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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:18:09 PM EDT
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Probably screwing with their phone.
Hope no passengers. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:18:13 PM EDT
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the car crashed into the pole |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:18:15 PM EDT
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pole was not inbound but the driver made it that way
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:19:25 PM EDT
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GO! Capt. Pierce is a strong man, strong as any man alive. It stuck in his craw that they made him retire at the age of 65. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:21:49 PM EDT
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I had a neighbor that lent his new 1969 GTO to friend. Said friend horseshoed that Goat less than a mile from the house. Broke the engine out of the car. DOA...
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:22:28 PM EDT
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lol. I'd need to find a piece of paper.
I nominate the prof just above. I'd just do an example anyway. Starting with 87 feet/second, which is close enough to 60 mph. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:24:44 PM EDT
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It must have been Jerry, It takes real talent and skill to get a car moving sideways that fast. I give it a 9 only because the dismount wasn't that graceful
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:26:45 PM EDT
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lol. I'd need to find a piece of paper. I nominate the prof just above. I'd just do an example anyway. Starting with 87 feet/second, which is close enough to 60 mph. I'm bettin 87f/s stopped in 87 inches equals 87 G's. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:29:53 PM EDT
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Who's the brainiac here that can calculate the G-load of decelerating from 100 mph to 0 mph in 6 inches? I'm bettin it's somewhere around 87. 100 MPH is 146.7 ft/s deceleration= 146.7 ft/s divided by 0.003408 seconds = 43,046 ft/s per second 1 G = 32.2 ft/s^2 so that would be 1337 G forces |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:33:20 PM EDT
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The electrical sparks falling after the impact reminded me of a stunt show act.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:34:59 PM EDT
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35 years as a lineman I've always seen the aftermath. Never actually seen the initial impact. . I've probably been on a hundred or more broke poles by cars. Some live some dont You'd think that the most brutal of crashes they all died. Not true. One I remember was a little Toyota or Honda hit a pole head on. Front was pushed in maybe 2ft, pole wasn't broken but just moved a little in the ground. As I walked up I could see the woman inside sitting in the driver's seat, had a little trickle of blood on her thigh. I looked at the fire chief, he looked back and just shook his head , no. I wish over the years I'd had kept a compilation of all those pics I had. Another I remember was a Mexican guy. Sweetwater in houston. Pickup truck full of drunk Mexicans, evidently did a 180 and hit the pole going backwards. Front passengers were ok but their buddy in the back seat was DRT. Still had his cowboy hat on. I’ve seen cars absolutely obliterated, with the driver standing next to them in a dazed state. I’ve seen cars that need a new grill and some head.ights, and the driver is lights out. You never know. Fun fact: the number one reason that people used to hit poles was drunk driving, and usually at night. Now, most of our pole hits are in broad daylight with stone sober drivers.......because texting. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:41:45 PM EDT
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This. I've seen cars absolutely obliterated, with the driver standing next to them in a dazed state. I've seen cars that need a new grill and some head.ights, and the driver is lights out. You never know. Fun fact: the number one reason that people used to hit poles was drunk driving, and usually at night. Now, most of our pole hits are in broad daylight with stone sober drivers.......because texting. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:42:14 PM EDT
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Good thing they was wearing their seatbelts or they may have been injured.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:45:48 PM EDT
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Yeah, that'll do it.
Older kid I knew in high school wrapped his '70 Nova around an 18" pole. Left an elevated road and hung there about 10' above ground. Top first like you lined up the driver's door and passenger door with the pole. His buddy was with him. He was racing a guy in a 'Vette. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:48:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:55:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'm not sure what's better, the light show after the crash, or the advertisement for Back to the Future as the video ends
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Posted: 2/8/2020 12:58:27 PM EDT
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Was tossed out the car. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 1:00:35 PM EDT
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That's a tough hit
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Posted: 2/8/2020 1:06:10 PM EDT
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https://i.imgur.com/JaIb9YZ.gif And, is that the body being throw to the 1:00 position???? 
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Posted: 2/8/2020 1:07:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm not sure what's better, the light show after the crash, or the advertisement for Back to the Future as the video ends 
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Posted: 2/8/2020 1:10:13 PM EDT
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GO! Capt. Pierce is a strong man, strong as any man alive. It stuck in his craw that they made him retire at the age of 65.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 3:52:54 PM EDT
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100 MPH over 6 inches should take 0.003408 seconds. 100 MPH is 146.7 ft/s deceleration= 146.7 ft/s divided by 0.003408 seconds = 43,046 ft/s per second 1 G = 32.2 ft/s^2 so that would be 1337 G forces Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Who's the brainiac here that can calculate the G-load of decelerating from 100 mph to 0 mph in 6 inches? I'm bettin it's somewhere around 87. 100 MPH is 146.7 ft/s deceleration= 146.7 ft/s divided by 0.003408 seconds = 43,046 ft/s per second 1 G = 32.2 ft/s^2 so that would be 1337 G forces Surprised he didn't walk that off. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 3:54:36 PM EDT
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I bet the driver didn't feel a thing |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 3:56:03 PM EDT
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Came across a wreck like that early one morning - chicks remains were in the backseat
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Posted: 2/8/2020 3:57:23 PM EDT
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GO! Capt. Pierce is a strong man, strong as any man alive. It stuck in his craw that they made him retire at the age of 65. RIP Jerry. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 3:57:57 PM EDT
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I saw the first pic and thought.... Where is the rest of the car?..... Then I saw the second pic and realized the car was hiding behind itself.......good god.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:00:17 PM EDT
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Seriously. How does a car even go that fast sliding sideways? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Is there a story somewhere? Where it happened, and victims? |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:01:04 PM EDT
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I've seen a lot of death videos and the shoes always fly off. I don't see any shoes here. Guessing driver lived?
