Crashed car pictures
10-29-2005, 09:51 AM
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10-29-2005, 02:12 PM
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from http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rx7/message/108336
Well, let's bring this closer to home, then. Trev Dagley and his
friend Jon were both wearing their seat belts when they crashed
on Saturday, June 24th, 2000 in Jim Dagley's CYM R1. Sunday
the 25th would have been his 27th birthday, and he was testing a
new in-car camera mount for an event in California that he and his
father were going to attend for his birthday present. The footage
ends right before the crash, after four consecutive redline shifts on
a long straight.
The car left the road at an estimated 140 mph, and Trev was
immediately expelled from the vehicle despite having his seatbelt on,
and died on impact. His friend Jon was still in the car, which traveled
200 yards from the road, over a hill 15 feet above the surface the road,
hit a stand of Alder trees, and slid to the ground to partially burn as
the tank filler hose was torn from the tank. He was dead on impact,
his head where his feet should have been, his feet up by the roof...
still in his seatbelt.
If you think a seatbelt will save you, even if your car has a full cage
and 5-point harnesses, you're fooling yourselves. Professional drivers
in controlled environments sometimes don't make it despite more roll
cage than you'd ever put in a passenger car, neck braces, and
helmets. Trees and rocks don't give much, and uneven terrain can
do things to a car that no cage designer ever planned for. Side impacts
from another NASCAR driver isn't what we're worried about here, it's
sharp pointy things, like branches, going through windows and the
gaps in the cage. Rocks don't have crumple zones. Drive sane, and if
you "have" to travel at high speeds, at least do it as responsibly as
possible. In isolated areas, for short bursts, in straight lines.
Every time I hear someone say "just take 'em in the twisties", I cringe
for two reasons. First, because it's probably the "gayest" thing I've ever
heard a group of supposedly cool people adopt as a standard phrase.
Second, because I know that many of you think you automatically
inherited super-human driving powers by buying your "perfectly-balanced"
cars, but when it comes right down to it, more than likely can't drive well
enough to save your life if an unexpected situation arose. I'm constantly
reading about someone who has bent a rim or wrecked their car because
they spun it on wet pavement or zigged when they should have zagged,
usually on bald tires... and this is what you entrust your life to? Bald
tires
and your driving skills? Remind me never to ride with you.
It'll be far worse when that situation happens and you're traveling far too
fast to pull your fat out of the fire. Don't fool yourself into believing
you're in
control of the machine, or that you can get away with something because
it's an RX-7... or because you've got track tires on the car... or because
you've attended Skip Barber's driving school... or whatever justification or
rational you come up with for putting your (and sometimes others) life in
danger.
You only get one ride on the merry-go-round, folks. Make it last.
Jim LaBreck - jimlab@...
10-29-2005, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by sweet7' post='773844' date='Oct 29 2005, 11:48 AM
Thats pretty close to what my old BB looked like afterwards. This thread is sad, it should get locked.
No way Jose'
10-29-2005, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='773795' date='Oct 29 2005, 06:51 AM
Looks like it rolled over?
10-29-2005, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by onereven7' post='773834' date='Oct 29 2005, 12:12 PM
isnt that trev dagley's car? is it is he died in that thing
