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Unfortunately at about 8pm Sunday evening I was in an accident. Thankfully nobody else was involved and I walked away. However, my car is probably a write off due to the high cost of repairing Alfa's and the likelihood that the chassis is bent.
To cut a long story short, I was on a section of dual carridge way doing 70-75 in the rain, came around a bend into a lot of standing water and started to aquaplane. The rear of the car stepped out, I corrected it, the whole thing found grip again and then snapped back sending the rear left hard into the kurb. This has left the rear left wheel at an off angle. It then jumped the kurb and sent the rear left into the near side barrier, bounced out and sent the nose heavily into the near side barrier which has damaged the whole front of the car and probably bent the chassis.
I was a passenger the whole time. Nothing I could do. I wasn't speeding, I wasn't messing about; in fact it would have been a lot more satisfying writing a car off by getting it wrong at the limit (if you see what I mean). To throw it all away in a silly accident like that is kind of dissapointing. You probably think that's sick.
Anyway, I went to the lock-up where the car's being held while the insurance people look at it, yesterday afternoon. The following pictures don't do any justice to the actual damage but they give you an idea.
I'm absolutely gutted. I loved my car; it gave me hours of fun driving it and I feel lost without it. But I've come to realise that I'm very very lucky it wasn't any more serious, especially lucky that nobody else was involved, and lucky to have had the support of the Alfa community.
It was truely a great year. I'd like to thank you all for your supportive comments during my time with the car.
Here's to the next one
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Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
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