Belgian Atoms : minus one...

[AntwerpAtom]

sh1t happens... This is what you get when your car decides to play pinball between the concrete wall and the rails.

[Hedge]

Ouch.

Presume you're ok.

Car shouldn't be written off, no?

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="Hedge"]
Ouch.

Presume you're ok.

Car shouldn't be written off, no?
[/quote]

Probably. If the chassis is bent...

[Hedge]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="Hedge"]
Ouch.

Presume you're ok.

Car shouldn't be written off, no?
[/quote]

Probably. If the chassis is bent...
[/quote]

Yup, pretty obvious, now you say it...

When insurance companies write them off, who generally gets the salvage? Anyone on here?

Vultures, circling...

[AntwerpAtom]

I got out of it without a scratch or whatsoever. In fact, it's me in the background, waiting for the tow truck...

[ross]

Yep, glad to hear that there's no injuries.  Wouldn't be surprised if it is written off unfortunately.  What happened?

Cheers, Ross.

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="Hedge"]
[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="Hedge"]
Ouch.

Presume you're ok.

Car shouldn't be written off, no?
[/quote]

Probably. If the chassis is bent...
[/quote]

Yup, pretty obvious, now you say it...

When insurance companies write them off, who generally gets the salvage? Anyone on here?

Vultures, circling...
[/quote]

It's not technically written off... What usually happens is that everything gets stripped off and checked and anything broken is replaced. Then it all gets put on to a new chassis - at the owner's cost less whatever the insurance pays out less excess. The factory have negotiated a deal with insurers to make this a fixed cost (it used to be about £10-14k to do this)

Glad you're OK anyway, AA... I was chatting to (name drop) Steve Cropley last night and he was praising the Atom's strength

[Hedge]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="Hedge"]
[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="Hedge"]
Ouch.

Presume you're ok.

Car shouldn't be written off, no?
[/quote]

Probably. If the chassis is bent...
[/quote]

Yup, pretty obvious, now you say it...

When insurance companies write them off, who generally gets the salvage? Anyone on here?

Vultures, circling...
[/quote]

It's not technically written off... What usually happens is that everything gets stripped off and checked and anything broken is replaced. Then it all gets put on to a new chassis - at the owner's cost less whatever the insurance pays out less excess. The factory have negotiated a deal with insurers to make this a fixed cost (it used to be about £10-14k to do this)

Glad you're OK anyway, AA... I was chatting to (name drop) Steve Cropley last night and he was praising the Atom's strength
[/quote]

Steve Cropley, top bloke. Used to be the Editor of CAR magazine when I first started buying it 25 odd years ago. Still writes for them, I think. And Autocar.

Anyway, miles off topic. Get me coat.

[AntwerpAtom]

It was raining cats and dogs, so I was driving at +/- 120 km/h, when the back slid to the right. My first guess was a patch of oil or dieselfuel, but a witness saw a small wooden beam being thrown from under the car. I first hit the concrete wall on the left, then went into the rails at the right side of the road. Finally, a passing truck took the nose off and sent me back against the rails. This all happened in a few seconds and was rather - er - scary...

The car is at Debussere now, so I have to wait for the verdict...

Here's another pic, taken from the back. 

[Driver]

Damn, must've felt like you were in a friggin pinball machine.  The Atom can be fixed, don't need to be missing no felow Atomites. Glad you are ok.

[MadMaxedAtom]

[bolus]

Good to see that the car kept you safe in such a horrible accident.  If you were on a motorcycle I dont think you would have fared as well. 

[AntwerpAtom]

Yes, nobody will ever hear me make a complaint about the Atom frame - or the seatbelts...

[DFext37 Fielding]

if you had a passenger, it might have been a different scenario...

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="Dext37 Fielding"]
if you had a passenger, it might have been a different scenario...
[/quote]

Again, bollocks from Dex...