Camaro in critical condition

well, yesterday I had an accident, my first accident in 6 years of driving but what an accident. travelling at around 150kms an hour on a deserted and poorly lit road I plowed into a roundabout with a high kerb and have probably destroyed my car as a result. I was speeding and i couldn't slow down fast enough when i saw the roundabout.

I blew out all four tyres, the dashboard is completely ripped to pieces inside the car and looks like its been pushed back into the car somehow, the two airbags went off, the rims are all destroyed, the hood and front bumper are gone, the driver side front quarter panel and door are damaged to the point where they shattered and split to pieces, my radiator blew and so far i don't know if the front axle or chassis has been damaged. I'll find out in a few days after the cops release my car.

Point is, don't speed, i coulda killed someone yesterday and i can't believe how lucky i was to not have flipped when i hit that roundabout. It coulda been so much worse than it was but thank god no one got hurt but the car. If theres anything i've learnt from this, its that i will never speed again, if not for safety reasons then for financial reasons as i will be paying off the damages to my car for at least the next 5 months. Be careful out there, god bless and drive safe.

thanks for the info sorry your car went through this type of accident. one reason ill never drive at night unless i have too and i live outside a major city(chicago) cause all you need to do is go around one dark corner and bam no more car and maybe no more you

Glad your ok. Cars can be replaced but you can not.

Youll get another car, but if you die, theres no turning back from that. Sorry to hear bout your accident

sorry dude that sucks. i wracked up a car once its always beat when that happened, you should get some pics i wanna see how f`ed up it is

hey goldz.....u can change yer sig now.

and yea man that sucks about your car. glad your ok

glad your okay but you shouldn't be speeding in a road you don't know, just like you said a turn came around out of nowhere, you just really need to know the roads you speed at but thank god you didn't get hurt

yea dude that sucks about your car man glad your alright tho... i never speed on roads im unfamilar with unless im following someone.... did you do any damage to yourself in the accident?

if you dont mind my asking, what are you planning on doing about the situation? i assume you are not going to try to fix the car. you lookin for another one or what?

Well, i commend your mature way of handling the situation, and like all of us here, im very glad your ok.

many of us in here including myself have bashed our precious rides we put sweat and dolla bills into, its an aweful feeling to see it messed up, its even worse when its your fault. you can do two things, be pissed, or be pissed and learn a lesson and take that with you. i about lost my whole mouth in an accident in my last lt1, it wasn't my fault but it still taught me to always be ready for the unexpected. you said you were speeding so if you are anything like the rest of us you probably were paying pretty good attention you were just going to damn fast. dont mean to preach or anything, just sayin ive been there too.

sorry for your misfortune.

anyone whos seen my posts, knows that ive certainly had my fair share of accidnents in the RS, and even parked the IROC on top of a chain link fence. i think there was a line in a movie, touting a boxing saying. youve got a plan till you get hit, well, youve been hit, the gettin up is up to you. from what ive seen, your doing a good job gettin up, thats what really matters.

glad ur ok!!! what r u planning to do with ur car now? repair/replace

Well the cars pretty damaged but I'm gonna get it fixed. My parents have agreed to give me a loan to fix the car, that is if it is repairable. AT this stage i'm gonna get a set of new rims and tyres and most likely i'll also be getting the whole car resprayed since i was gonna get it done anyway. I'm okay by the way, aside from a few bruises on my legs, just lucky the car didn't flip.
And yeah 89IROC&RS I remember reading about your accidents too :p right now all i'm hoping is the car can be repaired, if not i'll take the LT1 and see what i can do with it. Thanks for your concern guys.

good to hear your physical ok. hope your camaro can have the same fate

If you can post some pic of your car after the accident...

yeah a picture is worth a thousand words. ill see if i can get some pics posted of the RS when i go home for break, didnt have time before i came up to school.

okay i'll try and get some pics of the car up, but it'll be a couple of days before the cops let me have it back. until then i'm keeping my fingers crossed that it can be repaired.

lucky i was to not have flipped when i hit that roundabout. Camaros don't "flip" (roll over) during that type of crash except if they are ramped up by something. That's why we drive 'em: so we can throw 'em round the turns fast as we want (we might spin tho). We'll save all the roll-overs for those Shaky Utility Vehicles (calling them "sport" is false advertising)..§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§REFUSE TO LOSE§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§