A guy in my neighborhood just bought his wife a 650i convertible YESTERDAY. Was driving out of our development and someone going too fast in the opposite direction this evening around a curve on the wrong side of the road caused the 650i owner to go off the road and then lost control and hit a tree and then bounced back across the road to end up like this.

Remember this car is 1 day old.

 

The BMW assistance called him immediately because the air bags had gone off, and said they'd send a tow truck. 3 hours later no tow truck and I had to leave him there in the pitch dark still waiting for the truck to show up.

 

Ouch. Those were some nice rims though. Unlike everyone else, I always like the convertible more.

 

chrome wheels have no place on a bmw, but i do like that wheel style. Sad day for that owner, im sure they will get a brand new one, looks totaled.

 

 

ouch!! what a nice car!!

 

Multiple choice:

A) It'll buff right out.
B) Safety system works (note the airbag and pop-up hoops deployed).
C) Is Mr. "just bought his wife a 650i convertible YESTERDAY" looking to adopt a 30 year old son?
or
D) Glad everybody is ok.

 

I'll go with A. Scrub a little dent-b-gone on there and that little scratch'll fade from memory.

So much for BMW Assist. Maybe the tow truck met the same fate further down the road.

BTW Bit, I can see your Explorer ...

M.

 

Ouch!!! Glad that guy and his wife are ok. People need to be extra carefull...

 

How fast can that golf cart go???

Seems like both drivers are guilty are driving a little too fast.

Nevertheless, if that 6 was driving if even less than 25mph (in a residential area), damage shouldn't have been that bad. Airbags don't deploy at low speed collision, right?

 

That............ sucks!

 

Good eyes! Here's a bit better view.

 

Haha - that's a Polaris off road vehicle. It's actually pretty fast.

The 'other' driver never stopped and we don't know who it was. The BMW driver says the other driver was on the wrong side of the road cutting the corner and that caused the BMW driver to first swerve toward the side he ended up on but the other driver swerved the same way so the BMW driver then corrected the other way (he says he overcorrected) and his left side 2 wheels ended up in the dirt and he says he lost traction and his front left side hit the tree, his car then bouncing off the tree to the right and across the road and he stopped where the picture shows.

He (BMW driver) kept telling me over and over how slow he was going, but I wasn't quite buying it. I'm not a cop or having any real involvement in this except I'm the Pres. of the home owner's association and went out to see what happened to see if there's something we could/should have done. That's also why I took the pics.

Anyway, do any Bimmerphiles here know if airbags won't deploy below 25mph or some other speed? That would be VERY useful information. Not only did the wheel airbag go off, but so did the driver's side one too.

His doberman was in the back seat (yeah, in a new $90K car ) and must have had quite a shock too.

 

Seems like the only vehicle that went "off road" was the 6. sorry , couldn't resist.

Some googling revealed some sources that airbags deploy around 12 mph into a fixed wall. http://www.aorc.org/faq.asp.
I don't buy it b/c I know/heard of friends/acquaintances where they were involved in accidents going around even 20-25 mph and none of them had their airbags deployed.

Still losing traction and bouncing off other wall..........at low speed.......just hard to believe. An traffic accident investigator would be perfect for re-creating this

 

Is that a river or some kind of waterfall in the backround?