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t_marat
10-10-2006, 08:49 AM
Amazing is that the driver got out alive! He is in grey, kind of kneeling down.
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9003/p1010002uj8.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6356/p1010001ly1.jpg
genphreak
10-10-2006, 08:54 AM
Lucky he was driving a LHD car. Is the guy running round the front looking to salvage a detached spot light or the King-Monster blow off valve he heard going whoosh seconds before the huge bang? :D Damn ugly car the wretched Imprezza. Give me a 325ix which I can turbo any day...
E34-520iSE
10-10-2006, 09:04 AM
I 'wonder' if he was going too fast?

Cheers,

Shaun
dbals
10-10-2006, 09:09 AM
That'll buff out
632 Regal
10-10-2006, 09:37 AM
pops-a-dent
t_marat
10-10-2006, 10:48 AM
The car was going from left to right. Looking at how damaged (if that is an appropriate word) the car is, he must have been going pretty fast. And that part to the left of the second picture a piece of the bumper. Luckily there was no passenger. Otherwise that passenger would have been literally squashed.

The guy (driver) was in shock.
dacoyote
10-10-2006, 11:31 AM
Wow... impressed that he could get out of that pos..
Elekta
10-10-2006, 11:38 AM
what's a light pole doing in a chicken lane anyway...esp without an idiot rail to protect it, with an egress street on either side?

If this were in the US, there'd be an ambulance chaser ready to sue the streets and bridges dept...hence the onlooker with the sport coat?
dacoyote
10-10-2006, 11:41 AM
People that don't live in the US have a better grip on how to do stuff like not hit the light polls
t_marat
10-10-2006, 12:01 PM
The rails are for the tramway, its kind of trolley or streetcab. That is not just a light pole, it is also used to hang the electric cables for the tramway.
tdgard
10-10-2006, 12:31 PM
People that don't live in the US have a better grip on how to do stuff like not hit the light polls

Aparently Not:D
Thayne
10-10-2006, 12:34 PM
Holy Crap.
Anthony (M5 in Calgary)
10-10-2006, 12:51 PM
The car was going from left to right. Looking at how damaged (if that is an appropriate word) the car is, he must have been going pretty fast. And that part to the left of the second picture a piece of the bumper. Luckily there was no passenger. Otherwise that passenger would have been literally squashed.

The guy (driver) was in shock.

Based on the spray of coolant and the debris way to the left in the high shot, the path was right to left in the picture, not left to right. The car hit and pivoted on the pole.

Crazy there's nothing guarding the pole though. You'd never see anything like that in Canada (second only to the US when it comes to protecting people from their own stupidity).
t_marat
10-11-2006, 02:46 AM
Based on the spray of coolant and the debris way to the left in the high shot, the path was right to left in the picture, not left to right. The car hit and pivoted on the pole.

Crazy there's nothing guarding the pole though. You'd never see anything like that in Canada (second only to the US when it comes to protecting people from their own stupidity).
Well yeah. I meant to say from right to left.

The tramway goes on there. If you put protection it will block its road.
Airborne001
10-11-2006, 04:40 AM
People that don't live in the US have a better grip on how to do stuff like not hit the light polls

I think this guy just proved you wrong.

Here in US that pole would be a hollow aluminium tower that would have sheared at the base when he hit it.
F4Phantom
10-11-2006, 05:52 AM
We have a very good system of 3 large steel cables stranded between short and stubby steel posts which would not bend in normal impacts. Each pole has one of these linked infront of it on the hwy. I think its an excellent system and this photo is very strange to look at, almost surreal (spelling?) because of the pole with no protection in the middle of the road. Having a shear point in a hollow pole is a poor solution in my opinion.
Dave M
10-11-2006, 06:40 AM
Is that taken from your apartment?
Nick.Hay
10-11-2006, 06:53 AM
That would have hurt!! One less dirty 'rex' in the world!!

Any spot the E34 on the far side of the road??

Man, theyre everywhere!!!
genphreak
10-11-2006, 07:59 AM
People that don't live in the US have a better grip on how to do stuff like not hit the light pollsI think that might be better put as:

People who do't live in the US have a better grip on not suing someone else for their own stupidity. :D
t_marat
10-11-2006, 09:22 AM
That isn't from my apartment. Its from Almaty (Kazakhstan, my home country). Picture was taken by another guy who heard the impact and took out his cam.
Apparently the guy was going fast overtaking other cars. In one of those overtakes he forgat about that pole.
another pic
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/2103/p1010004jv1.jpg
dacoyote
10-11-2006, 09:56 AM
I think that might be better put as:

People who do't live in the US have a better grip on not suing someone else for their own stupidity. :D

Amen
Booster
10-11-2006, 11:52 AM
Such needlees remarks here.;)
I would think that ANY country that cares about their citizens safety would have engineered a crush barrier rail for both sides of approaching traffic.
If not for the idiots.....for people with heart attacks, falling asleep at the wheel or others dodging the problem at hand !
Lets speak with more open minds please.Anti-Internationalism SUCKS big time !
Vinny
CharlesAFerg
10-11-2006, 03:24 PM
Are you in Russia? Lots of russians wear those striped addidas jackets, and I know lots of roads are like that over there...
E34-520iSE
10-11-2006, 03:30 PM
I don't suppose it really matters where this accident happened. An idiot will still be an idiot anywhere in the world!

Cheers,

Shaun