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:07:45 PM EDT
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Did he get electrocuted? |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:14:43 PM EDT
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listen to it with the sound on Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not sure what's better, the light show after the crash, or the advertisement for Back to the Future as the video ends 
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:17:00 PM EDT
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The insurance company may total it.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:19:59 PM EDT
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I know a guy who had made E4 the day prior, he went out and bought a new 1985 5.0 bright yellow Mustang.
He went to the club on another base and got shitfaced. On the way home he was driving on an isolated county road (nothing but fields), was doing an estimated (CHP) 140+ when he departed the road and hit one of the large wooden SoCal Edison transmission poles (there's a nearby power plant). He wrapped that car around the pole, he wasn't wearing a seatbelt so he was flung from the front seat to the back seat and then up front again. He ended up under the dash on the passenger side. It snapped the pole where he hit it. When the pole fell it knocked out the powerplant and power to the nearby Naval Air Station. He lived, he had some gnarly bruises and cuts on his face. He ended up getting a DUI. he had to pay off the Mustang since his insurance company refused to pay off the note. SoCal Edison repaired the pole, they built an encasement out of metal around where the pole had broken and filled it with concrete. That cost about $15K, he had to pay that off too. Since he was a frocked E4 he was busted down to E2. It took him about 2 years to pay-off the pole and 4 years to pay off the Mustang. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:28:41 PM EDT
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...but was he wearing his seat belt? 
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:37:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 9 of these seconds were God and Saint Peter replaying the crash on their phones going “fuuuuuuuuuuuck” while Jesus was like “guys stop sending me shit like this”.
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Posted: 2/8/2020 4:38:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is that what went flying up and to the right? I couldn't make out what it was. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 11:25:37 PM EDT
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lol. I'd need to find a piece of paper. I nominate the prof just above. I'd just do an example anyway. Starting with 87 feet/second, which is close enough to 60 mph. |
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Posted: 2/8/2020 11:31:40 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/9/2020 2:22:46 AM EDT
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Locally about 30 years ago a couple of guys in a 300 ZX with the driver drunk hit a tree in a slight curve travelling around 100 mph. Both of them DRT and the car was split in half like a bandsaw cut it. My dads friend owned the tow yard and we went to see the car the next day. Only a few drops of blood were in it because both bodies were ejected and they were wearing their seatbelts. The tree only had a bit of bark removed.
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Posted: 2/9/2020 3:45:56 AM EDT
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Man that hit was perfect, car came to a sudden stop, sheared the pole at the very base from the looks of it, and the car at the base acted like a base plate and kept the pole from falling over from the looks of it.
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Posted: 2/9/2020 3:50:57 AM EDT
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GO! Capt. Pierce is a strong man, strong as any man alive. It stuck in his craw that they made him retire at the age of 65. 
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Posted: 2/9/2020 3:53:02 AM EDT
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The truth is, we don't know the story. Cruising on the highway at 70 mph, go to switch lanes and don't realize a car is in your blind spot and you are sideways into a pole like that. Or someone does that to you - they switch lanes not seeing you, tap the rear end of your car and you are sideways into a pole. Come on, we've all seen the low speed pit manuever videos - all it takes is a tap to the rear end near the tire / axle and a car is out of control. Only gets worse at highway speeds. I once saw a $200k car accelerate too fast on an on ramp, spun the tires shifting gears with likely bad clutching rotate 90 degrees to the right, go off the on ramp and over a ditch, then somersault through the air and cross over a fence. Driver walked away from that. Shit happens fast at high speed. |
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Posted: 2/9/2020 4:51:24 AM EDT
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Back in 95ish I seen the remnants of a Porsche 911 that slammed a 5' diameter tree at 140 on the south side of Lake Geneva. Only way you could tell it was a Porsche was the fan belt said Porsche. Car was mangled beyond recognition. Driver was in a seatbelt. He mostly stayed belted in, his arms, legs and head didn't. Girlfriend left him and he went out for a 'leisurely' 140mph jaunt down South shore Dr, lost it and BOOM.
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Posted: 2/9/2020 4:59:04 AM EDT
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Jerry was a race car driver... Looks like the base of the pole broke free but the power lines held it up He never did win no checkered flag |
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Posted: 2/9/2020 5:08:47 AM EDT
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pole incoming
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Posted: 2/9/2020 5:22:29 AM EDT
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Damn!
Speaking of cars literally wrapped around poles, I've had this picture lying around on my hard drive for a while, probably from here originally.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/9/2020 6:59:41 AM EDT
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Speed kills.
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Posted: 2/9/2020 8:50:15 AM EDT
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Oh yeah. Anyone in that vehicle is gone. |
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Posted: 2/9/2020 8:53:52 AM EDT
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I wonder what the last ting to pass through his mind was?
the telephone poll 
olfy but goody |
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Posted: 2/9/2020 1:07:33 PM EDT
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Redneck in our high school took out himself and three friends in a neighborhood 35MPH zone. Estimated to have been doing 100MPH+. Front and back bumpers were touching...wrapped around an oak tree no more than 8" or 10" in diameter.
Tree was scarred, but alive. Redneck's dad showed up after the funeral, very drunk, with a chainsaw and tried to take it down. Total shitshow...tree is still standing, or was five years ago when I took my wife through the old 'hood. |
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Posted: 2/12/2020 6:21:43 PM EDT
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Just found out today that one of my clients 16 year old Boy was killed this past week hitting a pole.
I guess him and his friend were racing down the street in the way home from school somehow cars bumped each other. Then cars went spinning out of control. He hit a pole. The other car no one was hurt and it had three people in it, while his car only had himself. Saw the post on insta today He was a happy kid, Who was truly living life to the fullest. |
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