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Just figured i'd share a story that happened to me the other day.

Some of you in Australia may have heard about a red P Plater who rolled a Ford Festiva with 4 friends in the car near Orange the other week. That was my friend Matty, and i was in the back of the car when it happened. He came out of a corner too fast, got sideways, overcorrected and hit the gutter at 90km/h. We rolled 1 1/2 times and did a 180 in midair to land on the roof of the car. And to be brutally honest, i am praising God that we are all alive, and that in such a horrific accident, all 5 of the occupants walked away without so much as a bruise or a scratch, and if thats not enough of a miracle, Matty wasn't insured to be driving his mums car, and it was an at fault accident... the insurance company has decided to pay for the price of a brand new car, all Mat has to pay is an $800 excess for driving a car uninsured and they will cover the $5'000 the car was insured for.

Also, for anyone wanting to buy a safe small car, i would highly recommend a 2 door Ford Festiva...

Glad no one got hurt.

Extremely glad to hear that you are all safe, mobil1_oils! As a Paramedic here in the US, I've seen, first-hand, [b]far[/b] too many incidents such as the one you describe with catastrophic results; you and your friends are surely destined for great things.

Insurance companies down there sure sound different than those here - glad Matty didn't have to pay all that; $800 is nothing to scoff at, but at least it wasn't $5800! /victory.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':victory:\' />