Oolite Bulletins

I bought a 7 year old Ford Ka in the Leeds System yesterday, for a mere 2,000 Credits. Piloting it to my home system on the M1 I clipped the central barrier, bounced across two lanes of traffic and ended up in the bank of the hard shoulder. Apart from a small burn to my arm from the air-bag deploying I walked away undamaged.

Whilst this must go down as the quickest write-off in insurance history (ownership of less than 4 hours), what a great ship! The Ka deserves its safety rating!

Holy $*&%! Must have been a few hairy seconds as the traffic spun around you... Not so good to hear about the 'ship', but good to know you're physically ok!

LittleBear wrote:

Whilst this must go down as the quickest write-off in insurance history (ownership of less than 4 hours), what a great ship! The Ka deserves its safety rating!

Ouch! A strange sort of luck...

My uncle and aunt had some similar test a few years ago...on the highway a truck suddenly moved to the side, turning their car upside down and they went that way for almost 100m on the lane. Their car didn't survive, but they had no injuries at all. Last thing both remember was saying goodbye to each other when they turned around...obviously much too early

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Yow, LB! I suppose if you're going to have bad luck you're as well to have some bigger good luck there to trump it with! Glad to hear you're all right.

glad to hear your ok!!

ive got a ford ka too!

B

Glad you're oK dude! Lucky escape!

Probably not the quickest write-off in history though - my dad used to work in a Jaguar garage. One day a bloke came in a bought a brand new Jag and drove away filled with prode. As dad walked back into the car lot, he heard an almighty bang. He ran back outside to find this brand new jag wrapped round a lamp post. Literally. The lamp post was growing out of what had once been the middle of the bonnet.

3 seconds from drive-away to write-off!

Nice to hear that despite a near miss, you were not pressing spacebar commander!

Also glad to hear that you simply got lucky.

There's nothing else to be considered here imo - the car can be replaced, you can't.

Wow, that was lucky - who'd fix the bugs in Random Hits...

Glad you're OK - as others say, material stuff is replaceable that's what insurance is for!

LB, make sure you always keep one hand on the escape pod release switch from now on, OK?

Joking of course, glad to know you 're all right.

Glad you're okay (and feeling well enough to complete the insurance paperwork ).
Apparently, the Ka was well worth what you paid for it. Will you purchase another one?

Thanks guys. Bought an identicle one (year, specifications and colour - one careful furry feline owner) for 2,350. A little more as it had 48,000 rather than 60,000 on the clock. So other than the 300 Credits on the excess, the insurance has put me back where I was. Having driven a 38 year old Beatle for the last 5 years, I was amazed at how safe a modern cheap second hand car was though!

Glad to hear you came out nearly unharmed
Must be a shock.

and i thought it was bad luck when my sister crashed her 3-month-old fiat uno back in the 90s. dunno exactly what happened, but that car was FUBAR too.

My son got a hold of a pickup truck, used. After a new paint job, and a new stereo with speakers he drove to school with his girlfriend and promptly ran off the road into a ditch where there was some construction work. He had the truck from ownership to wreck for about three weeks total and since it was in the paint shop for a week or so probably drove it a total of five times.

I thought that was pretty short but the other stories beats it.