What do you experts think?

[patrick]

Is this a fake picture or not?

Supposed to be a crashed ford escort

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102401

 

[Si]

Yup thats an Escort

How the hell did he survive that!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Yup thats an Escort

sorry, but that is in no way real. at 100mph the tree of that size would not be there. if the car hit a wall at that speed it would look like that or even a big tree of about 7ft wide.

Martin

 

[Alan]

Re: Yup thats an Escort

OUCH!

someone out my way tried to get a cossie round a bend at 150mph, went into 1 ditch, came out again, into the ditch the other side, bounced over a bridge, back accross the road, and into a hedge.

His car didnt look as bad but after a year in hospital me made an excellent recovery, he managed to stay alive just to be paralised form the neck down. Nice!

 

[Tom]

Re: Re: Yup thats an Escort

Now that looks a bit fake.

A funny rallying story from many years back. A crew reported back to their mechanics that they had retired due to camshaft failure. The mechanics response was 'what? we've never had a camshaft break! How do you know the camshaft is broken??'. The reply was 'its sticking out of the tree we hit!'. DOH!

 

[Gav]

Hmmmm

That does look a bit staged, is it just my dodgy eyes or does one of the pictures show a length of string holding the bits together round the tree ???

 

[Anonymous]

Re: Hmmmm

If you read down the post there are pics of the front too.
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/

 

[SchumaniaC]

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Guys I wouldnt discount this as being a fake picture so quickly. This is the hard side of reality that you better believe. Here in Malta there is a very high rate of road mortalities and if you cruise down the local sescondary road on a Sunday morning at 5am you will see many scenes similar to this.

1st episode:
With my own eyes, I witnessed a cemetery in the shape of a Rover 216 cabriolet which was literally (and I mean literally) wrapped around a tree the same size shown in the picture. A day later, after all was clear, I could see that the tree sustained only a couple of scratches.

The two 18year old boys inside the car disintegrated.

2nd episode;
A Merc SLK clipped the central strip and dived head on in two palm trees which it managed to rip off from the ground.
One occupant flew out of the convertible, the other got crushed to death as the Merc overturned.


They say fear can be your greatest enemy...I say fear can save your as$.




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Fiat Bravo....different day different sh!t.

 

[Anonymous]

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Some of you people must be idiots.....you cant "fake" something that graphic....yes there is string...it sometimes put around accidents to stop the wreckage from falling and hurting other people until it can be properly removed...also stops peole from getting too close. The guy is lucky to be alive...I've seen less serious accidents resulting in fatal injuries. Just take the conditions...WET, BEND, 100mph...hmm....

Open your eyes...if one of you can produce a fake as good as this supposed one..do it and post.

 

[SchumaniaC]

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@ Mr Anonymous: some people around here could be (and are allowed to be) mistaken about this or that, but that doesnt mean that we should call them idiots.

respect man. pis on you.

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Fiat Bravo....different day different sh!t.

 

[andy1881]

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Don't be so naive! While the picture isnt necesarily fake it certainly looks fairly staged. Its easy to cut a smashed up car in half and put half in a tree and half on the grass a few yards away

 

[SchumaniaC]

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Yes, it is fairly easy to stage such a scene, but it is also a very real scenario which I have seen with my own eyes on countless occasions. And in any case, who would want to go through such hassle to make up such a scene?

I wont be faking this scene with my Bravo, thats for sure.

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[Anonymous]

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100 mph speed ?.
tree still up ?.
second park of car only 30/40ft away ?

Martin

 

[Ian (Geforce)]

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lol. I'd understand if it was a Fiat, but that tree wouldn't be there otherwise.