Unfortunate x5
 

Hi! Look what happened in Italy to a X5. Some people say that the speed was 180Km/h.
bye

Any details???????

Unfortunatly I don't know anything. Sorry.

Ouch, OMG - doesn't look good for the occupants.

Holy #$%^!

yeah, it's totalled :) :);)

That's just wrong. Look at the surroundings...it's a neighborhood, imagine the speed at which this had to have happend :tsk: .

It may look like hell with the sides ripped off and all, but aside from the roof coming down a little, the passenger compartment is somewhat unscathed..where's that zaino?

Yeah, it'll buff right out. :tsk:

That is on messed up X5! Anyone notice the shoe in the rubble?

:iagree: What moron would be going that fast in a residential neighborhood? I hope no innocent bystanders were hurt. Doesn't look good for the driver judging by the damage to the seat.

read motto #2, even in the safest vehicle I've ever driven - left side sheared off - had to have hit a big heavy truck

Wow, I noticed the shoe I wonder if the foot is still in it

Yeah, I noticed the sneaker in the debris...

He had to be hauling azz and impacted something pretty
severe. Sorta like that "pointey" front impact test the
Feds use now.

What a fookin mess.

I saw the shoe in the 1st pic and thought the leg was still attached!!!

Hopefully, these folks are OK.

Let's see what mods we can identify? I think I see alum RBs.

judging by how ripped up the driver seat is...my best guess would be that he most likely lost his legs....and the shoes a hit ....man its very unsettling. makes you think twice !!! Hope things are okay tho!


is ti me or there isnt any curtain airbags or well the driver airbag unit loooks f...ed up like ripped out...i can see the passangers but damn......

Looks As If It Was Parked And A Tank Ran Over It

i would guess either a head on collision, or a t-bone.

the drivers air bag is missing from the steering wheel, maybe it was rippped out trying to get at the driver.

Some details would be great...

The neighborhood looks very modest. It looks suburban. You'd need two vehicles closing at 70 mph each to create that much damage, no?

I am guessing the guy was trying to beat a commuter train, hit the brakes at the last second, tried to veer off, and the train whacked him and kicked the car back. Although, in the last picture, there is a truck behind the wreck and a debris field in the foreground as if they dragged it away from something. Just a guess. I think train because there is no other foreign sheet metal on the vehicle.

I attended an accident just as bad once. Car was in 3 main parts, much worse damage than the X pictured here. First looked like a car bomb. Estimated speed 130 mph + into a steel light pole. Both driver and passenger were unhurt. Walked away! At least until driver's wife arrived and found he had been "out" with his secretary.

I bet the insurance company won't even total it out. Some poor sap will be buying that truck somewhere.

Thanks, Captain Obvious :tsk: ;)

My friend owns a huge wrecking yard here in the Niagara area. I have seen worse, but that one is up there.

Just noticed something. For that severe of an impact, if you look at the cab.. for the most part it is in tact. The steering wheel and dash are, for the most part, where they should be. Not impossible that they lived through the crash.

But what sheared off the left side? Look where the driver's door and L/F quarter panel is? It does appear that the driver may have gotten lucky.

Not likely. Look at the big gash in the driver's seat and the fact that it's turned almost 45 degrees. If the driver was still in the seat he must of sustained some damage to his legs at least. Perhaps that explains the shoe.

This happened in Moscow, Russia. The driver is dead and 2 passengers in hospital. He hit a lamp post while trying to overtake another vehicle.

I have found it in an italian site, they say it happened near Milano.
If you have more news about it, let me know. How the speed?

that shoe looks like a sandel to me. not much blood anywhere. and the vehicle always looks alot worse once the fire guys have been in with the cutting gear but it still looks bad though.


Can anyone see where the air bags have gone.??? they are usually still hanging around can't see any remains of them. H'mm

Unfotunate x5 - link to all the pics
 

Here is the link http://steer.ru/archives/2006/06/26/001455.php

:iagree:

Ya think?
:rofl: :rofl:

I am sorry but something is just not right with that. Look at the position ot the X5 it's sitting on the road nice and centre like it had been plonked there.

Look at front passengers wheel got grass sticking out the alloy. Like it had gone off road hit the grass.

are we sure it is not one of those "this is what happens" if you drink and drive adds. look at the debris it all to placed

That must have been one strong lamp post. It peeled the side off the X5 like it was a tuna can.

I agree with Fiona...looks like it was airlifted to that site from the
accident scene. :confused:
NEway, not looking good.

