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A 21 year old driver in a 2016 Corvette crashed last May on Huron River Drive (a park with a 35 mph speed limit in SE Michigan). Records now show he was going 125 mph seconds prior to the crash, police say. A half-second prior to impact, the Corvette was traveling at 93 miles per hour, according to the car's event data recorder, the report says. Amazingly he and his girlfriend passenger “lived”.... but with several broken bones. That's impressive. No one normally lives hitting a tree that big at that speed!
The report did not go into detail on what broken bones he had. His 17 year old friend suffered two broken femurs, a lower leg fracture, a broken orbital bone and a broken nose. Still amazing to me.
Another classic example of "Just because one can afford one, does not mean that one deserves to have it". Or there is a time and a place for everything, that speed belongs at a track day. Geez, I guess that his girl friend is really impressed?
Wow. Old cars are great but I doubt anything (except maybe a big Benz) from the 80s would have kept its passengers alive during a tree strike at 90+. Proof that cars don't have to be big and heavy to be safe, just cunningly and carefully engineered.
09-17-2017, 08:30 PM
, Vette 
