First off me and my passenger are fine bar being a bit shaken up.
Drove from Guildford to Portsmouth last night to visit a uni friend, the A3 was perfectly fine, was just coming off the A3 onto that motorway that goes into Portsmouth by the big sails (M275 possibly or something like that? M257....), didn't see a lump of frozen snow/ice on the road and it hit my rear drivers side wheel.
Sent me fishtailing all over the place, I hit the snow/ice at about 55MPH/60MPH, tried my best to control the car but obviously it was no use. Hit the barrier with the front drivers side of the car, sent us spinning and ended up with the rear drivers side planted in the barrier about 30-40ft away.
Think I was doing about 40MPH by the time I first made contact with the barrier.
No air bags went off, engine refused to start the first time I tried to turn the key, but then pumped the gas and it came on fine. A couple of people got out, helped me move the car so it was only just on the slip road into some snow and called the police.
Was waiting for the police, turned round and there's a Renault Megane spinning towards us, turns out she'd done the same thing and ended up about 5ft away from where I crashed. She was a 22 year old women, she got out totally shaken up and came over and said sorry she must have hit me and knocked me off the road. It took ages to convince her I'd been here for 10 minutes.
Police came, took details said they wern't going to investigate anything and helped me out the snow. Car feels and drives fine, tracking seems to still be in and the damage appears to just be cosmetic. I'm amazed at how well the car held out and inside there is no hint of it being in a crash.
Drove it home this morning and everything seems fine apart from obviously the panel damage.
Only got crappy phone pictures for now as the passenger took the proper ones on her digital camera.
I've got the worlds biggest excess (£1400) so I'm going to see if I can pull in a favour or two and get it done without going through insurance as I was looking to replace the car in the next 6 months anyway.
Damage could have been a lot worse thinking about it.
Drove from Guildford to Portsmouth last night to visit a uni friend, the A3 was perfectly fine, was just coming off the A3 onto that motorway that goes into Portsmouth by the big sails (M275 possibly or something like that? M257....), didn't see a lump of frozen snow/ice on the road and it hit my rear drivers side wheel.
Sent me fishtailing all over the place, I hit the snow/ice at about 55MPH/60MPH, tried my best to control the car but obviously it was no use. Hit the barrier with the front drivers side of the car, sent us spinning and ended up with the rear drivers side planted in the barrier about 30-40ft away.
Think I was doing about 40MPH by the time I first made contact with the barrier.
No air bags went off, engine refused to start the first time I tried to turn the key, but then pumped the gas and it came on fine. A couple of people got out, helped me move the car so it was only just on the slip road into some snow and called the police.
Was waiting for the police, turned round and there's a Renault Megane spinning towards us, turns out she'd done the same thing and ended up about 5ft away from where I crashed. She was a 22 year old women, she got out totally shaken up and came over and said sorry she must have hit me and knocked me off the road. It took ages to convince her I'd been here for 10 minutes.
Police came, took details said they wern't going to investigate anything and helped me out the snow. Car feels and drives fine, tracking seems to still be in and the damage appears to just be cosmetic. I'm amazed at how well the car held out and inside there is no hint of it being in a crash.
Drove it home this morning and everything seems fine apart from obviously the panel damage.
Only got crappy phone pictures for now as the passenger took the proper ones on her digital camera.
I've got the worlds biggest excess (£1400) so I'm going to see if I can pull in a favour or two and get it done without going through insurance as I was looking to replace the car in the next 6 months anyway.
Damage could have been a lot worse thinking about it.
