Things that go bump in the night!

karltsmith · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:38 am Post subject: Things that go bump in the night!

Two nights ago my wife and I were woken...we didn't know what woke us but we woke together and then went back to sleep.

The next day I was taking the children out in the car and as I pulled out of our rather steep driveway ther was a car embeded in a tree and a lamp post just outside our neighbours house. The car had gone through a crash barrier on the bend of the road before hitting the tree and power cable post.

We live on a hill off a main road but it is not that busy however boy racers often wizz past on the way to the local beach.

If the car had been another 6 feet down the hill it would have landed in our front room (our house sits in a dip off the road) if it had 6 feet further up the hill it would have gone straight down our neighbours right of way and through there front door!

We think that this is what woke us...no news on the occupants or how the crash happened.

A crane and a structural engineer spent most of the day clearing up!

I stress that this curve is not a sharp bend it's about a 25 degrees right hander...however such bends do not have any retroreflective strips to indicate a bend...NZ transport authority take note!!

Caven · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

Those "what-might-have-beens" are never nice, are they? Sounds like our man had a few tall-boys and did a runner...I'll have to add it to my NZ survival list,

Earthquake - Floating foundations and no aquarium.
Flash flood - No tight re-entrants and tie down mother-in-law ( note, tie DOWN ).
Landslide - Slopes above must be wooded.
Tornado - No small domesticated pets nor Thomas Sanderson awnings.
Geyser - Reinforced rubber underwear ( poor excuse, I know ! )
Bike gangs - Be very,very nice.
Joy riders - Tank-ditch in front of house.

It all says live on a hill that isn't likely to fall over when it rains, is surrounded by woods to lessen the effect of storms and hopefully won't go bang...that reminds me,

Volcano - blablabla Nutcase

Timbo · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject:

I am sure I heard somewhere that NZ authoritys were looking at putting in extra road safety measures , especially on bends, just to put visitors to the coutry at more ease.
I must admit that the first few klicks driving around Coromandel actually made me feel physically sick. But then I had just got off the plane.