R129 Crashed.

[Kridre]

Today SL 500? crashed into a tree. Driver is alive in critical condition and was transported to the hospital. I wonder what the speed was at the time of the impact. I really wouldn't think that anyone could survive this, thankfully there were no passengers.

 

[daantjie]

Holy shit that guy must have been hammering it...

 

[LWB250]

If there had been a passenger I don't think they would have survived. There's only so much that engineering can give your body against physics.

Dan

 

[sheward]

A horrific accident. Yes, the passenger area has completely disappeared.

 

[195910]

It appears there was impacts with multiple trees as the car spun from the first impact. Why would anyone drive that fast on a side road that's a lane and a half wide, dirty and lined with huge trees ?!!

 

[Markus-MD]

Maybe Alc or Drugs or Medical Indication? i prefer the both first

 

[gsxr]

It appears there was impacts with multiple trees as the car spun from the first impact. Why would anyone drive that fast on a side road that's a lane and a half wide, dirty and lined with huge trees ?!!

Yeah - I was wondering the same thing.

Don't text & drive, folks.

 

[R129 UK]

Very fortunate it didn’t catch fire given the damage - assuming that was mostly from the impact(s) and not the emergency services cutting the car to release the driver.

 

[gsxr]

Looks like the catalysts may have started a small fire near the engine, but the chassis was not affected:

 

[TerryA]

Just WOW! from the pics, I’d say the driver is lucky to be in critical condition. He had to be moving pretty fast to make an instant thrash pile out of that SL.

@Kridre,
Will there be any follow up on his condition or speed he was going?

 

[R129 UK]

Survived in this context could mean just a pulse...hopefully the driver makes a full recovery but it does make you wonder what the hell happened.

It is a 3rd Gen car (mid 98 on) because from the wreckage shots I saw a rounded door mirror, couldn't actually identify what engine it might have had fitted before the crash.

 

[gsxr]

Looks like an M112 engine? If so, probably a 129.064 chassis. Unless that's an M113, then a 129.068 chassis.

 

[Kridre]

@TerryA If I ever see more information about this incident I will definitively post it here.

 

[alabbasi]

I'm not sure if the jaws of life were used as it's hard to imagine anyone not being cut out of the car given the state of the wreckage. In one of the pictures, there are parts of the ground that were blurred out so unfortunately, I do not have high hopes for the driver.

 

[LWB250]

That and the rapid deceleration, dismissing the blunt force trauma that no doubt took place.

WARNING: The next paragraph contains descriptions that might make you queasy.

A high school girlfriend's big brother was a pathologist, and would let us sit in on autopsies on occasion. He once showed us what your internals look like after a rapid deceleration - in this case it was someone who did a "Peter Pan" off of an 11 story building. Everything is there, but it's a big mess and not easy to identify. He said the thing that usually does people in is when the heart decelerates and tears loose from the arteries and veins.

Dan

 

[Vinnie]

It appears there was impacts with multiple trees as the car spun from the first impact. Why would anyone drive that fast on a side road that's a lane and a half wide, dirty and lined with huge trees ?!!

I'm ashamed to say, but...that's Poland. We still have many drivers with "My car, my road, my drive, my everything" approach. Those are picturesque roads, and you can enjoy cruising with up to 55 mph, where the shade of the trees protects you from the sun, and the feeling takes you half a century back. But those trees are also a curse, being so near the road, and the roads itself are of 3rd of 4th category, being maintained once for a few dozen of years. There might be holes, parts of logs fallen from the trees, slippery edges - all that kind of stuff giving you an unpleasant surprise when you drive too fast to notice them. Actually - they have their spirit and on shorter distances I'm choosing them over highways as the journey is not that boring, but they definitely can't be treated like a racetrack.

 

[BRN9121]

That's horrible. Be careful people.