Postby -alex » Sun Dec 07, 2008 12:06 pm
Went on an Old Pac run last night, for the first time on a weekend after being involved in an accident (which claimed my friends MR2 and an AE86) on section 2 around this time last yea
Was headed back south at around 12.50 am, and we passed 3 groups of Hondas. A few were pulled over by Brooklyn Bridge, we passed a group headed north about 2min later then a gap and then another group, my initial thoughts were "lol honda ricers", we continued up the hill, cautiously around corners as we were unsure if there were more of them. Came around the hard double left, just before the hairpin and first thing I noticed was an excel with hazards on.Next thing I noticed was the flipped white Integra which had planted itself into the shoulder ditch and rock wall. We pulled over, got out, spoke to an older couple in the excel, they said nooone was in the car when they came across it. They left shortly after. I called the police, double checked there was noone in the car. Placed a call to a friend who was 2min behind us, told him to pull over and talk to the honda boys at the bridge, let them know one of their own had messed up and was most probably injured. Our friend arrived at the scene shortly after, told us the honda boys said three girls had been driving the car and were now "pretty shaken up" and after the accident had gotten in the car with other people from one of the groups we passed. So off went our friend and soon there were a group on hondas that joined us, the claimed they didnt actually know the people in the car and didnt want to be around when the cops showed up. I had a bit of a yell at them about not calling an ambulance and how stupid it was of them to let people leave the site of an accident.
No surprises, they left soon after. After another 10 min of contemplation, the police showed up, looked over the car, spoke to us about what happened. The policeman had come from Hornsby and taken the freeway to Booklyn then dríven old pac southwards, he says that all the hondas had bailed and noone aside from us had stayed around. He took our details and we left, heading very cautiously up the hill back to Berowra.
I still have no idea how they managed it, apparently there were three asian girls in the car, but then again someone told us it was a guy and a girl (so take your pick). Best guess would be, too fast round the hairpin, putting them in the south bound lane, over correction bringing them back into the northbound lane while catching the ditch in the shoulder (at speed) flipping the car, then touching the rock wall which spun it on its roof and claimed the front bumper on initial impact. There were no tyre marks to indicate braking, front bumper was on the shoulder behind the car, most of the front end was mashed in and there was obvious marks to suggest the car had spun at least twice on its roof.
The owner of the car was a green P plater and I can only hope that she/he/they got to a hospital, as I doubt anyone could walk away completely unscathed from that.
