One less Mini in the World

TomFreeman · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:57 pm

I agree Cline...your daughter was quite fortunate. That's a pretty good testimony on the crash-worthiness of a MINI. I'm glad she's OK.

Marty Howard · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:01 pm

I think we all are glad she's OK

ColinOConnell · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:43 pm

Ouch! BMW makes a great car.... We've all probably been close to relaxing too much behind the wheel after a long day. Thankfully she wasn't hurt too badly. I recall a personal accident where modern design saved my family and the first words after we realized that everybody was fine were... "I want another car just like this one."

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:56 am

clinehall wrote:

...then slid 90 degrees in to the median cables. She flipped over the cables and hit the ground on the the other sided but apparently the cables had caught the car and flipped it back. It then was caught in the cables (I think this was a very good thing) and slid down them knocking down the little metal posts.

We are are glad she is OK Cline, and no offense, but I think those cables saved her life, and not because she was in a Mini. The unfortunate thing is as good as they (the cables) are, they only work when they are in place. The NCDOT seems to be in no hurry to fix them once they have done their job by catching a car. I'm sure Ryan can attest to that fact as well. My guess is it could be as long as 6 months before the section your daughter took down is replaced.

Graham Jagger · **Joined:** Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:53 am **Posts:** 1718

Glad she is ok Cline. The rest of the story is all academic to me. As long as my kid walks away from an accident. That is all that counts.

You can look at NHTSA data for crash worthiness of a car. Not a single incident.

Sean O'Connell · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:34 pm

i've seen many cars stuck in the cables while driving on 264 the past few years and every time is see one i think, damn that would have been nasty if the dividers were not here. glad everything turned out ok. I'm surprised we don't have a mini dealership in Grenville just for you.

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:44 pm

Sean O'Connell wrote:

i've seen many cars stuck in the cables while driving on 264 the past few years and every time is see one i think, damn that would have been nasty if the dividers were not here. glad everything turned out ok. I'm surprised we don't have a mini dealership in Grenville just for you.

I actually had a friend in the car business want to pursue that with me, I reconized that would be like an alcoholic starting a bar.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:20 pm

clinehall wrote:

Sean O'Connell wrote:

i've seen many cars stuck in the cables while driving on 264 the past few years and every time is see one i think, damn that would have been nasty if the dividers were not here. glad everything turned out ok. I'm surprised we don't have a mini dealership in Grenville just for you.

I actually had a friend in the car business want to pursue that with me, I reconized that would be like an alcoholic starting a bar.

A drug dealer shouldn't be his own best customer....

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:25 pm

I learned that when my dad was in the car business in the 70's. His partner would get excited about a car and then buy a bunch of them. ONe time it was AMC Pacers then it was Renault Le Cars. They weren't in business long. :oops:

Scott Johnson · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:06 pm

Seems like a Mini Clubman would be a better car for a kid... Time to try out a new mini.

Ryan Holton · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:21 pm

Cline, if you would have bought her an S and not a base car, you would have a parts car!!!

You know for when your spark plugs wanna vacate the premise :lol:

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:22 pm

Ryan Holton wrote:

Cline, if you would have bought her an S and not a base car, you would have a parts car!!!

You know for when your spark plugs wanna vacate the premise :lol:

Actually the head is the same on all of them I believe. Thought about seeing about getting the salvage on this one but it is so destroyed I don't think I want to mess with it.

clinehall · **Posted:** Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:23 pm

scottjohnson wrote:

Seems like a Mini Clubman would be a better car for a kid... Time to try out a new mini.

My wife wants one but I know she would be wanting a convertable in spring so noway.

Chuck Frank · **Posted:** Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:28 pm

Good thing she is sponsored by an insurance agency! Glad she walked away.

AFA salvage, doesn't look like there is likely much damage to the drive train, looks to be mostly the outside sheetmetal, the wires taking up most of the energy.

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