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TonD · Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 72 Location: Rotterdam, Holland

Trees do win indeed

But I, too, think it's a obvious hoax. Looks just way to unreal. Doesn't even look like those pieces were ever a complete Escort

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Chrenan · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 3903 Location: Canada

Could be damage from heavy flooding, I've seen cars wrapped around trees by flooding before. Would also explain why there is no debris around the tree.
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Joes924Racer · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:33 am Post subject:

Like a nuclear blast, er a hurricane ..Do you think the
car is gonna wrap like that not me. You think
he was going super fast then maybe it just wrapped
like that so maybe its real where are those tow
drivers when you need them theyed know.

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dwak · Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 839 Location: Eastern Ontario

Driver must have been dead drunk to have survived that. Booze seems more effective than air bags in situations like this. Just ask some of my past employees.

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Richard · Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 617 Location: Pacific N.W.

i vote not a hoax. look how perfectly the car is folded around the tree. i don't think someone could bend a car like that (with what tools?) and then hang it up in a tree so that it is several feet off of the ground and so it stays put. i do wish there was more debri on the ground though..........

what it does show is how thin the metal is on some cars.....

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wdb · Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 2024

ummm maybe the debris was also going 100+ mph and is scattered in very small pieces like a shoot gun blast. or maybe that was the second or third impact and most of the loose stull was already shed a few hudred feet away , a good bounce and roll will throw sh*t far.

THE-SA1NT · Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Dwight, Illinois

I'd say that looks pretty real.
The tree is JUST off the road and is on a hill. The debris could have easily been thrown. The only crashes I've seen where debris has been around the car and not scattered in many places is either traffic accidents or a roll over.
120+mph + momentum of car + tree = car is gone.

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Which car to buy? · Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 163

If a storm with 140 kph winds can knock over trees big, tall, old and small flexable ones, I would say that tree should be slanted from the force of impact. Trees can be damaged from collisions with cars or even broken so this is not a true story. O, yeah and the driver was thrown clear? With no injuries? If he was thrown clear at that speed he would either be skinned alive or banged up pretty bad.

Stu2j · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:46 am Post subject:

I don't know if it is real or not but you have to remember that accidents are case studies for the unusual.

It is not uncommon for someone to walk away from a violent crash while someone else dies in what seems to be a minor accident.

On the extreme, there have been people who walked away from violent plane crashes and while the entire plane was destroyed an expensive glass vase remained completely unharmed.

I have seen a car engine become welded to fairly small trees in one accident whereas a telephone pole gets sheared off with seemingly little damage to a car in another.

While the accident certainly may have been staged (for what reason I can't imagine) it is not outside the realm of possibility.
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78porsche924 · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:13 am Post subject:

My grandfather just recently rolled a suburban 9 times. He had a black eye and a scraped head, that is it. I also know someone who went head on into another car going 100mph. He had a few cuts on his arms. I would say it is possible.
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lmz · Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 34 Location: Sthlm, Sweden

..and what about that piece of rope between the door and rear in the second pic...any clues?
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Which car to buy? · Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 163

Like I said... HOAX

Smoothie · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Hmmm..

Joes924Racer · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:02 am Post subject:

Naaa its a hoax the driver would of hit a tree when he was thrown
and Im haven a hard time with the way it was wrapped around the tree the rear wheel and all the frame like a sandwich.

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