wow the side panels on the good half still look useable!
turton,
Dec 20, 7:01pm
jeeesus
bmwnz,
Dec 20, 7:04pm
Bloody hell! I'm not a Holden fan, but was of the belief that they are sturdy cars. That's almost like a movie prop.
bigjerry,
Dec 20, 7:06pm
They are very sturdy and safe. Except if you drive into a tree at 160 kph that is.
rob_man,
Dec 20, 7:10pm
That's had a freaky set of events to do that, the whole rail and inner guard has remained intact along with the suspension on that side. Edit; remember that Commodores have a glued in firewall, possibly a bit of a weak point.
bmwnz,
Dec 20, 7:10pm
True! There's not much that could withstand that!
wrong2,
Dec 20, 7:17pm
trees are just about the worst thing to hit
they are rooted to the ground, & have flexibility combined with enormous strength
stealthbida,
Dec 20, 7:22pm
farken'n'hell!
richard198,
Dec 20, 7:26pm
My old HQ would have survived! The new Holdens are just wannabe Opels!
wrong2,
Dec 20, 7:29pm
not the VE
cowboy110,
Dec 20, 7:29pm
I don't think anything would have survived that. Holden or not
xs1100,
Dec 20, 7:32pm
yep at the end of the day couple of young uns not seeing another xmas.stupid bug gars and poor blim in parents
darryl,
Dec 20, 8:16pm
The palm tree has a 10 star ANCAP rating
scotty20001,
Dec 20, 9:07pm
that's more then 160! just look at it the driver would have been bloody low flying!
wasser61,
Dec 20, 9:31pm
yeah yeah.
i-n-horz,
Dec 20, 11:19pm
Young and bullet proof.you don't always get to learn from your mistakes but hopefully someone else will.
wont even need that, theres not a scratch on that one side
mike844,
Dec 21, 8:43am
horrible way to die even knew a young girl that died that way but not doing 160k ph she was changing the music in the car
richardmayes,
Dec 21, 10:35am
Lucky for them the car was built in a 1st world country, eh scotty!
[Bigjerry I couldn't see 160km/h or anything more specific than just "at high speed" in the article.! ]
But yeah, there's no such thing as "a good solid car" when you hit almost a metre thick of solid wood at any kind of speed.
rsr72,
Dec 21, 10:45am
Love how the newspaper described the dead driver as. 'incinerated'. Here it would be. 'Unfortunately passed away at the scene'.
trogedon,
Dec 21, 12:20pm
It's like someone has Photoshopped the right half of the car there.
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