I was thinking the same thing! It looks like it could be sitting on a school campus :dunno:

call me crazy, but that's my gut feeling ;)

to me it just looks like the debris was cleaned up from the roadway...

How does that explain the grass/mud on the tires?

I agree with Gresch, it just looks like they swept debris a bit.

Tires have been known to not be perfectly black :confused: . Where is this grass on the tires you speak of? Even if I did see it, it would be perfectly reasonable considering the X would have had to have gone off the road to hit a light pole. Look at the second pic where the people are standing in front of the vehicle...there's grass and mud..

What's behind the guy in the blue shirt in the second pic? To me it looks like a vehicle sideways. On the vertical blue object there's what looks like windshield washers.

i don't see any grass/mud on the tires... they just look like dirty tires

Like Fiona mentioned, this car definitely was opened by rescuers, to extricate the driver. Look just above the driver's seat...you see the sheet metal was cut with a reciprocating saw. The windshield was pulled out and thrown forward, and the steering column pulled forward, away from the driver. The driver's door was tossed backwards, all to get to the driver.

:withstupi

Did you look at the additional pictures in the link? It shows the right side of the vehicle.

The right would have appropriately been off the road hitting the light pole. Perhaps even both sides.. The grass is certainly torn up circa the curb, and mud is visible..

Thay cut the left side off to get the bodies out.

I am interesting in the bodies more than the car.....

what link? i just saw the 2 in the original post

Here ya go, Greschie!

Geez - what a bunch of "glass half empty" perspectives you guys have! Hell, with a new body, frame, interior, suspension, wheels, and glass, you'd never suspect it was in a fender-bender!

thanks.... it still looks to me like it hit a grassy section then something else and the resulting emergency squad "surgery" caused the rest of the damage extricating the victims... it could have been anything... i'm just guessing :dunno:

made me feel a bit sick that but reminded me of this website

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/

they have a x5 section but nothing as bad as this crash

Looking at the pics and the Russian Steer Magazine link. If you look at the road marks to the front of the car and lack of road scarring to the rear, it would indicate the car is facing the opposite direction to the direction of its travel. its been up on the grass verge, scarring can be seen and accounts for the grass on the tyres etc, in front of its final position. The debris is mainly from when it came to a halt but a lot is from the cutting crew accessing the cabin and giving FA in the interim.

Its does look like its dropped down because thats effectively what its done its popped up and spun round and then dropped down rear wheels last, see that from the broken glass fragments at the rear.

The sandal seems irrelevant as it has not been cut off, standard practice on removal from a casualty. Most modern car accident fatalities are from major internal trauma and therefore a lack of blood at the scene means nothing to the outcome for the casualties.

THat's some sound analysis :thumbup: .

btw, this might be the first time I'm seeing your X, through your sig...hands down the best looking one I've ever seen :drool: :drool: :drool: . Post more so that we can see your X, lol.

Yeah, I found my own CLK on that site a couple years ago. He took it off after I complained that he had done it without permission.

Dibs on the kidney grill.

Thats assuming the driver had a

Kidney Donor card !!

good one :rofl: :thumbup:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Thats assuming the driver had a

Kidney Donor card !!]

Thats naughty that..just finished a 12 hour shift and that made me smile:)

a 4.4 sport packaged x5 is a terrible thing to waste. =\

i was hoping those pics were photoshopped.

The X is (or was) identical to mine...scared me when I first saw the pics!

Obviously this happened in Russia. Some more pics from different angles. Does any one knows russian?

Here is translation from russian using rustran.com of post from this page ?

In the evening saw consequences of failure, apparently Х5 overtook on встречке опель which the left turn, as a result a meeting with a column did. As eyewitnesses speak speed was not less than 100 км.ч. Unfortunately the driver was lost two passengers with wounds are taken away in hospital. The second авто, has suffered much less. Miracle on a counter strip was not machines. Take care.



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Great Dig, LM!

Here's Babelfish translation...about the same:

It in the evening saw the consequences of emergency, judging by everything Khshch it passed on vstrechke of opel' which made left turning, as a result encounter with the post. As speak eyewitnesses speed was not less than 100 km.ch. Unfortunately driver perished two passengers with the injuries they were driven away into the hospital. The second auto-, suffered considerably less. Miraculously on the crossband not there were machines. Coast itself.

This thread reads like a forensics discussion. There are certainly of folks here with a keen eye for detail. No stone left unturned here!

Drex was right when he called this place CSI X5world! :)