155 MPH on the Auto Baum and Trees Dont Mix... Yikes

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"Don Wilshe" wrote: > http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/default.htm Ouch. The tree looks unscathed at 155 mph. Not too sure that travelling at a sensible speed limit as the site suggests would have helped against that tree, although arguably he wouldn't have hit in the first place depending upon the circumstances that caused the accident. On the same site is this pic of a tax disc inspector at work: http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/images/photo132.jpg

Yow...where's the REST of the car??? Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East

"EldredP" wrote: > Yow...where's the REST of the car??? I've heard the phrase wrapped around a tree or lamp post but this is for real :(

> Subject: 155 MPH on the Auto Baum and Trees Dont Mix... Yikes Is the Auto Baum some sort of tree?

Jason Moyer wrote: >>Subject: 155 MPH on the Auto Baum and Trees Dont Mix... Yikes > > > Is the Auto Baum some sort of tree? No, it's the Autobahn (highway), and funny enough "Baum" means "Tree"... l8er ronny

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> > "EldredP" wrote: > > > Yow...where's the REST of the car??? > > I've heard the phrase wrapped around a tree or lamp > post but this is for real :(

That's crumple zones for ya... hit that tree with a 1955 Buick and you'll be equally dead (probably even so at much lower speed), but the car might be salvagable. Jan. =---

"Jason Moyer" wrote... > > Subject: 155 MPH on the Auto Baum and Trees Dont > > Mix... Yikes > > Is the Auto Baum some sort of tree? No, it's a freudian slip. Jan. ;-) =---

No, it's a freudian slip. Jan. ;-) =---

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:27:43 +0200, Ronald Stoehr <[email hidden]> wrote: >No, it's the Autobahn (highway), and funny enough "Baum" means "Tree"... I know. =)

Ouch! I have been on the Autobahn once; it was a bus for my high-school tour. (Wheeeee) We got pulled over and told to exit because the driver was going to slow. It was a Mercedes bus though... :) I did see a Ferrari BB512 zip by at one point; that was cool. I'm trying to figure out what kind of car it is (was) but can't. In the second pic there seems to be some letters on the back-left but I can't read them. My initial guess was a BMW 850 but I doubt it. - F50 GT

I think the photo has been debunked as another internet hoax. It originally came out about a year ago, and shortly after it came out somebody somewhere wrote a far too detailed analysis of it. The short version - it's an Escort. Which almost certainly will not do 155 mph. Also that's not that big a tree, how can there possibly be so much damage to the car and so little damage to the tree? A very clever hoax. "F50 GT" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:_XFJc.29585$[email hidden]...

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> > I'm trying to figure out what kind of car it is (was) but can't. > > In the second pic there seems to be some letters on the back-left but I > can't read them. My initial guess was a BMW 850 but I doubt it. > > - F50 GT

You'll find it's probably a Ford Escort Cosworth -- Gavin B Formerly Ferrari_Corsa "F50 GT" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:_XFJc.29585$[email hidden]... Ouch! I have been on the Autobahn once; it was a bus for my high-school tour. (Wheeeee) We got pulled over and told to exit because the driver was going to slow. It was a Mercedes bus though... :) I did see a Ferrari BB512 zip by at one point; that was cool. I'm trying to figure out what kind of car it is (was) but can't. In the second pic there seems to be some letters on the back-left but I can't read them. My initial guess was a BMW 850 but I doubt it. - F50 GT

"RubberGoat" <rubbergoat*NO [email hidden]> wrote in message news:HmHJc.875$[email hidden]... > You'll find it's probably a Ford Escort Cosworth I dont think you can get a buck fifty out of one of those either...thats 250kmh

unless he modified it? -- Gavin B Formerly Ferrari_Corsa "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:pBHJc.261549$[email hidden]... "RubberGoat" <rubbergoat*NO [email hidden]> wrote in message news:HmHJc.875$[email hidden]... > You'll find it's probably a Ford Escort Cosworth I dont think you can get a buck fifty out of one of those either...thats 250kmh

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:07:49 +1200, "RubberGoat" <rubbergoat*NO [email hidden]> wrote: >unless he modified it? I don't think slapping stickers all over your car increases the performance by that much.

Have you ever seen how little damage there is to a tree after it's been whomped by a vehicle? Apart from torn bark, the trunk of a tree that is no more than 300mm in diameter will be unscathed if collected by a modern vehicle in a side-on impact. In fact, the tree will withstand the impact slightly better than a timber power pole of the same diameter as the living wood has more resilience and shock-absorbing qualities. I have seen an immature Plane Tree with a Mercedes 300 sedan folded around it and all four occupants were dead on impact. The car had to be prised apart to get it off the tree and most of the damage to the trunk of the tree was done during that operation. Bruce. "Haqsau" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > .......how can there possibly be so much damage to the car and so > little damage to the tree?

