100%!!!
Posted on 05/12/2014 6:45:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The wrongful death lawsuit by Kristine M. Rodas says her husband was driving at 55 mph — not at unsafe speeds as law enforcement investigators determined — before it crashed last year. Roger W. Rodas was driving a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT capable of more than 200 mph, but his wife’s lawsuit says the vehicle lacked a proper crash cage and safety features in the gas tank that would have saved both men’s lives.
The lawsuit also contends that a failure in the car’s suspension system forced it to careen out of control and strike three trees while driving down a street in Santa Clarita.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
While in a turn, if a post on the outside of the turn, is “found” (hard hit) by a rear tire, a vicious spin may be induced.
While the vehicle is spinning quickly, a subsequent post can cleave the car -— especially an aluminum or synthetic body -— and split the car, particularly when the car has a rear-mounted engine.
At 50 mph, a car that somehow enters a spin, can complete 1 full spin, within 2 seconds.
You could be sitting in a modern SUV, completely still, when a truck hits your front right tire at 40 mph, inducing a spin of your SUV that places you 180 degrees from the direction that you were facing ... within 1 second of the hit.
It is possible that the last tree of the unfortunate accident, “found” a structurally-opportunistic location of the passenger side of the Porsche Carrera GT, and split the car.
The car is vulnerable just-immediately ahead of the firewall-pillar-post-roll structure.
A tree or object “meets” whatever is the floor pan, in the case of the non-integral har-top (ie it’s a soft-top). The vulnerable spot, probably right where the door “knob” is.
Composite structures, though “solid” when new, are sensitive to vibration with aging.
LOL!
It takes a special kind of stupid to propose that a 55 mph crash could do that to a Carrera GT.
If the court has even the tiniest appreciation for the laws of physics they'll throw this out in a heartbeat.
Oh. I think I see the problem now...
Her lawyer is Mark Geragos. Clinton Lawyer. I think we can definitely call him a scumbag.
Moooh
Shameless and greed. Do we really need two words in the language for the same meaning?
Friends of Rodas suggested that the accident was caused by mechanical failure, which has been found to be untrue. Rodas was a professional driver, but it appears that this one time he was showing off, and the 612-horsepower supercar got the better of he and Walker. automotive.com
155 mph, maybe...
Eastwood is a detective, he figured out the leader of the country is nothing but an empty chair.
If the 25 mil was from insurance, no lawyer got paid.
A lawyer is attempting to have that oversight rectified.
Perhaps they should dig out some of the old Mythbusters episodes where they slammed cars into each other and solid objects at various speeds.
That pic sure looks more like the 110 mph one than the 55 mph one.
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Victor Davis Hanson bike crash (May 19, 2014 article):
The Unforgiving Moment ..."What happened? Apparently a hairline fissure around the carbon bike fork failed, and the fork bent and locked up the front wheel without warning. (Yes, I know I should inspect the bike thoroughly each time I get on, but the crack was invisible.)"
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