Man, 29, killed in bizzare M3 crash.

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Yup, saw this. Immaturity, alcohol, and money is rarely a productive combination.
 
Wow, they weren't joking about the carbon fiber roof. It really is just a sheet of CF on there.
 
Well, performance oriented cars aren't mean to be driven fast outside of racing tracks.

Sincere condolences to the family.
 
Hey that back wheel is still good! I wonder if they'll sell it cheap so I can turn it into an end table?!
 
Douchebag drunk driver from New York. Poor BMW.
 
Shame for the BMW. By looking at the damage, he was probably doing around 120kmh+ through the curve. Condolences to his family and friends...
 
Damn...I guess he couldn't find the "rewind" button. Condolences to his family, and I hope that the engine can be reused.
 
He was thrown from the car but that article claims he was wearing his seatbelt.
 
Eric.
He was thrown from the car but that article claims he was wearing his seatbelt.
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He was probably still wearing it. It just wouldn't be attached to anything...

I'm not sure what's bizarre about the accident. High speed and a tree will do that to a car. If you ever get to pick what you hit during a car crash, don't pick the tree. You'll lose. Badly.
 
Wow that was... violent. My condolences to the family and the M3. As for reusing as parts, forget it: It got cooked as it caught fire. --- Randy
 
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Yes they are.
The driver failed, nothing to do with the car.
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While you are correct it was driver error, there's no excuse to be driving a car quickly enough to do that sort of damage on a public thoroughfare.
 
Duke
While you are correct it was driver error, there's no excuse to be driving a car quickly enough to do that sort of damage on a public thoroughfare.
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Having driven in that same road I have to say this guy must have been going over 120 to make this happen. Turns there are very slight.
 
Holy cow that must have been doing some speed. I've seen cars wrapped sideways around metal posts on UK motorways that didn't get cut in half at ~70mph so for a tree to cut it like that it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the 155mph limit.
 
BigYoSpeck
Holy cow that must have been doing some speed. I've seen cars wrapped sideways around metal posts on UK motorways that didn't get cut in half at ~70mph so for a tree to cut it like that it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the 155mph limit.
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Metal posts give. Trees do not. Look at the tree in the picture. It's only lightly scratched.
 
Yeah, if you're going to take a shunt and you have a choice between a tree (just about any tree) and almost anything else, aim for the something else. A live tree less than half the diameter of a telephone pole is much stronger than the pole.
 
Does kind of throw the mockers on Clarkson's bold statement that no one has ever died from speed and that it's the suddenly becoming stationary that does it, because I doubt very much this guy was still breathing until he finally came to a stop.
 
How on earth do people do these kinds of things??

I think they should start putting "black boxes" in cars for this sort of thing.
 
BigYoSpeck
Does kind of throw the mockers on Clarkson's bold statement that no one has ever died from speed and that it's the suddenly becoming stationary that does it, because I doubt very much this guy was still breathing until he finally came to a stop.
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Acording to the article the car split in half on one tree and then hit another, which is the one that killed likely killed him. So clarkson is still right.
 
Duke
Yeah, if you're going to take a shunt and you have a choice between a tree (just about any tree) and almost anything else, aim for the something else. A live tree less than half the diameter of a telephone pole is much stronger than the pole.
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Our telephone poles in South Australia (called "Stobie" poles) are steel and concrete, when hit face on they do fold and absorb but when hit side on (sometimes they even face traffic this way) and you hit them in the door at speed they slice through the car like a warm knife through butter.

Here is the pole in question:

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Here is a result, this was only fairly low speed in a back street:

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Higher speed:
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I'm not saying trees are any better but I do wish they would rethink our telephone/power poles. Our light poles are collapsible metal poles though.
 
South Shore Boulevard is a road with a 35-45 mph speed limit. He had to be doing at least double that to cleave a BMW in half.

Thankfully, this idiot only hurt another tree in the process.
 

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