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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dune on September 19, 2003, 12:04:41 AM
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A friend of my dad's sent this to him. Unfortunately I don't know the story behind it
(http://www.hunt101.com/img/059925-big.jpg)
(http://www.hunt101.com/img/059926-big.jpg)
(http://www.hunt101.com/img/059927-big.jpg)
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Ouch :eek:
Lesson: You can not turn off clutter or trees when driving outside AH
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That's really really strange..
Doesn't it seem odd that the tree withstood the impact without breaking?
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Wow.. what a tough little tree.
Looks more like something you'd expect against a solid steel pole.
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Where is the front end of the car?
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Originally posted by Gadfly
Where is the front end of the car?
see the crumpled part thats touching the tree and under bent down....thats the front.
If someone was driving it wheres the blood? there should be something?
wounder how fast he was going?
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:eek:
Driver has fly out from the car caused by huge impact.
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I was VERY lucky in 1984. I survived, almost without a scratch (concussion, minor lacerations) an almost identical accident. My 83 Dodge Charger 2.2 hit a 14 inch elm tree 37 inches off the ground at over 100mph. It cut the tree down and ejected me 60 feet from the impact. It just wasn't my day to die, but God DID get my attention.
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Chaos68, the front of the car isn't there, along with the engine, trans, front suspension, etc, and most of the floor. You can see both A-pillars still at the tree, from there forward tore loose it looks like, the occupants were prolly with the rest of the car, or spilled out. I'd guess the reason there aren't pics of the rest of the car is that it isn't the scene anymore. Prolly ended up wadded up a few hundred feet away. A rollback wrecker prolly already scooped it up. They' ll have to cut this part of the car loose from the tree or cut the tree down.
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Right, there are only 2 tires and no motor there, which is probably why the tree wasn't knocked down.
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the rest of the car may have been cut away to remove the bodies
how fast was the car going? too dam fast - just ask the siblings, friends and parents left behind...
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i've seen something similar, only the car was cut clean in half, almost as if with a saw....perfect front half and back half. it was a small 4 door.....very strange that it broke away as it did.....surprised it didn't look more like that image above.
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E36 BMW ?
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most modern cars are unibody with front subframes.... meaning.. the car is all one piece, body and frame, except the front clip (cowl forward) which is bolted on). Never liked that idea.
lazs
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I have a few pictures from when I was a police officer at various accident scenes. They're probably too graphic to post here, but I've got a few of cars wrapped around lightpoles, etc... Believe me, it's entirely possible fellas.
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looks like a Ford Escort RS
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the engine, tranny and front end is probably 1/4 mile down the road.
a few years ago I was headed down I-84 late at night, and I noticed there was no oncoming traffic. then I see an engine and transaxle in the middle of the freeway. a bit later I see a tire, then another, a couple hundred yards and I see the drivers seat complete with a piece of the floor still attached, from there the next hundred or so yards was just littered with debris. then I came upon the ambulance and the 6 or so cop cars, with a car wrapped around the top of a light pole (laying over at about a 30 deg angle) and about 4 light poles that where down (bolts are made to sheer at the bottom for safety) each folded at a gradually increasing hight, you could picture the car going airborn and catching each pole at a higher point.
anyway the point is there wasn't any more of that car left than the one in the pictures above. and actually they are fairly simular in what was left wrapped around the final stop.
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looks like someone is trying to make a statement/art.
if it was real the car would be roped off with police tape.
I SAY ITS FAKE/someones art.
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Originally posted by Chaos68
looks like someone is trying to make a statement/art.
if it was real the car would be roped off with police tape.
I SAY ITS FAKE/someones art.
look at the first pic.... thats some type of european license plate.
i dont know what the police in other countries do. maybe they dont rope off something like this.
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so how did they bend it around the tree? I see no smashed flat areas where it was pushed around the tree, or any spots that look like a line was attached to pull it around the tree.
looks real enough to me.
especially the way that if you look at it the heavier pieces (engine, tranny, wheels/hubs, axels) are all either stretched forward or missing, while the lighter pieces (holding less energy) are stopped by the tree and stretched out by the heavier pieces being torn off.