Check this accident out

[cj10jeeper]

Read Caption on 1st photo; then look at second photo

Look at the picture above and you can see where this guy broke through the guardrail, right side where the people are standing on the road (pointing). The pick-up was traveling from right to left when it crashed through the guardrail. It flipped end-over-end, across the culvert outlet, and landed right side up on the left side of the culvert, facing the opposite direction from which he was travelilng.

Now look at the second photo:

Lucky (or perhaps given the debate over the Z4 in the rockslide post some Photoshop work?). I don't know but if it were me I might think someone above was keeping an eye on me.......

 

[WLH]

WOW....talk about luck...

 

[pvr]

So ... that tunnel, what is it for? There you are, cycling away through a tunnel and suddenly the road ends ... Seems to be a fair amount of debris at the bottom as well.

 

[Dammmittt]

So ... that tunnel, what is it for? There you are, cycling away through a tunnel and suddenly the road ends ... Seems to be a fair amount of debris at the bottom as well.

I'm guessing drainage...

 

[Louv]

The mighty hand of jeebus seems to want him alive for some other purpose.

Perhaps putting down the Big Gulp, Cell Phone, Double-Whopper-With-Cheese, and BlackBerry might have been a good idea. Nah.

 

[ay8306]

I don't know ... something looks funny about this. If he flipped end over end, the front would still be pointing to the left. The only way for this to happen would for him to "spin" around 180 degrees. Hard to imagine that happening in such a way as to land perfectly on that little bit of a ledge.

Its so easy to rework a photograoh these days, you really can't trust anything (including images posted by so-called 'reputable' news agencies) ... so who knows what's real or not?

 

[Wondermike]

Looks more convincing than the rockslide pic - tricky one though.

 

[fire-n-ice]

I've testified many times as an expert witness for my training in Accident Reconstruction. In order to tell if this is for real, I'd need exact measurments and many other types of information. Just looking at it though seems very suspicious of photo tampering, but I have seen some freaky accidents with vehicles winding up in the damndest of positions.
Anyone know where/when this supposedly happened?

 

[vachss]

The thing I find just remarkable is the lack of damage to the roof. Since the resting point is about 3m lower than the road the truck would have had to be going pretty fast when it left the road to make it to the far side of the gap (figure about 20m horizontal travel after busting through the guardrail - works out to about 60 mph). Stranger things have happened but that kind of energy dissipation generally shows up in a lot more twisted metal than I see here.