Ooooch nasty bump but as you say could have been worse...hope you feel better soon, take your painkillers and don't try to do too much too soon. Speaking from experience whiplash gets worse before it gets better and even a couple of years down the line I have a problem with my shoulder from an accident where I was hit from behind by a boy racer.
def taking it steady and got heavy moving cover from work also. office/manual moving job
I was trying to work out whether it was a voyager or not - recognised the steering wheel!
Good job who had a big car, whilst not a massive bump, the bigger the better in any accident.
Don't beat yourself up about the accident, it was just that -an accident. I used to work for a hire car co and see people who had crashed cars (both there own and ours) and it is one of those things, the only thing you can do is to learn from the mistake - replace the tyres, make sure you always have everyone strpped in and to take it carefully in the bad weather.
I'm glad you had the dogs strpped in, nothing worse than things(objects, animals, people) flying round the inside of a car in a bump.
If you get a hire car as a courtesy one, then you may want to think about paying for an upgrade to a larger model then the little box they will give you. If you do, they play hardball and beat them down on price, they will normally ask for a bit extra for every day you have the car.
Hope you feel better soon, nothing better than a little medicinal brandy to help the pain go....
yes voyager, solid car and get a lot for you money, just heavy. we always relgiously strap every thing in and down. you can have any thing on the voyager floor as it would just roll about.
Insurance said we get a curtosy car just going to try and get some thing of a similar size, know i won't get a Voyager curtosy but worth a try for a MPV of some sort.
:nono: not with prescribed medicines!
Hope you are all soon over the shock, it does upset the system for a while.
we will be right, at least we walked away from it.
What? Voltarol, Brufen and co-proxamol are great with a nice 12-year malt...:nuts:
lol, they only gave me 30/500 codeine and paracetamol.
Can't disagree, though I prefer tramadol/MST and oramorph with a few healthy doses of vodka and coke....
Seriously though, I'm glad that you're all ok. The whiplash will (eventually) b****r off, but remember to keep moving - don't overdo things and get the rest you need but make sure you don't "baby" your neck and shoulders, cause that'll just cause more problems.
lol, i would love to see there face if i asked for a specific drug.
Doing my daily neck exercises, i look a little funny sat at my desk at work stretching my neck and wiggling my head lol.
Glad you and your family are (mostly) unscathed.
ABS is a liability on snow, just as it is on grass. Stopping distances are massively increased over simply letting the wheels lock (which is why I think that all cars with ABS should have it switchable). The other things make no difference in these conditions, the only approach is to be appropriately cautious.
i didn;t even feel the abs, it does work as it had been on while trying to get on my drive. probs would be better if switchable, like traction control is.
Im glad someone else agrees with me, that in the dry,ABS actually makes your stopping distances longer... anyway thats not important right now! lol
Glad your all ok mate, at the end of the day the chunk of metal can be replaced/repaired!
good to see you had your photographer head on and grabbed a snap tho lol!! old habits die hard and all that lol!! I'm guessing your not after crit on the photo
lol
I had to get some pics lol, couldn't help myself, shaking like hell but still managed to take some for the record. i also looked for parts that had come off so i could get them on ebay.
Glad all (mostly ) OK, you will have a GOOD Christmas.........thats an order.....
Def need a good christmas, will be my newborns first christmas.
Glad your family all made it out safely which is the most important thing. Hope the whiplash pains go away quickly, just take it easy.
The snow that's built up at the sides of the plowed roads really can get you in trouble if you just even slightly clip it, thankfully that central reservation was clear and stopped you from going onto the other lane.
I was surprised at the ice I came across on the M6 on Wednesday when the traffic came to a stop due to an incident ahead. The ABS kicked on even braking gently but I had a huge gap from the car infront anyway. If it wasn't for stopping though I wouldn't have even realised how slippy the road was - or the other people hammering it down the snow covered outside lanes.
Tell me about the snow and mounds, it just grabbed the wheels and in i went. wouldn't mind if i was driving like a tit, and was an acident waiting to happen. I do agree while i was with the police and ambulance folk, people where thundering past without a car in the world.
ABS helps you stop in a straight line when there's different grip levels under the wheels. A non abs car will spin if you're half on tarmac and half on grass or there's ice under one side and not the other.
ABS was never designed to shorten stopping distances just to stop wheels locking so you can still have some steering input while braking hard.
Cars can be repaired. Perhaps some all weather tyres might be a good idea
exactly cars will be repaired, lives cannot be replaced. we were luckly the island was there.
Think some of the highlights are blown and I don't like the crop......needs a bit more space.
Seriously, hope you are all ok (well apart from the whiplash)... I was told to keep neck and back warm when i got it - don't know how reliable that info is....
At the end of the day its a chunk of metal and plastic etc and can be replaced. Family cannot.
lol, i wasn't keen on the crop and lighting to be fair lol.
Yes i was told to use heat or ice packs which ever helped me. kind of dificult to have a heat pack on at work.
Everyone but yourself are ok and as people above have said it's only a lump of metal and plastic at the end of the day .
But, i have to say , there can be all the gizmos of the day on you car ,the best tyres money can buy but in these conditions(black ice ,compacted snow ) 95% of the time it's driver input thats most important, the person behind the wheel must have control and drive to the conditions ,i'm not saying this was your fault but it's a generalisation, in my experience(i live up in the highlands where we're not blessed with the best gritting service ) the standard of driving i've witnessed this past couple of weeks is both unbelievable and very scary ,i've had a double decker bus come sliding straight at me cars losing it right infront of me ,speed and driving far too close to the vehicle infront .
But i'm glad you sort of got away with it,dread to think of the consequences if you hadn't hit the bollard hope your recovery goes well
thank you, just last night on the same road a national express bus came barging past me, i was doing 30, he left me in his dust,.
well lets hope my aches n pains go soon.
