bcdavis

Here you can see the roof...

http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/54093/acc6.jpg

SharkSkin

bc, I think you meant this: http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/54093/acc2.jpg

karl ruiter

This happened to a ricer when I was in Honolulu last year, except that he hit a light pole(not a street light pole, which is designed to shear, but a service station light pole). I think I remember they calculated his speed at something like 100.

John Welch.

DOH!

JohanvdWalt

I recently read this:
I'd prefer to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grand father and not screaming and tense like the workers on the back of his truck.

Johan

SteveM928

From an old clipping I saved:

A fifteen-year-old California boy who stole and crashed a 1987 Porsche 928S, later told an officer, "I had it as fast as it would go, and I wasn't letting off." The officer estimated the car was traveling "about 200 mph" at the time of the accident. When the Porsche left the road, it flew 65 to 75 yards, knocked down a pine tree, sliced neatly through two mature cedar trees -ten feet above the ground- and concluded its flight by leveling a maple tree with an eighteen-inch trunk.

Mark

Where's the airbag deployment????

heinrich

The impact was likely from the top or bottom of the car, not something that should set an airbag off. Anyway an airbag would have been as useful as cellophane :-) I've seen a 996 in the same shape.

Lagavulin

It's a fake!

Read the comments on the Audi board.

hacker-pschorr

Lag, your no fun!
I'm not sure I agree, there are more and more pictures popping up. A photoshop job from that many angles is very hard to belive. Possible, but hard to belive.

Post from the Audi board:

It's a fake, reasons:

There is no blood.

There is no fuel/oil/water or anything. You will note the engine is clean of fluids as is the rear of the car (fuel tank) which has crashed backwards into a tree.

There is no glass. If you pay any attention to the scene you will notice there is no glass anywhere not in the car, on the ground or left in any of the frames.

The ground is unbroken. Given that most of the crashed components are sharp and quite heavy the ground is not broken, look again at the engine if that had flown out of the car and crashed into the gound...

SharkSkin

I don't buy it... that it's faked, I mean. That's some very hard ground, and it's possible that the car came to rest without chewing up the ground. Also, there is glass on the ground. It's just thinly scattered, as you'd expect. As for blood, in the amount of time it takes for something like this to happen, people don't really bleed much. Trust me, I've picked up plenty of wrecks. I once found half a finger in a car I was hauling, and only minimal traces of blood were evident anywhere in the car.

bcdavis

That is *not* a fake series of photographs.

Too many details. Too many random pieces of the car everywhere.

As far as there being no fluids, engine fluids or blood, that would be because
they are on dirt and leaves. It is not like a white carpet or something.
And also, the only blood would probably come from the bodies themselves,
which happen to be covered in sheets... And the ground is not too disturbed,
because the car was probably airborne when it left the road, and hit the tree.

I am pretty good at spotting fakes, and this is not one of them.
(In my professional opinion...)

hacker-pschorr

bcdavis,
The term "fake" for these photographs does not mean photoshopped. There is talk on some other boards that this was staged and not a real accident. This accounts for the glass, since they would remove this before the "accident" and they would probably remove all of the fluids.

I guess there were similar pictures a few years ago that were proven to be staged by authorities trying to show the "youth" the dangers of high speed.

As for blood, it's possible they died of internal wounds only, but very unlikely. Remember that picture of the guard rail going through a honda? There was blood everywhere and that guy lived.

I'm not saying it's real or fake, I'm not in any position to make that decision.

Beth

why can't I see the pictures?

Drewster67

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