Some bad news., :( Options

[johnnehh]

In some of my car pictures, you see a Dakota. That Dakota belongs to my best friend Mike.




After school yesterday, we were going to my friend's house named Joe. He is the leader of our car club.

We pulled up to the stop light making a left turn. There is 2 lanes to turn left. We were in the right one, so he had to get around the corner and speed up to get around the cars in the left lane, because the right lane turns off.

While we were stopped at the red light, we got onto our 2way radio. We were chatting it up waiting for the red light to turn green. I told him, "Hey, you're probably faster than me now that I have all this weight in my car" (I was carrying 3 15s for my friend, it weighed my car down a lot). And we both laughed at the light turned green. He went to the center of the intersection, and pressed the gas hard before fully straightening out. He lost control, over corrected and flew into the side walk, hit a tree all the way down the right side of his car which spun him into a concrete wall, still having enough momentum to make the truck fully lift off the ground and come to a complete stop in the middle of the sidewalk.

When he hit the tree, his side mirror flew off into his window and shattered on his face. He is a little cut up, but okay.

He has only had his license for 2 weeks. He has spent over $3,000 in modifications to the truck.

It has been all I can think about since then. I've seen many accidents happen right before me, but none like this. He is my best friend, he babies his truck, and I talked to him 2 seconds before it happened.

The truck is totaled. Luckily, no students were walking on the sidewalk where the accident took place. This could have been a lot worse. I'm glad we only lost the truck. He didn't swerve into me (behind him) or the car to his left, he controlled it enough to not injure anyone else.















Please keep him in your prayers. Very hard lesson learned. I've never been driving safer in my life.

This post has been edited by johnnehh: Nov 14, 2009 - 3:43 PM

[yarik83]

I recall reading an article a few years back. Something about rear wheel drive general motor cars having to beef up their rear right suspension because of how engine twists the chassis and it keeps buckling in on itself. I assume that his spin out was something similar to that?

But then I look at the damage and forgive my ignorance but both his wheels on the right hand side are twisted in such a way as if he was going 80 with both his left wheels up on a curb and decided to turn left causing them to basically fold in on themselves. And then it looks like he really did hit his front right wheel... but why is his left hand side messed up? Looking at the road in the image it looks like its a 2 lane one way only road with trees as median and some elevated mound...

So... he is in right lane.. makes a turn and cuts at the same time, spins out and hits some of those trees then overcompensates and hits something on the right hand side and comes to a hault? Then why is his right hand side so messed up? It looks like someone t-boned him considering that both his doors and middle cross member are bowed in.

But then again I am not a crash science analyst but having seen many accidents story looks like its missing something.