1/2 OT: off to mass in a hurry

peasant

http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/vermischtes/2009/01/26/auto-unfall/mann-landet-im-kirchdach.html

Car hit a ditch, jumped 30 meters and landed in the roof of a church at a height of 7 meters.

speed may have been a factor

Drummerboy08

Holy sh*t! :eek:

Dukes of Hazard eat your heart out....:D

Anan1

Wow! The driver mustn't have been used to the torque of that TDI.

Ferris

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

UNHoly sh*t! :eek:

Fixed that for you:D

Seth Brundle

translated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bild.de%2FBILD%2Fnews%2Fvermischtes%2F2009%2F01%2F26%2Fauto-unfall%2Fmann-landet-im-kirchdach.html&sl=de&tl=en

peasant

Car crashes through church roof

Associated Press

Police say a German man was seriously injured after losing control of his car that flew off the road and crashed through the roof of a church.
Police in the eastern state of Saxony say the car crashed through a guard rail at high speed on Sunday then up an embankment.

Police said Monday the embankment acted like a ramp, launching the car into the air and into the roof of a nearby church.

A special rescue vehicle had to be called in to free the driver from the roof seven yards (meters) above the ground. The 23-year-old driver is in a serious condition. Police did not release his identity.

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=849103&lang=eng_news

Hal1

Good heavens. :rolleyes: That embankment doesn't look much anyone guess the speed needed to make that happen?

peasant

In another article it says that this happened right in front of a police patrol car that was waiting at a red traffic lights.

Drummerboy08

You know that car in Men in Black? The one with the big red button? I bet he pressed the big red button......:D

peasant

Hal1 wrote: »

Good heavens. :rolleyes: That embankment doesn't look much anyone guess the speed needed to make that happen?

maybe ask over in the maths forum?

distance: 30 m
elevation: 7 m
ramp height: 1m
ramp angle: 45 deg
mass of the car: 1200 kg

speed: ??

Hal1

peasant wrote: »

maybe ask over in the maths forum?

distance: 30 m
elevation: 7 m
ramp height: 1m
ramp angle: 45 deg
mass of the car: 1200 kg

speed: ??

Come on mathematical geniuses lurking around here.

CreepingDeath

Might've been the priest in an insurance scam for a new church roof...

Steve

peasant wrote: »

maybe ask over in the maths forum?

distance: 30 m
elevation: 7 m
ramp height: 1m
ramp angle: 45 deg
mass of the car: 1200 kg

speed: ??

According to this doohickey, anything over 21m/s (75.6km/h) seems to be able to hit 7m high at 30m range.

Surprising slow.



http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/projectile-motion/projectile-motion.swf

Drummerboy08

SteveC wrote: »

According to this doohickey, anything over 21m/s (75.6km/h) seems to be able to hit 7m high at 30m range.

Surprising slow.



http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/projectile-motion/projectile-motion.swf

Dissapointingly slow you mean...

Skoda making a new Knightrider car, that's some turbo boost, wouldn't of happened if The Hoff was driving

Steve

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Dissapointingly slow you mean...

Only for the tabloids or the 'speed kills' preachers.:)

peasant

SteveC wrote: »

According to this doohickey, anything over 21m/s (75.6km/h) seems to be able to hit 7m high at 30m range.

Surprising slow.

Just goes to show what massive forces there are at play ...or how used we have become to them that we would call a +1 ton object at 75/80 km/h "slow"

SouperComputer

Maybe the driver will do a Vectra and blame the ramp/church/god and say its was their fault

Standard Toaster

Go-go gadget turbo boost!

Jayus, he must have been fcukin 'flying'...was lucky to land on the roof & not into the wall of the church.

His insurance won't cover acts of God.

daveharnett

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Dissapointingly slow you mean...

I'm not so sure, that's 76km/h at the point of lift off - at the top of the ~45 degree ramp. I'd say it would have had to be going quite a bit faster on the flat to get through the barrier and up the embankment at that speed.

Robbo

Did he tell the rest of the congregation that he was "Nearer My God to Thee"?

It BeeMee

Robbo wrote: »

Did he tell the rest of the congregation that he was "Nearer My God to Thee"?

No, de decided to turn athiest and give God the (big) boot...

Steve

Robbo wrote: »

Did he tell the rest of the congregation that he was "Nearer My God to Thee"?

I think that may have been what he was a-spire-ing to..:D

/groan