10-15-2020, 06:20 AM | #1 |
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Car destroyed, driver heavily injured
Hi guys. Not an owner of F87, rather G01. I just came across an article and thought I share the photos, since not much is known. Driver is alive, cause is unknown yet. No one else was injured. This happened in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Stay safe! https://bratislava.dnes24.sk/galeria...ticleId=373158 |
10-15-2020, 09:42 AM | #2 |
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Wow.... honestly I’m surprised he made it.
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10-15-2020, 03:40 PM | #4 |
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Lucky it's RHD or that dude would have been found in several pieces.
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10-15-2020, 05:19 PM | #5 |
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What does it take to knock over a lamp post these days? That thing didn't move an inch.
It's actually a serious safety concern for motorists; placing almost immovable objects in the median strip or beside the road. One state here in Australia prides itself as the inventor of the "Stobie Pole". They are renowned for their ability to cut cars in half. From Wikipedia: "an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires... [it] consists of two flanged beams of iron or steel, preferably rolled steel joist of 'H' or of channel sections, placed one beside the other with their flanges inward and preferably at a very slight angle one with the other and held together by means of tie bolts, the space between them being filled with cement concrete." Google "Stobie Pole Crash" for some interesting photos. |
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10-15-2020, 07:41 PM | #7 |
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Looks LHD to me...
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10-16-2020, 03:10 AM | #8 |
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10-16-2020, 09:59 AM | #9 |
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Good lord, how fast do you have to be going on a public street to do that kind of damage?
Hope driver is ok, miracle if so.
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10-16-2020, 12:04 PM | #10 |
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Wow, I'm surprised the driver made it. The pole is basically in the place where driver seat was (the car is LHD).
I'm trying to find out where exactly it happened, the speed limit was either 50 or 70kph. The car looks like it went a bit faster. |
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10-16-2020, 12:15 PM | #11 |
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Speed limit is 50km/h there.
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10-16-2020, 02:59 PM | #13 |
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I don't know man, when you get an object that doesn't move at all, severe damage can be done quite easily. I'd bet that 50kph-to-0 at the right angle could cause that.
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10-16-2020, 04:34 PM | #14 |
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Regarding the posts, I had this thought walking through downtown in a large city last week... there was a hole they’d dug next to one to work on the base underground or electrical and that sucker went 6-8ft deep into solid concrete.
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Either way, I'm glad the driver lived. Dark humour but maybe he survived because of the infamous misaligned driver seat in the M2 |
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10-20-2020, 03:15 PM | #16 |
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One of those guys on YouTube will buy it from an auction, fix it up and say, "Oh man, it looks so OEM - just siiick!"
All kidding aside, I hope the driver returns to a fully functional life. Looks nasty. |
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Absolutely unnecessary accident
Probably had stability turned completely off Classic reason the untrained driver wrecks their BMW
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11-02-2020, 05:10 PM | #21 |
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Wow. Glad they lived, and hope they continue to.
When you see post crash pics like this, remember that the tearing up of the car may not be all from the accident, but from the extraction....jaws of life and whatnot. This looks like an awful wreck, but those shears can plain old eat a car.
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