thats a pretty massive hit to have backed into a poll though

 

I know, but in the other pics, you can clearly see a pole shaped indentation in the car.
Whoever was driving was probably going so fast that it did more damage than just the pole shaped indentation. There was a lot of energy that needed to be scrubbed off very quickly and that was accomplished by all the wrinkled metal we see in the pics.

 

So this wasn't a case of being rear-ended then??

Huh. Well, you can fix a car, but you can't fix stupid .

 

yeah it was. there is a pic of the ford escape later on in the thread on camaro5. it's on page 12

here is that pic.

 

Things still don't add up. At first the owner was claiming he was doing 176 in the car. Then he backpedaled and said he did 146. He said the "7" was a typo. THEN he said he never did over 55 in the car.
Originally, he said he was rearended by a 20 year old, but later he says the person was 15. He never mentioned the pole until the other pics came out. Now he says that the Escape hit him and that spun him out where he hit the pole going backwards.

I still want to see a police report.

 

i wouldnt stress too much over the story. either way the car is totalled. let the police worry about the story.

 

Details about the crash? What kind of vehicle hit it? Speeds? I read the linked thread; no real details there.

I'm pretty impressed with how well the passenger compartment held up. Do we have official crash test ratings yet? I know they were shooting for five stars across the board, but I haven't heard whether they actually got it.

 

I got the same feeling when I was reading. Either he is an idiot or he is pretending to be the owner of the car.

 

Whether or not he's the real owner of the car, he's still an idiot.

 

lol...has the fastest 5th gen on the street hitting 176 mph!
Just read the last 2 days worth of posts and you are definately right....

 

If we got a near 2 ton V8 Camaro that DIDN'T receive 5 star crash ratings all around, somebody needs to be questioned. One of the big reasons we were told weight had to exist is because they couldn't get around the need for outstanding safety performance.

 

Well, I don't know the testing procedures or rating criteria, so I can't rule out the possibility that outstanding performance doesn't correlate exactly with good ratings.

 

Even the "inferior" 4th-gen had a good safety rating .

 

Yeah, but not five stars across the board.

I've seen a 4th gen come out of a 100+ mph collision with the wall at the drag strip (not head on, obviously), and the driver walked away with only minor injuries.

 

I went to sleep going to work on morning years ago in my 78 and straightened out a curve. I snapped out of it as I hit the edge of the road but all I could do was downshift and try to miss the 1.5 foot tall driveway I was sliding toward on wet grass. The result was that the front left tire ALMOST cleared the driveway, hit at about a 45 degree angle at around 50 MPH, popped the tire off and slammed the car into the driveway at about a 90 degree angle.

When I came to, I was bouncing backwards on the other side of the driveway. The culvert on the other side of the 12 foot wide driveway was crushed, there were no marks on top of the driveway, and there were things in the center console that were found under the drivers seat....I can only guess I flipped of the driveway.

After I wrenched the door open I looked at the car....the driver's side window was about 2 inches higher than the roofline, the back glass had popped out, the front fenders were biting into the windshield cracking the glass and, where the car hit the culvert on the back left wheel, the wheel was cut in half, one of the shocks was laying on the ground, and there was a huge hole in the quaterpanel where things were falling out of the trunk.

Looking at this car....I think I got hit / stopped with about as much force as the 5th gen did, yet I suffered quite a bit more damage all over the vehicle and I guarantee that guy walked out of his hurting less than I did.