Car flies off bridge, kills pedestrians

Started by AutobahnSHO, November 24, 2019, 07:35:52 PM

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
Will

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.
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r0tor

Talk about a bad day... Car just falling from the sky
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee No Speed -- 2004 Mazda RX8 6 speed -- 2018 Alfa Romeo Giulia All Speed

AutobahnSHO

But all our walls are pretty much the same too!
Will

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

Quote from: veeman on November 26, 2019, 04:04:15 PM
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.