Lucky to walk away.

My Brother and his girlfriend went off the road Monday night becasue of diesel and damp road conditions, no real speed involved but once he's straightened it up they were on the grass and both passengers until it stopped.
Somehow (and I'm still amazed how) they missed two big trees at the road side and ended up 15m down a steep bank, they were brought to a sudden stop by another tree but by then things were going a little slower.

Airbags deployed and they both walked away with minor bumps and bruises which is the main thing.

I'm sure Adam will update this thread with the photos he's got of the crash scene so more to follow.



I don't think this will see the road again

Ouch, what a shame. Especially being a Sprint blue VIS

Glad all walked away with only minor scrapes.

is that a 20v sprint blue?

that makes it 10 times worse..

hope your bro nad his mrs are ok joe..

the car has taken the impact well tbh, sounds like a brown pants moment!!!

Yep, a Sprint Blue VIS which must be one of the rarest colours to get in this model.

The car did its job then

Shame to loose another one...

First and foremost, your brother and his girlfriend walked away, thankfully.

Thoughts then turn to the poor sprinty VIS though

I'm glad Adam and his girlfriend are ok and as you said, able to walk away, thankfully.

Although I suspect I know the answer, are you going to be able to save it?

Lucky indeed, they are ok and that is the main thing.

Joe, do you think the mix of plus wheels with thandard wheels helped?

arnt they different size wheels??

Sorry to hear this.

Thanks for the concerns


Yes the rumors are true ive killed the misses coupe in a mad coupe VS Trees battle which ended in an epic fail , but at least we both walked away unharmed apart from still trying to work out how the back end broke away at lowish speed.

I had been enjoying the welsh roads since sunday morning but when the incident happened it was a leisurely drive to newtown for some well deserved dinner.

when the police, RAC and joe looked at the road it still wasnt clear how the back end broke loose but the next morning i went back up there and found what looks to be an old diesel spill on the road.

After going through this im pleased when i look at the damage to think that we are lucky to be alive let alone walking and it shows how strong the coupe is compared to if i was in the misses old Peugeot 206. The only injuries sustained are minor whiplash and tiny cut on small finger (bleed like [cloud9]) for Charlotte and a battered and bruised arm for me because i was trying to cover Charlotte when i realized we were now both passengers.

Many thanks goes to Joe and jake for rushing out to us and the use of His beloved Vincy until i see him saturday i cant thank you enough.

pics will follow when joe loads them because i still cant work out how to

And another thing the Misses is now on the hunt for another project must be a VIS

this didnt make a different for the 2 full days of going around the mountain roads previous. i checked the tires for wear when i got back midday to make sure they weren't wearing uneven

cool, glad your safe mate!

it is well and truly dead (chassis is twisted) unfortunately but i had to argue with the insurance to keep it away from them so i could get my LE head lights back and the other nice little bits before it is broken.

That sucks so much glade your both ok

Phew all round! Joe's had his work cut out coop-attending this week

well i was hoping joe could of pulled the coupe out with his recovery truck but after looking at it again there was no way it would of happened.

it took 2 recovery wagons and one of them had a crane to finally get it off of the hill side

Glad to hear you are both ok!!

Nasty Glad you and missus is okay

I've got some T-cut you can try !

Glad you're all ok.

Happy to see you both are ok mate.

Feel for you mate... is the worst thing loosing control & not being able to do anything.

Back end of my last coupe went doing about 45 on the M6.

It was pooring down at the time & I hit a mini stream flowing across all 3 lanes, coming down from the embankment and the back end went crazy. I crapped myself & hit the brakes - not the best idea I've ever had! Car proceeded to do a 180 into the central barrier & cut out, facing the wrong way. Started her up & flung her around & into hard shoulder before anything passed. Didn't realise until I got out that one of the rear wheels was still planted into the barrier!

I had just been over to NI to buy the car too.. did a total of 130 miles in the bugger. I felt SO bad that I never told the previous owner - who is a forum member & a great bloke too... sorry mate if you read this! & to rub salt in he'd just changed the wheel bearing on that very wheel too!

Driving on a wet motorway now is a nightmare for me. I always felt safe as houses in a coupe in the wet as they stick like glue normally. Always been a confident/sesible driver but still to this day kick myself for not keeping control.

Motorway agency did my for damaging barrier too even though it was a seriouly minor dent which is still there to this day!

Glad nobody was hurt!

Sad to see another coop down but thats by the by, it did its job and kept them safe!

Here's some from the crash site, Adam still has the road shots on his phone so hopefully those will also get posted.



His arm the morning after

jesus wept - those photos really bring it home and show what a close shave it was with the trees - seriously unforgiving. Glad you're both ok.

Crikey. Glad everyone walked away.

At lease the plus grille looks unmarked, should be able to recoup most of the cost of a new car with that.

Glad no one was hurt.

As much as we all love these cars, the pictures bring home the fact that they are just lumps of metal at the end of the day, albeit quite tough old birds by the looks of things and the important thing is that you are both OK and not seriously hurt.

Don't know why, but the above photo has a strange, but really sad look to it

It's as if the car has felt it's done it's job, relaxed, taken it's last breath against the tree and died (which it has in a way, but the photo shows it).

Again, probably just me looking at things in the strange way I do It really does have sad look and feel to that particular photo though - the others just look like normal crash photos.

Glad your both ok.

i can see where your coming from T and it does sadden the heart to look at it that way

yes the coupes are just lumps of metal but all the coupes have there little quirks and the fact there arnt many good ones left makes it worse.

the fact i have only ever found 2 sprint blue VIS's and one of them was mine anyway makes it worse because i can just go and buy a replacement

Lucky escape matey

very lucky to be honest and the fact i wasnt going fast is even luckier because it could of been so much worse

I have driven that road to Newtown thousands of times and it still catches me out, I know there was diesel down , but still its a slippery as hell in the wet..

Agreed, but it looked after the two of you. She looked like a very tidy car too

phew. You were luck there mate. Good to see you got out of it unscathed. The coop does look like it gave up it's life to save you

Glad you both got out okay.

That's the same way my old 205 Gti died - sideways into the trees. Luckily I got out of that fine too with just a few fairly large bruises. The whole car ended up bent like a banana. It's amazing just how strong trees are although to be fair the 205 wasn't the most solid of cars.

By the way, thought I knew quite a bit about coupe's but what does VIS stand for? Just having a blonde moment.

Variable Intake System

Shame to see another good Coupe bite the dust, but also MUCH better news to know that two people stayed alive.

Cars can be rebuilt or replaced

Ever thought of "reincarnating" the Sprinty VIS into another Sprinty shell, then changing over the VIN plates and strut tops?

I know it's not quite the same, but the car would have the majority of the VIS in it and I'm pretty sure it can be done perfectly legally

Glad your both ok. I've seen a few like this that have been fatals.

First things first, so glad you are all ok.

Such a shame to see another really nice one gone though