# Spectacular Car Crash! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797 "2019-02-01T17:41:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/21 "2019-02-04T13:31:53Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > According to [the article that accompanied the photos,](https://mynews4.com/news/local/fatal-crash-in-dayton-on-us-50-at-fortune-dr) 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. See post 12 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/22 "2019-02-04T14:49:06Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > 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. Did I see what I thought I saw? It’s the only thing that seemed to make sense, but I had no frame of reference. Possibly the most gruesome photo I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/23 "2019-02-04T15:08:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > [This one Dukes of Hazzarding it in Bratislava](https://youtu.be/BBYkZGJVucM) is a good watch. Love how the brake lights come on mid-air. Guy woulda made it if that pesky tunnel portal hadn’t been in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/24 "2019-02-04T18:50:42Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Trans Am goes airborne at over 100](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1oFzbopFg) > The piece of debris that slides across the road and stops just beyond the red car is the driver. He lived. I wonder if it was a good thing or not that the overpass was there. It stopped him from crossing over to the other side and potentially saved some folks from a head-on. But it’s not certain that that’s what would have happened. Maybe he would have just skidded out in the grass and stayed in the median. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/25 "2019-02-05T05:13:28Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Did I see what I thought I saw? It’s the only thing that seemed to make sense, but I had no frame of reference. Possibly the most gruesome photo I’ve seen. It’s been a while and I can’t say I studied the image in depth, but I will say your assessment jibes with what I recall. Ew. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/26 "2019-02-05T16:14:23Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > I can’t say I studied the image in depth… I only did because I was trying to make sense of what I was seeing. It was confusing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797/27 "2019-02-05T20:30:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > 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. The family sued the CHP for leaking the photos and won $2.4 million, but the photos have not been removed from the internet. They are still available on several websites. I took one for the team and looked at them again but I still can’t say what is what. Her body is mostly intact (she’s sitting in the driver’s seat and her upper torso and both arms are visible) and there’s hair about where hair should be but everything between her neck and hair is unrecognizable to me. I imagine that a doctor may be able to identify the structures which are now where her face used to be, but I can’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectacular-car-crash/828797.md?page=1)