Fred Ordine and his 25-year-old son, Chadwick Quinones, were arrested on Tuesday for crashing two Chevrolet Corvettes in New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel. This unique bout of family togetherness actually took place on the night of February 9th, according to New York Daily News. However, the arrest and video footage (below the break) of the two crashing into each other are newer and absolutely perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday, which is all about bringing people closer.
Though this may have been too close.
While reports indicate that the two were “drag racing” through the tunnel in the late evening, dash cam footage of the lead car seems to suggest a milder competition. Frankly, the narrowness of the tunnel prohibits pretty much anything other than moderate speeds. Traffic further increases the likelihood of any high-speed runs ending in complete tragedy. Suffice it to say this isn’t the kind of place you want to be testing the boundaries of physics.
However, while a by-the-books race didn’t appear to take place, the two were still driving like imbeciles. Chadwick’s footage shows the lead Corvette picking up quite a bit of speed as it passes several buses. Moments before the crash, the second car can be seen coming up on the driver’s side. Apparently trying to catch up or pass (which is a no-no already), ‘Vette #2 closes dangerously fast on a slow-moving SUV. Realizing that braking isn’t going to be enough to avoid a wreck, Daddy Ordine veers into ‘Vette #1 — throwing the coupe into a spin that takes out at least one other vehicle. Police said no injuries were reported.
From New York Daily News:
Quinones fled the scene but returned an hour and a half later, and was issued three summons in Weehawken, N.J. for leaving the scene of an accident, failure to exhibit registration and careless driving, police said.
When Port Authority Police Department detectives asked him about the video, he yanked it from his Instagram page, though it can still be found reposted to other accounts, police said.
After an investigation, Port Authority cops charged Quinones and Ordine, both of Hewitt, N.J., with reckless endangerment, illegal speed contest and reckless driving.
“We are committed to tracking down people who commit this type of reckless behavior and prosecuting them. In doing so, we hope to deter others from doing the same,” Port Authority Police Chief Detective Matthew Wilson said.
The two are reportedly awaiting arraignment in Manhattan criminal court. Hopefully, they both get a little time with their families on Thursday in order to score a little turkey and perhaps a loving lecture about how stupid they’ve been throughout this ordeal.
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This instance, these cars, these types drivers, this location, this crash, are kind of a metaphor for GM the corporation in many ways.
How does one “flee the scene” after an accident in the Lincoln Tunnel?
There’s a walkway.
“Chadwick.”
I wonder how we can blame this on single mothers. oh wait, wrong blog.
@JimZ
How can we blame this on Mustangs?
It was leftists donch’a know…..
-Nate
That’s an odd remark -Somehow I got the impression that the Father (as old men often do) veered hard Right.
(Rimshot)
Sometimes life provides opportunities for fun snarks like that…I was with my young nephew at a deli when Hurricane Rita was about to make landfall. The news station that was on at the deli, Fox, was showing that the storm was going to move inward and then hard to the right. He asked how do they know that? I told him that on Fox, even the hurricanes lean to the right. He was too young to know what that meant but a good chunk of the people in line broke out in a laugh. Good times!
3 rights make a left!
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
^^ Wright answer.
Obviously some people still bounce off the diving board going into the deep end of the gene pool! Sadly these two idiots survived that dive!
Hopefully these two will be spending Christmas behind bars!
And not in!
Perhaps they were before they decided to pull this little stunt!
Two more parts cars ripe for harvesting!
Well, I’m glad nobody was hurt and I hope that the “dudes” learned something. Like, stopping from 130 is more than twice as hard as stopping from 65.
@ SPPPP
Energy = MV squared
65 squared = 4255
130 squared = 16900
4X energy to dissipate.
This is what we get for bypassing Darwin.
Bypass? I thought that tunnel led straight to Weehawken!
Maybe they don’t believe in natural selection?
On the 8th day Corvette owners were created!
Is this analogous to the Big Mac — instead of Trolls Getting to Heaven, the Tunnel was created so the Bennies could get to Jersey?
Haven’t heard that term in a looong time…you know MTV was developing a TV show called “Bridges and Tunnels” that was about such folks…it was shelved for the production of “Jersey Shore.”
Their turkey day is all about thanks for still being alive.
