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Little video from back in October when my work car, a 1.6 Diesel Ford Fiesta Zetec S got wrote off. I was flat out t-boned by a Ray Charles impersonator in a nissan leaf at about 40mph who allegedly "didn't even see me", in a white car, at night with headlights on, traveling on a main road as he flew straight through a give way.


(apologies for the portrait video, was from my snapchat story)

I was lucky to only have a few cuts on my face from the glass, one bruise on my right thigh due to the driver door being smashed into me, and a burn on the back of my arm from the seat bolster airbag deploying. My younger brother and his friend were also in the car, however amazingly they were completely unscatheed too. My younger brother being in the passenger seat and his friend sitting in the back, luckily also on the passenger side. We were on our way to TGI Fridays, following my parents in the car ahead as it was my younger brothers' 16th birthday (amazing timing lmao). My car almost did a complete clockwise rotation after I was hit, I ended up facing the hedge-bottom that was on originally on my left. I was completely blindsided, which in hindsight is a good thing due to me not having the time to tense any of my body up, otherwise I could have broken something. Even if I had tried to react at the last second, I had absolutely no chance of avoiding the car that hit me. All I remember is attempting to stop the car rolling back after we span around, I felt the car rolling back and didn't want to roll into another car but the brake pedal went straight to the floor, turns out I'd been thrown across the car so much, my right foot was pumping the clutch haha.

The car really impressed me, it did a way better job of saving us from injury than I would have anticipated it to do for a little fiesta, 10/10 would recommend (probably one with a bigger engine than the 1.6 diesel though ahah). Amazingly the car drove almost perfectly afterwards, I had to jump back in it and move it out of the road once the police arrived as I ended up sideways blocking almost both lanes. I'd have driven it home if it were up to me, my house was only half a mile away lmao.

Few more pics (Click to View)

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After the insurance paid out, ended up adding a little money and got a replacement, a 2017 Ford Fiesta ST-3. So far so good, been dailying it since December and it's bullet proof, it's quite nippy but it handles like a absolute dream and even turns into a tripod in some bends. It has one of the best chassis for a hatchback I've driven and the fuel economy isn't bad either (averaged 48mpg on a 300 mile trip up to Scotland last week).