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Title: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Parsifal on January 26, 2009, 09:12:56 AM: Quote from: Verso
Car Lands in Church Roof after Spectacular Accident (http://"http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,603542,00.html")

Police on Monday were trying to figure out exactly how a 23-year-old driver in a town near Chemnitz managed to crash his car into a church roof seven meters off the ground.

Forget the "Dukes of Hazard." In the eastern German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on Sunday night, a 23-year-old driver speeding through the town center lost control of his vehicle, launched off an embankment and ended up smashed into the roof of the village church some seven meters (23 feet) up. And far from driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, as Bo and Luke Duke favored, the man was behind the wheel of a modest Skoda Octavia station wagon.

Just how the driver, who was evacuated out of the church attic and taken to the hospital with serious injuries, ended up flying so high remains something of a mystery. Police officer Knut Wagner told reporters merely that "the driver took off due to unexplained circumstances, flew some 30 meters (98 feet) through the air and ended up seven meters up in the church roof."

Police surmise that the driver's speed caused him to miss a corner and hit the embankment. The roof of the church was seriously damaged by the car, which remained lodged in the timbers until a crane could be brought in to remove it.

A blood test is to reveal whether the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident. When asked just how such an accident could happen, Wagner responded: "That is a very good question. I've never seen anything like it."

Specialists, including physicists, are at the scene trying to reconstruct exactly what happened.

cgh -- with wire reports

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How the hell did this happen?! (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/smilies/eek3.gif)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=31317206&postcount=676
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: ﮎingulaЯiτy on January 26, 2009, 09:18:14 AM: I'm thinking the car hit a curb, smashed the hood into the ground and flipped itself into the air ...and it just happened to land facing forwards into the church's roof. ???

Still that's messed up.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Robbyj on January 26, 2009, 09:18:34 AM: Fail³.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: ﮎingulaЯiτy on January 26, 2009, 09:19:11 AM: Why cubed? I count the damage to the church as a win. ;)
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:19:49 AM: This is one of those moments when you go. WTF!?!?

Lol...I want to see the physicists answer to that one.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: ﮎingulaЯiτy on January 26, 2009, 09:22:39 AM: Quote from: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:19:49 AM
This is one of those moments when you go. WTF!?!?

Lol...I want to see the physicists answer to that one.
And if they can't come up with something completely conclusive, we will conclude that god slapped the car.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Robbyj on January 26, 2009, 09:24:55 AM: Quote from: ﮎingulaЯiτy on January 26, 2009, 09:19:11 AM
Why cubed? I count the damage to the church as a win. ;)

I guess in that case it would be fail⁴, so fail it's win.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:27:10 AM: Quote from: ﮎingulaЯiτy on January 26, 2009, 09:22:39 AM
Quote from: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:19:49 AM
This is one of those moments when you go. WTF!?!?

Lol...I want to see the physicists answer to that one.
And if they can't come up with something completely conclusive, we will conclude that god slapped the car.
Or he was abducted by aliens who decided he needed to be dropped off at church.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: theonlydann on January 26, 2009, 09:28:00 AM: SO uhm... how many feet is that?
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Robbyj on January 26, 2009, 09:28:32 AM: 3 at the very least.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Parsifal on January 26, 2009, 09:30:15 AM: Quote from: theonlydann on January 26, 2009, 09:28:00 AM
SO uhm... how many feet is that?

This many. (http://tinyurl.com/bd9y2k)
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Robbyj on January 26, 2009, 09:31:51 AM: Quote from: Robosteve on January 26, 2009, 09:30:15 AM
This many. (http://tinyurl.com/bd9y2k)

That will never get old.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: theonlydann on January 26, 2009, 09:32:33 AM: Quote from: Robosteve on January 26, 2009, 09:30:15 AM
Quote from: theonlydann on January 26, 2009, 09:28:00 AM
SO uhm... how many feet is that?

This many. (http://tinyurl.com/bd9y2k)
you are so sweet!
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Wendy on January 26, 2009, 09:35:05 AM: About 23 feet, I think.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: physics101 on January 26, 2009, 09:47:36 AM: Remember the Fail Thread? Wasn't there a pic of a similar situation on there? It felt like Dejavu to read that article.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:50:57 AM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/QueenC4707/image%20macros/failtacular.jpg)
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: physics101 on January 26, 2009, 09:53:54 AM: :o You read my mind moonlit. Gracias
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Moonlit on January 26, 2009, 09:55:01 AM: Quote from: physics101 on January 26, 2009, 09:53:54 AM
:o You read my mind moonlit. Gracias
Denada. :)
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Mr. Ireland on January 26, 2009, 10:09:31 AM: Has anyone filed the bug report yet? This is a pretty big one.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Parsifal on January 26, 2009, 12:43:46 PM: Quote from: Mr. Ireland on January 26, 2009, 10:09:31 AM
This is a pretty big one.

That's what she said.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Sexual Harassment Panda on January 26, 2009, 01:35:47 PM: That is awesome.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Parsifal on July 26, 2010, 03:38:05 AM: Bumped because this is awesome and because Moonlit has posted in this thread.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 26, 2010, 05:19:45 AM: What's up with all the non-RM bumping?
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Mugthulhu on July 28, 2010, 01:40:39 AM: I would have preferred if he had blown it up instead of just smashing it's roof in with his car. It would have done more damage. Even if it would just have been an accident, just like this..
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Wendy on July 29, 2010, 10:53:18 AM: I would like to see a reconstruction. In 3-D. With explosions and trained ferrets driving.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on July 29, 2010, 09:27:24 PM: I miss Moonlit.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: Colonel Gaydafi on July 29, 2010, 09:31:06 PM: Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on July 29, 2010, 09:27:24 PM
I miss Moonlit.
Title: Re: Driver jumps seven metres into the air to collide with church roof
Post by: theonlydann on July 30, 2010, 11:58:56 AM: (http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo149/theonlydann/th_dannthumb-1.jpg?t=1280516014)