Jorge
Mazlumian "My son, was coming back from work the night before
thanksgiving.
We thanked that he came out without a scratch. Seat belt on, no
airbag. Jorge
I was travailing along a high
speed road when the car in front of me spun,
I emergency stopped but the petrol tanker behind me didn't and hit me
at
over fifty miles per hour. other than my minor whip lash all three of
us
got out OK. The police were astonished that the roof hadn't collapsed ,
the back seat hadn't
moved at all.
John Thacker
While
on a 4 lane highway a bunch of cars were pulling out of an office
complex.They
keptcoming andcoming, each one trying to get out before me. I was
flashing
my lights as warning and had my foot off the gas to start
slowing.Within
a couple hundred feet a jacked up 79 suburban 4x4 pulled right out. I
was
in the #1 lane. I swerved right to go behind him ( left would have been
into oncoming traffic ). Had he kept on going I would've gone
behind
him. Unfortunately the idiot kid stopped in the right lane, partially
blocking
the left lane as well. He freely admitted that he didn't look to the
left
before pulling out. I impacted his beast in the left rear,breaking his
axle and crushing the left front of my car. I managed to walk away with
only a sore shoulder and slightly stiff neck.
Dan Walker
There
was some oil on the road... and the weather was really slippery ....
the
car was undrivable and hit the wall on the side of the road.... I
was unhurt, Marco
looking
in your site I saw also the "are they safe"
section. I think I have some pics very "interesting"
(and tragic also) pic. In my last message I told about
a 75 2500 Q.Verde I owned. Beh, this is that car. My
father, simply, ...destroyied it, but he is still
alive, without incoveniences (if you see the pic).
Let me tell something about this car. We bought it
from an "Alfa Blue Team" member, a very exclusive Alfa
Romeo club here in Italy. Very rare to find a 75 V6
here in Italia, especially a 2500 Quadrifoglio Verde).
I took it in Milan, 14th of february 1998. I had so an
Alfetta, an Alfa 33 and this Alfa 75. In family we
decided to part out the 33 and my father started
usinge this 75. I used my Alfetta. When my father was
abroad for job, I used daily the 75 with great fun. 31
january 2000 it happened. In the days immediately
before, were done some works on the car (timing belt
and so on)so the car was mechanically perfect, with
its 2500 V6 engine that was running at its best.
At 06.00 A.m. my father was going to Genova, for job.
In that days was very very cold, and so there was also
ice on the streets during the night and in the first
hour of the mornig. Just 2 hrs before I drove my
ALfetta on the same road, and I "saw" it was very
dangerous to drive fast. But my father, always being
"hurry up", also if with 30 years of driving
experience on Alfa Romeo, that morning had this crash:
starting a turn on the left, the car started to go out
of the "line" with its back, to the right. My father
used the steering as good in that situation, turning
on the right, but another time the car was off of the
correct line, this time the back was going to the left
side. So doing, the car first knocked against the
guard rail with the front left corner. There was an
"hole" in the guard rail: he finished and restarted 3
meters after, on the right side. So the car, going a
little in front and much to right, knocked with its
right side against the second part of the guard rail,
starting from the front right corner. So until the
front right door, then the guard rail entered in the
car and exit to the rear left door! If you see the
pics you cna understand that if someone, except the
direve, was sitting in the car, surely he would die
immediately. My father had only few damages on his
body, this is only a good gift from God. You now are
thinking that my father is crazy: beh, I told him the
same many and many times, also because I went on the
accident site 10 minutes after, driving in the turn at
40 KMH with an Alfetta 2000 (perfect tyres and
drivetrain) and it was the fastest speed possible if
you wanted to be safe. My father was instead running
about 90 - 100 Km/h, on a ice covered street and also
dirty of mud. We in Italy do not have care of the car,
and that road especially: every week at least 2 or 3
crash, someone also with deaths.
This to say that Alfa Romeo are very very safe. When a
truck knocked against me and closed me between the
truck itself and a wall? I had my first Alfetta, and I
had no many physical damages. It happened in 1999, and
I immediately bought another Alfetta. An ALfa is
always sure, remember it.
Leonardo
'89 75 turbo america
'82 Alfetta 2000 sedan
Peter
Fugedi "The pulsar backed out into the street perpendicular
to traffic. I had nowhere to go but into him. I pushed him a good 10ft,
you can see that he is on the curb and not in the driveway. My
passenger
and I were OK, while the people in the pular had to be taken to the
hospital."
the car went out of the road
in Germany at a speed of nearly 200 km/h during
a storm.It climbed the guard rails.This is the result. the Dutch driver
had a little stop ot the local hospital for a contusion.
I searched in special car sale magazines and had driven miles.
to find
this Ar75. A 1.8IE in blue metallic.I did some
bargaining
and also found out that when i would by it without delivery check i
would
pay a fair price of 4000 Guilders. That is about 1800 dollar.A few days
later i rang themn and told them that i wanted to buy it. I went by
train
(about 250 km from where i live) to get it.The transfer was completed
soon
after. I was the proud Owner of a AR75 . And one reason for buying it
is
that it drives on LPG.I drove home without insurrance on a very busy
time.
Stupid of me.I got home safely.The next day i noticed that the battery
was flat and i replaced it.Know it was time to show it to my parents
(30
mnutes driving). I first called the insurrance and fixed that.
I think it was around christmas time so it was busy and sometimes
rainy.
I drove away. I had to drive through the center of my town to get to
the
way to my parents. I notced it was very busy. I stopped for a traffic
light.
It went green again and i pulled up. Then it happened. The man before
me
had not seen the jam in front of him and started braking as an idiot. I
drove on his rear. And next another drove on mine.My newly beautiful
car
wrecked within 24 hours. Simon-Thijs de Feber
I
was driving home in the dark,when I saw (I thought)two headlights
coming
towards me.When I got closer,I realized it was a tractor driving
backwards
on my side of the road. It was scraping mud of the road,there was a 2
cm
thick layer of mud,so I had no brakes at all. I''d just replaced the
thermosstat,so
I was taking it for a "test drive/race". I'm sorry for the car,but the
tractor was also total-loss!!
Ten years ago I had a Giulietta 2.0 and someone bumped me of
the road,into a ditch. The car landed on the roof,leaving me hanging
upside
down,in my safetybelt. With only my hair in the water!
So I had two mayor crashes in transaxels,and both of the times
I had
nothing!
Supercars!! Ronald Vermeulen
Driving
north in the left lane going 37mph on a 4 lane road.
Right lane was stopped and left lane clear; space between cars in the
right lane lead to a side street (with stop sign). A '97 Mazda
626
popped out of the space to turn southbound other driver "cut
the corner" and turned into my lane. The result was a head-on
collision that totaled my car. Upon hitting me their car spun
into
the right rear of my car. My Alfa ended up about 20ft from point
of
impact and their vechicle ended up about 100ft in the opposite
direction
facing northbound in the southbound lane. My Alfa lay across both
southbound lanes. I regained senses to see a big Chevy Blazer
skid
to a halt inches from my passenger door. Other driver was cited for
failure to yield.