Hybrids are an entirely new and scary part of fire/rescue ops. I've gotten about 12 hours of training this year alone on hazards involved. It's not just the batteries, it's the motors, the cable routing, the silent idle, etc. on top of the normal hazards.
It's a high voltage component, so throwing water at a burning car with a compromised battery compartment is not a career enhancing move. The batteries can give off hazardous gases including hydrogen. Some of them may have water reactive chemicals inside as well. They can also explode under high heat and if they do spark they can ignite any vapors in the area.
also my guy use to work at goodyear and when they had to do engine work involving hybrids they made him wear those special gloves that electrical technicians would wear. it was pretty goofy but i guess if your not careful you could get a nice little jolt.
I haven't been on this board for over a year now, but I needed to stop by and make sure it wasn't anyone I knew. I live a mile away from the site and I had the misfortune of driving by as the hearse was backing up to the car. Absolutely gruesome. So for what it's worth, I'm very sad for the occupants, but thankful it wasn't any of you.
Very sad..... It is very fortunate they were the only car involved though, if they would have clipped a car going across those 5 lanes it could have been worse. Hope everyone can learn from this horrible accident.
drinking and driving is never good, and then you stack on having a 300+ hp car and you have bad news very quickly. I just hope the truth comes out and we all don't get a bad rep in the cities for 1 idiot.
Yea, RIP...sad Hey Fuji...no more skreet racing in that wagon of yours, it's too fast and too furious man
Drinking and Driving... unfortunataly one other person was taken from the gene pool along with the idiot drink driver... I am thankful no innocent kids or families were taken out as well.. as tragic as this is (and sad for family of victims etc)... I dont feel sorry for anyone who drinks and drives... I have done it years ago when I was 20.. I GREW UP!!! again.. here goes our insurance and more profiling... yay
that's bad news...I've been tempted to blast mine up the street after working on it but I too have grown up and know what can happen with just one bad choice. Still sad.
Too sad. If feel bad for the familys. Last summer my two friends got into an accident down in welch after we got done tubing. I was following them home and he took off in his ranger and rolled it into the ditch about a quarter of a mile away from the little town there. Niether died but one of them is now parlized from the waist down. I just wish people would learn the consiquences of drunk driving. I havnt driven drunk at all since i saw what can happen five feet in front of me. I wish it didnt take that to wake people up. RIP
hmmm....seeing things like this makes me want to re-think about some of the side projects I do with other people I barely know....
an old friend of mine was hit by a drunk driver while walking down the street. killed instantly. So yeah, it's always sad when this happens, regardless of what they are driving. RIP subaru driving dude ...
regretably, most everyone drives drunk at some point. I learned my lesson being a passenger at 18 when the person driving got pulled over, he was crossing the line bad, still remember that. I was on the other end a few years later when a drunk driver with 12 beers in him hit me head on in his comero with him going 85 and sliding into my lane around a corner, when i was driving my gf's honda civic hatchback. I still feel it in my knee and back today 10 years later, ended my mt bike competing, but i consider myself very lucky. I enjoy drinking, I enjoy getting drunk, but believe me, I will not let anyone get into a car driving drunk, and am greatful we have had some designated drivers at some of our events (duluth, ice races) that ive gone to.
rip.....now...heres what happened, i bet the car traveling anything above 30mph(claimed to be 100+) would jump that curb,into grass,jump through fence, -----the suspension doesn't travel quick enough to respond so he bottoms out in a way,clips the tank, and all down hill form there....Dream...very sorry man......may you all become a little wiser
The gas tank had nothing to do with this at all. NOTHING. Reread my first post in here, I'll bet my left nut that it was the turbo oil lines. I've seen multiple passenger front impacts on those that have been severe enough to move the turbocharger enough to break the lines and hot oil goes everywhere. The fuel lines/tank had nothing to do with this. Odds are they were dead even before the fire got to them, either from the impact trauma or from smoke inhalation while they were unconscious.
wow, so that's wwhat that was all about. i drove by around 3 am heading home to woodbury and they closed off all the lanes except 494 north and south
That is the main reason I quit tuning. Cars are getting faster, and I know less people. I am not jumping into someone else's car that I just met, and go ripping down the road to 100+. And since most people on here are uber cheap, they don't want to pay me and pay for a dyno, so I just don't tune anymore. My condolences to the families. Russ
I talked with a friend today, who is part time at the woodbury fire dept. He was on scene that night. The car was red.
That chunky blue spot on some of those pictures is probably just a jpg artifact due to the fact that it's such a low quality image.
