so what hit him? or what he hit?

 

I only see Ferrari pieces, no chunks from other vehicles. I also see a lot of shrubs all over the Ferrari pieces. I bet there is a solid wall behind the shrubs on the left side of this pic. Maybe he hit it and what was left did a ricochet back into the road. Just a guess.

 

It had to hit something pretty hard sideways to slice that carbon monocoque in half.........i want to know what!

 

ouch. hope the driver is alright, but he is most likely dead.

 

Well, if they do it over there the way it's done over here then the little blue sheets you see sitting on the ground are covering body parts.

This doesn't look like something someone goes on to tell the kids about.

 

The car is more like a race car than anything else and race cars are designed to shatter into billions of pieces. It is called plastic Vs. elastic damage.

Elastic damage occurs when cars like our US cars are designed to retain thier shape as much as possible. People do not want to repair thier whole car usually so engineers design certain elements to retain (elastic) thier shape and integrity. Obviously, there are crumple zones and other safety features but in whole, the cars are designed to be as damge free as possible. This "elastic" nature cause more of the forces of the wreck to be transferred to the drive/occupants thus making the car more dangerous.

Now, Race cars are designed to be "plastic" in nature meaning pieces and parts are designed to shatter/break/shear off and distribute to force of the crash away from the car/drive/occupants. this is why race accidents always look so terrible and the cars seem to explode. All those pieces are transfering force away from the car. In many cases the driver is harmed much less (or not all) than if the car was designed the same way our consumer cars were.

I spent a couple of years working for medical companies that did research for this type of injury for use in court cases. I had to produce a multimedia exhibit to explain this two types of damage.

The Enzo appears to be designed as a Plastic Damage car. The driver may have lived. And judging from the pictures, the driver clipped the row of hedges and that alone could have destroyed that car in that way, especially if there were decent sized trunks and perhaps a wall behind them.

My 1.32 worth

Amazing pictures

 

Great explanation Primo!

 

Holy Crap!

 

dont get a bj at high speeds.

 

Usually when monocoques such as this are desgined they have certain areas such as the cabin that are not designed to shatter. It is the same as the F1 cars in principle, they are desgined to keep the drivers cockpit (in this case the cabin) intact and use the rest of the cars "shattering" to reduce the force of the impact. Thats why you see all the f1 drivers sitting in their little capsule after a huge wreck. Only the driver compartment is designed to stay 100% intact.

Giving that........i figure he had to clip something almost completely sideways at a very high speed to cause that......such as a light pole or something......