COP vs. TREE - LUCKY TO BE ALIVE

[ocdart]

Take a look at this pic. I've never seen a car wrapped this far around a tree.
This happened in Santa Maria, CA, where a long-time member of the city PD was chasing a suspect when he lost control on wet streets and wrapped his Crown Vic around a tree.
The officer was lucky to survive with just a few broken bones.

 

[catsncudas]

Holy crap:shock:, talk about having a guardian angel.

 

[memike]

Glad he survived, He must have been a small fellow.
The lap top computer system and all the gear they wear it's hard to believe he was not smashed

 

[inkjunkie]

Amazing he survived, wonder if that Crown Vic had a fuel cell in it? Remember what happened to the Cop in AZ?

 

[J-MacsMopars]

That is remarkable. Someone was watching him that day.

 

[cudaspaz]

Wow, brings back bad memories.

My Bother in law was in a dodge omni and got T-boned by a transit bus on the drivers side.
The roof of his car looked just like this one except the whole side was caved in that far on the "drivers" side.

Amazingly he lived, but sustained a severe head injury which left him with alot of physical and mental problems.
He was doing really well but his physical motor skills have been deteriorating for the past 5 or so years which is normal the doctor says.

 

[71dustar]

have you ever checked out www.wreckedexotics.com that site will amaze you on how stupid some people can be and how lucky others are.

 

[6pk2goDemon]

That officer is one lucky dude. Good thing the impact was on the passenger side or he might not have survived.
It's still hard to believe anyone made it out alive from the looks of the car.

 

[abodyjoe]

must have really been moving.

 

[crackedback]

worst U turn ever!

 

[daredevil]

arent crown vics frame cars? if so imagine a unibody

 

[MoparMuscleGuy]

Wow, That has to be a 100 MPH + impact. If he survived that, you can bet he was sucking hamburgers through a straw. It's a miracle.

 

[ringydingydingd]

all i can say is DRIVE SAFELY FOLKS

 

[ramenth]

One of the reasons some states have enacted a no chase law.

He's one lucky SOB.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Lucky indeed.

 

[gts340]

I'll bet it dog tracks like a chevy now after that.

 

[GTXperience]

Unbelievable! It's almost hard to believe that is the actual image without it being touched up.

 

[mech1nxh]

Holy crap:shock:, talk about having a guardian angel.

:shock:

guardian angel. true that!!

Edit ...

I'll bet it dog tracks like a chevy now after that.

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[yellowdartdave]

I have seen worse. Back in the mid 70s when I worked at local gas station, got called to a wreck. 2 kids drag racing on a 4 lane road that had a curve to the right. Kid in right lane lost it, touched car in left lane.
Car in left lane took a ride and ended up against a large pole just like the Crown Vic except it hit the pole on the driver door.
We tried for over 2 hours to get the car free but the car had wrapped around the pole so hard that the front and rear bumpers were almost touching. It was a 69 Nova. The electric company finally used 2 of their big bucket trucks to pull the ends apart to get it free.
I had to put the rear end on a dolly to take it to our yard..with a police escort because I was almost 2 lanes wide.
As I was turning into the yard, I was rear ended by the car--the thing had broken in half and the rear end was sitting in the middle of the street.
I told the cop to make sure that nobody stole it! I dropped the front half in the yard while our 2nd wrecker just drug the back half in.

Needless to say the driver was thrown out on impact and left alot of his body on the pole.