Moved to GNAC.

 

I saw this on Top Gear a while back and I still have the same thought today, someone up above must have been looking out for this guy.

 

Yowza! Time for new underwear.

 

you mean to tell me that this (lucky ba$tard) went through the guardrail on the far side of drainage tunnel, somehow catapulted over drainage and landed on other side?
Amazing!!

 

No I think the guard rail was removed there for rescue crews. But your story is much more fun.

 

THE INCREDIBLE CAR ACCIDENT

Talk about lucky!!

Note that the truck is facing the wrong direction to the damaged barrier above. Traveling from the right side of this picture to left at a high speed, the driver lost control and hit the guard rail.

Due to the angle he hit the concrete barrier, his truck went airborne! When the truck came down, the back of the truck landed on top of the crushed concrete barrier.

A split second later the nose of the truck hit the ground where the second arrow begins.

The force of the two impacts bounced the truck back up in the air and caused it flip in mid-air like some Evel Knievel daredevil stunt.

The driver screamed and held on for dear life as his truck flew across the culvert upside down and backwards.

The truck landed on its side, teetered for a moment, then came down to rest where you see it in the picture. Magically, the driver walked away unhurt. But my guess is he has nightmares.



Calling All Crime Scene Investigators!

Do you like solving mysteries?

I read the accident description, but was never able to make any sense of it. Unfortunately, I have no way of determining if the description is accurate.

I tried recreating the description of the crash above with a toy truck and never did come up with a satisfactory trajectory. But I am certainly no expert.

At this point I completely admit I am stumped. I have illustrated three scenarios to help with visualizing possible flight paths.

See if you can figure it out!



Here is the mystery. The most likely scenario doesn't work. The car has a bashed-in front, so the nose had to hit the ground at some point. In this scenario, I have the nose hitting the area next to the broken barrier and flipping. The only problem is the truck would land facing the wrong direction!



It is hard to believe the car did two flips, but in this scenario I have the back end of the truck hitting near the broken barrier first. The major problem with this scenario is that the back of the truck has no damage. If you can figure it out, please email your scenario to dance@ssqq.com
http://www.ssqq.com/archive/images/c...dent%2001b.jpg

 

First saw this years ago, and in my opinion, the second view is Photoshoped. Probably both.

 

i have seen this before as well and still scares the livin hell outta me.... one of my greatest fears behind suffocating.....