Driver walks... Horrid RS6 crash

Holy Fuck!

worrrrrrrrrrrrrd.

HOLY CRAP!!! O.o... Damn!!!

That's a really sharp tree.

I don;t even think I could cut that cleanly with the cutting equipment on my fire engine!

Seriously... I bet you wish all the wrecks looked like this. The driver could have opened his door and stepped out...if it weren't blocked by the other piece of the car...

Soooo last week!

Hah, just messin.

I hope the driver went out and bought a lotto ticket.

Haha for the first time I just looked at the stretch of road, and thought about how fast you'd have to be going to do that to a car.. and god damn.

Well, it's not a very GOOD safety cage.

Yeah but you sure can get a great view of the surrounding landscape !

Dude, he peeled the damn car like an ORANGE! He's lucky to be alive, let alone with nothing more than a few cuts and scratches. He used up his ENTIRE life's worth of luck in that one crash. He must've been going STUPID fast, to peel that car apart the way he did.

I really looks like all the spot welds tore/poped free. That may be a plus, though I would really like to see a compareson between a stock unit and one that was stich welded.

Thats a wild crash for sure, But I ran across one worse than that, with a more incredible backstory (no pictures, though >.<)

it was the summer of 2004 and I was working at an independant auto shop in the middle of nowhere. it was a sunny day, about 3:00, and the boss/owner left to test drive a vehicle with a customer. he wasnt gone 10 minutes when the truck came into the parking lot looking somthing like a NASCAR pitstop. he slid into the lot and screeched to a halt at the first bay door with the passenger window rolled down, and screamed out "Grab fire extinguishers and get in the back! HURRY!
we did as told, being the techs working the first 2 bays, and took off down the road. we drove about 4 miles and as we came over a hill I saw something that chills me to remember even now.

at the base of 2 hill was a small single lane bridge that I'd driven over countless times before as it was part of our test drive route. there was a fog rolling over the road amid piles of debris and burning switchgrass on both sides of the road. as we reached the bottom of the hill we jumped out and began putting out grass fires on either side of the road while trying not to burn ourselves on the debris lying in the grass. The ambulance was just unloading as we pulled up.

In the middle of this rolling fog was a pile of wadded up scrap metal, and just about every part you can think of was lying by itself scattered across the bridge. the truck had been a mid-80's Ford Ranger, and I was able to identify it by the back half of the truck in almost pristine condition roughly 75ft away from the bridge. it was torn off clean just in front of the bed. The brushfires had started when pieces of the exhaust manifold had flown away from the engine which was sitting peacefully on it's oil pan in the middle of the street looking like it had just been pulled from a crate. the transmission had seperated from it and landed about 25ft away from the engine.

In the middle of all this carnage was a wadded-up ball of sheetmetal that had once been a cab, and squeezed inside it was the driver of the former Ranger. it was balled up so tightly that no parts of him were visible, and looking at the sheriffs pictures weeks later it was impossible for me to imagine how he had not been crushed inside the wreckage. But there he was, talking and crying as the EMT tried to figure out how to remove him from the mess.

After talking to the sheriff some weeks later, I was told the man had lived and was awaiting trial on child molestation charges, and that he had been trying to kill himself by driving his truck into the side of the bridge at high speed. The man had only minor injuries and was released to police custody only a few days after the wreck.

I cant imagine how he survived and I wish I had a copy of the pictures the sheriff had, but it was the most incredible thing I think I've ever seen.

kinda makes you wonder.
later,
Jack

Holy smokes! My god what a crash!

My uncle works for Audi... I'm tempted to send him this photo, assuming he hasn't seen it already.

Also... DAAAAAAMN!!!! O_O

He should celebrate his birthday two times a year now.

ach du meine güte.

Wooooooha!
The poor car!
and: LUCKY guy.

DAymmm Wow ive seen some wrecks in my time but nothin realy close to this.

Does that make the RS6 more of a driver's car than a BMW? I mean, to hell with the passengers, keep the driver alive? heh

..and with the key in the ignition still, damn.

I would REALLY hate to see a crash of such severity that it put sufficient force on the car to make a 0.2 oz. piece of metal fly out of the ignition. =p Doesn't give the driver much chance, does it?

True. But then again one of my old cars the key and associated fobs would fall out the barrel upon hard acceleration. Maybe I need to upgrade

LOL. Now that I think about it, the keys in my dad's GM van fell out every time he turned left, so maybe I'm thinking of an entirely different class of vehicle. :)

And now that you mention it, a car that dissolves into freaking shrapnel like this one seems like JUST the sort of car to do that... :)

Things that make you go "Hmmm.."

It would amuse me if the blinkers and brake lights still worked, because most of the wires still seem to be connected. Heck, I think they're holding the rest of the car together.

How much does he want for the three remaining wheels? At least those are still salvagable.

Holy Hand Grenade on a Stick! Amazing!!!!