note, tanks aren't made of sheet metal either). Quite a few owner reviews here (as well as I) have mentioned encountering issues with the guard needing to be bent back to shape. Lets keep it real. Tanks err thanks ![]() |
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After it fishtails, yes the ABS or EBD doesnt help much! What if the Cruze driver used the handbrakes!? Thats the best possible reason for fishtailing in these situations! | |
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EBD will regulate the braking to each wheel but when the car has lost control it won't help. What would have helped in this situation is ESP. ESP not have the rear step out of way and the driver may have regained control. | |
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But, the tire marks are all the way from the right side of the road! Did he try a power slide... NFS style? ![]() | |
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Apparently the alto looks undamaged... Or am i missing something? Last edited by Rehaan : 7th October 2011 at 17:03. Reason: Sending you a PM regarding this. | |
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I could not understand "tank slapper lead to car..." Last edited by Vid6639 : 6th October 2011 at 17:04. | |
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I've seen this sort of accident happen right in front of me on a highway so I don't think I'm talking just like that. Please enlighten us if you think you know any better as to what happened. Last edited by Vid6639 : 6th October 2011 at 17:09. | |
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| ![]() My Take: The two tyre marks (inside of blue lines) represent a drag but not a fishtail. The red tyre mark is independent of the blue marks. In fishtail the rear of car would slide in one direction and the sort of tyre marks you will see are either will have much narrower width or touch each other. And if fish tail could not have occurred at bottom of picture as the direction of imaginary tyre curve (blue arrow) in line with right tyre mark rules that out. ![]() Now why should there be drag / skid marks if the vehicle was ABS enabled? Even ABS braking leave tyre marks but the pattern is on off or interrupted. This is virtually continuous drag so was the ABS off?? |
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This car has swung around while trying to get back on road and the right side has hit the barricades. If this was normal ABS braking how did the car spin around and right side hit the armco? This stretch of road referred to as NICE road is notorious for such accidents. | |
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| ![]() Is it possible that the ABS was switched off? I believe some (or most high end ones) have the option to switch it off. Also, in case of a panic braking situation, a person with little or no experience and practise can make minor mistakes, Like say, stepping on the accelarator. |
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| ![]() I really do not see anything in pictures to say that this car "swung around" If it had then after the accident it would have been facing back towards the direction of travel. It is facing the direction of road and has merely flipped over on hitting the guard rails on the left front. Speed and loss of control by driver. Anyways no point in arguing what was sequence of events but lesson to be learnt is "drive safe and know your car" Incidentally this is second story of overturned Captiva in space of two weeks here. |
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