Small cars aren't safe....

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by xy500

isnt the focus technically a mid size car?
impact speed would have to be much less than 100 for that sort of damage, i've seen a rodeo look similar after a 60kmh smash.
glad everyone is ok

I think its classed as a small car, I'm not sure, its in the same league as the Mazda 3, etc. Fiesta is a "supermini".

Originally Posted by 4vxc

if that was a 90km/h hit I'd say the ute did well

Yeah I think the reason why is because when I hit him how his ute slid, I actually knocked his ute from the far right hand lane facing the emergency lane to all the way back into the grass past the emergency lane facing me.

If I hit him and his ute didn't move at all I'd probably be dead I reckon.

I jammed on the brakes and you know how it usually locks for a split second than unlocks with ABS, well it didn't have time to unlock before we hit. I wished I braked earlier haha but it happened so fast, Swerved and then I'm sitting in the middle of the freeway with my airbags deployed.

Originally Posted by Burnout

Nice stack Damo, good to know you are ok.
Many happy moments to think about it as you walk to work.......

Haha, long walk then, 55km.

Originally Posted by Mechan1k

Man .. that's a decent hit.
Lucky to walk away ... shame about the new car as well.
Got another one ordered yet???

Haven't yet but insurance says they'll replace it with a new one in the first 2 years, but I want a frozen white oen again which is a pain in the *** to find. I wonder if they'll give me a MKII now instead of MKI?

I was talking to AAMI on the phone and they're like we'll take it back to our assessors and they'll make the final call if they can fix it... Good luck fixing that.

I rang up Dad after I got out of the car, and I said don't panic but I just had a car accident, he rang up Mum and they where both more shaken up then I was haha.