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Some slight damage from a tree falling on it while driving at 60mph or so down the A303 earlier today.
Scary stuff. It's something that happens to other people, isn't it? Not any more for me.
Branch the size of my forearm came through the screen and landed in my lap. Roof rails smashed. Boot nearly ripped away at the back.
All safe though. Shaken, but all OK.
****ing hell!
Did it make a sound?
I had a branch bounce off the windscreen driving through Bruton (about 10miles off the A303) about an hour ago, I faired better than you luckily!
Glad you're ok
Lucky escape there CFH!
Glad you're ok!
Shit the bed
Glad you are all ok
Thank **** it was not the Bentley.
'kin hell, that was a close shave 😯
Lucky!
Glad you're ok.
Was it Jevees weekend off? Why were you I the front seat of a Volvo?
Did it make a sound?
Yes. Yes it did. A big one.
Luckily we were right by the Wherwell junction and got off the road quickly.
Police were excellent, clearing up the tree. Recovery all done, car gone. Will be written off, I'm sure. Wanted to replace it sometime soon anyway!
have you definitely ruled out the possibility of it being a sticker ?
303 - scary place even in good weather
Cripes 😯
Wanted to replace it sometime soon anyway!
Can I be the first to say Octavia VRS?
is the chauffeur ok?
That will polish out
Blimey Cap'n. 😯 What a horrible experience and glad that you're OK, do hope that there were no kiddywinks with you.
Yes the 303 is scary and thought I was going to be a gonner on there in December. Really shook me up.
CG, they were both in the back. Mrs CFH alongside me.
Oh no, it must have been terrifying for them. 🙁 Do hope they're OK too.
Thanks. Little Miss Cfh was in a state of shock for a while, it was her side of the car that took the brunt of it. Soon got over it. The Boy was asleep! Just about raised an eyelid when I opened the door on him. 🙂
blimey man, that looks a state. Glad to hear you're all ok!
I trust you'll McMoonter the bastard?
Plus, stick in a claim for *cough* whiplash.
Glad you're all ok.
[i]police were excellent [/i]
Were they Special Branch?
Lol...
police were excellentWere they Special Branch?
Quality.
Good to hear you guys are all ok.
WCA 😆
And begrudgingly
Hope you and all in the car are OK fella
Saw the title and was instantly reminded of Hector Brocklebank putting an advert in the local newspaper...... "Peter Reid from Peterheid is died - Volvo for sale"
Glad yous all safe tho...
Crickey flashy, glad you are all ok.
I had a branch land about a metre in front of me on the bike today and was worried about Mrs THM driving in the car.
It's even windier now.
Lucky escape cfh
The will you write your story about having a premonition and how angels saved your life, then sell the movie writes to Hallmark network.
Never mind the weird thing between you and HammyUK - you and Chewkw should be an item. Ya.
sh*t the bed glad you are oakay, must be a releaf. Good luck with the insurance claim all the paperwork can be a little overElming
Glad you are OK, must have been very scary.
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The branch that made it through the windscreen and in to my lap.
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Not easy to drive when you're looking through this.
Thanks for the kind words, all, and also for the excellent punnage and piss taking!
Stains cleaned off the seat nicely. Well done
Scary stuff
Well done for being able to control the car after that hit.
Dofts Cap..
😕
Stains cleaned off the seat nicely.
Leather is easier for cleaning up an unexpected log.
🙂
Oh, and just seen the tag. Bravo!
Good job you were wearing yout titanium codpiece while driving, if it was carbon it most likely would have cracked 🙂
sorry to hear about your crash.
lovely beautiful trees are pretty bloody nasty if you hit them hard enough.
I once tried to climb one in a car.
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FFS brakes - BRAKES !!
(it's not even a gti is it ?)
That'll buff out.
(Ouch!)
Glad you and yours are ok CFH.
Glad you are OK. That's the problem with trunk roads. 😯
Glad you're all OK and +1 for volvo build quality
FFS brakes - BRAKES !!(it's not even a gti is it ?)
TDi. it would have been a lot worse if I hadn't used the brakes.
I actually need to thank the tree as hitting it stopped me going down an embankment.
CFH - scary stuff, glad you are all ok.
We hit a stag in the Touran - a massive swerve saw it hit the uptight pillar, and every side panel, but not the screen or roof. The nose left snot an the windscreen directly in front of mini_oab on the front seat. Close call.
Had similar driving down the M20.
Had started snowing and the outside lane was a no go area, except if you are in a BMW going the other way and decided to use it to overtake something, lost control got the rear end under the central reservation and ripped several posts out and sent them air bound onto the other carriageway. Was like slow motion watching bits of metal rain towards us till one smashed straight into the windscreen. Very very loud luckily no one injured and no damage to the van except the windscreen. Although annoying as was being traded in the next week for a new one!
Glad post it supply and Diverge marketing is secure! 😀
I hit a pigeon once, made a right mess of the Polo's windscreen.
Good job there were no bikes on the roof...
...could have been serious.
Good job there were no bikes on the roof......could have been serious.
😆
+ well done for not panicking and keeping it on the tarmac.
Many would have had a big see-saw on the steering wheel and binned it into the armco / off the carraigeway.
I drive the same and they really are solid lumps with strength in the important areas, plus stable at warp speed too.
Glad your ok, hope you got the tree's details. Remember, where there's blame, there's a claim!
Did you get the rest of the branch? Deadwood is good firewood.
Experience tells me that branches landing on the roof sounds like the end of the world and that is in a reinforced and caged cab.
Hit a pheasant on the 303 a few years back - ripped the front roof bar off the car!
How the hell it didn't hit the car behind me I'll never know 😯
Was satisfying seeing it split in two in the rear view mirror though 😆
Going back round 2 junctions to find it was a total nightmare though.
Gosh how frightening, glad you are all oak kay 🙂
Maybe talking rubbish here but I'm sure you were safer in a Volvo than many other cars.
I drive one and always feel secure.
Blimey! Glad you're ok flashy, old boy.
I trust you had the Gardner responsible for that trees upkeep beaten to within an inch of his life?
But what on earth were you doing in the au pairs car in the first place? (taps nose conspiratorially)
Yikes!
Glad everyone is OK, but I presume a perfectly serviceable pair of trousers are beyond saving now?
Your forearm is only as skinny as that little twig?
Clearly less of a ****er than others round here wound imply!
Glad all safe - must have been very scary for you and your family!
Length and girth are two different measurements, OMITN.
Cheesy, trousers intact. Suspect I may have seriously clenched!
Cheesy, trousers intact. Suspect I may have seriously clenched!
Glad to hear it. One log on the seat is more than enough.
One log on the seat is more than enough.
Mind you, if you could fire your logs through a window, well that's surely a marketable niche thing?
Reminds me of a little bar in Wan Chai.....
...with glass coffee tables as far as the eye could see.
*parp*
at least you;re here to tell us about it
*chapeau* to the punners, too.
Didn't you see the sign?
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Glad you're OK though.
Hopefully you whipped out your bowsaw and dispatched the offending tree? (chainsaws are so 2015)
Glad you're ok!
Someone *ahem* thought it was a good idea to put some water in his windscreen washer bottle halfway up the Bealach Na Ba in 106mph winds on Monday
That same idiot is so grateful that his windscreen didn't look like that after
I'm selling a nice V70 if you need a new one!
