The location sounds like where russ road tunes... definately not cool. the car was estimated to be going over 100 mph and crashed from teh frontage road on to the interstate.
the wcco link has a picture of the car, you can see the rims so maybe someone could identify them (i'm not familiar with the style of them)
just saw the vid again on fox9. the freaking car BURST INTO FLAMES the second it hit the wall. wtf, why the hell would that happen. also, i didnt recognize who's rims those are.
Here's a screen grab from the video. Low quality so it's kinda hard to tell, almost looks like LGT rims. I'm not sure, not good in any case.
Sure the car was Silver? That could just be the paint burned off, KSTP had a pic on the front page and the rear trunk looked partially blue possibly, but then again it could be lighting.
That cars been burned man. It was completely engulfed in flames, it could be any color dude. I hope this isn't anyone on the boards car.
Does anyone on here have those rims? i checked a direct search but didn't get anything :crosses fingers
Two people were killed early today in a fiery single-car crash that led authorities to shut down eastbound Interstate Hwy. 94 in Woodbury just after 1 a.m. Trooper Beth Stanton of the State Patrol, only minutes into the investigation, said the car might have come from a frontage road just south of the freeway and crashed through a fence. The small silver car appeared to have knocked down about 40 feet of the fence and a four-foot-tall utility box before it crossed the eastbound lanes and slammed into a concrete median dividing the interstate. Thirty minutes after the crash, smoke still rose from the crumpled wreckage, where both people died. About a dozen squad cards and fire trucks lit the area with floodlights and flashing emergency lights as people from the neighborhood gathered alongside the frontage road. “It went flying down the road about 100 miles per hour and didn’t stop,†said Curt Gilbert, 31, of Woodbury. “They must not have known it was a dead-end. It was on fire as soon as it hit.†Gilbert said he was smoking a cigarette on his apartment balcony neear the scene when he saw the car speeding north on Weir Drive, which ends just before the freeway. Drivers could turn left or right at the frontage road, but the victims’ car sped straight, shooting down a grassy incline and then across the freeway lanes before it slammed into the barrier. Other residents said the crash was so loud they heard it from inside their apartments. Traffic was temporarily diverted from eastbound 94 onto the cloverleaf for I-694, about a block from the crash. I-94 was re-opened by 3 a.m. The victims' names have not been released.
it apears to be wingless, i don't see any holes in the trunk lid... or what appears to be the trunk lid. you can see it had some sort of aftermarket exhaust in that pic too.
if they were A wearing their seatbelts, and B the car didtn start on fire, they probably would have survived
A few observations from what I can see: It was a sedan, check out the shape of the rear taillight housings. From what I can see, there's still silver paint along the lower edges of the front door. Those could be the factory BBS option on second glance, but I've only seen one or two of those sets on cars. It was a wingless from what I can see, I don't see any holes drilled into the lid and there isn't any melted material that'd be there otherwise. The sideskirts are unpainted. As far as it bursting into flames, it's not that uncommon. I've heard of a few WRX's in passenger front impacts that have burst into flames because the turbocharger was knocked around and the oil lines burst and the oil itself caught fire. Once an engine gets going, there's plenty underhood to keep burning. It's a matter of a couple minutes before the interior will become involved. That would've been a really ****ty recovery for the fire/rescue crews, they'll be doing a critical incident debrief after that.
We could also blame the presence of some other type of fuel lines in the engine bay, (meth/alki injection). High pressure in the fuel lines from an upgraded turbo would be everywhere when an engine hits a wall doing a 100mph. The entire motor would grenade spreading fuel and fire everywhere. When that much fuel is then fed into an engine thats in pieces and ON FIRE, it wouldnt take long to reach the fuel tank. This lines up a lot with that bike accident that was posted here just yesterday: Irresponsibility kills. MY Observation It looks like it was white or yellow, most likely white from that picture. Seems like the paint thats visible has some yellowing going on but fire does that, right?
It's not quite the "grenade" effect you might think, but an impact caused fire is pretty ugly. The fuel pump cutoff was most likely tripped, I would say that the oil lines were a much more likely culprit as to the start of the fire. Also, fuel tank fires aren't the Hollywood spectacle you would think. The fire would've spread from the engine to the interior, I very highly doubt that the fuel lines were ruptured because of where they are and how they're routed in the engine bay, they're designed to resist that kind of damage. By the time the fuel tank would've been involved (if it was, it takes a while for those to get hot enough to go) the occupants were long dead anyway.
Fire will yellow the paint, but look at the lower edge of the front door. The paint is intact and it's silver.
The wheels: BBS RGR Diamond black They have the exact spoke pattern, including the flair on the "V" shape that is between the U shape pattern. The spokes connect further in, leaving the appearance of a lip about an inch deep. They have small holes between the lugs as well, which are slightly distinguishable in the pictures (or maybe its my imagination. Also-they come in 17x7.5, which from the picture above, looks about right. The closest ADR wheel I could find are the M-sports, whcih arent close. I searched their website, so I could be wrong.
was waiting for this, but like brian said above, the fuel pump goes over to off mode so there wouldnt be a fire hose of fuel spraying like you think there would be. leading us then to not have to use our gbod's because the FP shuts off anyways(and the injectors and rails are pretty protected being that far back in the engine bay as it is).
I bet the video of the crash would be pretty scary to see and i'm pretty sure they have it some where cause the video they showed on the news that i saw was from a traffic camera once the car was on fire.
Also on the fuel tank fire subject. Liquid fuel doesn't burn, it's the vaporized or atomized fuel that burns. There is virtually no vapor in the hardlines leading from teh tank to the engine bay. The fire wouldn't spread up the lines like that. And even if there was vapor, there has to be oxygen for ignition, and there likely wouldn't be any oxygen in the hardlines. The odds of a fire in the engine bay travelling up a hardline, through the fuel pump, and into the fuel tank are highly unlikely, if not nearly impossible.
I knew who this was. It was one of my High School buddies buddy if that makes sence. I met him a few times within the past few years. He wasnt on the board. It was a 02 or 03 bug eye non wagon. I guess he just put a new turbo and supporting mods on it. Supposedly he was out drinking, driving alittle too fast and crashed. Tragic. RIP
+eleventy. The only way for the fuel tank to go is if the tank itself is ruptured, otherwise they hold up fairly well in fires. Struts, tires, older bumpers and airbags...those are the real hazards. Oh, and now the new Hybrid battery packs.
