Why public roads are not your private race track

Stacy King · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:44 pm

Donnie Barnes wrote:

Wow, that's kind of....awesome.

--Donnie

My thoughts exactly Donnie.

Without video from other angles, I gotta think this guy was on the shoulder/grass LONG before he ever got close to the cop. (Or at least long enough that the cop's position didn't have anything to do with the accident.) The car was just too stable to have just tried to avoid the car (this IS an '85 firebird we're talking about LMAO). I dunno... I guess you do see him leave the pavement... so maybe not.

As far as the brake lights, it looks to me like he hits an earth berm/ditch, not the guardrail to get launched like that, and the "impact" there could have moved his feet such that he hit his brake pedal.

It's fun to speculate, but like any freak accident (whether on purpose or not), we'll never know the details.

JohnByers · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:46 pm

Stacy King wrote:

As far as the brake lights, it looks to me like he hits an earth berm/ditch, not the guardrail to get launched like that, and the "impact" there could have moved his feet such that he hit his brake pedal.

This was posted by a member on RRAX on the thread about it over there.

jumbojimbo wrote:

I took a look this morning on the way to work.

There is a drain about 20 feet before the armco. He hit the upslope of the drain and that is what launched him. He barely hit the top of the armco and it is hardly dented, I doubt they'll even have to fix it.

If it wasn't for the black mark on the bridge you'd never know it happened. Well, there is some oil in the northbound lanes but not so much you'd even notice it.

posted for information purposes, he is from Dayton.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:02 pm

JohnByers wrote:

If it wasn't for the black mark on the bridge you'd never know it happened.

Yeah those concrete bridges don't give very much.

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