These guys should get mandatory jail time plus a LONG term license revocation. I’ve lived in NYC. If that tunnel had been damaged and needed to close for repairs, hundreds of thousands of people would have been inconvenienced in a major way and the cost of delays in commuting, shipping and getting to and from Liberty Airport in Newark would have run into the millions.
Totally agree. They gave the middle finger to everyone.
I wish the father had crashed into the car directly in front of him, brakes locked. This would have likely been a more palatable situation for everyone involved by a very long shot. I bet he thought son would have read the situation correctly and bailed out to make room for him in the nick of time. Sadness ensues.
Likely avoidable in a mid-engine car…
nah, he just needed to use a digital tire pressure gauge. right side was probably 1.5 psi too high.
Good thing this is not typical of Corvette owners. I was very surprised at the cost of insurance as I was expecting a significant rate hike for buying one. Instead I was kind of shocked by how affordable it was. The agent said the owner base is older and the loss history is very good. Hence the low rates. Good for me!
The stereotype of the jean-shorts-wearing Boomer that only takes the vehicle to Cars & Coffee is helpful in this case.
The insurance for track days has to be the real killer!
Glad I don’t fit that stereotype either!
Perhaps just the “Cars & Coffee” then. :-)
“jean-shorts-wearing Boomer” I can’t picture (actually won’t) picture a boomer in daisy-dukes. LOL
If you don’t mind my asking what’s the ballpark like for full coverage?
For three cars (14 Vette convertible, a Buick and my station car) is $1600 per year. Coverage limits are much higher than minimum, don’t recall exactly, with a 500 deductible and full glass. No tickets or accidents…car is garaged. Liberty Mutual was much better than GEICO. Same coverage with GEICO (I had them since I started driving) was $4000 once I added the Vette so I dropped them. Funny how a company would let a driver go after thirty years with zero at-fault accidents but that’s the way the capitalist cookie crumbles I guess.
Thanks. I don’t remember what it was for me now but when I added the Toyota everything with full coverage was similar pricing but in my case two of the three cars were near worthless and I was very much like WTF.
Unrelated a little, but my insurance on my 2019 Accord actually DROPPED from my 2013!
$5/half, but a win’s a win, yes? :-D
I bet these Corvette crashes will be even more spectacular in the mid engine version!
This video reminds me the scene from “2001 Space Odyssey” when Dave Bowman passes to the other part of Universe through wormhole. Except with less drama.
Is this the definition of more money than sense?
I will never understand the urge to use public roads as a venue to show off your driving prowess, or lack thereof. Go to a track; die on your own time; quit needlessly endangering everybody else because your mom didn’t love you enough.
It’s called “normalization of deviance.” the idea was popularized during the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation. Basically, they knew the joints on the SRBs were weak and could fail, but they never had, so the possibility of failure was minimized. Until a very cold day in January of 1986…
It’s the same thing that leads people to drive recklessly, or text while driving. They know they shouldn’t do it, but the more times they do it with nothing bad happening, the more likely they are to keep doing it because “nothing bad has happened.” Until it does.
NASA did not even made crew escape mechanism one of requirements of STS design. They were sure that STS will be 100% fail proof. What they were thinking? It is like Boeing not duplicating mission critical systems in 737 MAX.
Perhaps it was because where were the crew to escape too? The upper atmosphere and fall? Low Earth orbit with a few hours of oxygen and that’s if they didn’t get caught up in reentry?
@JimZ: Quite right.
Normalization of deviance is also what led NASA to accept the foam strike on Columbia as an ‘in family’ event, while those who actually studied the films said it certainly wasn’t.
It turns out that every single shuttle launch experienced foam loss warrantying further study, but NASA grew tired of having such ‘non-events’ stand in the way of fixing them or worse – slowing the launch schedule.
I see the same thing in corporate behavior in industry.
@JimZ – exactly. I’ve also seen the term “institutional creep” and “mission creep” get used. People keep resetting the norms of behaviour until they get into a big mess.
“Scope creep” in IT!
One of the banes of my existence! ;-)
Yeah what a great story to push. A couple of idiots endangering other peoples lives. Gotta crap post on Thanksgiving! *puke*
waaahh. grow up.