Don't mess with nature...

[MGZRod]

A reminder of how bloody strong trees are. A guy from one of the Silvia pages on Facebook survived this but is in critical condition.

How the hell he survived (touch wood) I'm not quite sure

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Take care out there!

[lightthefuse]

Not much to add apart from... holy sheeeeit!

[B'stard Child]

lightthefuse said:

Not much to add apart from... holy sheeeeit!

That and it looks like a straight road!!!!

[matrignano]

MGZRod said:

(touch wood)

I see what you did there...

[EricE]

Mother Nature's Carbon Fiber...

[mybrainhurts]

This one wasn't so lucky...

[Impasse]

That's quite a parking bump for a straight, well sighted residential road.

[somynameiswhat]

Amazing how he survived and the engine isn't completely mangled! Probably has some damage...

But

It'll buff out

[Coatesy351]

Racing another car in the wet apparently.

[backwoodsman]

You just know that the last words uttered in that car were...







Watch this.

[motco]

It's a puny little tree!

[Toaster Pilot]

Holy fking st. A tree made a mess of my Kia Rio in similar driver talent related events but it was mild compared with that!

[DrDeAtH]

Car made of tin foil?

[jmorgan]

DrDeAtH said:

Car made of tin foil?

Must be, what else can do that to a car?

[manmaths]

The photo looks set up to me. This looks like a front half in quite good condition, and the positioning of the car looks a bit suspect (the front is not connected to the rear for example).

I know importing a full car from Japan to Australia (assuming this is indeed Australia) is much more expensive (cars of a certain type might even be impossible to import whole) than importing just the front half (which is registered as parts). They did that on a MCM video and explained the reasons why in more detail.

Maybe this individual did similar. Maybe he lives on this street and set this up for a laugh. Not really that funny if so.

Though, maybe not. Apologies for any offense caused get well soon etc etc

[CarAbuser]

Bet he just had a nice new set of Autogrip tyres fitted and was testing them out.

[TooMany2cvs]

Looks realistic from here. RHD, I presume? So the tree's gone in the front passenger door and gone diagonally to somewhere around the backrest of the driver's seat. He's VERY, very lucky. Another inch or three for'ard, or a little squarer on, and he'd be squirrelfood.

He's also a raging f'kwit who deserves it entirely.

[zeppelin101]

DrDeAtH said:

Car made of tin foil?

Designed in the 80s so it will probably have very little in the way of side impact protection.

[Coatesy351]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/24764701/dr...

[kambites]

zeppelin101 said:

DrDeAtH said:

Car made of tin foil?

Designed in the 80s so it will probably have very little in the way of side impact protection.

Even the best modern cars wont fair much better. You need a full roll cage to have much chance against a tree and even then a decent sized tree will win.