Car flies off bridge, kills pedestrians

[AutobahnSHO]

I've always wondered if concrete barriers would actually stop a car.

WARNING: multiple camera angles, the latter ones show people getting hit. (I'm surprised this is still up!)

https://news.yahoo.com/moment-car-flights-off-motorway-113301833.html

[giant_mtb]

Looks like the barrier was pretty unscathed...but the car just rode up and over it like a ramp.

[CaminoRacer]

Yeah the barrier is not very high and angled like a ramp. Very bad design.

[r0tor]

Talk about a bad day... Car just falling from the sky

[AutobahnSHO]

But all our walls are pretty much the same too!

[veeman]

I pretty much yearly go to San Diego for a conference in Coronado.  Every time I drive on the Coronado Bridge, I'm white knuckle gripped on the steering wheel.  It seems so easy to fly off the bridge.

[Payman]

I pretty much yearly go to San Diego for a conference in Coronado.  Every time I drive on the Coronado Bridge, I’m white knuckle gripped on the steering wheel.  It seems so easy to fly off the bridge.

Lol I was there in '94 on a RIMPAC exercise with our CP-140 (P3 Orion). I was driving a Chevy Astro rental van across that bridge and the wind certainly made me pucker up.