BMW - The Ultimate FLYING Machine
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BMW - The Ultimate FLYING Machine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/4493713.stm
Car lands in home's upper floor
View the trail of destruction
Two people have been injured - one seriously - after a car "took off" and smashed into the top floor of a house.
The injured people, who were in the car, were taken to hospital after the crash just before midnight on Wednesday, in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Police are investigating exactly how the car crashed into the upstairs wall, after going out of control on the A30.
The occupants escaped uninjured as they were asleep in another bedroom of the house when the red BMW hit their home.
A police spokeswoman said that one man was found in a passenger seat and the other man, who they believe could be the driver, was found under the front wheels.
Joyce Harman told BBC News how she and her husband Joe were woken by the crash.
"It was just horrendous," she said.
"My husband thought the dog had knocked something over downstairs but as he got to the bedroom door he could see the hole in the wall and all the furniture moved.
"That's when we came downstairs and saw the car there."
'Absolutely incredible'
The Harmans have been told they will not be able to live in their home for at least two months and that it will have to be partially rebuilt.
The damaged room was their study, which used to be their children's bedroom.
The couple's neighbour, George Harrison, said what had happened was "just absolutely incredible."
One person was seriously hurt
"The fence has been knocked down and the car's gone through a pathway, a signpost, a tree and the front lawn.
"How this happened I shall never know."
A Hampshire Police spokesperson said the red BMW lost control on a bend of the nearby A30, hit the kerb and "launched through the air, colliding with the first floor of a house in Rainbow Close."
"A full investigation has been launched into the circumstances of the crash and how the vehicle collided with the first floor," she said.
Officers have not yet dismissed reports that a third person may have been driving the car.
They are trying to trace the vehicle's registered owner, but it was not reported stolen at the time of the crash.
The injured people have not been named.
Car lands in home's upper floor
View the trail of destruction
Two people have been injured - one seriously - after a car "took off" and smashed into the top floor of a house.
The injured people, who were in the car, were taken to hospital after the crash just before midnight on Wednesday, in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Police are investigating exactly how the car crashed into the upstairs wall, after going out of control on the A30.
The occupants escaped uninjured as they were asleep in another bedroom of the house when the red BMW hit their home.
A police spokeswoman said that one man was found in a passenger seat and the other man, who they believe could be the driver, was found under the front wheels.
Joyce Harman told BBC News how she and her husband Joe were woken by the crash.
"It was just horrendous," she said.
"My husband thought the dog had knocked something over downstairs but as he got to the bedroom door he could see the hole in the wall and all the furniture moved.
"That's when we came downstairs and saw the car there."
'Absolutely incredible'
The Harmans have been told they will not be able to live in their home for at least two months and that it will have to be partially rebuilt.
The damaged room was their study, which used to be their children's bedroom.
The couple's neighbour, George Harrison, said what had happened was "just absolutely incredible."
One person was seriously hurt
"The fence has been knocked down and the car's gone through a pathway, a signpost, a tree and the front lawn.
"How this happened I shall never know."
A Hampshire Police spokesperson said the red BMW lost control on a bend of the nearby A30, hit the kerb and "launched through the air, colliding with the first floor of a house in Rainbow Close."
"A full investigation has been launched into the circumstances of the crash and how the vehicle collided with the first floor," she said.
Officers have not yet dismissed reports that a third person may have been driving the car.
They are trying to trace the vehicle's registered owner, but it was not reported stolen at the time of the crash.
The injured people have not been named.
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BMW literally flew for many years.........up till the end of World War II they were one of the chief suppliers of aircraft engines for the German civilian and military aircraft industry. They turned to motorcycles, and later....in the 1950's...... to automobiles, only because they were forbidden to produce any more aircraft parts by the terms of the German surrender.
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This general type of accident is very common with houses that are located on or near sharp bends in the road, although less common now than in previous years because cars handle much better and are less likely to lose control. However....for a car to get airborne like this is unusual......this is more Hollywood Starsky and Hutch and Clint Eastwood stuff than real life.
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Originally Posted by chicagoblknazn
OK...I am not really understanding this.....how in the world did that happen? 
it's easy. BMW is so good that it can break the laws of physics and flew away w/o an inclinations.
but this is quite amazing tho.
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