Leo's Car Crashes

Leo's Car Crashes - of course -
is a crazy name for an internet page.
But - thanx to the search engines -
it is my best visited page
with almost 17,000 visitors
from over 100 countries all over the world
since May 2001.

I got the idea from some colleagues
of the (former) daily newspaper De Dordtenaar...

In May 2000 I bought a 1993 Suzuki Swift
because my 1988 Hyundai Pony
was already old and had something damaged
that costed over 500 Euro to repair.

It was the engine that was badly damaged.
So I told a colleague-journalist
of the daily regional newspaper De Dordtenaar
that I crashed the engine of my car.

Some weeks later another journalist of De Dordtenaar
asked me when Leo's Car Crashes were on Internet.

He heard I crashed my car.

...And so you see how a rumour goes among journalists...

Of course I have some nice pictures
of my car crashes, so here they come...

Specially for my colleagues of De Dordtenaar:
The -filed pictures of Leo's Car Crashes!

Leo's car crash 28 September 1989

It was a very rainy day.
I had my red 1984 Renault 5 TL 5th Avenue only for 1 year
when I worked in Utrecht for Business Magazine that time.
I took 2 English hippy hitch-hikers before I drove out of Utrecht.
A few minutes later I was caught in a traffic congestion on the A2.

Another car wanted to change lane to the left
and the driver looked left, but did not see me break in front of him.
The hippies got out of my car quickly...

We only drove 15 km/h when this happend,
but still it was a damage of 1,700 Euro
payed by the insurance company of the other party.
Everything you see damaged had to be replaced.

This car does not exist anymore.

© Made by Leo Roubos himself in his parents' street - Papendrecht - Holland

My second car was a black 1988 Hyundai Pony GL 1.5.
I did not have serious car crashes with this one.

Once I hit a truck. It made a big hole in my car.
But my garage was in the same street
and so quick changing parts
that I could not make a photo of it.

The bill was 550 Euro.

This car also does not exist anymore...

Leo's car crash 28 September 2000

This time on the bridge
from Papendrecht to Dordrecht on the N3
an old man forgot to look to the left
before changing lanes.

He hit my car - a red 1993 Suzuki Swift GLX 1.3 -
I bought 4 months before
on the right side with 80-90 km/h.

I saw parts of his car and mine
flying through the air.

This time the damage costed
the man's insurance company 1,900 Euro.

© Made by Etienne Busink at Autobedrijf 105 - Dordrecht - Holland

Some attentive readers must have noticed.

Both accidents happend on the same date:

28 September

with an 11 years interval...

...and both accidents were not my fault and happend with red cars!

So I am sure I do not drive my car on 28 September 2011...

May be I better not drive red cars on 28 Septembers at all...

...BUT IT DID NOT STOP...

Leo's car crash 27 February 2002

© Made by Leo Roubos himself at Autobedrijf 105 - Dordrecht - Holland

On 27 February 2002 I had another accident...

When I came from a hostage situation in Dordrecht
I hit another car at the back in front of a traffic light.

The other car hesitated (and braked) 2 times
before stopping for the red light.
I braked 3 times... but...
it had rained so I slipped a few meters forward.

The bumper and the hood of my car
hit the towing-hook of a VW Golf.

The other car only had some scratches.
On my car the bumper was teared half off.
Nobody was hurt.

This time the insurance companies said
it was my fault.

The damage this time was 1,100 Euro on my car
and 300 Euro on the other car...

The picture was made after the garage
stripped the car for repair.

Leo's car crash 1 October 2003

© Made by Leo Roubos himself at home - Papendrecht - Holland

Eeeuuuhhh...

This time is was not the famous 28 September but only 3 days later
and again not my fault...

When I went to my work at Radio Rijnmond in Rotterdam
I was only a few hundred meters from the office.

When I turned right from the 's-Gravendijkwal to the Mathenesserlaan
a car in front of me stopped because someone crossed the street.

I also stopped and 1 second later a car hit mine on the back.

When the man that hit me got out of his car
he started to shout at me. It even wasn't his own car.

He said I was crazy
because I breaked for nothing and he was in a hurry.
He even had not seen the car in front of me.

...and forgot that he was wrong anyhow...

He said he had no time to fill in the insurance paper.
Lucky for me a police car was just there when I needed it.

Thanx to the police the man filled in the the paper.

The damage was 1.100 Euro
and was payed by the other side's insurance company.

Leo's car crash 23 December 2003

My car was not looking happy
after we visited Christmas Circus Royal in Dordrecht.

...so again the bridge from Dordrecht to Papendrecht ...

When I wanted to drive onto the bridge
the car in front of me braked hard suddenly without a reason...

Later the driver (he was not drunk) told me he braked
because he saw a stop sign and the text Go Back!...

...meant for the lane of the opposite direction
to prevent cars driving into oncoming traffic...

I was just accelerating when he braked
and the road was wet...

...happily I still could drive my car...

The damage was 1,400 Euro
and the insurance companies
decided both parties were wrong.

So we both had to pay half of the damage...

On the last picture you can see
I used duck tape (or duct tape)
and a white H&M shopping bag
to repair the front light of my car.

Well, there is a site all about
the use of the very handy duck tape.

That is why you also can see this picture
on the special duct tape site
on this page.

Leo's car change - 19 March 2007

Till 19 March 2007 Leo drove around with his Suzuki Swift.
But the car was getting older with almost 200,000 km on the counter
and it was very expensive to keep the car on the road.

Leo did not get anything for the old car.

Only 2 days later it was sold for only 75 Euro.
The new owner worked on it for 5 months
and since 21 August 2007 it is on the road again.

On Monday 19 March 2007
Leo bought another car - a 1995 Ford Escort CLX 1.6i

...it did not have any car crashes
but Leo did not keep it for a long time...

Leo's other car change - 30 July 2008

Till 27 July 2008 Leo drove around with his Ford Escort.
But the car had some serious problems with the cooling system
and it was very expensive to keep the car on the road.

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 Leo bought another car -
a black 2002 Volkswagen Polo 1.4 Highline.

All cars were bought,
maintained and repaired
by Autobedrijf 105 in Dordrecht.

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