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10-12-2012, 11:24 PM
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For Me, This Would Have Been a Fatal Accident
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10-13-2012, 02:15 AM
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Driver target-fixated on the tree and stopped providing proper steering input. A common newbie mistake.
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10-13-2012, 07:37 AM
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Ouch!
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10-13-2012, 09:44 AM
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it seems that youth are inexperienced in all things; in this case safely guiding a powered automobile through a curve. Airplane pilots receive extensive training, testing and retraining and yet more testing, on the other hand, once someone gets a driver's license at the ripe old age of 16 in this country, they never receive additional training or retesting (other than an eye exam, perhaps). No wonder there are so many accidents.
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10-13-2012, 10:02 AM
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Talk about an "Oh $h!t!" moment.
 It almost looks like he was airborne over that last rise in the road before relaunching over the boulders.My brother and I used to take my father's 'vette for joyrides all the time (separately at different times) when my parents were out of town. The good thing was the odometer was broken so all we needed to worry about was getting the gas gauge back to the same spot. We had a great time with it. Until my brother left a McDonald's bag behind the seat.  I suppose better to get snagged that way than after stripping off the undercarriage and a crash landing.
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10-13-2012, 10:50 AM
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Rather interesting.
At 19 seconds he's properly setup for the left sweep and the vehicle is slightly left of centerline and the wheel is slightly left for the turn. The front wheels, apparently, lose all traction because they don't follow the steering at exactly 20 seconds. He did not appear to be airborne at that point but it's difficult to tell. The rest is history. That first boulder totaled the vehicle.
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10-13-2012, 10:57 AM
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Lift off over steer??? maybe??
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10-13-2012, 12:43 PM
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I think when he came up over the rise the front wheels got light, I was thinking while watching it hit the brakes! That would have transferred weight to the front.
Oh well, nothing money can't fix! That car is done after running over those rocks, if he just wiped out in the sand it wouldn't have been so bad.
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