Car Parking Problem

[Aperitif]

I was watching the cricket blog on the Guardian and happened upon this, within their 'most viewed' bit. Awful.
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kO60EHVS4&feature=player_embedded#![/media]

 

[Fnaar]

oof!

 

[topcat1]

ouch! i felt that

 

[vernon]

ouch! i felt that

When I was a paper boy in the seventies I habitually coasted down a long gentle hill reading a newspaper until the day someone in the street bought a car and inconsiderately parked it outside their house without telling me.

The impact saw me slide along the crossbar using my gonads as brakes until my groin hit the handlebar stem and the momentum carrying my head forwards until it made contact with the rear windscreen.

I fell on the floor in slow motion, the wind knocked out of my sails, before crawling into a nearby back alley with my bike and gently weeping for several minutes.

At the time I convinced myself that my voice would never break and that I'd ever be a father.

I sometimes wonder how the pain approximated to child birth pain.

 

[ianrauk]

That is awful......you just knew what was going to happen..

 

[yello]

I think a similar sort of thing happened to Nicole Cooke in New Zealand a few years ago. I think someone stopped on the course... but of course it wasn't a problem, they'd only popped into the shop to get a paper, it was only a few minutes, they didn't hold anyone up!

Edit: Womens' World Cup, Wellington 2006. From www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=9001

Nicole Cook, Common Wealth Road Race Champion crashed after a run in with a vehicle parked on the Wellington course. “I was leading around one bend and there was a van parked on the course, right in front of me,” said Cooke.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

Looks and sounds like Spain, and just the sort of thing these idiots would do.

Spanish don't park, they abandon their cars.

 

[661-Pete]

Looks and sounds like Spain, and just the sort of thing these idiots would do.

Spanish don't park, they abandon their cars.

From the car's licence plate, it appears to be in Colombia. The usual sort of 'comments' under the video, even those in Spanish!

 

[Aperitif]

'Many' years ago I bunked school early morning, and went home to do something really "cutting edge" like draw a picture. I had an athletics meeting that evening - about four miles ride away and I decided to ride it for convenience. It was a lovely hot, sunny afternoon, and I was rehearsing my hammer traverse through the circle, or something, as I made my way to BANG!... I hit a Morris Traveller (with all the wooden stuff around the panels for those of you who don't know) just like the guy in the video. I hurt my shoulder on the outside corner of the 'car', which was a nuisance, but my poor Carlton suffered - the front wheel was touching the saddle nearly! I wandered home in teenage bullet-proof mode and cadged a lift from the drunk bloke who lived next door to my parent's house. I still competed in the hammer and shot, eventually getting the bike up and running again once I got my stucent grant through and made friends with a friendly technician / welder when I did a foundation course! The car? No idea. It shouldn't have been parked inside my daydream.

 

[fossyant]

Nice dent.............

I've run into two cars in the past........... both putting head down at wrong moment. One was slow speed, just left the house when I was a teenager, and promptly crashed into the neighbours new Porsche 928.

Also hit an Escort on a pitch black lane, saw it at the last minute, and smacked it hard with my thigh.....ripped the bumper off the car........ and I 'hobbled off'. The bike was OK....

An old clubmate of mine has rear ended a car before, and ended on the back seat - straight through the rear window.....

 

[darth vadar]

Whats wrong with slowing down a bit and looking where you are going ?

 

[dan_bo]

Rear ended a bus once that had stopped to pick up.....In broad daylight. Pillock.

 

[yello]

Whats wrong with slowing down a bit and looking where you are going ?

I presume you mean other than in a race where you kind of expect the course to be clear!

 

[PBancroft]

Whats wrong with slowing down a bit and looking where you are going ?

Considering the size of the dent left (and how far it rolled forward) and the speed at which they were travelling at (this was a race, remember) not to mention the pinch point created by the racecar, I reckon there probably wasn't a decent way that would have ended well. He probably saw the car too late to react.

Ouchie.

 

[Proto]

Twenty years ago a cycling mate of mine, out on a training ride, head down, arse up, rode into the back of a (legally) parked car. Broke his neck and he's been in a wheelchair ever since. He still gets out and about, he's got a hand powered trike. So, be careful out there.