lotus elise wreck

[soccerjunky]

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[Meiac09]

dibs on the speedo pic for avatar.

light may be good on the track...
hope the occupants didn't get hurt...too bad...

[AutoXer]

Ouch! That hurts. Wonder what happened?

[Estroil 4.8is]

That car will make a nice matching trailer to haul their racing tires...

[AzNMpower32]

I don't care if it passes gov't crash tests. A sub one-ton, all aluminum vehicle cannot stand up to any kind of crash. I tell people that if you crashed into a stop sign at 30mph in one of those you'd die.

[RamVA]

Originally Posted by AzNMpower32

I don't care if it passes gov't crash tests. A sub one-ton, all aluminum vehicle cannot stand up to any kind of crash. I tell people that if you crashed into a stop sign at 30mph in one of those you'd die.

Would you say the same thing about an F1 car?

[xx3]

Originally Posted by RamVA

Would you say the same thing about an F1 car?

But I think AzNMpower32's point is that you don't drive F1 cars on the street...

@soccerjunky

Fill us in on what happened! Hows the driver, how did the Elise end up like this?!

[RamVA]

Originally Posted by xx3

Fill us in on what happened! Hows the driver, how did the Elise end up like this?!

The driver was an Elisetalker named Jack Griffith. He lost control at high speed and hit two pickup trucks. He died. There is a long thread on it over there.

These cars are remarkably safe for their size, and there's a reason that race cars are built this way. No car is impenetrable, though. Stay safe...

[soccerjunky]

Man dies after 3-vehicle wreck

An Austin man died Thursday after the car he was driving collided with two pickups in western Travis County, a Texas Department of Public Safety official said.

Jack Griffith, 41, was traveling west at a high speed on FM 2244 between West Lake Hills and Bee Cave just after 1:30 p.m. when he lost control of his car and hit an eastbound GMC pickup driven by William Jackson, 42, of Austin, DPS communications operator Analisa Guerra said. Then the car collided with an eastbound Ford pickup driven by Cutberto Segura, 29, of Austin, Guerra said.

Griffith was taken to Brackenridge Hospital, where he died.

Jackson, Segura, and two passengers in the Ford — Oscar Anjeles, 24, and Armando Carrillo, 31 — were taken to St. David's Hospital, and all were in stable condition, Guerra said.

Everyone involved in the crash was wearing a seat belt, Guerra said.

Compiled from staff and wire reports

pic of him here

http://www.elisetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38859

[Meiac09]

rip.
+2 for AzNM