How fast do you have to be strollin' to shear a concrete pole with rebar off and completely rip a VW CTI in half. The rear and part of the driver side hit the second wooden pole so hard it broke the pole and compacted it into a small package. The passenger side and front of the car traveled quite a bit further before it came to a stop. You can see what I assume is a bloody smear where a body came to rest when the car hit a low wall, about halfway between the two halves of the car.
It's a tragic video clip of what can happen, and I don't know any of the circumstances, if you're drinking, if you're distracted, or anything that removes your attention from the road. From some of the comments, I'm assuming this is in Brazil.
(Not quite as disturbing as the accident, is the tendency of people who film this stuff and add stupid music or commentary and/or put irrelevant comments over the video that would be much better if they just left it alone.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/GolfGTI/comments/12xwclv/ive_always_been_aware_that_gti_can_certainly_be/
(I hunted some more and I was able to find this YouTube. This one is a little different but pretty close to the same. The body/bodies have already been removed but you can tell where at least one of them came to a rest.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpHtNbgvMjU
h/t Phil @ bustednuckles
Was a volunteer emt in our very rural community we had calls so devastating there was nothing to identify if the wreck was a car or truck or a plane a day later we go out with the fire department to search for remains. What hurt was we usually knew who we were searching for
ReplyDeleteThat would be so hard to hunt for one of your friends daughter/son ... crap.
DeleteWell, hey, at least the airbags deployed ! Safety First, y'know...
ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right ... although I'm thinking that the airbags could not have prevented a damn thing in this accident. But they worked perfectly.
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