driftmotion

Came across this article and before even reading it I was like ... "Are those 507 wheels?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04...n_7057012.html

Spazdoc

Couple more pics here.

http://www.revscene.net/forums/70281...out-model.html

Looks like a 507 with the wheels and brakes. Glad my oldest is 7 yo. When kids reach 16, my car goes off site and I get a hybrid or electric.

abcut973

That is really sad. Based on the pictures you can imagine the gravity of the accident.
Looks like it flipped several times

unagi1

Poor car...

driftmotion

I'm with ya.... I'm about to have my first child and I'm already thinking of getting an old school steel build volvo ..... The heavier the better (less HP/Weight ratio). Plus those cars are tanks!

norb

At least they survived. The C63 did its job.

alexmtl

Wow that looks sad. Glad they're still alive and best wishes for the kid.

SaphGreyC63

Wow, that's a pretty bad one.

Don't like how the article makes it feel as if the teen was driving though. Poor kid was just a passenger.

Spazdoc

We actually have a Volvo XC90. 3 rows for 3 kids in an SUV that is not bloated like a Suburban (my wife insists on something more nimble than a school bus). Plus it has more heavy metal than other SUVs.

CarHopper

Wonder how old the driver was. And by the sounds of it, that teen is in pretty rough shape and at the very least has a long road ahead of him.

c63Jimbo

My first car was a 1979 volvo station wagon. They are indeed tanks and run forever, but slow a bricks. I once raced my friend running on foot a 40 yard dash, he won. there was also this huge hill by my school that was a 35mph zone. the car couldnt even hold 35, it would get up to 33 and then slowly come down as I drove up it. Great starter car and thankful for learning and respecting the value of hard work and the rewards it brings for my toys.

mdnx

Driver is 18

mikeyyyallday

stupidity caused the accident..feel bad for the car

CarHopper

The article mentioned the teen passenger was 18, no mention of the drivers age.

But, all the more reason dads out there shouldn't buy their kids fast cars.

sytfu_colan

It's on the 2nd link, according to CBC

Two teens were pulled from their crumpled Mercedes AMG Sunday morning by firefighters after they lost control, went airborne, and crashed into a tree two metres above ground.
The 18 year old driver of the Mercedes is seriously injured but conscious, while the 17-year-old male passenger is in critical condition, said Vancouver Fire and Rescue Acting Battalion Chief Bob Hollier.

“It was apparent that it was airborne when it struck the trees,” Hollier said. “They were taken to hospital. They were conscious at the time of the extraction.”

The speedometer of the Mercedes was stuck at 180 km/h – a sign of how fast the car may have been going along Southwest Marine drive.

The Mercedes crashed into a tree two metres above ground off of Southwest Marine Drive. Police evidence markers showed how while the road curved right at 57th Avenue, the car kept going straight. The car hit a copse of trees to the west of the roadway at around 4:20 in the morning. Pieces of the car could be seen spread out over the roadway. There wasn’t a lot of traffic at the time, and police speculated no one called for help right away.

“Sounds like they may have been there for some time before being discovered,” Vancouver Police Const. Brian Montague said.
On the other side of Kerrisdale, a Ford Mustang flipped at 41st Avenue and Angus Drive at 5:45 am.

The driver and his female passenger weren’t seriously hurt, though the driver can be seen crumpling to the ground after being told something by police.
He was taken away on a stretcher.

Resident Carolyn MacFarlane said she’s seen too many crashes on that stretch of road.
“We tend to see a lot of accidents because people come screaming down 41st,” she said.
She said that includes an SUV carrying 7 high school aged teens that spun out and hit her property in 2005.
“It’s obviously not safe. We have [traffic] rules for a reason,” said MacFarlane.
About 35 people under 21 are killed each year in car crashes in BC. Some 6,900 are injured, and 70 per cent are male. They crash at more than twice the rate of other adults.

m a x i m u s

Wow. What a dumb ****. Luckily no bystanders were also injured or killed.

solekeeper

yea, because people are out walking their dog at 3am.



stop bashing the poor kid, he made a bad decision. have you never exceeded the speed limit?

if your answer is no, then sell your c63 and give it to someone with *****.

unagi1

bad decision...ordering a burger rare from a dive bar is a bad decision... Putting both yourself and your supposed friend in a hospital is just plain stooopid

jvanbrecht

Our cars are built well.
This one occurred 5 years ago, unfortunately an occupant of the other vehicle was not so lucky. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cri...-md-crash.html

avery.whss

funny thing is, I live in Vancouver, I know that road, what I find even more hilarious is I recently lost my license for 9 months over 2 contrary to restriction (here in BC you can only have 1 person in your car with your N)

I'm willing to bet lots of money that this kid will receive less driving suspension time then me and yet he almost killed someone and was doing excessive speed.


Ahh I love ICBC

@Solekeeper - ICBC judges me for driving around with an extra person in my car whos 25+ with their full, While their policy clearly states me with a N can drive around with more then 1 person aslong as their 25+ with a full..Yet ICBC themselfs suspended me for 9 months all because I had 1 extra person..You think thats fair?

He'll get MAYBE 2-3 months driving suspension because he's chinese,

m a x i m u s

Thanks for your input, but I'm sticking with my original assessment.

zcct04

Ignorant response. Exceeding the speed limit is something that happens in many different degrees and carries a range of risks that depend on where you do it, but this kid was clearly out beyond the stupid end of that scale:
"he was travelling at least double the speed limit. . . other evidence that we have would suggest that he was travelling in excess of three times the speed limit.”
And his macho stupidity has left his girlfriend, trapped in the car with him for over an hour, gruesomely injured and near death. Horribly sad for both families.

bluejae

hope everyone is ok since it's hard to tell from this text... can't tell if someone is seriously injured or not... and also it talks about 2 people but mentions a driver and male passenger and then later talks about male driver and female passenger...

mdnx

Media made it confusing by talking about two separate accidents at the same time.
1 Accident involving 18 yr old and 17 yr old males in Mercedes
1 Accident involving a Male & a 17 yr old girl in a Mustang.