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I consider the Wrecked Exotics website something of a public service: warning supercar owners that money does not immortality make. OK, you can’t really call exotic car owners “the public.” So how about this: the site may convince supercar owners to drive more carefully, which could stop them from smashing the obscure objects of our desire, reducing the number of supercars available for sale. (Plan for success I say.) Alternatively, Wrecked Exotics could be seen as particularly nasty car porn: supercar snuff snaps. Any way you look at it, the majority of these 47 photos of hard core horror stories do NOT involve supercar slammage. It’s mainstream carnage, plain and simple. And all of them are damn hard to look at. You have been warned.
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Ummm… you call that hardcore? NO way…
I have received via email pictures from some nasty brazilian accidents, with blood, brain and tripas all over the highway. Even with guys cut in half, which makes you want to puke at the spot.
Edit: at least that people has the decency of not putting the blood. But for that there’s rotten.com, of course.
I’ve seen a carnage from time to time in my daily highway commute
Wrecked? Certainly.
Exotics? Not so sure.
The only thing that’s hard to look at are people whose live have been senselessly ruined or cut short.
In contrast, these photographs are merely “things”.
There’s a few lessons, here:
1. Inappropriate speed kills.
2. Fatigue kills.
3. Trees kill.**
Many of those really are quite horrible, but it hammers home the point that the cause of most truly horrific crashes isn’t environmental or mechanical issues, it’s driver stupidity.
Slow down. Pull over to nap (or check into a hotel) if you’re tired.
** Seriously, did you check some of those images? Those f_ckers are stout.
I would venture to guess that the severity of the damage has a lot to do with average drivers getting in way over their heads in cars with very high limits. Lose control at these speeds, well, this is the obvious result. Same reason why “lesser” cars with high limits (Corvette) have high death rates. Only in the case with more affordable cars, more people get killed. Must add the side note that half of all ‘Vette driver deaths are not the registered owners. If you typical Ferrari owner lent out his/her car, even more wrecks would occur.
So, you warn us after putting one on the front page. Thanks for the warning. Appreciate it. Cause, you know, if not for that, I might have seen one of these pictures that I really don’t want to see.
Speaking of wrecked exotics, did you hear that that Steffan Eriksson, the Swede “businessman” who wrecked that $3m Ferrari Enzo in Malibu in 2006 is finally in prison back in Sweden. They arrested him last month for mafia style crimes in Sweden since he was deported from the US last year.
http://www.thelocal.se/18580/20090331/
That 8N TT coupe looks like it has seen much better days.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The more exotic it is, the more trouble it is – unless someone is really good.
Guess these should be obligatory viewing during driver’s ed training. I take my dog for runs past a particularly poignant place – fool kid who had begun driving rally cars went driving with two girls. Drove at max speed right into a tree about a year ago, as if he was aiming for it.
http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bilderigg/2008/05/04/1209910189189_324.jpg
The parents are still placing candles around that tree, in remembrance of their kids.
The accident where a car cut off a motorcycle and the motorcyclist lived while the car driver died is interesting; unfortunately the result is usually the opposite:
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/bad861.shtml
@ Stingray:
Rotten.com was sued by a family of one of those they had posted. The site now contains nothing more than literature and a select few pictures.
Funny how such potentially dangerous power is put into the hands of such stupid people. Sure, in some cases accidents are unavoidable, but many are just by negligence or lack of skill. I don’t know about other countries, but a driver’s license is pretty easy to get in the U.S. I don’t think we know what kind of people we have out there piloting 2500+lb. missiles, and that’s a little scary sometimes. That doesn’t even take into account the number of morons I’ve seen on DFW highways riding motorcycles on 1 wheel at 70+ mph.
If you want more supercar schadenfreude and a little less “oh my god I don’t think the driver of that Audi A4 survived”, just click on the “Exotic Cars” filter on the left side of Wrecked Exotics’ homepage (http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/exotics/). Most of the actual exotic wrecks on the site are pretty mundane, but for the fact that they happened to a really, really expensive toy.
I’ve actually seen two “exotics” wreck, both cars were driven by the teenage sons of the respective owners.
The first exotic was a Ferrari. The kid driving it managed to tear the car in half on a county road in Jersey. Both the driver and passenger got away with minor injuries.
The driver of car #2 wasn’t so lucky. The kid was racing his daddy’s AMG in mid-town Manhattan. Both the driver and his passenger were killed.
Why anyone would allow a teenage boy to drive such a car is beyond me.
IMHO perhaps people should transition from bicycles at 18 years old to say motorcycles @ 22 years old to cars @ 25, suv’s @ 30.
