I'm a truck driver, seen lots 'o' crashes, but never seen a merc with so much damage.
2006-08-20 05:21:37 · 17 answers · asked by fool4lovin. 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Mercedes-Benz
Chunky. most of the front of my truck is plastic. (last year i hit a fox it took off the whole bumper.)
M S. try the M1 southbound at nottingham 2:30.am. sunday morning.
2006-08-21 09:01:13 · update #1
Nope, but I saw a Volvo that looked like it had been hit by a tank and Volvos are actually built like tanks. Mercedes builds their cars somewhat like Volvo in that they reinforce the passenger area to "box in" the people with very strong steel side panels, roof construction, and reinforced floors.
I later found out that this Volvo had come around a blind corner at an estimated 125 mph and "swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle" and went straight into a rock cut, which there are many up here.
The car had been stolen by a 15 year old teen who was spaced out on acid and liquor. He was extracated from the wreckage by the jaws of life and had a gash on the palm of his hand, scratches, and a cracked vertebrae in his back. That's it. Of the two teenage girls in the car, one was so totally crushed that my friend who helped with the accident scene said her body was like picking up a bag of jell-o while the other girl was virtually decapitated. Neither were wearing their seatbelts.
The idiot who stole the car? He got off with 3 months in a juvenile jail, was forbidden to obtain his license for ONE WHOLE YEAR, and had to seek help for his drug problems.
Today he drives transport for a local company while the families of the girls wait anxiously for the resurrection.
He never showed remorse for their deaths and said in court, "I don't remember anything except they said they wanted to go with me for the ride. It wasn't my fault they didn't wear their belts. I'm sorry they're dead your honour but I never forced them to go."
What a great system huh?
2006-08-20 21:01:45 · answer #1 · answered by krazykritik 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
.Yes I have! and people survived M-B 500s class 100 mph head on into a concrete bridge. If Princess Di and others were seat belted the outcome would have been better. The emergency personnel cut the roof off for medical people The Benz Damage was not past the fire wall. That tunnel now has a armco barrier along the piers holding the tunnel roof
2006-08-20 12:39:03 · answer #2 · answered by John Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A driver who had consumed some three bottles of wine that day, was tired, had taunted the paparazzi on their motorbikes that he was in the big V12 car, and they wouldn't catch him tonight... Would it have mattered if there had been some pictures of the pair of them in Hello! magazine? She was always happy to manipulate the media, on her own terms.
The bodyguards' duty is to protect his principle client at all times - he should have took hold of Henri Pauls' hand and started to twist his wrist until he slowed down from 130 mph, the calculated speed the car was going, and the number the needle was stuck on.
The bodyguard was the only one wearing a seat-belt, and he lived. The seat-belts were there for the others to use, but they deemed themselves above such things. Thus probably the safest car on the road became a death-trap, because of idiotic misuse.
Some people are just too stupid to get old.
In the words of Jimmy Carr, "First Di died, and Dodi died, then Dando died. Dido must be bricking herself..."
2006-08-20 12:37:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, guess what? Turns out, that when she divorced the prince guy, she was no longer a princess. She went back to being a lady. So it's Lady Di. lol.. Die lady Di. lol.. Ok that's not funny. But it is to me.
As for the crash.. If you pile a bunch of rich drunk people in mercedis and drive it at break-neak speed into a tunnel and have it bounce around a few pilings and walls.... it will probably come out looking like that one did.
2006-08-20 12:32:33 · answer #4 · answered by smutulator 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a friend of mine was seriously injured when the Merc he was in as a passenger ran at full speed in to the back of a big articulated lorry that had pulled out in front of them. The Merc concertinaed up so that the driver's seat was pushed back to the back passenger seat (killing the driver, front passenger and one of the back passengers. My Friend had terrible injuries but survived and you would not have recognised the wreckage as a car it was so destroyed.
2006-08-20 12:31:02 · answer #5 · answered by blondie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try driving one into a concrete pillar at 90mph and check out the damage. People in Mercs are not immune to fatal car crashes.
2006-08-20 12:29:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has anyone seen Ice Melt in Alaska? I am not even sure if Mercedes-Benz thought a crash like that was be possible.
Who in there right mind would put themselves in danger to avoid the possibility of danger.
If it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, It ain't a chicken!
2006-08-21 01:22:21 · answer #7 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the damage was because there were multiple impacts on different sides of the tunnel as the car went out of control. Whatever happened it seems highly suspicious
2006-08-20 12:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by Paul B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah! Mercedes!
2006-08-20 12:27:35 · answer #9 · answered by Pumpkin Head 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apart from your truck there isnt a car on the road that wouldnt crumple like that given the speed and what it hit.
2006-08-20 12:30:34 · answer #10 · answered by chunky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