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Old Aug 23, 2010 | 11:35 PM
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What a crash,the guy upstairs spared this 19 year old kid. The crash site is a stones throw from my house.
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Old Aug 23, 2010 | 11:46 PM
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Ive Seen this on every Car forum im on...lol. Crazy he is living. Are you interested in other old cars like Trans Ams? There is are Trans Am nats in dayton. Sorry ot.

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Old Aug 23, 2010 | 11:58 PM
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I like looking at all the old cars but usually talk most to the C3 guys. On Friday nights ,just about 200 yards from this crash site,is a pretty good cruise in.
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 12:20 AM
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That's one lucky guy.
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Just saw that in the Dayton Paper this morning. WOW !
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 08:05 AM
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I just saw that on the CNN website it shows the aftermath
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Old Aug 24, 2010 | 10:10 AM
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Hard to believe that anyone could live through that....


Especially after seeing what's left of the car...
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I had a customer with a real nice orange 76 C3 run into the same bridge about 2 years ago and commit suicide.
I go over ,under or around that bridge several times each day.
There are people all over the area today just walking around and taking pictures , kinda creepy. Looks like the cops have their hands full trying to keep people off the interstate.
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If it was my kid the story would read...........FATHER kills kid after GOD saved him. Video a 6pm..... of kid flying out of hospital window.
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Seems odd it just so happens there was a camera running to film it, I bet the camera man and the airborne car were up to something.
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I think they said it was a police cruiser with the usual dash cam that caught the flying Walenda act.
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Originally Posted by Roco71
I just saw that on the CNN website it shows the aftermath
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Originally Posted by KSM
If it was my kid the story would read...........FATHER kills kid after GOD saved him. Video a 6pm..... of kid flying out of hospital window.
I do wonder what the heck the kid was doing after all he was coming up on a cop car.
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Originally Posted by TopGunn
Seems odd it just so happens there was a camera running to film it, I bet the camera man and the airborne car were up to something.
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I think they said it was a police cruiser with the usual dash cam that caught the flying Walenda act.
Yep , the news said it was a cruiser. I'm sure the kid will get his 15 min of fame. Maybe when he goes on the Today show he'll tell us what he was trying to do.
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Originally Posted by Jclgodale3
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Here is the local film after the crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9UsFvN9_Jo
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Originally Posted by Jclgodale3
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ge.WDTN?hpt=T2

here ya go
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70 to 0 in a fraction of a second

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://w...09qyIiliHydByA

I have always looked at the Smart Car as a death trap, but after seeing this video i'm not so sure.

However, every blood vessel in your body would probably rupture from such an inpact.
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Originally Posted by toolman1981
70 to 0 in a fraction of a second

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://w...09qyIiliHydByA

I have always looked at the Smart Car as a death trap, but after seeing this video i'm not so sure.

However, every blood vessel in your body would probably rupture from such an inpact.
Yeah I would agree too. Holy crap what a crash. This like the old days when Detroit made cars with lots of iron so they'd survive the impact. The cars survived but the driver didn't. Since then they've learned to make the cars absorb the energy by folding up. Nothing to fold up on that thing!! Man that's scarey!
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