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Car ‘Splits in Half’ After Police Chase
- Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:40am by
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Comments (66)
Hisemiester
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:04pmThis was most likely one of the cash for clunker cars that had been cut apart and put back together. Look at the breaks.
Report Post »AR485
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:38amYou can’t kill stupid.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:32amI hope this guy will be put away for a long time. These kind of chases always make me angry because an innocent person could have been killed.
Of course, it’s never the criminal!
Report Post »deskpilot
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:14amDarwinism took the day off.
Report Post »JUSTSAYIN
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:10amThere is no doubt about this,,,, it is “W’s” fault
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:07amThat idiot should be forced to repair the car himself and then pay out of pocket for the damages to the tree, the police labor, gas, etc… the ambulance ride, the hospital stay, the gas for the helicopter footage and everything else. He should then be sent to jail and pay his debt and pay for the jail time for doing what he did. It‘s amazing that this idiot didn’t get hurt.
Report Post »HemiOwner
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:40amI’ll bet that car was previously wrecked and repaired by grafting on a new front or rear end.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 3:07pmNo, I don’t think structural damage like that could pass inspection. Also, vehicles breaking in two is not as uncommon as one might think. They are not built to do so, but when people are speeding and hit immoveable objects, the force of the crash will go somewhere.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:37amWhat is the United States if it is not government?
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:21amYes, they had to take him to the hospital to tend to lacerations received after the firemen used the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle.
Report Post »TOSKIMAN
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:07amJail time or test dummy.
Report Post »bruins
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 6:07pmI would choose test dummy. The name fits!!
Report Post »dustytrail
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:02amGlad they caught the bastard and he’s sitting in jail. Now onto some real news. One American citizen killed in Mexico by the Mexican military. O B A M A says nothing about it and chooses to talk about Michael Vick. Defense of the nation is one of our presidents priority, not sports. One term president I keep saying as we get closer to 2012.
Report Post »Roxtar1968
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:58amWhy is it that a$$ holes like this, walk away with just a few scratches and people just trying to get home from where ever, get T-boned by some drunk idiot and end up dead. Now we’ll have to foot the bill, while this moron gets three squares a day and free lodging. A shamed he didn’t just die and save the taxpayers some money.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:35amDon’t mess with trees.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:29amHe escaped that with a few scratches? If I were an adman for Honda, I’d be touting the safety of the car based on this incident! Weird!
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:57amAre you kidding? Where was the structural integrity of the vehicle? Cars are not supposed to be designed to break apart in a collision. Furthermore, it breaking in two didn’t add to the survivability of the idiot hijacker, it only made it a news story.
If there were passengers in the back seat, they wouldn’t have survived.
Report Post »ConsChristian
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:17amMy heart goes out to the tree and it’s family!
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:05amHaha, that made my morning. :)
Report Post »bookofwisdom
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:11amYou made mine too. My first smile of the day! Always welcome. May God Bless.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:07amI don’t even want to know…
Report Post »sarg356
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:03amPut the person who did this on public display with a public beating to follow.
Report Post »ThomasUSA
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:00amOh no.. here it comes. A new “Criminal Getaway Safety Rating” by 2012…. from one of Obama’s car safety czars….
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:21amThat was good! Of course you realize that Obama’s administration would be ranked some of the highest, followed by the Black Panthers, etc.
Report Post »Beenin2wars
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:58amThis is what happens when you don’t work, do nothing but deal drugs and are able to blame everything on someone else and the courts lisen to it! If more good people carried guns, this would not happen as much!
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:56amHigh speed police chases are 99% for the adrenelin rush of the cops, and 1% for the benefit of society.
That Bunnel guy on Wildest Police Chases is a moron of the highest order.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:51amGo tree!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:50amMaybe we should go back to making cars out of wood………
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:04amTree 1 Honda 0
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:37pmNow that is what I call a totaled car!! The last one I totaled, you could barely tell it was damaged, except for the $3000 airbags going off.(which makes it illegal to drive) It was perfectly drivable and pre-airbag someone might have driven it with the slightly displaced bumper. Needless to say, I fixed my 12 year old show room quality car, despite it being totaled.
