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Ouch - 911 Targa

John997

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not sure how this happened :judge:

https://twitter.com/Porsche911UK/status/982191196243083264


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-43662862


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That car will be for sale very shortly at £75k with, "cheap fix, just a few car park dings" in the advert.
:floor:
 
And I thought my wife's parking skills were bad.....

:floor:
 
Parts Required:

1.. Touch Up Stick - OEM
2.. Isopon
3.. Lots of Patience & a Good Wife
 
Blimey, the driver "will be offered a fitness to drive course". That's ok then.

Lucky that there wasn't, say, a mum with a pushchair walking on the footpath below.

I'm guessing yet another 'hit the accelerator instead of brake' in an auto/pdk when maneuvering. Seems odd that everyone gets overexcited when a self-driving car causes a crash, but this seems to happen with monotonous regularity with fatal consequences and the technology must surely exist to prevent it.
 
It's a relatively common occurrence for the older drivers according to a TrafPol officer I spoke to.

Had an issue locally where an old boy drove through the front window of a bank after the car 'had a mind of its own". Apparently, the drivers are always older people, always driving automatics and always state that the car shot off on its own and the harder they pressed the 'brake" the quicker it went! :?:
 
Well according to that lot on FB hes hung drawn and qtred, I get Cassies law but hear the dam facts first . Then the typical socialist comment halfway down starts on about show offs in expensive cars and 6k fines not meaning much to them . For gods sake get a frigging life and stop being bitter and twisted about people who have been luckier in life than you .
guess you know now that type of comment gets me going :floor: :floor:
 
I don't think 73 is too old to be driving a Porsche
Got plenty of customers in their 7O's

Bought a 997 GTS from an 82 year old who bought a new 991 GTS as he hates turbo engines,
Drives the car every day

Who knows what the real story is and what really happened
 
I was just wondering how he managed to get the back end on top of the fence!
 
mikeluke said:
I was just wondering how he managed to get the back end on top of the fence!

Presumably drove it straight through the wall above!

Regardless of age, car, value, etc questions need to be asked as to why this happens time and time again.

In this day and age, with autonomous safety surely it is possible to prevent someone pressing and holding the accelerator in error?

I don't get why there is a global outcry when an autonomous vehicle is responsible for one fatality, but this, and people reversing over their own children happen with depressing regularity and is so easily preventable with technology.
 
Terry, are you OK mate?

Has anyone heard from T8?

:worried:
 
Robertb said:
...and people reversing over their own children happen with depressing regularity and is so easily preventable with technology.

It helps the species evolve.
 
PeterS said:
Terry, are you OK mate?

Has anyone heard from T8?

:worried:

I hate cheeky kids :hand:
 

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