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And hit each over then a Stobie Poll(Power poll) at 150kph?

Well it rips the 2 cars in half and killing 1 driver and seriously injuring the other driver and his passenger.(Also tearing the engine out of the subaru)





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As you can see the impact has removed the Head off the skyline engine which would probably be on the road with the rest of the bits.

THE moment two drivers set out to hurtle along a suburban road at speeds in excess of 150km/h, there was every chance it would end in tragedy.
And so it did. Their impulsive stupidity shortly after 12.30am yesterday left one - 23-year-old Minh Bui - dead and the other driver with a severed leg. He and his two passengers were last night in a critical condition in hospital.



The colossal force of the crash on Magill Rd at Magill is graphically shown by the mangled wreckage of the two unrecognisable cars strewn over several hundred metres.

The airbags and seatbelts in the powerful Subaru WRX and Nissan Skyline were no help, the cars disintegrating as they clipped and then cannoning out of control into a Stobie pole.

Twisted metal, the remains of an engine, an exhaust system, tyres, stereo speakers and personal possessions, including clothing, littered the death scene.

Even the ignition box of one car, keys still intact, was sheared off and catapulted down the road.

With jagged metal parts flying into nearby properties, the miracle is that more people were not killed - people asleep in nearby homes and a retirement village, or even other drivers.

"You can see the results of some absolute stupidity," said Superintendent Mark Fairney from the Traffic Support Branch.

"These are killers on our roads.

"This is absolutely ridiculous. Police are astonished.

"I've had 30 years in the job and my investigators have been attending crashes all of their careers. This is the worst we have ever seen."

Several motorists were in the vicinity at the time, including one young woman driving towards the drag racers. She was so traumatised by what she saw that she stopped her Commodore and only returned to collect it later in the day.

The decision to use a suburban road as a personal dragway comes despite hoon-driving laws, repeated pleas by authorities for road safety and concerted campaigns to lower the road toll. The destruction follows:

POLICE Commissioner Mal Hyde calling for magistrates to treat repeat traffic offenders as criminals.

POLICE saying "idiot" drivers continue to use cars as weapons, after seizing a record 2418 vehicles from hoon drivers last year.

A STUDY of 74 high-speed police pursuits over the past decade resulting in injuries finding that all the offending drivers except four had major traffic offence histories.

Of the 14 chases that ended in fatalities, innocent bystanders died in 13 per cent.
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And a Small video from the news
http://s620.photobucket.com/albums/...ew&current=LiveRecording-28-03-20092_54PM.flv

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25254550-5006301,00.html


I know its a month old i just never got around to posting it earlyer.

Shame i cant find any of the pictures they had in the news paper, it shows how badly torn apart the cars really were.

Forgot top say, The Impact on the Stobie poll shifted it 1 meter in the ground :eek:
 
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messy, not saying that they were in any way right in what they were doing - but shouldn't fixtures in the street be designed to give a bit when they are hit - like our street lights over here, would snap before doing that much damage (and the powerlines run underground where they should in a town)
 
Nasty. Is that a road that tends to attract racing then? They made a mention of the number of accidents at the end of the clip.

Shame there was a passenger. I couldn't care less if people are stupid enough to hurt themselves but it's not nice when they take someone with them.
 
Hitting anything a 93mph is bad and it's going to make any car without a full cage simply end up like debris from a plane crash. 93mph feels safe on a motorway (I have read) but when you hit something at said speed you realise how much it hurts and how a few mill's of metal are going to be found wanting...
 
:eek: Just read up on wiki about Stobie Poles. the power companies don't think much of drivers over there if they litter streets with things like that.

Lampposts, power poles, etc, over here are regulated and designed to crumple and fold when hit by a car so that minimal damage is done, I know as we have to test them.

They are not huge chunks of steel bolted together with concrete poured in the gap. :eek:, that sounds like the anti terrorist bollards we have been testing, that rip 7.5 T trucks to bits travelling at 40mph.
 
Jonny69 said:
Nasty. Is that a road that tends to attract racing then? They made a mention of the number of accidents at the end of the clip.

Shame there was a passenger. I couldn't care less if people are stupid enough to hurt themselves but it's not nice when they take someone with them.
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The road it self is quite qide and if you have ever been in Adelaide you would know its just like a lot of the major roads. They all head into the Square in some way or another.

It wouldnt surprise me if its used a fair bit but saying that there is always camera on it and it is a pretty busy road.
Im guessing it was towards the outer end of the road near the suburbs more so then the end closer to the city.


And Stobie Polls can be found right around South Australia. Not so much in Other states IIRC
 
GeX said:
... but shouldn't fixtures in the street be designed to give a bit when they are hit - like our street lights over here, would snap before doing that much damage (and the powerlines run underground where they should in a town)
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Surely the reason for a speed limit is to discourage drivers from getting into this kind of mess in the first place?
At the end of the day, when you take your test you are not being given just the right to drive, you're being given the responsibility too.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
Surely the reason for a speed limit is to discourage drivers from getting into this kind of mess in the first place?
At the end of the day, when you take your test you are not being given just the right to drive, you're being given the responsibility too.
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i see you left out the bit saying that i didn't condone what they did, drag racing aside - if you hit one of them things at the speedlimit you're not going to walk away from the accident, unlike if you hit a lampost or similar over here.

i understand that it is dangerous for the powerlines to fall down etc BUT they should be underground in towns, and if not - they're gonna be fitted with breakers that'd cut them out anyway as they hit the ground.
 
GeX said:
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i understand that it is dangerous for the powerlines to fall down etc BUT they should be underground in towns, and if not - they're gonna be fitted with breakers that'd cut them out anyway as they hit the ground.
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The thing with Powerlines is the weight that is already being put on them from the lines them self.

They cant have the abillty to be knocked over.

Aslo to put lines underground all over South Australia and even Australia will cost Billions!
Some places do have lines underground though, mainly newer areas(20 years old or so)
 
Jesus, those 'stobie poles' look like they have actually been designed to rip cars in half :eek:
 
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