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Old 06-15-2006, 06:27 PM
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Default Bad street racing accident.. video

Guess the 25 year old guy bought this car off a member of LS1tech.com. Had a big cubed LS1 in it.

Notice how far the engine is from the car.. and over the divider. I can only imagine the forces involved. The driver was ejected fromt he car and is in critical condition.

Rumor is that he swerved to avoid a bag of trash in his lane.. this is why fast driving is for the track.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_1166.aspx
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Old 06-15-2006, 07:01 PM
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Guess the 25 year old guy bought this car off a member of LS1tech.com. Had a big cubed LS1 in it.

Notice how far the engine is from the car.. and over the divider. I can only imagine the forces involved. The driver was ejected fromt he car and is in critical condition.

Rumor is that he swerved to avoid a bag of trash in his lane.. this is why fast driving is for the track.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_1166.aspx

big inch LS1 on Hwy 427...hmm..i'm staying off hwy 572
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Old 06-15-2006, 07:34 PM
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Dahm, that sucks
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Old 06-15-2006, 08:04 PM
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I've heard of doors being blown off, but never the whole front end!! That's a dangerous game.
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Old 06-15-2006, 08:20 PM
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I have no room to talk...I used to do a lot of that. I'm damn lucky I didn't get hurt or hurt someone else.

Stupid kid I was.
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Old 06-16-2006, 07:23 AM
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i did crash doing something like this , lost a 60k car .and me and my buddy was ejected from the car 30 ft . just lucky i did not kill me or him !
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Old 06-16-2006, 10:02 AM
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Atleast there on the right track and realize that they need to have an outlet for racing.Racing is in people's blood and having dragstrip's may reduce the number of these accident's.There is always going to be the guys who street race though.I hope that guy makes a full recovery and learns from this.
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Old 06-16-2006, 10:41 AM
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That is crazy!

On a side note, the person that wrote the article needs to do a google search on "Corvette Stingray", because that is obviously not one.

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Hollywood and video games lead people to believe that they can apply large amounts of steering input at high rates of speed. 90 degree turn at 100 mph with no braking? Sure! I saw them do it on Fast & Furious. No problem.
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Her in Kc they have open grudge nights were you can go and street race,with added saftey crew.But they are shutting the track down at the end of the year rumor has it.So that will close the only dragstrip in a 150 miles.So back to the street they go.
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