Another car split into half... (horrific accident)

[Chrono]

GUYS GUYS... #YOLO ok?

 

[Anonemous]

I'm not sure belts would have helped the back seat passengers. I think they were probably fucked regardless.

That's why everyone died except the driver... even the passenger seat up front.

 

[z1ggy]

Man that sucks. This happened up here last year to four young kids. Hit a tree going about 90. Everybody died except one kid. I would hate to be the trooper or people responsible for finding the bodies, that's gotta be some sick shit, I can't imagine any of them were in one piece (except the kid who lived).

 

[ch33zw1z]

Shitty, from the pics looks like too much car for a newbie. :\

 

[Rifter]

Its a bad wreck but I see worse on a regular basis(im a tow truck dispatcher)

The bad ones are when a large vehicle like a semi or a 5 ton crush cars into pancakes, i saw a cavalier once that got hit by a semi and pushed into a retaining wall that was about 6 inches tall for 90% of it other than the passanger side, so car was pretty much L shaped, looked like a giant steped on it and flatened it while leaving one side standing upright. Dont even want to know how they identified the bodies on that one.

 

[olds]

Joseph Beer lost control of the 2012 Subaru Impreza that friends said his parents just bought for him after he “failed to negotiate a curve,” State Police officials said.
Is that even English?

 

[HydroSqueegee]

shit like this makes me never want my kids to drive. my plan is to give my 03 civic to my oldest when he turns 16 in 9 more years!
by that time, the car will go from 0-60 in 10 minutes flat!

 

[TangoJuliet]

I live pretty close to where this happened. The road he was driving on is one of the most dangerous in the country.

http://www.fios1news.com/longisland/node/13113

Saw a news report this morning that said all occupants were smoking marijuana prior to getting into the vehicle.

 

[olds]

no use in pushing blame anymore. people will continue to die in car accidents.

Then the only solution is to ban cars.

 

[TangoJuliet]

Then the only solution is to ban cars.

 

[Colt45]

It's always neat to see the trees. Couple years back there was a tree head-on near here.
The kid died. Driving drunk, derp. Tree lost <1 sqft of bark.

Trees don't give a fuck.

 

[rasczak]

You have no understanding of the forces involved in car crashes. My son went sideways into a turn and hit an incoming SUV. The car ended up in 2 pieces.

Simple physic.

Please tell me he made it.

 

[purbeast0]

sad story, and i bet the driver is going to have a tough time dealing with the fact that he killed 4 of his friends, and he has to live with that for the rest of his life.

am i the only one who thought the pictures of the 4 kids who died looked like 1 or 2 different people, just at different angles?

 

[SandEagle]

am i the only one who thought the pictures of the 4 kids who died looked like 1 or 2 different people, just at different angles?

why, do all brown people look the same to you? i bet you think 'damn, they all look like Tyson.'. :\

 

[Exterous]

Pains me to hell to read this, because OH YEAH he can.

I had use of a few cars during my teen years. One had a top speed of around 80 with a tail wind and I had that thing squeeling around corners so many times...A powerful car is going to amplify problems (and one of the ones I had access to was powerful, one night came very, very close to killing myself and my buddy), but even a slow car behind the wheels of a kid can bring out the worst in them.

But thats the point - its harder to push the car past the limits of safety and those points occur at a lower speed which would increase the survive-ability (but obviously not guarantee) of an accident

Anyone who gives a male teenager a car like that and doesn't think they will do something stupid in it probably shouldn't be allowed to procreate in the first place.

 

[rasczak]

sad story, and i bet the driver is going to have a tough time dealing with the fact that he killed 4 of his friends, and he has to live with that for the rest of his life.

am i the only one who thought the pictures of the 4 kids who died looked like 1 or 2 different people, just at different angles?

Isn't the driver one of the dead?

edit: just re-read the article. Yup, he;s gonna have survivor's guilt big time.

 

[Number1]

Please tell me he made it.

Yes, he did. He ended up with a concussion at the hospital. The incoming SUV hit the car inches behind the driver seat and ripped the car in two. It was a miracle he lived.

His seat belt saved him and he made the news.

Click for bigger picture

He is happily married now with 2 kids and studying a new trade in the air force. It's been almost 10 years already and I think about this event every time I go around that curve.

On the other hand, my brother hit a moose with his motorcycle and was not so lucky in the early 80s. it took me years to get over that.

 

[CraigRT]

Sad. Definitely a lot of car for someone that age.
Even at my age of 31, I could still easily get in deep shit with that car...

 

[clamum]

Jesus. Fucking idiot. I'm glad he made it but he's gonna have some guilt to deal with.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

:'(

I see the parents of those dead teens suing the stupid parents of this kid. ^_^

What's with the hobo looking guy in the firetruck in the second pic?

 

[spidey07]

What's with the hobo looking guy in the firetruck in the second pic?

Probably Volunteer fire fighter

 

[mmntech]

If your interested here's one of those hunks of steel vs a modern car. The results maybe surprising. Not that it would have helps in this case.

59 bel air vs 09 Malibu

Old cars were built with rigid chassis, so you get a Newton's Cradle effect during a collision. Instead of absorbing impact energy, the chassis transfers it to anything loose inside the vehicle: The steering wheel, dash, and the occupants. Compound that with the fact that seatbelts weren't mandatory back then.

Modern cars crumple and break apart in a collision. Watching Nascar or Formula 1 is a good example of this. The cars just disintegrate, the crash looks horrific, but the driver emerges unscathed. Fatalities are fairly rare these days.

That said about 1 person dies on Ontario roads per day on average. You don't see it often in the city because traffic moves slower. We had about four or five deaths over the long weekend though. One was a horrific head on involving a drunk driver who was driving the wrong way on the highway.

 

[destrekor]

That said about 1 person dies on Ontario roads per day on average. You don't see it often in the city because traffic moves slower. We had about four or five deaths over the long weekend though. One was a horrific head on involving a drunk driver who was driving the wrong way on the highway.

We had like three of those in the NW Ohio region in the span of a few weeks. So much so, that they starting talking about what they can do to prevent idiots from entering the highway from the wrong way. One proposal was even spike-strips that would only hit wrong-way traffic on the ramp (shot down due to emergency/work access) - but rumble strips and even crazier signage (WRONG WAY and DO NOT ENTER signage already exists) have been proposed too.

One head-on collision killed three or four college girls (they were the ones going the correct direction).

 

[rasczak]

Yes, he did. He ended up with a concussion at the hospital. The incoming SUV hit the car inches behind the driver seat and ripped the car in two. It was a miracle he lived.

His seat belt saved him and he made the news.

Click for bigger picture

He is happily married now with 2 kids and studying a new trade in the air force. It's been almost 10 years already and I think about this event every time I go around that curve.

On the other hand, my brother hit a moose with his motorcycle and was not so lucky in the early 80s. it took me years to get over that.

Glad to hear about your son. Phew!

Sorry to hear about your brother though.

 

[BD2003]

I know that curve well, a fairly benign stretch of highway goes way too sharp really quickly. Not a problem if you're doing 70 in broad daylight, but doing 100+ like some idiot kid in the middle of the night....not surprised at all.