As you prove you are responsible, you get to handle a larger, more dangerous vehicle.
I kinda wish that those pictures were used during my driver’s ed class back in high school. Could have nailed home the point of the class very easily and effectively.
This is nothing compared to the old California Highway Patrol magazine that published photos of accidents with pools of blood and body parts plainly visible. Gee, I miss that publication.
Few years back the CA highway patrol leaked photos from a wreck where some teen drove daddy’s Porsche into a toll booth in the OC. I’m pretty sure they were sue happy after that.
When I was in drivers ed we did watch some film…blood on the highway, or something like that. Ancient film strip from the 50’s, guessing by the cars. It didn’t stop my friends and I from driving like idiots. The only key to stopping teen deaths behind the wheel is RAISE THE DRIVING AGE. Teens shouldn’t be driving, plain and simple.
@200k-min:
The driver’s ed film I saw in school was called, “Red Asphalt”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Asphalt
2. Fatigue kills.
Of course it does.
I prefer to drive slightly “high”, and therefore I always carry earplugs, a nap mask, instant coffe and pure cocoa in my car.
A 10 minutes nap and some coffe+cocoa makes wonderful things with your attention and reflexes. Cold air also helps.
3. Trees kill.**
True.
Regarding the issue of shocking car crash images, IMO this book (“Car crashes and other sad stories“) contains the most shocking, graphic and -OTOH- interesting and instructive car crash pictures I have ever seen (WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES)
http://images.google.es/images?gbv=2&hl=es&q=%22car+crashes%22+%22taschen%22&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=20
These pictures firstly horrify. But -once you get over the shock- secondly TEACH A LOT AND WELL about the advancements in car safety (the car crashes are from the 1940s and the 1950s) and about the -IMHO- absolute boneheadness of not wearing a seatbelt.
We can fix it! My dad is a TV repairman! He’s got an awesome set of tools!
What the hell movie was that from?
I agree. Raise the driving age. I am ashamed of the way I drove when I got my license at 16. My only saving grace, and it’s a small one, is that I did most of my dumbest moves in the country where I was the only one at risk.
Also, people who drink and drive or who drive recklessly are no better than people shooting randomly into a crowd and should be treated as such.
Wrecked exotics…
As my father used to say: “All it takes is money!”
When i was maybe around 12 years old i saw, in real life, what happens when a big sedan hits a small 80´s hatch with five older ladies in it head-on at highway speed. Complete with lifeless and uncovered bodies on the shoulder of the road as well as trapped in the car. It’s pretty long tme ago but IIRC one of the women on the back-seat survived, or at least stayed alive for a while to watch her friends die. Kind of makes an impression.
Strange how i thought of that one first, we actually have over 400 wrecked cars at work.
It was just another set of car wreck pictures until I got to the one of my friend Rodney’s semi truck. He didn’t survive that one.
Although I can think of many good reasons to show these photos in public, when I see a post like bolhuijo’s it makes me wonder at what price to the victim’s family and friends.
If I lost a loved one in a car accident, and then saw the gory photos being peddled on the internet as cheap entertainment, I’d want somebody’s ass in a sling.
If I lost a loved one in a car accident, and then saw the gory photos being peddled on the internet as cheap entertainment
To me is nor “cheap entertainment”, it is educational to look at these pictures/movies.
IMO the moment someone dies in a car crash, his/her death passes -in a certain way- to be in the “public domain”.
A Forensic reconstruction of every accident with fatalities published at the newspapers would be a useful tool to prevent new accidents: “He died because he speeded”, “she died because she was DUIng”…smart people learn from other people mistakes.
The driver’s ed film I saw in school was called, “Red Asphalt”.
A highly interesting reference. Thank you.
@cnyguy
That would be Jeff Spicoli you would be thinking of.
We really do react relatively to danger. I was once seated at a curbside table, a restaurant in LA, and we got royally told off by the people at the adjacent table, because we were smoking cigars. “Are you trying to kill us???”
Meanwhile, huge cars were zipping past us, no more than two-three feet away.
I’m still amazed that I can drive along with relatively few worries, on a road without a divider, while my own car and the ones flashing past me achieve a potential combined momentum of 90+90 km/h x our weights. People probably spend more time worrying about asteroids hitting the planet than thinking about the consequences of the guy in the other vehicle nodding off.
@Tyler D
Thanks for the update… haven’t checked that site in years.
@Stein X Leikanger
That seems similar to a custom in this country. When a person dies in a road, they usually build a very small altar with a virgin or saint inside. And every year, they put flowers and candles into it. It’s a common sight in Venezuela’s (my country) roads.