Jan Verschueren wrote: > That's crumple zones for ya... hit that tree with a 1955 Buick and you'll be > equally dead (probably even so at much lower speed), but the car might be > salvagable. You mean like this? http://fun-witze.piranho.com/bilder/m09.jpg

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> > "RubberGoat" <rubbergoat*NO [email hidden]> wrote in message > news:HmHJc.875$[email hidden]... > > You'll find it's probably a Ford Escort Cosworth > > > I dont think you can get a buck fifty out of one of those either...thats > 250kmh >

A stock Escort Cosworth will only do 140mph maximum. -- Trooper [email hidden] (remove the obvious) GamerTag: TrooperNeil City of Heroes: Ice Trooper, Old Red, Wonderous Kevin on Victory

Jan Verschueren wrote: > > That's crumple zones for ya... hit that tree with a 1955 Buick and > you'll be equally dead (probably even so at much lower speed), but > the car might be salvagable. And the tree (which was obviously at fault here) would be no more. Don McCorkle

I seriously doubt that that car would ever reach 155 mph. (248km/h!) (whats this got to do with r.a.s anyway - Mr. CEO :o) -- ed_ "Don Wilshe" <[email hidden]> skrev i melding news:rgCJc.11374$[email hidden]... > http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/default.htm > > -- > > > Donald R. Wilshe, CEO > 1st Enviro Safety, Inc. > 10200 Betsy Parkway > St. James City, Florida 33956 > http://www.1stenvirosafety.com > Email: [email hidden] > Phone: 888 578 9600 > Fax: 888 485-8765 > USA: 239 283-1222 > >

When I was in the army, three guys in my bataloin (sp?) killed themselfs in an old Opel Ascona. They "exited" the road at arpund 100mph - hit a tree that was about a foot+ thick - which they chopped down like a thoothpick before they stopped in another. That photo's got to ba a hoax imho - not to mention the caption. -- ed_

Don Wilshe ([email hidden]) wrote... > http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/default.htm Not 155mph and not on the autobahn. It was apparently a Ford Escort, somewhere in the UK, and the driver survived. http://www.topgear.com/content/my_topgear/prangs/05/03/ Ian -- Ian Riches Bedford, UK

>Not 155mph and not on the autobahn. > >It was apparently a Ford Escort, somewhere in the UK, and the driver >survived. > >http://www.topgear.com/content/my_topgear/prangs/05/03/ Ah, thanks. Like I said, where was the REST of the car? I didn't *think* that was the whole thing... Eldred -- http://www.umich.edu/~epickett Screamers League IICC League GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 Hist. +82.34 MoH:na N2k3 rank:in progress Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro US East

"EldredP" wrote: > >It was apparently a Ford Escort, somewhere in the UK, and the driver > >survived. > > > >http://www.topgear.com/content/my_topgear/prangs/05/03/ > > Ah, thanks. Like I said, where was the REST of the car? I didn't*think* that > was the whole thing... Well spotted, Eldred. I was trying to work out where the driver would have been. No wonder I couldn't work it out!

That was MY question! -Larry "EldredP" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Yow...where's the REST of the car??? > > Eldred > -- > http://www.umich.edu/~epickett > Screamers League > IICC League > GPLRank -6.0 MoGPL rank +267.80 > Ch.Rank +52.58 MoC +741.71 > Hist. +82.34 MoH:na > N2k3 rank:in progress > Slayer Spektera lvl 72 assassin > Slayer Spectral_K lvl 38 Necro > US East

"Raphael Barabas" wrote... > Jan Verschueren wrote: > > <snip> > You mean like this? http://fun-witze.piranho.com/bilder/m09.jpg Hehehe... good find. Jan. =---

"Ed Solheim" wrote... > When I was in the army, three guys in my bataloin (sp?) > killed themselfs in an old Opel Ascona. <snip> Infantry? Jan. <vbg> =---

"Ian Riches" wrote... > > <snip> > Not 155mph and not on the autobahn. > > It was apparently a Ford Escort, somewhere in the > UK, and the driver survived. Excellent work, Ian. Jan. =---

>Infantry? > >Jan. <vbg> Obvious officer material Jan. ;)

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Artillery. We did the shelling :o) (Actually all I did was sit inside APC and pushed buttons on a computer :o) -- ed_ "Jan Verschueren" <[email hidden]> skrev i melding news:kKXJc.187294$[email hidden]... > "Ed Solheim" wrote... > > When I was in the army, three guys in my bataloin (sp?) > > killed themselfs in an old Opel Ascona. <snip> > > Infantry? > > Jan. <vbg> > =--- > >

Don Wilshe wrote: > http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/photo/default.htm > > -- > Ah...an page full of BS. You will get run over doing the speed limit in the US, unless conditions are limiting traffic speed. I learned to drive in Germany, but driving in the US is far scarier.

Cannon Cocker ;) "Ed Solheim" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:40f89305$[email hidden]... > Artillery. We did the shelling :o) > > (Actually all I did was sit inside APC and pushed buttons on a computer:o) > > -- > ed_ >