Another one bites the dust...

[nomead]

Saw this the other weekend. Actually the crash happened between Saturday and Sunday during the night and cleaning it up obstructed the traffic for a while. Yes I was driving a taxi then... On Sunday I went to the site and took a few photos. I wonder what was the reason for the crash? Way too much speed? Judging by the tire tracks, it wasn't caused by drifting. Just before the accident place the road has a slight (but sudden) turn to the right. Caught by surprise?

Lots of pics:

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[MCHUDD]

Hi mate.
That would have been a nice early 360.
Some good savable parts there too.
Hope everone got out ok.
Cheers Mark.

[Stefan]

shame looked like a nice car

[volvosneverdie]

ouch!
looks like he overshot the turn.
Mustve been really moving quick too.

Another one down.

[nomead]

Apparently this was on sale on nettiauto.com (a local used car sales website) for 500€ in June. I found in Google's cache a sales notice by the current owner, he was trying to sell it for 1050€ before the crash and is currently trying to sell the crashed wreck for 200€!
http://www.nettiauto.com/volvo/360/2695159?sitelang=1

I had a closer look at it when I took those pictures. Yeah it seems nice, but it's mostly due to a very well polished paint surface. On the crash side, the upper strut mount was mostly composed of rust flake, and I have no reason to believe the rest of the car wasn't in a similar shape. So it was more or less a case of "buyer beware".

Oh, and a map link to the crash site:
http://opaskartta.turku.fi/Web/Default. ... nguage=fin

[jtbo]

I did recognize that car to be one from Nettiauto, that black lower part made me think back then that it really is something I should avoid, that is old trick to cover up rust before sale.

Could it be diff fail and lockup? That has happened to one of our members in past.

Is that 50kph area? I looks like that there has been bit more speed to me, maybe even over 80kph?

[trabitom99]

Ouch, that looks painful. Maybe he fell asleep, woke up, panicked and over-corrected?

Tom

[nomead]

Yes the limit is 50 km/h there.

[magnumpi]

The 4th picture down from the back makes it look just like a VW Santana, plus it's got VW steels on it unless they are stock Volvo ones which we never got here?

[trabitom99]

plus it's got VW steels on it ...

from a Polo MkIII by the looks of it ...

Tom

[Speedy88]

It was just left there, so I'm guessing the guy got arrested?

[Ronnie]

Impressive the way the cabin maintains integrity even when the front end is totally bent - V300's rule

[kaos]

Impressive the way the cabin maintains integrity even when the front end is totally bent - V300's rule

I had it in a book i found in the volvo i sold at christmas. It explained how the 300 series already had an integral 6 point roll cage built in, from the factory.