Porsche Wreck in Guatemala

[schnell318]

This really bad accident happened in Guatemala City on April 16th
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The passenger cell appears to be intact but some people say the driver and passenger died due to internal bleeding. If you ask me I think they should be ok.

[TT]

Since you post here I suppose you took the pic yourself. Did you just stumbled upon this terrible scene while driving around?

[schnell318]

A friend of mine saw the wreck friday morning and told me to get my camera and go to the scene since it was a fairly impressive thing (is not everyday here that you see a car like that completely destroyed).

Someone said the driver was drunk :twisted:

[st-anger]

my heart is bleeding... :( :( :(
seems like the driver´s ok, BUT the car, the car....the Porsche.... noooooooo :x

[jon_s]

The car looks to have protected the people quite well.

It looks like the driver took a corner too fast, lost control and hit a tree/post. The car survived this impact well. However, the car then spun, and the rear of the car then collected another object. I suspect it was this impact that would have done the occupants any harm. The sudden sideways change of direction may have been the killer. Obviously I know nothing, and am probably completely wrong.

What gets on my nerves is the fact that the driver may have been drunk. Obviously that is only speculation, but if it is true, this crash is even sadder than it already is.


(p.s. that blue is really nice!)

[ozzman]

what a coincidence, i had a friend that told me the same thing but i couldn´t see it myself.

[schnell318]

It looks like the driver took a corner too fast, lost control and hit a tree/post. The car survived this impact well. However, the car then spun, and the rear of the car then collected another object. I suspect it was this impact that would have done the occupants any harm. The sudden sideways change of direction may have been the killer. Obviously I know nothing, and am probably completely wrong.


You are right, the car understeered and then hit a post then a tree and then several other.
This is what happened to the tree
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[noosee]

OMG. Thats sad.
I just hope that people are ok.

[Evo]

How come the passenger airbag did not shoot open ??
It opened halfway only but did not deployed :| :?:

[TT]

At high speed airbags are not engaged.. so maybe it was partially opened because the crash was really bad and that part popped open

[SPEEDKILLAR]

The airbags only work when you have your seatbelt on, don't know if it has anything to do with speed though TT...

[SPEEDKILLAR]

And as for the passenger's airbag, could be a malfuntion...

[SPEEDKILLAR]

^^^^^you sure thamar, I think my Benz dealer told me that its a safety feature,

could you imagine not wearing your seatbelt and on impact getting thrown forward when suddenly your airbag throws you behind, I don't think your neck would survive...

[schnell318]

Of course the passenger airbag did deploy, and as far as I know, airbags stay inflated just for a few seconds. What didn´t deploy was the passenger´s side airbag just the one on the driver´s door did.

[alex_jean22]

Do you know if the speed indicator(don't know the exact word) stop at the speed it was when there is an impact? to show to the policeman the speed the car was going at the moment of the impact or it's just a coincidence on the picture?

[schnell318]

I think the speedometer normally doesn't stop when there is an impact, but anyway police don't give a fuck here in Guatemala about the speed the car was travelling

[T-Bird]

that airbag definitely deployed the damn door is up and the bag is hanging down if you've ever had one open on you or have seen one open they inflate and instantly deflate when something hits it to absorb the force rather than a person hitting an insanely high pressure bag it would almost be like hitting the dashboard. And many cars deploy the airbags no matter what happens with the seatbelt. very few cars have features that don't open the bags, some Mercedes won't deploy the airbags if a child's safety seat is on the though, sort of like some pickup's have the option to turn off the passenger side airbags.

[corvette97]

but anyway police don't give a fuck here in Guatemala

he's fuckin right!!! and u can see one of the pigs on a red uniform.

[schnell318]

Here´s another pic of the inside of the car so you can be sure the airbag did deploy

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[oscargarza88]

wow, u have posted some "cool"(in the bad way...) crash pics lately!
and ive notices lately that the speedometer doesnt go down in the wreks... is this supposed to happen?

[Zonda11]

Shit...Sad..when i saw the disc in the first picture, I figured it would be much worse.

[Vansquish]

That's pretty impressive. Must've been going pretty damn fast to mess the car up like that. The Enzo crashes I've seen have looked a lot less bad by comparison, but that's probably a result of the carbonfiber construction instead of monocoque and spaceframe.

[Porsche_Cayenne]

It's incredible. . . probably the car was running fast. . .

damn, it's a Turbo o.O

[schnell318]

and ive notices lately that the speedometer doesnt go down in the wreks... is this supposed to happen?

Well as of what I have seen, speedometers normally go down when there is a crash. In the Audi wreck in Portugal and in this one it didn´t go down and I´m guessing it was because almost all or all the wheels/supension/brakes (sensors??) were taken away from the main structure due to the impact.

[SPEEDKILLAR]

I think I've heard once the speedometers these days, point the speed when the car crashes, not sure though... :?

[T-Bird]

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ they have black boxes on alot of newer cars that also record all that information so that it is much easier to find this information such as speed and whether the driver tried to brake or avoid anything.

[oscargarza88]

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ they have black boxes on alot of newer cars that also record all that information so that it is much easier to find this information such as speed and whether the driver tried to brake or avoid anything.
yea ive also heard that, but i think itsstill like in creation, i dont know if cars right now have that

[RC45]

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ they have black boxes on alot of newer cars that also record all that information so that it is much easier to find this information such as speed and whether the driver tried to brake or avoid anything.
yea ive also heard that, but i think itsstill like in creation, i dont know if cars right now have that


Data recorders that store at least the last 5 seconds of data have been in use for at least 6 years or so on many cars.

More than you could/would imagine.

[Drive4Ever]

jeez, w/ the trees like that, he must be going fast and torned up the breake assembly, wow. :shock:

[schnell318]

Is it the same place than the Audi A3 crash seen some weeks before?

As far as I know the Audi A3 crash was in Portugal and this accident took place in Guatemala, not exactly Europe :wink:

[BADMIHAI]

Looks like it's joined the 911 heaven. No, not some oil baron's garage. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :(

[spd]

woh all 4 wheels are gone.....

[xtmlmd]

It was a really bad crash but so ive heartd the ones who where in the car did not die they were quite messed up but they lived!

[Tomerville]

Poor people...*sigh* poor Turbo :cry:

[gdc]

Look at that twisted alloy...

poor 911...

Man ..I gotta drive my car slowly!

[Ziploc]

i would have grabbed those beautiful discs and hung them on my wall :P

[bmagni]

the fun thing is that some people say poor car, instead of poor people....