titanium S2 M74 spun out?

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:36 am

8:50 this morning on the south bound carriageway. looked to have spun out onto the verge although i'm not sure how as this is a straight section of road. damage looked to be farly nominal fortunatelly. hope it wasn't anyone on here

ninja

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:31 am

Not sure if this is the same as this:

http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... php?t=4661

My colleague said it was M8, but perhaps got mixed up with his motorways? Or have there been two separate incidents in one day??

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:35 am

yeah i saw your post but this elise wasn't on it's side although it's possible that your mate got the motorway wrong. actually the damage really didn't look too bad guess the driver got more of a fright than anything else!

ninja

Post by ed » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:27 pm

also spotted on by someone on trs.

Coming to work this morning and travelling along the M74 Northbound. Road much busier than usual particularly trying to get onto M73 (AND those B%%#$ jumping from M74 onto M73) but find what the problem is: Rubber neckers!

So what are they looking at? A Lotus Elise which looks as if he has lost ot on the M73 offramp onto the Southbound M74 which is now on the grass verge pointing the opposite diection and with some damage Opps-a-daisy

Bit more details, looks like they are def ok atleast!

Got to say it didn't look to serious - more prob lost the back end, had a spin and ended up looking a bit silly! There seemed to be some damage to the front lip (lost its reg. plate etc) but not too much and certainly didnt seem to hit anyone! The driver appeared to standing by the car and ok.

It also seemed to be a facelift model? I only caught a quick glimpse as I drove by (no rubbernecking!!!)

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:54 pm

well at least the driver is ok

if he'd spun out as he hit the motorway he did pretty well not to have hit anyone, especially at that time in the morning, given that it's normally very busy and full of drivers who are still half asleep.

ninja

quattroboy · Post by **quattroboy** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:16 pm

A work colleague filmed this earlier today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qejEAzFuUrU

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:01 pm

^^^^^

yeah that's the one!

ninja

JohnnyR6 · Post by **JohnnyR6** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:46 pm

Saw this myself, must have past shortly after it happened. I noticed a lot of standing water running across the 3 lanes just before where he finished up so maybe hit that and aquaplaned. Funny thing was there was a mx5 at the same spot the day before with a fair bit more damage, obviously hit something. Same again standing water across the lanes.

Came back the opposite way about 40 mins later and the car had been abandoned, i thought they would have driven it away as the damage looked minimal, certainly looked drivabable.