Drive Safe

Well ive just had an interesting end to the night looking for a guy who rolled his 90 through a hedge and then disappeared. we found out he had been picked up but his 90 is in a sorry state. All I can say is you don't want to roll one. Theres nothing left of the passenger space and the windscreen is 50 metres down the road. Roof caved in onto the headrest and windscreen on the steering wheel

Drive safe guys

This is why the 130 will be getting a full external cage before going anywhere!
Was the bloke alright?

200tdi ayre said:

Well ive just had an interesting end to the night looking for a guy who rolled his 90 through a hedge and then disappeared. we found out he had been picked up but his 90 is in a sorry state. All I can say is you don't want to roll one. Theres nothing left of the passenger space and the windscreen is 50 metres down the road. Roof caved in onto the headrest and windscreen on the steering wheel

Drive safe guys

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Yep.. people don't realise because of the tough image.. always makes me shudder when I see baby seats or young kids in Defenders..

I wouldn't quite go along with a 'tough image'. The average Defender/Tonka-Toy Landrover 4x4 has a somewhat fragile look and one that is not dispelled by their frequently rippled bodywork that as a result looks more like crumpled tin foil than off-road muscle, quite frankly. Therefore upon reading your post, I'm not entirely surprised that one of these 'legendary' off-road icons crumpled like a pack of cards when put to a severe test.
Like many other facets of life, we are all suckers for buying into illusions.

On the other hand, my wife rolled our old 90 onto its roof and back upright again, finally landing on it's side against the armco on a motorway slip road. She left by the hole where the windscreen used to be, with no more than a bit of a sore shoulder.

wattfield said:

On the other hand, my wife rolled our old 90 onto its roof and back upright again, finally landing on it's side against the armco on a motorway slip road. She left by the hole where the windscreen used to be, with no more than a bit of a sore shoulder.

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Sounds nasty.. perhaps the weight of the chassis didn't spend long enough over the roof if it was a roll situation..? In any case she was mighty lucky as they usually fold.. I worked at Manchett's recovery for a while and upside down'd Defenders always came back with the roof & screen squashed..

In fairness though wasn't there a case where a couple of coastguards tipped a defender over a cliff but the guys survived - or could it be that the vehicle didn't roll on the way down? It could be that the moral of the story is that Defenders/Series are solid in a frontal impact, but try to keep them upright!

Friend of mine rolled his double cab a short while ago and the roof was well squashed in. He told me that the headlining was touching the steering wheel. Or rather, his hand was jammed between the steering wheel and the roof so he couldn't get it out.