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28th October 2012, 08:07 PM
#11
Administrator
I was about to ask if you had a passenger. Very lucky mate, cheers for the pics!!!
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28th October 2012 08:07 PM
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28th October 2012, 08:20 PM
#12
Patrol God
Originally Posted by
jstnmaller
The bloke in the picture was in the passenger seat and was lucky he had his seat belt on, as you can see the roof crushed down in front of him and was about 20cm from him.
Shaken not stirred, and straight for the smokes lol,
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28th October 2012, 09:25 PM
#13
Nasty Dog - Moderator
Glad you both were OK mate, it amazes me the amount of people who as soon as they get off-road do not wear their seat belt..........you had a good reason, but others don't.
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28th October 2012, 09:29 PM
#14
Good you are still with us... I had a very close call once in my Hilux and since then seat belt is always on..
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29th October 2012, 12:24 AM
#15
Patrol Freak
Wow - glad all were OK. Lucky there. So often I have seen stuff like this happen in a blink of an eye.
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29th October 2012, 12:31 AM
#16
Hardcore
Thats nasty
Lucky you survived that, looks like if the tree didnt stop the car when it did, the drop off got even steeper ?
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29th October 2012, 09:27 AM
#17
Patrol Freak
Glad to hear you are both ok man. Shame bout the rig though were you able to get all our acc out from the car or have you had to start over from the beginning.
Live life, Love life.
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29th October 2012, 05:21 PM
#18
Everything was a write off and all was covered by insurance so started all over again with the gq shorty in my profile pics and then bought the other gu. A tip I was given after it was to carry a peg in your car so if you do need to take your seatbelt off you put the peg on the belt before the retractor and it stops it from going back in and no matter what angle your on you can always put your belt back on.
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29th October 2012, 05:23 PM
#19
I was lucky that tree stopped us, it was another 50 metres before another tree in the way and who knows how many more times we would of went over.
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29th October 2012, 05:24 PM
#20
Originally Posted by
jstnmaller
Everything was a write off and all was covered by insurance so started all over again with the gq shorty in my profile pics and then bought the other gu. A tip I was given after it was to carry a peg in your car so if you do need to take your seatbelt off you put the peg on the belt before the retractor and it stops it from going back in and no matter what angle your on you can always put your belt back on.
Yeah thats what I keep forgetting to do... I am off outside to find one now!!!!
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