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Byll · Post by **Byll** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:10 pm

I am so thankful, Dale.
The absolute best to you and your family.
Byll

devondancer · Post by **devondancer** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:46 pm

Relief here too, Dale. Our best to you all.
Lesley and Ro

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:51 pm

I'm glad your daughter's OK. Hope the other guy had insurance.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:06 pm

Dale wrote:

My word, but that looks familiar...

I am most impressed with Toyotas
in the keeping-you-intact department.

Lucas · Post by **Lucas** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:12 am

[edited, because today I learned how inappropriate it was, sorry]

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:00 am

fearfaoin wrote: I am most impressed with Toyotas
in the keeping-you-intact department.

The BBC "motoring" programme once tested the durability of a Toyota HiLux by inflicting various forms of abuse on it:

This has included several reviews, including Toyota Hilux destruction, featured in series three, episodes five and six. Various methods were employed by Clarkson and May to try to destroy a Toyota Hilux, thereby proving its strength. The 'trials' included dropping the Hilux from a crane, setting the vehicle on fire and also driving it into a tree ... Other tests on the Hilux included leaving it out in the sea, slamming it with a wrecking ball, and finally having it hoisted to the roof of a tower-block that was subsequently demolished with explosives. The heavily damaged (but still driveable, without the use of any new parts) Hilux now stands on a plinth in the Top Gear studio.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:16 am

Good to know your daughter is in one piece, Dale.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:07 am

I was in a car accident on my 17th birthday. I was the driver. Ironically, I didn't WANT to drive that day. I wasn't yet very confident and I didn't know that particular area very well. But it was more convenient for my guardians to make me go pick up my birthday party guests than to do it themselves. (They liked to have me drive their kids around when it was convenient for them, but wouldn't let me drive myself to school or the mall. Go figure.) I asked them not to make me. I wonder if they felt guilty. Five kids in the car, two of them theirs (not including me), and two of them under 8 years old.

After the accident I was more terrified of their reaction than of anything else. (There was thousands of dollars of damage to a relatively new minivan.) It also put me off driving for a couple of years and it was a long time before I could forget the image of the steering wheel suddenly lurching to the right in front of me at the moment of impact.

I cancelled the party. It was going to be at a mini-cart place.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:32 am

avanutria wrote: I cancelled the party. It was going to be at a mini-cart place.

Wow.

CHasR · Post by **CHasR** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:58 am

have her get her back checked out.

even if she says she feels fine.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:21 am

Dale, I'm very glad your daughter and the other driver are both ok.

I'm so sorry that it happened. I know that there are some life experiences that you can live better without.

--James

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:28 am

chrisoff wrote:The BBC "motoring" programme once tested the durability of a Toyota HiLux by inflicting various forms of abuse on it:

Holy crap! That's impressive. I hadn't heard of
the HiLux line before. Apparently, they changed
the name to the Tacoma in America.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:41 am

fearfaoin wrote: Holy crap! That's impressive. I hadn't heard of
the HiLux line before. Apparently, they changed
the name to the Tacoma in America.

Bear in mind it wasn't a new hilux, but an older model which probably doesn't have the complex computer controllers of modern four by fours.

However the Top Gear team have also driven a modern Hilux to the north pole to prove that 2 middle aged blokes with no training, or adventurous desire, can get there in.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:19 am

chrisoff wrote:to prove that 2 middle aged blokes with no training, or adventurous desire...

...or charm, or talent...

I know somewhat how you feel, Dale old chap. My wife was in a terrible head-on collision seven years ago and had to be cut from the car and air-lifted to hospital. They wouldn't let me in the helicopter with her and that one-hour drive to the hospital, not knowing what was going on, was the longest hour of my life. Apart from being a mass of bruises, and covered in a million splinters of broken glass, she was OK, though when I'd seen her in the wreck (it was just up the road) I thought she would die. Yikes!

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:26 am

I am glad nobody was hurt. That is something to be thankful about.

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