[kelvin6]

Well the following pictures are pretty graphic use viewer discretion. I'm not joking.

I also want to point out that car accidents that get the least amount of attention are often the ones that kill the most, hitting solid rigid non-movable objects. Car safety tests don't test the car striking a telephone pole or a guard rail or something rigid. Often these kill because all of the energy exerted on the car and its occupants, unlike to cars hitting each other, where energy is absorbed by both cars.

I've been reading on my car forum lately and came upon something very sad. I just want to stress how importantly it is to drive safely, because in the pics below someone did die and he was driving safely, not taking crazy risks or speeding, driving like normal until bad luck hit him. I can't imagine what would've happened if this person was driving any faster or doing something more dangerous...

Last night, my brother and two friends were driving to a friend's house in our XC70 to play board games since they were all home for thanksgiving. It was a cold, rainy, and foggy night and my brother lost control of the car, fishtailed a few times and had a side-impact collision with a telephone pole. The volvo did it's job and saved my brother's two friends, but my brother was not as lucky. While he made it to the ER and through the first round of surgery, he died this morning in the SICU. Any support would be appreciated in this terrible time for me and my family. He wasn't drinking or driving recklessly, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. To say he was a good kid would be a downright criminal understatement, he kept his nose clean, studied 3 languages, took even more AP classes than I did and I didn't even make it through one semester at bowdoin college.

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I can't stress just how important it is to drive safely, My brother was a good driver who never took stupid risks behind the wheel and look at what bad luck did to him. I just don't want to see this happen to anyone else here.

Life is a very precious thing, you don't want to lose it, drive safely!

[beb]

Horrible.



Rest in paradise....

[YSK]

DAmn, that sucks. People are always telling me how safe volvos are, guess it really doesnt matter.

[papasmurf]

gasp.....i've never seen volvo do that.....wow, that's horrible but accidents do happend.......

REST IN PEACE

[kelvin6]

Its not the car, in fact no car is designed well enough to survive hitting solid non-movable objects, such as poles, walls, barriers (especially if the car were to hit it more than once in the same accident). Look at the pics, the head airbag couldn't have saved the driver with the way the roof caved in like that...

In this case its more of bad luck... the guy was driving safely but things can still happen.

Luckily the Volvo didn't break into two, otherwise the two others that survived wouldn't have made it.

[v8subie]

you can be the safest driver driving in one of the safest vehicles today, but stuff does happen and that's a part of life.

*looks like the fire department had to use the (what fire departments call it) "jaws of life" to open the roof seems like*

[Daikirai]

RIP

So scary ><
You never realize how dangerous it to drive, even though you could be the safest driver out there.

[azn akira]

this is why it should be mandatory for everyone to take some kind of driving school where they have you do a wet skid pad (some of them have soap on the track too). sure you can be a safe driver but that doesnt amount to anything if something happens to make the car slide. knowing how to control a car in a slide is just as important as driving safe

[Stevent]

This reminds me of the news I saw today. There was a high speed chase and the guy driving the car ran straight into another car on the highway doing over 100mph. The other driver died instantly.

[cksdayoff]

would things have been different if the driver was going 40mph or less?

[v8subie]

would things have been different if the driver was going 40mph or less?

yes. he would have got caught. one more person would have stayed alive.

[kelvin6]

Slower would've been of course better. I wish I can post a link but its on a protected (members only) forum. Some of the members of the forum who live in this area also did report the road being "oddly slick (probably spots of black ice)" for the past few weeks...

Driving school would've helped. I'm still feeling compelled to sign up for one (when i find the time), and i've been in situations where i've lost control of the car and believe its a very scary situation when you don't really know if ur next action can save u or kill you. So far i've been lucky or semi lucky (crashed and damaged the car, not enough to kill it).

[lolald]

wow never thought driving would be such a big risk

[Clix]

This reminds me of the news I saw today. There was a high speed chase and the guy driving the car ran straight into another car on the highway doing over 100mph. The other driver died instantly.

Would this happen to be the Nissan running head on into the Supra? If so, it's a tragic accident.

wow never thought driving would be such a big risk

Anything you do can be a big risk. This guy was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Just like the guy in Supra.

[cksdayoff]

^the douchebag in the nissan was aiming for the supra

[~SWEETwhispers~]

Wow...

I'm going to send this to my boyfriend and my dad