Posted on 07/20/2007 11:45:50 AM PDT by Abathar
(SUV On CSU Lot Flips)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A driver doing "doughnuts" in a parking lot near the Colorado State University campus was killed Wednesday night when his vehicle flipped and crashed.
The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. in the parking lot of CSU's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory.
A witness told the Fort Collins Coloradan that the driver pulled into the parking lot and then gunned the accelerator.
The driver was thrown from behind the wheel to the passenger side and then out the window, witnesses said. The vehicle flipped and partially rolled over the victim, a CSU spokesman said.
Three other people in the Ford Explorer were not hurt.
All of the occupants were in their late teens or early 20s. The victim has not been identified. Police are investigating whether drugs or alcohol played a role.
That’s a big-ass motor! Mine was only the 327, bu it still went like a bat out of hell.
Sounds like the driver was "glazed".
I don't think I ever did one to the right, always to the left.
If you have a lot of horsepower you can do them any way you want, but for cars with less power to break the wheels free a right turn throws the weight to the left tire, allowing the inside tire to burn much easier.
The Cayenne and the Q7 will perform as well.
Absolutely a shoe-in for a Darwin award!
Where did he pick up a prostitute named “Donuts”?
He gave a demonstration
of self-defenestration...
And an orchestration
Of Darwinization! :)
Longer wheelbase and width of the SUV should lower the center of gravity enough perhaps. Although I’d rather have a good solid muscle car (American steel only) to do it instead.
But this story illustrates the real design behind seatbelts, as they were developed back in the 50s.
Seatbelts are not for your protection. If you ever sat behind the wheel of a car from the 50s with the seatbelt on (lapbelt), you’d know that the steering wheel is going to knock your teeth out if you ever crash.
The design of the seatbelt is to keep you behind the steering wheel so that you can maintain/regain control of the vehicle if you lose control or are in an accident.
In this regard, it’s a pretty good idea to wear one.
And Fort Collins, Colorado has some pretty fine beer!
Thanks! That’s exactly the vid I lost track of ... quite a recovery, eh?
An Explorer would have rolled a dozen times.
Whether drugs and/or alcohol was were involved or not, teenage lack of judgement and inability to assess risk was.
The long wheelbase made it somewhat more languid.
At least Doc Brown had brains.
We had a big ford LTD station wagon which was great for power slides on the dirt backroads, but it was too long and weak for doing donuts.
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