23rd June 2007, 21:07
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23rd June 2007, 22:07
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23rd June 2007, 22:09
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23rd June 2007, 22:46
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24th June 2007, 01:27
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24th June 2007, 02:33
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| Senior - BHPian  | Good to hear the cops handled it well. Zak reported something similar when he had an accident in his Alto. Looks like Kerala cops are the best to deal with in such situations. Quote:
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24th June 2007, 02:47
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24th June 2007, 02:50
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24th June 2007, 08:51
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24th June 2007, 13:51
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| Senior - BHPian  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Bangy Boy!
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What was funny was the minute we crashed our 4 yr old was in a tearing hurry to get us all out of the car... we dint think much of it then but she kinda lets us on after about a couple of hours that she was scared the car will go up in a fireball like she's seen them do on TV!!  As regards me taking snaps etc - in all humility - I am told I am good in crisis situations and have had to do a lot of fire-fighting in the past - both professionally and personally. Past experience has taught me to take photos on the spot - these can come in real handy later - its clearly evidence! Curiously enough none of us, including the kids, went into any kind of shock - all of us were perfectly normal witin 20 seconds of the accident and went about doing what was required to be done (my wife used to fly with a couple of airlines - guess she is trained better than I am to handle crisis's!) I also locked all doors from inside - there was a lot of valuables lying inside the car. - The cops specifically asked me to keep a sharp look out and NOT leave the car- apparantly the locals have proven to be opportunists in the past. I took the ignition keys out and very unobsrusively manually locked all the doors. (the remote locking went bust in the crash). I do remember more than one individual trying to open various doors - depending on which side of the car I happend to be! Most of these ppl were also drunk! Which was why I insisted the car be taken and parked in the Police Station and not by the roadside as they originally suggested! @ NAvin Prognosis is that the entire Cowl , strut and left member will have to be cut aout and new sections welded back in. @ V1p3r Wokay but are they going to require any special equipment/jig etc to get this right? (dint see anything special at the workshop - though saw a lot of santro's with similar damage getting done! - they apparently got 15 crashed cars within two days of the onset of rains! Do I retain the car (I'd like to if everything can be put back to normal) .. or do I dispose it? .. What kind of hit will the resale value take due to this accident (mine is a 2003 Accent - 52k on the clock) | |
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24th June 2007, 13:56
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| Senior - BHPian | Quote:
Selling or not is a personal thing. It will be back to normal. Resale will go down only about 20 thousand bucks, since you're selling a CRDi in diesel country. | |
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24th June 2007, 14:29
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24th June 2007, 14:38
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24th June 2007, 14:42
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| Senior - BHPian  | Glad to hear that you and your family are safe.  Take care. |
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24th June 2007, 14:48
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| BHPian  | Thank GOD , you and your family is safe please be careful next time and try to drive slow when the road is wet, on wet road no ABS or TCS will help.Hope you all recover soon. |
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