Car disintegrates in high-speed rollover crash near Beacon Hill
SEATTLE - A car virtually disintegrated after barrel-rolling and crashing at high speed Thursday afternoon in a South Beacon Hill neighborhood, police said.
Officers responded to the scene, in the 6500 block of South Donovan Street, at about 1:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a high-speed crash.
Seattle fire officials said the driver apparently experienced a medical emergency before the crash and lost control of the vehicle.
The car rolled over three times at high speed and crashed into a tree on Beacon Hill Avenue South near South Cloverdale Street.
Aerial footage shot by KOMO's Air 4 showed the car was a mangled wreck of twisted metal after the crash.
The driver, identified as a man in his 50s with a history of diabetes, apparently survived the crash. He was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries.
Officers responded to the scene, in the 6500 block of South Donovan Street, at about 1:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a high-speed crash.
Seattle fire officials said the driver apparently experienced a medical emergency before the crash and lost control of the vehicle.
The car rolled over three times at high speed and crashed into a tree on Beacon Hill Avenue South near South Cloverdale Street.
Aerial footage shot by KOMO's Air 4 showed the car was a mangled wreck of twisted metal after the crash.
The driver, identified as a man in his 50s with a history of diabetes, apparently survived the crash. He was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries.
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The dude survived THAT wreckage!? O_O WOOOOOW!
 @LilRedwing One of the things the news doesn't point out is that cars look 100x worse after the fire department shreds them to extricate someone safely.Â
Medical emergency? Problem w/ his crack pipe? This guy was going 70mph+.
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@bagsofdirt Jeez! REad the story before you say anything. It states he has a history of diabetes and he is in his 50's. I rather dobt it was a crack pipe problem.
Looks like it may actually be a Mercedes, but I'm not 100% sure. The guy must have really been moving if it is. Also keep in mind though that these pics were taken after firefighters ripped the car apart to get the driver out. No doubt it was in bad shape before they did that, but the fact that he's alive says the passenger compartment was at least reasonably intact before the jaws of life and the sawzall showed up.
 @chuckh0308 I doubt he was "really moving". The suggestion that it disintegrated is disingenuous at best - if you want to see "disintegrating", I suggest looking at one of those crash videos of a race at Pike's Peak...THAT's disintegration!
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 @Shelly No..A Pinto would have left a pile of melted goo.
Prayers are with him and his family, I pray he makes it, looks so bad.
It's amazing what you can get a with claiming when you put the word "virtually" in front of it.More on topic though... hope the driver makes a recovery and glad nobody else got injured.
 @MackD Like Demetri Martin's jokes about "sort of"
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@keeper ... "guys!! guys!! come quick!!! This car crashed and virtually killed everyone in the neighborhood!!!"... "Really???"...."Well...no... it just crashed....but this SOUNDS IMPRESSIVE!!!"
Oh my gosh, I am happy that the man survived, and no one else was injured, or killed. IÂ called in what I thought was an impaired driver on Hwy. 167. It was almost midnight, as I get off work at 11:30. I followed the car until the police arrived. He was all over the road and I was afraid he was going to kill himself or someone else. I was called back to the scene by the 911 operator. The officers wanted to thank me personally, because the driver was diabetic and hadn't eaten in awhile and his blood sugar was very low. They gave him some candy and he was gradually coming around. It made my day knowing that I had helped someone before something horrible happened to him.
He certainly wasn't going 25 miles per hour.
Uh, why is car's make even a factor? Any car could get pulverized at a high rate of speed, flipping multiple times AND hitting a tree. Grief. I'm just amazed the guy survived this traumatic event. In fact, if anything, I'd say the car must've done something right, considering the driver survived!
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A miracle that the driver survived the crash. Â Wow. Â Hope he can recover.
Toyota maybe??
Ummm, can you tell us what kind of car that is? I don't want to buy one of those!
 @lgconservative I'd want it. If he lived through that something was engineered correctly.
@Poisonous Giraffe @lgconservative Me too! I notice what make the cars are in these types of photos. Whatever this guy had, he seems to be very lucky that he chose it. Hope he makes a full recovery.Â