http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-25529589

Originally thought Octavia mk2 but not so sure anymore.

I'm guessing a Hiundi ix35

Looks like a Jap/Korean style crossover/softroader to me.

Is it the Lexus hybrid 4x4 thingy, not sure of the name..    Anyway, bloody lucky to walk away from that.

Lexus RX I think, looking at the rear light.

I'd agree with it being a lexarse

Mitsubishi lancer wagon I reckon?

T Cut demo vehicle?

Mitsubishi lancer wagon I reckon?

You could be right. There's a horizontal crease in the bodywork on them from the top of the rear light that could there on the crashed car.

Both occupants used 9 lives in one go!

Yup very lucky.

What speed were they doing to cause that much carnage?

looks like a mitsubushi lancer 2010 ish

I don't think the fire crews/paramedics/police even know what it is without checking VIN numbers

Thought it was a laguna myself

looks like a mitsubushi lancer 2010 ish

 

I am with you on that one. Rear spoiler, alloys, rear window, door glasses, rear bumper seams, fog light in rear bumper square hole and front bumper shape etc... Rear bumper seam line meeting bottom or rear clusters and the curve shape etc Spot on, good call. 

 

Some lucky people! Must have been only a mm or so either way that it wouldn't have worked. Maybe it was a cut and shut job lol. 

 

 

Very lucky escape. As already said a fraction either way and it could have ended very differently.

 

I wonder what speed it was going and/or if it was a weld together job!

The alloys look the same. I'd forgotten about Mitsubishi. I drive past that dealer every morning!!

I drove past this and it nearlly brought me to tears on Xmas eve. It was very humbling to see it.

The way it split in two does make me wonder if it has been a cut & shut or badly repaired after a previous accident. 

I remember when i was 7 years old my mum and dad had a montego, back then it cost them a fair bit to buy. I distantly remember my dad complaining about £300 on an alarm and steering lock for it only for him not to activate the alarm or use the steering lock outside a pub. My mum had just passed her test so she was driving home. Of course when they came back to the car it had gone. It was involved in a high speed chase later that night and ended up in two pieces like the car above.

When they went to empty out the contents at the recovery yard my mums just passed P plates were still stuck on lol

I am with you on that one. Rear spoiler, alloys, rear window, door glasses, rear bumper seams, fog light in rear bumper square hole and front bumper shape etc... Rear bumper seam line meeting bottom or rear clusters and the curve shape etc Spot on, good call. 

 

Some lucky people! Must have been only a mm or so either way that it wouldn't have worked. Maybe it was a cut and shut job lol. 

 

 

 

Did have a look at them in 2011 when I ended up buying m previous Kia cee'd

I was on the M11 on Christmas eve, around the time this happened. Must have been behind me as I didn't see any traffic jams or white bodywork spread over the road.

Glad that no one was seriously injured at all.

A car hitting something at the right angle will cut it in 2.

There was a programme called the indestructibles where a guy hit a bridge and the car fell apart but he survived with minor injuries

A car hitting something at the right angle will cut it in 2.

Only if there is sufficient force in the impact to overcome the resistance of the bodywork. ie enough momentum and/or the area of impact was weakened in some way. Have seen various pictures of scenes withe the cars wrapped round objects rather than cut in two.

Maybe that car in standard form is suceptible to this damage at legal motorway speeds as I do not believe this sort of test is undertaken by any manufacturer. Whatever the cause they where very lucky to not be seriously injured.

Edited 29 December, 201312 yr by Moist Von Lipwig