Now this will scare you...

[dallara]

Take a look at this:

http://www.sandstorming.com/index.php/2 ... h-pictures

Plenty scary...

Wow!

Dallara

[Boxer]

Holy Crap!
I remember my Dad telling me about a similar accident many years ago in front of a bar at night. A cousin of his was drunk and riding a Harley, rode right into a car like that. They had to cut him out and he like-ta died!

[arkline]

Good grief! Those pictures are amazing...And a reminder to ride to match conditions...Don't go faster than your sight lines allow. Really.

[Martyn]

These pictures have been doing the rounds for a while; the concensus is that they are actually staged, although representing a real life situation, with the intention of shocking sports bike riders into thinking about possible consequences.

[rdsmith3]

These pictures have been doing the rounds for a while; the concensus is that they are actually staged, although representing a real life situation, with the intention of shocking sports bike riders into thinking about possible consequences.

That makes sense. The real ones would have been quite messy.

[yjleesvrr]

Yeah, I have my doubts about the pics. I mean, they did an incredible job cleaning the car from bits of flesh, bone, and blood if the accident was real.

[DJ Downunder]

Could be that the rider fell off at speed and the bike continued on and into a parked car...that's how I like to think about it...

DJ

[yjleesvrr]

My intuition after studying physics in college tells me that a bike traveling at 150 mph would have gone through the car while being in various states of disintegration, not wound up in it.

[Marcus]

The comments on the site (see below the pics) have a little more info about the accident. And similar doubts about authenticity.


Marcus

[Est51]

The scariest part is the collection of moronic comments below the pictures. Despite wanting to stop, I couldn't drag myself away from them and wasted 5 minutes of my life doing it. Still, at least I'm still alive and not one of the poor sods in the car.

[NoRRmad]

Nobody had a radar gun on the bike just as it hit. Might have only been 100MPH. Further down in the comments, there are several links to Swedish newspaper articles on the crash. Sounds pretty authentic to me.

[dallara]

I think it's the real deal...

Yjleesvrr said:

My intuition after studying physics in college tells me that a bike traveling at 150 mph would have gone through the car while being in various states of disintegration, not wound up in it.

If the car were somehow *fixed* to the ground I would agree with you, but givne it is sitting on its tires that have only a limited amount of coeffcient of friction ti woul dhave first started sliding sideways, and then rolled, just as the article said it did. All of this would have been dissipating impact energy.

The rider could have been ejected over the car and not ended up "in" it and still hit hard enough for his demise.

Being in the car business, I have seen a large number of severely wrecked vehicles, many of them that involved fatalities, and I have always been surprised how many of them show very little blood or remains. According to the police officers and EMS techs I have asked about this they often said it was different types of blunt force trauma that caused the deaths, so it is possible that the occupants of this car were not necessarily all bloody and ripped apart. They could have simply been crushed.

Who knows?

It could be the real deal, or a re-construction. Either way, it does open your eyes to what *COULD* happen if you smack a car at a high rate of speed...

Cheers!

Dallara

[Dauntless]

I remember reading that the accident was re-created after removing the body remains and put on display to demonstrate what can happen in high speed collissions.

[Leno]

My guess on the bike is a VFR400 which I don't think could do 150mph.