Truly incredible that anybody could survive this..! http://jalopnik.com/5906364/holy-crap-how-did-anyone-survive-this-explosive-audi-crash
Reminds me of that equally horrific crash with a RS6 Avant that crashed against a tree and the driver walked away unscathed.
ll CAR CRASHES BY MATT HARDIGREE APR 30, 2012 3:00 PM83,053 181Share GET OUR TOP STORIES FOLLOW JALOPNIK Holy Crap! How Did Anyone Survive This Explosive Audi Crash? At first, when Douglas's dad woke him up around 3:00 am to say there was a crash outside their house in suburban Vancouver, it wasn't a shock. More than a dozen cars have ended up in their lawn over the last twenty years. The shock didn't come until Douglas saw the flaming Audi A7 split in half and roasting in a massive fire, then saw the driver sitting on the ground next to it. How could anyone survive this wreck? The street outside Douglas's home became an Audi bonfire in the early hours of Saturday morning when a driver went speeding out of control entering the curve on Cambie Street, sending the luxury sedan into a pole, splitting the car in half. "The vehicle he [the driver] was travelling in went diagonally through a pole from the front passenger side to the rear driver side," Vancouver Police Cst. Jeff Shell told local news radio. "Within about an inch or two inches, he would have been hit by the pole and probably would have killed himself. If anybody else had been in the vehicle, they would have been dead." Not surprisingly, alcohol and speeding are assumed to be involved. Judging pictures of gnarly car crashes is sort of an occupational hazard around here, so it's with some authority that we say this is the worst car crash we've seen someone survive in five years (probably since this). Drinking and speeding is bad enough, but the unnamed driver made the extra mistake of picking one of the worst places in Vancouver to do so. Our reader's house happens to be on the right side of a sweeping corner that's slightly off-camber. In the last 20 years they've lost three fire hydrants, had a '90s Civic hatchback nearly run into the house upside down, witnessed a BMW 3-Series leave a differential in their rock garden, and experienced a Ford van drop its contents onto the street. It's kind of a great/terrible place to live if you love cars.
Hitting a pole is probably one of the most dangerous object a car can hit. All that moving force concentrated to one small surface of the car.
Nuts! Car safety has come a long way with all the developments in passive safety. 10 years ago, that chap would have been dead.
God wasn't available for comment, but Audi's engineers were, and they pat themselves on the back for it.
Ahh, the good ol' laws of luck and science, and chance. We all hope to be on the good end of it at all times.
The police said it all, the path the pole chose to take through the car shows that engineering had little to do with his survival it was all luck. Though his luck did run out when the police arrived to breathalyzed him and calculate the speeds involved.
The religious aspect and views aside (I am religious and do believe many of our members are e.g. Sayyaaf will be Muslim, others will be Christian etc. and in all major religions and groups of the same religion views differ on the same subject.) So from a Tom Cruise, scientific point of view There are kinetic forces at work in car crashes and also a sh!t load amount of maths. This can only be done by forensic analyses by engineers. Hitting a tree or pole that is anchored at the base of solid earth is simply: Be it The helping Hand and/or pure luck, surviving a crash involving a tree, pole, Semi or Truck you'l need whatever luck you believe in
I watch this and realise that the 5 star NCAP cars are build for such people too...Of course that's good that he didn't die but on the other hand it would be a lesson for all of those people who have great fast and safe cars and believe can do anything...hate people like this....There should be a "brain technology" always at first place... PS. send it to Poland our mechanics will do even better A7 from it ;D
