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Car lands in home's upper floor

Two people have been injured - one seriously - after a car "took off" and smashed into the top floor of a house.

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The red BMW lost control on a bend of the A30
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The car skidded across the grass in front of the house
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It hit a fence before 'taking off' towards the house
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A neighbour surveys the damage left by the car
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The car ramped up and smashed into the top floor of the house
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The house will now have to be partially rebuilt following the crash
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One person was seriously hurt


stupid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 493713.stm

sweet mother of god............how the fuck.

"The house will now have to be partially rebuilt following the crash"

Jeezus! ed: Ya think??

thats extreme...

to the max

How the fuck did they manage that?

HAH. He must have been traveling at some speed.

light speed

ludicrous speed. No? biggrin:

Colonel Sandurz: Prepare ship for light speed.
Dark Helmet: No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
Colonel Sandurz: Light speed, too slow?
Dark Helmet: Yes, we're gonna have to go right to ludicrous speed.

maybe they were trying to hit


88 MILEZ PUR HOWA!!!!!11111

agreed.

What..... the....fuck....?? oOo:

Barf: What the..
Lone Star: They've gone PLAID.

awesome.

that's great...

i forget which 1950s ford car it was but they were real big on back fins then and wanted a new look for the fins so (and i'm guessing an engineer wasn't consulted) instead of having the fins 'taper' off to the rear, they curved them outwards from the side panels. road tests of the car had reports of the back end of the vehicle lifting off the ground by a couple inches or so.

wow, would be something to see.

rofls wtf

[quote="philadelphia killing mach":0ad13]i forget which 1950s ford car it was but they were real big on back fins then and wanted a new look for the fins so (and i'm guessing an engineer wasn't consulted) instead of having the fins 'taper' off to the rear, they curved them outwards from the side panels. road tests of the car had reports of the back end of the vehicle lifting off the ground by a couple inches or so.[/quote:0ad13]

I've never heard of that. The [url=http://www.classicsandmore.com/cars/57%20Ford%20storefront.JPG:0ad13]'57[/url:0ad13] had the largest fins for a Ford and those fins were still too upright to provide any lift. The only car with wings instead of fins was the [url=http://www.van-nuys.dk/59_Chevy.gif:0ad13]'59[/url:0ad13] Chevy. I have driven one of those at 100MPH without any problems.

[quote=Johnj]I've never heard of that. The [url=http://www.classicsandmore.com/cars/57%20Ford%20storefront.JPG:fc259]'57[/url:fc259] had the largest fins for a Ford and those fins were still too upright to provide any lift. The only car with wings instead of fins was the [url=http://www.van-nuys.dk/59_Chevy.gif:fc259]'59[/url:fc259] Chevy. I have driven one of those at 100MPH without any problems.[/quote:fc259]

It apparently happened during "road tests" so I assume thats before it was ever distributed to anyone - They probably changed the design after it occured. (You'd hope they would anyway oOo: )