Dash Camera Captures Moment Ferrari Hits Taxi at High Speed Killing Three

Mail Online ^ | May 21, 2012 | GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

This horrifying footage serves as a reminder of the deadly potential of one of the world's fastest sports cars.

Three people died when a Ferrari 599 GTO ploughed into the side of a taxi while speeding across a city centre junction in Singapore.

[Jack Hydrazine]

True, but most of the time you will see the idiot trying to run the red light.

[cripplecreek]

I have a friend who used to race sprint cars. He used to run his up and down the curvy dead end dirt road he lived on.

He was pretty safe about it. He would call the two other people who lived on the road. He lived at the corner with the main road and put up a barricade so the people who lived down there knew about it.

[South40]

Nothing like that happens around here. Occasionally there is a herd of goats grazing on the side of the road (they belong to a neighbor) but usually the road is clear unless I use it.

[cripplecreek]

But then I drove on the roads and noticed that drivers are, byinlarge, ignorant distracted vicious morons.

Yup. Look at you then pull out in front of you.

Generally if you're on the road with other traffic you should wear a helmet. However, if I just want to cruise some back roads at low speed I might forego the helmet. Lots of deserted dirt roads around here.

[allmendream]

[Da Bilge Troll]

I guess I inadvertently placed my name where the author’s name should’ve gone? I didn’t write the opener..

My error. I was responding to the article actually where it says, "the deadly potential of one of the world's fastest sports cars" so I should have quoted it in my reply. Sorry!

But it is such a common error, especially with liberals, when they blame inanimate objects for human failings - even when they blame money for corruption in government instead of corrupt people!

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Did you notice how one of the commenters described himself as from “Soviet Britain, EUSSR”?

[mkjessup]

My FRiend, I’m sure that your late night pedal-to-the-medal adventure may have felt like 195 mph, but I assure you that the connecting rods in that 430 Buick would have broken (along with many other parts) long before you reached that speed. The 430 was redlined by the factory at 5000 rpm, and even with the factory 3.07:1 rear axle, the best you could have hoped for would be perhaps 130+ mph at WOT, which is still nothing to sneeze at. But 195? Uh uh, sorry not buyin’ it. That’s NASCAR velocity.

I know I’ve done the same thing, my first car (’63 Ford Galaxie w/406 and 3-2bbl carburetors) was so fast that I had to drive from the back seat due to the excessive G-forces under acceleration - fortunately, that is where the girls usually were, lol

[Da Bilge Troll]

Also there is self selection bias. A particular type of person is drawn to a “muscle car”

You are overgeneralizing. I love fast cars and I know a lot of people who love fast cars. None of them would do what the Ferrari driver did.

Are murderers "drawn" to guns?

[mkjessup]

ARGH, “pedal to the medal” = “pedal to the METAL”, jeez it’s been a long day, lol

[Charles Martel]

Cars don't kill people.

Transmissions do.

Ever seen the YouTube video of the 1955 Le Mans crash?

[VeniVidiVici]

Looking at this news report, the Ferrari actually held-up pretty well, considering his speed. The Hyundai on the other hand is squished in half.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouegmRIvoeQ&feature=related

[freedumb2003]

>>But 195? Uh uh, sorry not buyin’ it. That’s NASCAR velocity.<<

Well, the Speedometer ended at 160 (back then) and I was still accelerating. My memory says 195, but it just my memory. If you say not possible based on science, I won’t second guess you.

But I had to be dang close to it. That thing just kept going faster. It was a hell of a car.

Too bad I had it at the end of its life. It died of chronic overheating. If I knew then what I know now I could have overhauled the engine. But I eventually traded it in for a pretty nice Datsun PL 620 truck...

[Charles Martel]

My cousin's '67 Riviera with the same engine could manage around 140 mph. Heck of an engine, though. Above 30 mph, that 430 hit the fat part of its torque band and would pin you firmly into the seat until well into the triple-digits.

Even the Shelby 427 Cobra needed twin superchargers to get near 200 mph.

[allmendream]

Self selection bias is one reason why anti-gun zealots can point out that if you have a gun you are more likely to be the victim of a crime (or victim of an attempted crime).

Because people in crime plagued neighborhoods are (lo and behold) more likely to seek out a gun.

So yes, Virginia - I would say that both criminals and those law abiding citizens who must live near them are both disproportinaltely “drawn” to guns.

[freedumb2003]

Occasionally there is a herd of goats grazing on the side of the road (they belong to a neighbor)

"MMMM.. Gabrito de la morte de camino"

[freedumb2003]

>>Even the Shelby 427 Cobra needed twin superchargers to get near 200 mph.<<

OK, memory moves faster than reality. But I claim 160+ empirically.

[Cyman]

Most probably the driver of the car was doing what a lot of drivers do across the world, trying to make it through an intersection on a just-changed light.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

I think it was more like a suicidal game of chicken.

[cableguymn]

I was going to call BS on the 195 as well...

I have been up to 125 in a Merkur Scorpio 5 speed (I think it was 2 miles of WOT to top out not a power house, but “sufficient” as Rolls Royce would say)

And 155 in a Merkur XR4Ti also known as the Ford Sierra in Europe (Turbo 4 cylinder, balanced and safe to 10000RPM) The car was ready to go faster (I never made it past 4th gear in the T5 trans) but I wasn’t. The car was built for road rally with a full roll cage. About the only thing stock about the power plant was the block and head. Everything else was aftermarket speed parts.

I miss both cars.. the XR4Ti met with a tree on the rally course the Scorpio died of old age with 535,000K on the clock.

I think my passenger stained the seat that day as well.