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I used to drive by there all the time.  That's right after a very dangerous interchange with the 405, just a bit north of UCLA and Hollywood.

 

I've seen all sorts of crap at that interchange, especially on the ramp from the 405N to 101W (the direction this guy was going).  Example: two yo-yos doing donuts on the ramp after a fresh rain (when the roads are slick) because they tried to jam their breaks as usual going into a tight curve.  It was like freaking car ballet.

 

This guy was probably going way too fast for conditions and lost it.  Shame about the car though.

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I once saw a labrador retriever get run over at that interchange (101E to 405S) during rush hour. The poor dog was out in the middle of the 101 (I know: I have no idea how it got out there, either), and managed to dodge 2 or 3 cars before being run right over...it was awful.

I also once saw a car do a 90 degree right turn (at over 70 MPH), cross three lanes of traffic, barely missing three others cars as it careened, hit the median (the median that divides the 101 and the 170 heading north) and roll three times before coming to a halt. I called 911 and, initially, all I could manage was "I think I saw something bad but I'm not sure I actually just saw it"--it looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie. To this day, I don't quite grasp how the physics worked to allow a car to make that initial move (the virtually light cycle-esque, 90 degree, turn without rolling and causing untold carnage--I was about an eigth of a mile back when this happened). Still, at least those people were in some sort of old beater from the mid-80s, so they probably walked away if their belts were fastened.

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I knew it was a car because I look at wrecked cars for a living (lots of other wrecked stuff, too, but that's a different post) but I didn't know what kind of car it was.  Sad about the driver and the car.

The good thing about my job is that my kid never drinks and drives because I've always shown him photos (and taken him on assignments) to look at cars that were damaged in DUI-related accidents.  I have some doozies, but nothing completely unrecognizable.

I do have one of a Nissan p/u truck that was driven by a drunk/medicated driver.  It was hit from underneath, while airborne, and the trans and engine were knocked out of the vehicle.  The driver did not survive, but the guy who hit him did.

I had (pre-Katrina) photos of two small trucks, a Ford and a Nissan, that hit head-on at about 70mph. Both were driven by impaired drivers, one died, the other was in a coma for five months.  They were both left looking like the after version of crushed cars.

I also had pics of an NSX that was doing 110 on the interstate, got clipped by another vehicle and sent into a 45-degree slide. It had the front end run over by a tractor-trailer entering the interstate from an on-ramp. I talked to the guy who was in the passenger seat, and he said it was the scariest thing he ever saw- looking out the passenger window, seeing that 18-wheeler bearing down on him and not being able to do a thing about it.

I'll be swamped with Gustav flooded cars... yay.

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They're saying that car only cost around $100,000. I know, "only", but in today's market, that gets you a decent Mercedes (not a really nice one) or a good Volvo. Heck, a nice Lincoln or Caddy costs around there.

A quick Google search places it at over $300K, assuming it was a 2008 Murcielago.

Freaking "journalists", they have no critical thinking skills. They just print whatever someone tells them without trying to find out if it makes sense.

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