XR6 Spilt in two in high speed crash.

Yamonda · 07-01-2016, 10:08 AM

Check out the photo of this XR6
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa...-not-to-drive/
Only way i could recognise it was the seat.
The driver survived

SensationFG8 · 07-01-2016, 10:16 AM

Wow... goes to show you how safe these are if the driver survived that...

Wretched · 07-01-2016, 10:21 AM

A lot depends on the impact to the driver side.
Wondering, if there were any passengers, would they have survived?

A couple of years back, in Melbourne, on Warrigal Rd, a Hyundai i30, ran a red light, t-boned a Falcon, killing three passengers, the damage looked a lot less horrifc than the above pic.

**PepeLePew** · 07-01-2016, 10:23 AM

ABC version stated 'high performance car' and ID'd it as a XR6 T. Where's Evan Green?

Yamonda · 07-01-2016, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by PepeLePew

ABC version stated 'high performance car' and ID'd it as a XR6 T. Where's Evan Green?

Yeah, looking at it closely i think i can see a red rocker cover and intercooler piping.

**GasoLane** · 07-01-2016, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SensationFG8

Wow... goes to show you how safe these are if the driver survived that...

More luck than safe

Sioso · 07-01-2016, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by GasOLane

More luck than safe

I'd go so far as to say Divine Intervention!

Angeldust · 07-01-2016, 11:24 AM

That's really bad... I wonder what he hit? a tree perhaps?

Should cars really split like that too? Shouldn't modern engineering of cars prevent this from happening? Questions...questions..

FGX-351 · 07-01-2016, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Angeldust

That's really bad... I wonder what he hit? a tree perhaps?

Should cars really split like that too? Shouldn't modern engineering of cars prevent this from happening? Questions...questions..

Was very common in the older Commodores, must've been a fairly hard hit I'd say.

MAGPIE · 07-01-2016, 11:52 AM

Not the first B series I've seen split in two, it is a B isn't it ?

Warrenk · 07-01-2016, 11:58 AM

By the look of it the emergency services would have used there "jaws of life" to cut away the doors, B pillar and sill to gain access to the driver. I have seen pictures of a couple of accidents in the last couple weeks where the cars have split in two on impact, one with a bus and the other one with a car. In both cases the driver walked away.

Warren

bionic2006xr6t · 07-01-2016, 11:58 AM

We have had two similar accidents like that in the Barossa Valley in the last 10 years. The first I remember well as it was a few km's up the road from my parents house at 1am one night. Two males in a VR senator copy/rip off hit a tree at approximately 180km/h split the car into 3 pieces. Driver was killed instantly and the passenger was found walking the road drunk and disorientated with only minor cuts and bruises. It's somewhat unbelievable that he survived. Second was a 07 WRX where it's believed the guy committed suicide. The car hit tree with the drivers door at in excess off 200km/h. It total disintegrated the tree trunk which was 300 to 400mm in diameter (usually the tree fairs pretty well) The back of the car was found in a river bed 60meters from the crash site and the front of the car 150meters up the road.

Cheers Ryan

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2016, 12:07 PM

Yeah i remember the wrx one with the young bloke
Op was very lucky
Go buy a lotto ticket

mik · 07-01-2016, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Angeldust

That's really bad... I wonder what he hit? a tree perhaps?

Should cars really split like that too? Shouldn't modern engineering of cars prevent this from happening? Questions...questions..

If you build them like a 70 ton tank , no should not split in half when involved in a huge impact, people neglect to realise most car body's are only made of folded sheet metal, if you hit it hard enough , it will bend/crush, tear/break.

Boosted8 · 07-01-2016, 01:53 PM

I reckon that will be a write-off.

futura · 07-01-2016, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Boosted8

I reckon that will be a write-off.

What makes you think its a write off?

**MercurySilver** · 07-01-2016, 01:58 PM

Do we have a sarcasm emoticon???

**GasoLane** · 07-01-2016, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Boosted8

I reckon that will be a write-off.

Thank you Captain obvious

Boosted8 · 07-01-2016, 02:06 PM

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**PG2** · 07-01-2016, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Boosted8

I reckon that will be a write-off.

Bet it wouldn't be if it was one of the 500,000 GTHOs built.

It would be on ebay by now.

ozrunner · 07-01-2016, 02:51 PM

The driver is actually in hospital in a critical condition with family by his side.

Broken pelvis and several ribs but internal bleeding is the major problem.

He was thrown out and there was no cutting required etc. It was torn apart by impact.

Hit a huge tree sideways at RHS rear door and evidence seems to indicate he was drag racing and lost it, mounted a curb and slid on the grass and dirt into the tree at high speed. Rear of the car was torn off and it carried on for metres down the road

Pics here

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/west...547c26cfd8616e

nstg8a · 07-01-2016, 06:28 PM

Fg was rated the safest second hand car on Australian roads.

1970galaxie · 07-01-2016, 06:34 PM

Police were getting info to see if speed was involved. DOH!

FPV GTHO · 07-01-2016, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mik

If you build them like a 70 ton tank , no should not split in half when involved in a huge impact, people neglect to realise most car body's are only made of folded sheet metal, if you hit it hard enough , it will bend/crush, tear/break.

In some aspects theyre also only built to look good in the official crash tests. I frequently tell friends theres no official read crash test, not that fhis example looks like a rear impact

jaydee · 07-01-2016, 11:46 PM

The local media had trawled his Facebook and found clips of him going hard in it in an industrial area. There was a Skyline parked up at the scene when it happened, racing??? I wonder.

sexyxe · 08-01-2016, 12:52 AM

Only recently a major accident occurred in Darwin with a sedan hitting the front of a bus at high speed. Split the car in two

jgmdat · 08-01-2016, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ozrunner

The driver is actually in hospital in a critical condition with family by his side.

Broken pelvis and several ribs but internal bleeding is the major problem.

He was thrown out and there was no cutting required etc. It was torn apart by impact.

Hit a huge tree sideways at RHS rear door and evidence seems to indicate he was drag racing and lost it, mounted a curb and slid on the grass and dirt into the tree at high speed. Rear of the car was torn off and it carried on for metres down the road

Pics here

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/west...547c26cfd8616e

So a moron is what you are saying???

If he or her was street racing.

**Revolver** · 08-01-2016, 01:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Boosted8

I reckon that will be a write-off.

Nah, It will Buff out.

All joking aside, I hope the young bloke pulls through.

This is a message to the young blokes: Keep it on the track fellas!

Mystery solved as to how and why it happened.

Mystery as to how this emotocon was made:

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Originally Posted by Boosted8

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

WIDE OPEN!