My day job is as a reporter for the Fox affiliate in Middle Georgia. Thursday I was on my way to a story when I got word of a fatal accident, so I went to the location to film it.
Some guy in a white pickup pulled out in front of a 19yo driving a mustang on a highway, the mustang swerved to avoid the truck and got wrapped around a pole killing the kid driving. (no one else was in the car)
The worst part is the guy in the truck split and nobody got his tag number.
damn. a friend of mine was hit by a drunk driver 2 years ago. he got side swiped on the right rear and was spun into oncoming traffic. another car rear ended him. there was 2 younger teens in the back seat that were ejected out of the rear window, and another kid in the front passenger seat that ended up in the driver seat. he suffered a broken femur and head trauma. one in the back suffered a ruptured spleen and the other suffered a ruptured liver. here's his 98 gt. doesnt look like a mustang anymore.
hes going 35 and got hit by a guy speeding out of a parking lot drunk. however when it was hit in the side and hit by a car in the other lane, it acted like a dented soda can if you try to stand on it. it just crumpled. it looked scarier in person, looking at the interior and such.
and as for the black stang in the video I posted he was doing 55 and hit a large steel telephone pole (though they said concrete pole in the newscast) the momentum spun the car around and literally ripped it apart on the drivers side.
so yeah, in both cases, it doesn't take much speed to kill you.
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I bought a car, turned out to be an alien robot....who knew?
The news report called the road a highway. Traffic in the backround looked to be driving around 30mph. I understand the whole sideways into a pole thing but I'm pretty sure big speed was involved here. You are cut off, maybe you will hit the pole with the front. Cut off and sliding sideways into a pole. He was moving.
Mustangs are not good cars to be in when you are talking about hitting trucks, poles and concrete.
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One of the worst accidents I've seen in a while - 
