And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Don't let Eric Peters of EP Motors see this, he will cry for months. He is in love with his Firebird. I never knew cars can wrap themselves so completely around a pole. I wonder how fast that car was going to do that much damage?
I saw a car like that that 3 drunk sailors had been in the night before when they hit a tree at over 100 mph outside Gulfport, MS back in 1987. There was almost nothing that resembled any part of a car.
My cousin's 16, YO, out with a newly minted drivers license, made this mess on a back road in Aroostook county in far North Maine. When he hit the tree,the engine came back by him, catching the seat and his right leg, spinning him around into the back seat,and pretty much severing his lower leg. The kid he was racing came back and tried to get him out as the car was starting to burn. The seatbelt, somehow, was still intact, and holding him in. The kid had no knife to cut it, and started screaming for help. Luckily, about 100 yards down the road, a guy was just coming out of his house and heard him, running down, cutting the belt, and dragging the boy to safety. After a miraculous save, followed by a miraculous recovery, the boy has been able to resume his life, driving (more slowly now), playing sports, and actually running one of his cousin's tree harvesters in the woods industry.
Check out the pics here: https://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/15/teenager-pulled-from-burning-car-after-crash/
Hey Handy, I read all 3 stories. The pictures are horrific. Apart from divine intervention, I don't know how anyone survives a crash like that. Your cousin's son's survival, thanks to a local resident saving his life, is a miracle.
years ago,was about to purchase a '69 Z28 when I got verbal orders to get on an airplane and head to Iceland for a day short of six months. I thought that was just a hateful thing to happen. turn out, the guy who bought the car, gave it to his oldest son who promptly wrapped it around a power pole of which a 13.8KV line dropped on the car and killed all three kids in the car. I recall feeling very cold about that when I heard the story on my return. years later, I bought a new '79 TA, epic ugly front end with the ridiculous "engine turned" plastic insert in the dash and oldsmobile engine and all. but very fast on the H.E. Bailey turnpike in OK. best entertainment was having my mother cut donuts in the parking lot down the street after a snow storm. she is 97 now and still comments on that escapade.
I think the jpeg is a test sample film of the infamous "corner hit" done by the insurance companies hit team. use a mirror to look like a pole. of course, in OK they use old oil well drill rod in the rural areas to hang street lights. one of my young airmen wrapped his car and himself around one of those and perished. did not even bend the pipe. many words were said to the city leaders about the wisdom of drill rod for light poles without breakaway mounts.
My guess, I think this is a pole crash test. There is only one air filter showing up on the driver's side during the crash, so I don't think this is a mirror image. The shiny metal band in the middle of the pole (with the bolts through it) is likely a solid steel webbing flange that we're seeing in its cross-sectional width - I think it steps back from the pole and provides rigid bracing to the ground plate, like 1" plate steel web..
prehistoric red monster begins to ingest tree
ReplyDeleteEngine is right in the chest of the backseat driver.
ReplyDeleteI'm having difficulty wrapping my head around this, CW.
ReplyDeleteSmokey and the Bend It.
ReplyDeleteAggie for the win.
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metal flows like water under the right circumstances
ReplyDeleteThey need to build cars out of whatever that pole is made out of.
ReplyDeleteDon't let Eric Peters of EP Motors see this, he will cry for months. He is in love with his Firebird. I never knew cars can wrap themselves so completely around a pole. I wonder how fast that car was going to do that much damage?
ReplyDeletePretty brave of the guy taking the video, just sayin...
ReplyDeleteI saw a car like that that 3 drunk sailors had been in the night before when they hit a tree at over 100 mph outside Gulfport, MS back in 1987. There was almost nothing that resembled any part of a car.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin's 16, YO, out with a newly minted drivers license, made this mess on a back road in Aroostook county in far North Maine.
ReplyDeleteWhen he hit the tree,the engine came back by him, catching the seat and his right leg, spinning him around into the back seat,and pretty much severing his lower leg.
The kid he was racing came back and tried to get him out as the car was starting to burn.
The seatbelt, somehow, was still intact, and holding him in.
The kid had no knife to cut it, and started screaming for help.
Luckily, about 100 yards down the road, a guy was just coming out of his house and heard him, running down, cutting the belt, and dragging the boy to safety.
After a miraculous save, followed by a miraculous recovery, the boy has been able to resume his life, driving (more slowly now), playing sports, and actually running one of his cousin's tree harvesters in the woods industry.
Check out the pics here:
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/15/teenager-pulled-from-burning-car-after-crash/
An update from a few months after the accident:
Deletehttps://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Teen-Doing-452850383.html
With a much better pic:
https://q961.com/washburn-teen-severely-injured-in-high-speed-crash/
Hey Handy, I read all 3 stories. The pictures are horrific. Apart from divine intervention, I don't know how anyone survives a crash like that. Your cousin's son's survival, thanks to a local resident saving his life, is a miracle.
ReplyDeleteyears ago,was about to purchase a '69 Z28 when I got verbal orders to get on an airplane and head to Iceland for a day short of six months. I thought that was just a hateful thing to happen. turn out, the guy who bought the car, gave it to his oldest son who promptly wrapped it around a power pole of which a 13.8KV line dropped on the car and killed all three kids in the car. I recall feeling very cold about that when I heard the story on my return.
ReplyDeleteyears later, I bought a new '79 TA, epic ugly front end with the ridiculous "engine turned" plastic insert in the dash and oldsmobile engine and all. but very fast on the H.E. Bailey turnpike in OK. best entertainment was having my mother cut donuts in the parking lot down the street after a snow storm. she is 97 now and still comments on that escapade.
I think the jpeg is a test sample film of the infamous "corner hit" done by the insurance companies hit team. use a mirror to look like a pole. of course, in OK they use old oil well drill rod in the rural areas to hang street lights. one of my young airmen wrapped his car and himself around one of those and perished. did not even bend the pipe. many words were said to the city leaders about the wisdom of drill rod for light poles without breakaway mounts.
DeleteMy guess, I think this is a pole crash test. There is only one air filter showing up on the driver's side during the crash, so I don't think this is a mirror image. The shiny metal band in the middle of the pole (with the bolts through it) is likely a solid steel webbing flange that we're seeing in its cross-sectional width - I think it steps back from the pole and provides rigid bracing to the ground plate, like 1" plate steel web..
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