Porsche launches into New Jersey building’s second floor leaving 2 dead, police say

Fox News ^ | 10 November 2019 | Stephen Sorace

[Magnatron]

Two people were killed in New Jersey early Sunday when a Porsche launched into the air and smashed into the second story of a commercial building, authorities said.

The sports car was traveling at “a high rate of speed” on Hooper Avenue when the driver lost control, hit the center median and smashed through a window on the building’s second floor, Toms River Police spokeswoman Jillian Messina told Fox News via email.

The crash happened around 6:30 a.m., Sgt. Vincent Pedalino told NJ.com. He said the building, which houses a real estate office and several other businesses, was unoccupied at the time.

[Magnatron]

Yikes!

[2banana]

Force = mass x acceleration

[Deaf Smith]

“We know a thing or because we’ve seen a thing or two.”

[jeffc]

Guess they thought they were in a movie...

[ClearCase_guy]

The sports car was traveling at “a high rate of speed”

Lets not jump to conclusions. Lets throw in an "allegedly".

[Hugh the Scot]

Damned inanimate objects kill again...

[Hatteras]

In this version of the movie, Ferris Bueller’s day off didn’t go so well...

[sphinx]

Skid marks could be seen stretching across four lanes of traffic in the direction of the building, the outlet reported.

It skidded across four lanes of traffic and then went airborne? Yeah, I might suspect that speeding played a role. Or aliens.

[Dagnabitt]

Sad. Prayers for the families.

[stevem]

I don’t see a ramp there. That must have been some really impressive speed together with a jet pack accelerator the driver could employ while in flight. It sounds like deliberate, planned co-suicide. Praise the Lord there was no one in that office.

[duckman]

Blame the car again. Perhaps the driver didn’t know he had the launch option in that model.

[Hugh the Scot]

It’s the state of journalism today. Nobody ever acts, people and buildings are simply acted upon.. third-person victims.

[Da Coyote]

That darned evil Porsche. Sounds like the disease has spread from those evil SUVs that were randomly killing people some years back.

[steve86]

Not even a particularly fast Porsche. But a light one.

[Ken522]

The building can always be fixed … but for the driver and passenger, I hope the car is okay …. /s

[SES1066]

... a 2010 Porsche Boxster convertible ...

Did not know that Skynet had gotten to these that early. An obvious rogue, driver was clearly trying to stop!

[FreedomPoster]

More pics here.

[Viking2002]

I didn’t know Porsche sold models with a JATO pack option......

[Nachoman]

Porsche - There is no substitute.