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Blue_true

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37. I was on a business trip in Northern California and saw a car go off a ravine while

Mon Sep 2, 2019, 09:01 PM

Sep 2019

headed in the opposite direction. Now a few seconds earlier I had both seen the San Francisco may in the distance way below me and saw house lights well below me. I really felt sorry for the driver, but there was nothing that I could do. I did notice other drivers that were going in the same direction as the vehicle slowing down to try to help. The next day as I was driving back in the direction that the vehicle went off the ravine in, the California Highway Patrol was still there, so my assumption was one or more people died in the crash.

If you want a scary drive, take Highway 80 between Mountain View California and San Francisco, of Highway 17 between San Jose and Carmel.

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Kevin Hart suffers major back injuries in car crash - driver lost control of Hart's 70 Barracuda [View all] Demovictory9 Sep 2019 OP

Please heal fast!! NT SWBTATTReg Sep 2019 #1

1970 Plymouth Barracuda highly desired. Prosper Sep 2019 #2

I was once in a friend's Barricuda doing 140. CanonRay Sep 2019 #7

Eh, I've done a tick over on a bike sir pball Sep 2019 #12

Back road in Wisconsin CanonRay Sep 2019 #14

Eeeergh sir pball Sep 2019 #51

I did 149mph on my bike in my mis-spent youth. CentralMass Sep 2019 #52

I-95, north of Bangor Maine sir pball Sep 2019 #53

I had the same experience and anyone who has gone that fast on a bike CentralMass Sep 2019 #55

I mean, maybe Marc Marquez or Guy Martin sir pball Sep 2019 #56

Same here. CentralMass Sep 2019 #57

700 HP Supercharged Prosper Sep 2019 #20

one of the passengers was a female.. HipChick Sep 2019 #3

Quite possibly the SO of the driver, then. nt Dr Hobbitstein Sep 2019 #4

Won't be the first time he was caught out HipChick Sep 2019 #6

Apparently she is the fiance of the driver. cwydro Sep 2019 #16

I dont get how that is important in this story, regardless of who she is. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2019 #26

she was his trainer Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #9

She was his wife's trainer & fiance of driver according to reports. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #21

I read that the female was his wife's physical trainer and the driver Blue_true Sep 2019 #30

Oh Barracuda... RockRaven Sep 2019 #5

Lucky any of them escaped from photos I saw. Hoyt Sep 2019 #8

photos Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #10

That's a modern Hellcat engine. uncle ray Sep 2019 #15

Nor really suitable for a convertible...if that was a convertible... pecosbob Sep 2019 #18

Emergency crews cut off roof. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #22

You had a 69 GTX and wanted a Barricuda? Blue_true Sep 2019 #31

To eaqh his own pecosbob Sep 2019 #45

Got ya, car love is like that, each person has his or her own vision of perfection. nt Blue_true Sep 2019 #48

Link to article about Hart's Barracuda: CottonBear Sep 2019 #25

Pro cyclist Peter Sagan has a 1970 Charger that was "rebuilt" in a similar manner... bullwinkle428 Sep 2019 #38

whoa. it's almost scraping the ground Demovictory9 Sep 2019 #40

Who isn't a fan of Peter Sagan jberryhill Sep 2019 #44

Crap bdamomma Sep 2019 #35

Surprised it was back injuries sir pball Sep 2019 #13

Big engine up front, no weight out back, and zero electronic nannies. sir pball Sep 2019 #11

When I was a teenager back in the 70s... Iggo Sep 2019 #24

Hamilton? Blech! Coventina Sep 2019 #29

However you feel about him personally, sir pball Sep 2019 #49

Gotta disagree with you on that. Ralf Schumacher wasn't really all that. Coventina Sep 2019 #54

Excellent post. The best way to start to figure out one of those cars is to put them in park, Blue_true Sep 2019 #32

No doubt speeding like an idiot. cwydro Sep 2019 #17

Car was updated & modernized. Seemed to have new seatbelts. N/T CottonBear Sep 2019 #23

New belts do nothing without a modern crash cage sir pball Sep 2019 #50

It went off a ravine literally near the end of his driveway. Blue_true Sep 2019 #33

you never want to see your name in the same sentence as the word RAVINE Skittles Sep 2019 #36

I was on a business trip in Northern California and saw a car go off a ravine while Blue_true Sep 2019 #37

Jersey kid next door my freshman year in the dorms at Maine had one. bluedigger Sep 2019 #19

"Lost control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #27

Hart was the front passenger. Blue_true Sep 2019 #34

Yes. But I'm saying that the driver didn't simply "lose control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #41

Agree. cwydro Sep 2019 #47

Must be some definition of "comedian" that I'm not familiar with Clash City Rocker Sep 2019 #28

Oh so edgy... SidDithers Sep 2019 #43

Why do I just automatically think speeding caused it? nt UniteFightBack Sep 2019 #39

Why, no, the driver simply "lost control" jberryhill Sep 2019 #42

Speed in powerful cars is achieved so fast and going Prosper Sep 2019 #46