CNN is all too quick to pass it off as a terrible accident the problem is the car was blown to bits I’m vaguely familiar with those cars since my Uncle had a roll’s dealership and it takes a lot to blow them to bits to Smith the reins the way that 1 was so I still have some questions about how and why it blew app to the extent that it did
One news guy called the car a Mercedes. Not sure what we actually know about make/model. But the explosion part isn’t mysterious to me, assuming the car was gasoline powered. Having been licensed to buy/sell/use explosives for nearly half a century I’ve seen lots of combinations of “blow-ups.” When I saw that first video of the downstream portion of the blast I knew it was not from explosives. It was low velocity, yellowish, very little smoke initially, and pretty much had to be from vaporized gasoline.
Once the car hit the “jump”, whatever it was, and went airborne, the fuel tank clearly ruptured. When gasoline spills with velocity it vaporizes instantly and that vapor is hellforexplosive. The car cabin would have been intact for a few seconds, filling with vapor. As soon as there was a spark, steel-on-steel, electrical short, whatever, the resulting blast would have shredded the car carcass.
Resulting smoke and fire would have been from all the plastic/rubber/underwear the car was made out of plus whatever it might have hit on the ground, altho it looks like the facility was mostly concrete and steel.
Anyway, not to worry about the car shredding. It was capable of doing that by itself, especially at 100 or so MPH. My only real curiosity is how powerful was that car to get that much speed in the apparent block or so that it started from?