Laguna driver trapped for an hour at 125mph with no brakes...wtf!

[Fletch_uk]

Don't know if any of you have seen this but couldn't see it on the forum so thought i'd post it up.

Can't believe when I read this, insane!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/13/french-driver-200kmh-car-chase

I think I would have actually sh*t one if this happened to me...

 

[Foxspeed]

lets hope its not another toyota floor mat issue :bored:

and if he had stamped on the brakes hard enough i think it would have stopped it :bat:

 

[Fernandez]

Guessing he doesn't want a Sprintbooster then.

 

[lgonzalez]

Guessing he doesn't want a Sprintbooster then.

Hahahahaha awesome

 

[marshall]

Lecerf said that it wasn't the first time his speed dial had jammed but that Renault had looked at the car and assured him that it was fine.

Typical Renault

 

[Foxspeed]

did he not think to just switch the blooming engine off

 

[shakey_hand_man]

^^what he said

 

[GrumpyTwig]

Wait........









A laguna can do 125mph?

 

[frediiii]

did he not think to just switch the blooming engine off

I tried to switch off the clios engine once while driving (approaching a red light) and the start button didn't allow it until I reached standstill...

 

[Foxspeed]

I tried to switch off the clios engine once while driving (approaching a red light) and the start button didn't allow it until I reached standstill...

you usually have to press it twice to do dont you?

after a few miles at 125 the brakes would be cool enough to jump on them again and stall the car...so question has to be asked should he have been driving if he couldnt bring it to a stop in the first place!!!

 

[Gam]

Now I'm going to be tempted to double tap my start button whenever I'm driving along to see if it cuts the engine out.

Thanks guys

 

[adam1942]

couldn't he have dipped the clutch also?? I know it says that it was adapted for disabled people but surely it still has a clutch unless its an auto?

 

[frediiii]

you usually have to press it twice to do dont you?

after a few miles at 125 the brakes would be cool enough to jump on them again and stall the car...so question has to be asked should he have been driving if he couldnt bring it to a stop in the first place!!!

pretty sure I tapped more than twice, but I will try again today just to make sure

if he would be able to jump the brakes he would not need to drive a car converted for disabled people, I guess. From reading the article I get the impression his "fly-by-wire" system went sour... if you don't have a way to cut off ignition your options are quite limited. especially when your car (and I guess all cars for disabled people are for obvious reasons) is an automatic.

 

[MikeDX]

Even automatic cars can be taken out of gear can't they? What about the handbrake or are they electronic?

 

[GrumpyTwig]

Even automatic cars can be taken out of gear can't they? What about the handbrake or are they electronic?

Sticking it in P would stop it :wiz:

 

[weebob]

Even automatic cars can be taken out of gear can't they? What about the handbrake or are they electronic?

hand brakes are leccy on the lagunas

 

[Robo_#1]

Wait........









A laguna can do 125mph?

:rofl: I thought exactly the same thing!

 

[atlinf]

i'm sure i read it was a modified disability car and thats what messed up

 

[930Tech]

Was it a diesel?

These have been known to eat themselves from the inside before, running on the engine oil i belive.

If it was modified for a disabled person, i'd say auto and hand controls plus the panic it must have caused.

 

[knuckles]

did he not think to just switch the blooming engine off

I was thinking that lol