Originally posted by: kevman
man it seems obvious that the kid must have a very thick accent. Cops never side with people that have accents. Looks like the kid is screwed.
Accent? He can't even write proper English...of course they are going to go with the lady's story. She probably had a coherent argument while he spouted stuff like:
the other car was going fast and crash my left front head light and bumper, so let my car head right and run into an 20 feet ditch.
which makes it sound like he had no control of his car at all.
I'm betting that this wasn't racism as much as it was a language barrier issue. Evidence of this can be found in the newspaper report which states that the kid was making a left. Even if the lady claimed that was true, if this guy had a proper command of the English language, he would have been able to explain that he was going straight, etc.
There are too many people in here that seem to have no understanding of the concepts at work.
Naw, the undercarriage of that BMW is likely totalled. The car was probably going fast enough (even though the driver will say otherwise) to land relatively horizontal to the canal which is evident in the lack of front-end damage. I would also like to point out that the way his car landed is a testament to BMW's adherence to 50/50 weight distribution If it was heavier in the front it would have landed nose-first, and then you would have seen some significant damage. There's no reason for the airbag to go off if it's not getting impacted on the nose of the car.