Heard about this too early this morning and looked up the photos.
Unbelievable. :eek: Can’t even really tell what kind of car it was. 
Must have been packing some serious mail to create this kind of carnage.
I drive past that post pretty much every day.
That car was f’ed up; no doubt about it, though some of that carnage is left over from FD/EMS cutting the car apart to get the occupants out. In fact the two pieces of wood to the right in your linked photo looks like they may be cribbing used to stabilize a car. Both of them appear to be squared off & one appears to be wedge shaped. Although, OTOH, they could be guardrail supports that ended up there. The roof appears relatively undamaged & w/o any pillars hanging down; IOW, that’s how they cut it with the “Jaws of Life”.
Sad either way.
Someone survived that and was flown to an area hospital. I can’t find any information on what kind of car it was, although I am curious. The seats look like a sports car.
Also “speed was a factor” - no shit. I would never have guessed.
Looking at the wheel in the first pic makes me want to say Viper GTS, maybe?
That’s a rear seat in most of the pictures, so not a Viper. And the wheel is aftermarket so it could be just about anything. My first thought was GTI but the rear seat’s not a match. I think the upholstery might be aftermarket as well but I don’t see anything that fits he pattern. Definitely something with a mac strut up front, though.
eta: It’s a B5 Audi S4, those were optional seats.
Here is a less fatal, but also interesting car crash I saw today.
Lessons learned from observation: nothing brings out other officers like an injured officer. I think I saw more once at a bank robbery, but there were a lot of folks out there today. Response was also very (very) quick. I recommend that you not turn left in front of a moving police car. The driver of the Prius is going to have a long day. I also wish that more police officers would wear seat belts. The accident didn’t look that serious, but the officer had to be assisted from the car by paramedics and was taken away by ambulance.
Yep. Audi. From Nevada. The license plate was laying around in another photo I saw.
Local scuttle-butt is 80-100 mph. Really weird. The pole they wrapped themselves around is behind the guard rail. Somehow left the road somewhere downstream and behind the guard rail.
Weird. I’ve gotta go past it in about an hour.
There was no one killed in this AMAZING! grand prix crash:
A lot of that stuff will just buff out.
Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman; he’s got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.
Actually, it appears to not be that. From further reports following that link.
The driver was killed, the passenger is in critical condition.
Trans Am goes airborne at over 100
The piece of debris that slides across the road and stops just beyond the red car is the driver. He lived.
This one Dukes of Hazzarding it in Bratislava is a good watch. Love how the brake lights come on mid-air. There’s also one of a guy launching off a traffic circle somewhere out there.
Sixteen or so years ago when I was still living in L.A., there was a crash in Orange County. A (teenage?) girl [del]stole[/del] borrowed-without-permission her fathers Porsche 911. She crashed on a freeway at a high rate of speed, and she and (I believe) another girl were killed. Photos online showed her in the driver’s seat. Only, I couldn’t make sense of the photo. It looked like the top of her head above the jaw line had been sheared off, and the muscular mass at the top of what was left was her tongue. The family sued to have the photos removed from the Internet.
Well, they did a good job of clean-up. Nothing but some red paint smears on the pole.
I’ve seen those pictures of Porsche Girl. Not pretty.
That happened in my town. In all fairness to the driver we were taught to pass on the left.
Yeah, I remember seeing those photos. That’s a link I wish I hadn’t clicked. She crashed into a concrete toll booth at over 100 mph.
I knew what that was going to be before I clicked on it.
According to the article that accompanied the photos, both occupants were ejected from the vehicle. There would not have been any need for first responders to waste time cutting apart the vehicle.
Judging by photo #6 of 7, I think the timbers you’re seeing are the wooden posts from the guardrail that was destroyed in the impact.