Report Post »WhiteFang
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:20pmAre cars designed to split apart in a crash, Is it some kind of purposeful safety feature?
Report Post »Seems strange to me that they cannot hold together.
BSdetector
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:50amNatural selection, why have you failed us?
Report Post »Sledgehammer
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:48amditto, could have turned a little easier on the wallet!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:12amSometimes in natural selection dumb luck prevails; not all the time, just some times.
Report Post »freightliner1160
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:33amWith 20% being progressive, thinking natural selection failed many times.
Report Post »Beenin2wars
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:49amDon‘t run and this won’t happen!
Report Post »Jsh1284
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:47amNice! Wish I could have seen the flip! Oh, and the look on that POS’s face as he was flying through the air after holding an innocent person at knife point and stealing the vehicle they probably worked for a long time to purchase …
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:27amUsed a knife. Mexican?
Report Post »23
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:04amThank goodness that school took the knife away from the female honor student. No telling how may car jackings they prevented!
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 7:44amAt least he got half the car into a parking space.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 8:32amEvery time I turn on the news some miscreant is there fleeing from the police in a car. For the good of the country it’s time the President appoint a highly paid Felony Evasion Czar to create an expensive bureaucracy and more regulations.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:06amWhat, the driver has minor injurys? I guess your not allowed to smoke dope and drink during lunch break at the Honda plant, unlike the GM plant. Probably not protected by a union. Well done Honda. Saved a life, not sure it was the right life.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 9:19amSadly, we had this happen in our town about eight or so years ago (minus the car jacking0. The 17 year old driver was killed, the front portion of the car had a telephone pole embedded in it and the rear portion of the car landed across the street on someone’s front lawn. Our son, who had been cogitating to get his license, happened to be with me when we went to drop off our car at the garage for some work. The mangled remains of the vehicle were in our mechanic’s back lot. That was a BIG reality check for my son and two other pals and I can say that they are all responsible drivers now.
That driver’s family should be thanking God that he is still around to tell the story and not have to have a skate park named in his memory, like the family from our town did.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:11amWaste of a good car; imagine what he will tell a judge “Your honor, the manufacturer of the car made it to split in half…” I can see an attorney just using that defense, stupidly of course, in a attempt to shift the blame away from his client.
starman70
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:16am@ TAKOUSHI:
I have seen 2 such incidents in my years in EMS. The first was when the car hit a large power pole and split in two. The driver was ejected from the vehicle, landed on his feet, rolled on the ground, got up and dusted himself off. He received a few scrapes and bruises.
The second was recently. This time the car hit a tree on the passenger side and the passenger suffered serious injuries. The driver received only minor injuries.
In both cases, the car wound up in two pieces. In both cases excessive speed and reckless driving were the cause. I hope this dude learned that evading the police can be a one way street to the morgue. He was lucky this time.
Report Post »TheBees
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 10:31amIt should have ended with,”…a fate judging by the pictures, should have been a lot worse…”
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:10amthey really should show “bad accidents” to kids getting their driver licenses. Ive learned my lessons with close calls at moderate speeds, luckily never had issues at 100+. Havent driven above 75-80(highway) in a LONG time.
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 12:46pmWho cares bout the driver or car; the poor tree was smashed — that should be a felony charge. Hopefully there will be a memorial sponsored by the environmentalists.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 1:19pm@rightwright
Report Post »now thats funny.
Maybe he was going to go on a tree killing spree.
thepatriotdave
Posted on December 29, 2010 at 11:38pmThe only sad part of this story is how little pain the driver got out of his joy-ride. For what he did I was hoping for at least 2 missing arms and a collapsed lung.
In case you are wondering… yes, I have a very low tolerance for people that break the law.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 30, 2010 at 3:57pmHow do these jackasses only get minor injuries and I, who was only driving to work, get air-cared to the hospital and almost die?
Report Post »Doesn’t seem fair. I guess in the end, it will all work out.