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Witness: Hastings’ speeding car ‘shook my car—like a freight truck going by’
Yahoo! News ^ | 2 hrs 48 mins ago | Dylan Stableford,

Posted on 06/21/2013 7:27:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A driver who witnessed the fiery crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings says the vehicle the 33-year-old was driving shook his car "like a freight truck" as it flew by early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles.

"Was stopped at a red light tonight when a pearl white Mercedes flew past," Michael Carter wrote on Facebook a few hours later. "It shook my car like a freight truck going by. Saw it burst into flames a quarter mile down the road when it hit a tree."

In a Facebook message to Yahoo News, Carter explained in detail what he saw:

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: Conserev1

And HAstings could have made no turns at that speed! watch the car through the light!


101 posted on 06/21/2013 3:59:13 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: advertising guy

Hastings was going straight down Highland (south) and car with dashcam was at the gas station at Santa Monica facing east. He pulled onto SM Blvd east and then got the call about the accident. He turned right onto possibly La Palma and right again onto Willoughby and then left onto Highland. He passed a light (Waring) before coming on the scene.


102 posted on 06/21/2013 3:59:56 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Conserev1

The loudlabs guy obviously didn’t know about the crash until the call came in, so why would he follow Hastings? He was already going east on SM Blvd when he got the info and changed his route accordingly.


103 posted on 06/21/2013 4:03:36 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Conserev1

That is strange; didn’t occur to me.

And the firetrucks aren’t doing squat; the hydrant’s busted-off. Must just be ladder trucks and not pumpers. Hastings’ car hit it and it’s gushing. Only a neighbor with his garden hose. Unless all the ambulance units were tied-up on calls, there are usually a lot of ambulance companies cruising a city the size of LA, waiting for a dispatch. At ~4am, who knows?


104 posted on 06/21/2013 4:04:01 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: carriage_hill

The news guy said they were staked out for A possible Beiber run.
He did not see HAstings go through the light from his vantage point but it is on the camera. The scanner supposedly gave him
the location of the accident!


105 posted on 06/21/2013 4:08:45 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: carriage_hill

I think that an irrigation item if it was a fire hydrant it would be blowing like crazy. About 20 feet in the air.


106 posted on 06/21/2013 4:19:17 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Conserev1

I think you’re right. The guy with the garden hose has more pressure than that hydrant does.


107 posted on 06/21/2013 4:28:42 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: Fresh Wind
It was SUPPOSED to look like suicide.

Does that mean it isn't suicide?

108 posted on 06/21/2013 4:30:59 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: carriage_hill

I have done water pipline in LA installed them and have seen what happens when a truck hits a
fire hydrant! A Fire Hydrant is a 6” diameter fixture full pressure from the main straight up @ about 180psi!.


109 posted on 06/21/2013 4:33:21 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: schm0e

Suicide no I think the cat was running from someone or something. Unless investigation proves dispair or issues!
Maybe there may be not! He had made a call to Wikki, whatever that meant?!


110 posted on 06/21/2013 4:37:22 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: Conserev1
That'd be a geyser.


111 posted on 06/21/2013 4:51:23 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: Conserev1

idunno. as weird as things are these days, it’s getting hard to separate fact from fiction. but Occam’s Razor has always served well and reckon it still does.


112 posted on 06/21/2013 4:53:46 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: carriage_hill

Yes we have what are called breakaway bolts so if it is hit it will just snap off! Not like in the higher altitude where if you hit it it will be a major repair! And your car will suffer major damage! lol


113 posted on 06/21/2013 4:56:21 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: MHGinTN
So you don’t believe there are cars which will park themselves for you?

Parking is far from driving through 3 consecutive red lights before launching into a palm tree at 100 mph. The post I replied to asserted that today's cars were capable of "directing themselves" so I suppose that automatic parking fits that description. However I am waiting for the day when a car so equipped goes bat-shite nuts and parks on top of a hydrant. I think that today's cars have a long way to go before they are fully autonomous and capable of successfully following a GPS track through normal highway traffic without terrifying the passengers into quaking fits.

Regards,
GtG

114 posted on 06/21/2013 5:28:56 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

LOL, loved it!


115 posted on 06/21/2013 7:57:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Conserev1

Isn’t it kind of a hassle to losen up all the spin control, traction control and assorted straitjackets in these cars?


116 posted on 06/21/2013 9:12:52 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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To: Hardraade

All we will ever know is just another DOA!


117 posted on 06/21/2013 9:22:40 PM PDT by Conserev1 ("Still Clinging to my Bible and my Weapon")
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To: null and void

THAT was interesting!!!


118 posted on 06/25/2013 7:00:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
The reason the military uses all Diesel engines is that diesel fuel is far, far less volatile than gasoline.

In the absence of an explosion or some other event that sprays a mist of fuel into the air you generally won't get a massive fire in a wreck.

I've seen it once in 40+ years of driving. A big rig with two trailers full of fertilizer blew a tire during a lane change and lost control. Went through the center divide, ripping the bottoms off of both fuel tanks and cracking the whip across three lanes of oncoming traffic.

The truck cab burned.

None of the cars did, including one station wagon literally torn in two at the windshield.

Car fire set off suspicions as crew fought it (Smith Tennesee License Scandal)

119 posted on 06/25/2013 8:19:49 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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