How Did Anyone Survive This Explosive Audi A7 Crash?
 

Story
http://jalopnik.com/5906364/holy-cra...ive-audi-crash

Pics
http://jalopnik.com/5906347/audi-a7-...otos/gallery/2

wowza, speechless

wow...
upon first look of the street, i knew it was vancouver
the style of houses and the greenery
and the crazy speed sometimes rich do in vancouver are just pure stupid

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17l7...g/original.jpg

Cars are mostly air, so it's like your driving a big balloon. People seem to forget this, and feel invincible behind the wheel.

Apparently the driver had way too much booze. Figures.......

That dude is one lucky fool to be alive and to have not killed anyone else in the process either.

Luck is how he survived. I wouldn't want to play THAT game again! Good thing no one got hurt.

The amount of force to do that, is quite astonishing.

Are the telephone poles in Canada coated in lead or something:confused:

Holy crap...

just glad he didn't hurt anyone else. hope he get a major fine or other penalty.

how did he survive ??? God + German engineering. Thats insane. I dont think I have ever seen a wreck this bad where the driver made it

I'm curious to see how exactly the lay out of that street is if they are saying, right side of a sweeping corner that's slightly off-camber"

Wow!!!!!!!!

Do a Google Maps search on "Cambie Street near McGuigan Avenue, Vancouver"

By comparing the Google satellite view to the pics in the news report, the second house south of McGuigan on the west side of Cambie looks to be the crash site. You can see the lamp post in Google maps as well as the little tree in front of the car. You can't see the street camber, but most streets slope for rain runoff making a negative camber in the right lane of the curve leading up to the spot.

The pole looks to be about 120 feet from the end of the curve, so he must have been going sideways or spinning south bound on Cambie for that distance. He must have been going really fast.