Beamer goes airborne, hits tree, splits in half, and kills five men

[The Yankee]

Embankment (85 feet) in meters, which may be more useful than kilometers: 25.908 m

Airborne length (200 feet) = 60.96 m

It's just a shame that those idiots had to spread such wreckage with their sheer stupidity.

 

[Mise]

sounds like a GCSE Physics question

 

[Godwynn]

Does this make anyone think of the commercial where a game-show like host enters a car full of speeding teenagers telling them how slowing down will save their lives and guaranteeing them complete satisfaction?

 

[The Yankee]

Does this make anyone think of the commercial where a game-show like host enters a car full of speeding teenagers telling them how slowing down will save their lives and guaranteeing them complete satisfaction?

Slowing down? Are you mad!? And mess up teh uber physikz?

But now that you mentioned it....

 

[Mise]

If they'd been going faster they might have cleared the tree.

maybe that's what they were trying to do...

 

[C~G]

If they'd been going faster they might have cleared the tree.

maybe that's what they were trying to do...

"Hold on! It's gonna be close!"... ...

 

[emzie]

Looking at the pictures, 2 things strike me.

1: if I didn't see the wheels, I would have never guessed "car"
2: That's one hell of a tree.

 

[CaptainF]

No way in hell they were sober.

I mean really...holy hell. Airborne for 200 feet?

 

[Leonel]

Good riddance to Ricer Wannabe's, I say!

 

[Luckymoose]

If only 1 of them had lived so he could go on to save the world from reckless driving.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

By my math, they were going about 60 mph, or 26.52 m/s.

 

[Mirc]

By my math, they were going about 60 mph, or 26.52 m/s.

Glad that you converted that, but you know, in Europe we don't use m/s, we use km/h, m/s are mostly a mathematical/physic unit, not one used in real life.

That would be 95.47 km/h, BTW. Close to the hundred.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

That is so awesome (except for the five dead).

 

[EconomistBR]

Glad that you converted that, but you know, in Europe we don't use m/s, we use km/h, m/s are mostly a mathematical/physic unit, not one used in real life.

That would be 95.47 km/h, BTW. Close to the hundred.

"m/s" LOL.
Only 95 km/h, they must have been travelling faster.
I mean to split a BMW in half requires a lot of force.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Glad that you converted that, but you know, in Europe we don't use m/s, we use km/h, m/s are mostly a mathematical/physic unit, not one used in real life.

I'm slowly learning there are poor miserable bastards who don't live in the US of A. You're lucky you didn't get it in hands per shakes of a lamb's tail.

That would be 95.47 km/h, BTW. Close to the hundred.

The only reason I knew that was Microsoft Train Simulator.

 

[C~G]

By my math, they were going about 60 mph, or 26.52 m/s.

How did you measured it?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

"m/s" LOL.
Only 95 km/h, they must have been travelling faster.
I mean to split a BMW in half requires a lot of force.

The numbers don't lie.

Keep in mind that this was only their horizontal speed, they had been accelerating downward for two and a half seconds, too. Further, all that force was being put into a very thin aread (the tree); think of the tree as an axe head driving into a log.

EDIT:

How did you measured it?

Simple kinematics equation. We knew how far they fell and how far they travelled, how fast they accelerated vertically and horizontally (once airborne), the rest is just math.

 

[Mise]

60mph is bloody fast....

Normally, if a car is travelling at 60mph on a road, and it sees a lamp post in front of it, it has time to break to, say, 30mph. It's very rare for a car to actually hit something at 60mph.

And obviously these guys couldn't slam the breaks.

 

[West 36]

They didn't have time to think about getting out of the car when it was in mid-air.

 

[Alpine Trooper]

White kids in a Beamer? Probably a base model 3 series which is the brokest and slowest car in the world. They also must have been racing a Saab.