5th Gen Down :(

[MP81]

Sad...so very sad...and another example of why uninsured drivers just need to go to jail...

Yes. They do.

Especially drunk, unlicensed, uninsuranced "drivers" on probation...

[JoeliusZ28]

but you still have a side impact besides the pole impact, my guess is he and the other person were at a decent speed when the explorer took out his quater sending him into a pole but thats my assumption, theres almost to much damage to just be a pole.

thats the only way i could see all that damage happening. there is almost no way you could spin the car around and hit a pole that hard by yourself.

[meissen]

Yeah, no disagreements there. What's funny is he says elsewhere on Camaro5 that he took the car up to 176mph the day before but "when this happened" he was only going 25mph.

[nascarnate326]

Yeah, no disagreements there. What's funny is he says elsewhere on Camaro5 that he took the car up to 176mph the day before but "when this happened" he was only going 25mph.

So is that the LS3 limiter, 176? I seen some people 'commenting' on his story.

[Formula Z]

damn

[GETGONE]

When my S10 got totaled, I was at a dead stop and a kid ran a red light going 55-60mph(or more)and nailed another guy in the passenger rear door who was doing about 40mph(the speed limit) and sent him spinning into me. There was a lot of damage to all the cars involved and enough to total out my truck when I was stopped. You'd be surprised at the amount of energy transfer that occurs and the damage it can do, especially with new cars and all the crumple zones. It doesn't take much to do major amounts of damage.

[DrtyBrd]

i think for how hard of a hit that must have been the crumple zone worked pretty well - also that is actually still fixable

the side panels are a single stamped piece that allows for a pretty clean repair

Oh yeah, its fixable. I wouldnt be able to look if it was my car.

[JoeliusZ28]

When my S10 got totaled, I was at a dead stop and a kid ran a red light going 55-60mph(or more)and nailed another guy in the passenger rear door who was doing about 40mph(the speed limit) and sent him spinning into me. There was a lot of damage to all the cars involved and enough to total out my truck when I was stopped. You'd be surprised at the amount of energy transfer that occurs and the damage it can do, especially with new cars and all the crumple zones. It doesn't take much to do major amounts of damage.

yep exactly. I know a girl that spun out on the ice maybe 15-20mph into a yard and back into a tree. that was enough force for the bed to nail the cab and completely shatter the rear window out.... and this is a solid frame truck vs a unibody.

the worst damage happens when the forces are directly opposing, vs ones that are on some degree of angle and one or more of the vehicles is deflected.

[JuggaloRC]

Oh my god... I was reading it all on Camaro 5, that's some BS, a Ford Escape nailed him, with a teenager driving, I Swear, if that was me I'd have to be put in handcuffs when the cops got there from killing the kid, I went after the dude that wrecked my Stepdads 85 Firebird a good 6 years ago, Dude was doing 45 and ran into a Grand Prix, which in turn Ran into my Mom and me in the car, bent the frame and everything, roof buckled, I jumped out of the car in the middle of telegraph and ran up to his truck and started punching his window, and I was young at the time!