This accident happened here last week. The driver was killed and the passenger is in hospital in serious condition.
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*remembers the chevy comercial* "Nothings more dependable than a Chevy Cavalier"
The accident made the news here. I couldn't tell from the news if it was a 2 door, 4 door, or the station wagon. It looks like it was the station wagon
Holy shiznit!:eek:
It *was a wagon, look at the roof rack remains. I just realised the hatch is facing the drivers side
Those poles are supposed to snap! That looks like something almost squished it like that...but there isn't any front end damage. Thats wayyy tooooo fast for a city street!
The news report said they got into the car, started it up and it took off in reverse, down the hill and hit the pole.
holy shiznit... they musta been doing 50 down the hill then for it to crumple up like that :/
Thatll buff right out.
I was one of the first on the scene of an accident very similar to that about ten years ago. It was a VW rabbit that had hydroplaned, went off the road, and hit the legs of one of those big overhead signs. The pole did break, but the car was near cut in two - the headlights and tail lights were facing the same direction. The driver of that was killed as well - this they figured out after a lengthly search to actually find him. He was thrown through the passenger door (not the window, but the actual door - his body tore the door just about clean off), but his shoes remained in the driver's footwell.
Another sorta related thing: A buddy of mine had his '85 T-Bird (his was originally sage green like mine but with tan interior, but he painted it a darker green) wrecked by a Cavailer wagon. The drunk driving the wagon nailed him head on at a closing speed of 120MPH (they were each doing 60) on a blind crest. My buddy was unhurt, but he had wet spots on his glasses where his eyeballs actually touched them. The car:
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/timswreck.jpg)
The funny thing - he didn't even break his headlights. I picked them out of the wreckage intact.
Back on topic: How the hell did somebody get a Cavalier going fast enough to do that?!? Especially backward?
I agree that a cavalier, much less the typical 4 banger wagon as pictured, could [COLOR="Red"]NOT[/COLOR] do 50 in reverse, but I suppose if they were on the gas pedal, and the underside of the car was rusted badly, it *might* crumple like that, shame about the folks that were in it...:shakehead
Back in 97, when I was younger, and a little stupider than I am now, I was hauling ass down a damp street in my EGT, when I came to slight jog in the street I was on, and it also had a slight hill right at the bend in the road.
As I went through the jog, the rear suspension bounced up, and because of the speed I was driving, and the hump/curve of the road, the ass-end of my Escort passed the front end, about 5 times.
I near wiped out an MN-12 Cougar that had some people that later married into my family...
Anyway, when my car stopped, I was mere inches from the Cougar, and in the middle of the street, facing the way I'd just came from.
The guy in the Cougar (his mom's Cougar, btw) said he watched my car spin at least 4 times before I got near em, and they couldn't stop very easy either. (wet road, greasy, and on a hill)
I had Sombody Upstairs riding with me that day...
If conditions are right, it doesn't take much to spin one of those wrong-wheel drive tin cans into a pole, house, or another car.
In my situation, it didn't help I was running about 45-55 mph(insert young and stupid crack here...:nono: )
Amazing how every little detail of that I can remember, almost 9 years later...
i'm guessing the rust compromised the structual integrity just a bit
Yes, I imagine no Cavalier on the entire island of Newfoundland still has rocker panels on it...
my brother totaled his cavalier with his wife and baby in it about 6 months ago. a guy in a cougar pulled out in front of him and he t-boned it. my brother was on the verge of beating the guy but his wife calmed him down. too bad a fox had to die in that and it a good thing no people were seriously hurt.
True! My wifes old sunbird (same as the cav) had them gone also.
Sad... :(
Wonder what the deal was with the one blue wheel???
OUCH!! And to think I actually derbied one of them cavalier wagons. Tragic that it had to happen, but serves as a reminder that anything can happen at a moments notice.
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I've seen just as bad in Nova Scotia :)
:rollin: So if I'm traveling up that way, I should paint one wheel so I'll not stand out as a tourist???? Maybe RF and LR, one orange the other green??? May start a new trend??? :rollin:
Man that sucks. If it was a 5 speed, those little things arent too bad. Still not that fast, but on par with a 3.8 tbird/cougar. Well actually faster then one for sure.