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jakeXT

(10,575 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:46 AM Oct 2013

Cop car crashes into police barriers at Capitol Hill

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Cop car crashes into police barriers at Capitol Hill (Original Post) jakeXT Oct 2013 OP

i like the woman that was talking... just bad timin'. nt seabeyond Oct 2013 #1

Oh Shit! liberal N proud Oct 2013 #2

Posted Oct. 3. I believe the barriers deployed an instant before the car got there. Listen. NYC_SKP Oct 2013 #3

This is from yesterday wercal Oct 2013 #4

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)

1. i like the woman that was talking... just bad timin'. nt

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:51 AM

Oct 2013

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)

2. Oh Shit!

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 10:52 AM

Oct 2013

No Shit!

Was this from yesterdays chase or something new?

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

3. Posted Oct. 3. I believe the barriers deployed an instant before the car got there. Listen.

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:03 AM

Oct 2013

At the four second mark you hear a loud pneumatic sound, I'll bet they were down and sprung up just as the car got there.

Wow!

wercal

(1,370 posts)

4. This is from yesterday

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 11:04 AM

Oct 2013

The cop is reportedly ok. He was very lucky actually. I used some of these on an entry gate for a military base once. The barriers are rated by how far a truck can travel beyond the barrier, after hitting it....and some of the barriers are 0'-6', if I recall. This means that a truck gets stopped dead in its tracks. The sales man showed us some tested videos which showed just that.

If the police car had arrived at the barrier 2 seconds later, if would have been a tremendous collision with an impenetrable wall.

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