Pretty amazing photos, linked from another forum as a public safety announcement for AW citizens :)

One response has a link to another smashed A3...

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As others said, sounded like a blind corner that shouldn't be taken at the limit of the car's ability :-( Glad the kid is OK.

hit a lip in the road while sliding, and it tumbled down an embankment. You're right though, very odd.

My cousins who live in the flatlands of Canada often tell of people who fall off the road by themselves when they forget there is a 90 degree corner at some point. It's easy to do when the road is straight for miles and there are no landmarks. A lot of those roads are slightly raised above the landscape, so when you fall off, rolling is a distinct possibility. At 65kph it is a stretch though.

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I smell fish.

Anybody wanna buy the Brooklyn bridge? I'll throw in some free swampland with it.

By the time we reached the fifteen-foot drop, we'd scrubbed off enough speed that we were well below the 65kph of our young A3 driver. It didn't matter; at that point the Triumph was doomed to invert. Gravity 1, young drivers 0.

on it's side and slid for a ways. No rolling. Might have been doing around 40. Utterly terrified to notify the parents as I was a teen at the time ;-)