My Mini, Trillian, some black ice and some automotive pirouettes, decided that a new telephone pole was in order.

Crested a hill, lost control, spun around and took the pole broadside driver's side. Just behind where the door meets the front fender. Complete loss.

Broken rib, bumps, bruises, scrapes and knee is hurting pretty good. All in all I'm grateful to be alive.

MANY MANY thanks to all of the first responders, and my wife for helping me in a nasty situation. I owe a great deal to them.

Today I got to swing by and get pics of Trillian:


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SL...p=docslist_api
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2SL...p=docslist_api

 

Holy crap!!!!!! So glad you're alright. You must've hit that pole fast and hard if the damage was that bad! Time for a new MINI??

 

Yikes!! Glad you made it out ok.

 

Yikes. Thanks, MINI, for taking care of your (former) owner!

 

Those are the accidents you see after and hope the guy made it. Glad you made it.

 

Actually you'd probably be surprised. I bet he wasn't going that fast. It's amazing how much damage hitting a pole/tree can do to a car. You're concentrating all of the force of the crash to a very small point and the car just folds around it.

 

Yeah, was not going fast at all to begin with, spinning likely decreased it as well. The, well, the abrupt halt at the end pretty much slowed me to a stop.



Trillian literally saved me life, I believe that. I'm re-evaluating things at this point. Not going all born-again, or caution be damned. But, a long hard look at where I'm at and how I got there.

Once my insurance company has completed their end, and they are VERY on the ball at this point, I will seek out another Gen 1 05/06. Then I have to come up with another name. I am very sad to see Trillian go.

Thanks for reading, and for your support.

 

Wow. I remember when the specs of the first R50/53 MINIs were being released, I thought to myself: 'Six airbags? that's ridiculous overkill'. I think you're living proof that I was wrong.

 

holy **** glad you're ok

 

A link to all of the pictures:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?...VU&usp=sharing

Everybody be careful out there, please.

 

Looks like you were running snow tires too?

 

Ouch....
Amazing....
Would have bet $$ on a worse outcome!! Guess the folks doing the designing of the car knew their stuff!!

 

Glad you are OK. You are one lucky guy. Go out & buys some lotto tickets while your good luck is still with you.

 

Yup, running Blizzaks if I remember correctly.

No sense in buying lottery tickets at this point. Just used up all of my luck, me thinks.

Looking at another Mini...05 R52 JCW or 12 R58?

 

yikes. gues even snows are susceptible to the black ice. and i love my R52. have an 08...last year of the supercharged engine

 

Wow, so good to hear you made it out of that! These are the photos and pics that sold me on my MINI!

 

Trillian 2.0: http://www.prestigemcars.com/2012_MI..._238712689.veh

 

Wow! that's a really nice coupé, love the Blue and Hot Chocolate combo, with the English Oak trim.

 

very nice. alls well thats ends well

 

Maybe all that snow on the inside of the car affected the dynamic stability control and didn't allow for.....

Kidding! So glad the car protected you! As tough as it is to see a MINI bite the dust, posts like these encourage me too, in a weird way.