Strong and safe or what

**land864** · 23rd July 2009, 11:15 AM

Take a look at these pics.

A bloke I know recently had a bad collision in Mickleham road , Tullamarine.

They collided when both travelling at 90 kmh. Neither of them had time to brake.

The Commodore just came straight though the stop sign.

Aparently it is a black spot intersection and there have been 3 major collisions in the last 3 weeks.

The Police told my mate that in anything other than his P38 it could have been fatal. He had his 8 yo daughter in the back and her mate was sitting right next to her. Lucky , as they went into a spin and ploughed backwards into a tree causing the driver's seat to break.

Check out the min damage to the front considering he T boned the Commodore in the rear.

Just hope I can post the pics.

I'll have to do 2 posts to get more than 5 pics
Pete

**land864** · 23rd July 2009, 11:17 AM

Here are the balance of photos

**Discovery300Tdi** · 23rd July 2009, 11:37 AM

geez not good mate, happy to hear though that there where no fatalities.
Write off for sure for the poor p38 though.

cheers simon

**willem** · 23rd July 2009, 01:17 PM

I'm glad everyone is all right! Especially the kids in the car.

I know which car I'd rather be in.

Willem

**land864** · 23rd July 2009, 05:02 PM

Yep

Written off it was

He loves his Rangies though so now he wants me to find a current shape early model TD 6 Rangie for the House Manager and a Classic for him

His Brother also wants me to find a Classic in good nick for towing a boat out of Lake Eildon

Any ideas

**PaulP38a** · 23rd July 2009, 07:15 PM

Wow... good to hear they are ok. Thanks for sharing.

I hope that the Darwin Award contender in the Commodore also came through ok.

It is somewhat reassuring to hear stories like this among all the media hype that tells us we should all be driving smaller cars for safety and economy.

Although it is always a pity to see a P38A written-off, we know this one has permanently retired with the highest distinction... a high speed collision where all occupants survived. Now that's a hell of a car and something worth bragging about.

If your mate didn't love his Rangies before, he must now. If luck had anything to do with them surviving that awful accident - the name of that luck is "Range Rover".

All the best, Paul.

**adm333** · 28th July 2009, 12:58 PM

I have heard of and read stories of how the Range Rover is one of the safet cars on the road.

Thankfully have not yet had to put one to the test.

Glad to hear all are OK.

Looks like a passenger side airbag deployment as well.

Interesting question - who here has replaced their airbags after 10 years as recommended ??

What year model was this Rangie ?

Dave

**Romulus** · 28th July 2009, 08:27 PM

like all others, I am glad that there were no serious injuries, I am assuming and hoping that the numbnuts in the Holden is OK too.

As a P38 owner, it is "good" to see that it has survived this high speed accident and protected its occupants, makes me feel that little bit better!

**land864** · 28th July 2009, 09:06 PM

Surpisingly , everyone walked away

Not sure about the Commodore drivers level of fault.

Apparently , the intersection is a shocker and locals have called for lights or speeed strips at 200m and all sorts of methods of fixing the problem but to no avail.

**andrew e** · 28th July 2009, 10:58 PM

The p38s do very well at protecting passengers in an accident, they have several crumple zones built into the chassis. I will take a photo next time i have a bare chassis near by.

I had a p38 once that was almost a foot shorter on the drivers side chassis rail, than the passengers due to a hard front end hit. The door gaps were still perfect, and they opened and closed as if nothing happened. Very impressive.

Andy

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