You Are Not Going To Believe This
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You Are Not Going To Believe This
This guy was up on the Bike Path with his car going West at speed and I mean at speed it looks like at night. Somehow he clips the little retaining wall on top of the levee, launches his car over the retaining wall, takes out the short fence on top of the retaining wall and lands down range on the other side of the levee. This is on the bike path on top of the levee. I do not know when this happened but the police were on the scene at my sunrise rec ride on the bike path.
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It's entirely possible the driver fell asleep and drove from the roadway up the concrete embankment and launched into the fence, which then slowed the vehicle's forward progress enough to leave it where it sat in the OP's pics. Or, aliens.
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Edit: I actually paced it off this morning instead of working from memory and from where the car first hit the wall to where it ended up is 50 yards. Part of the bumper you see in one of the pictures is 21 feet before where the car went over the wall.
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Nope, where the car came to rest is a good 100 yards West of the point of impact. The point of impact is established by two of the fence posts that were sheared off at their base clean without even pulling up the base mounted to the small sea wall. The bumper which was the first contact came off about 20 yards east of the point of impact. He was traveling east to west on top of the Bike Path the same direction the car is pointing at a high rate of speed. For that car to launch itself over the small sea wall and carry another 100 yards past where it went over the sea wall, he had to be going 40 - 50 mph as a good guess. That's 40 - 50 mph on a 9' wide bike path lined with 3' square concrete trash cans most probably at night. Go figure.
Maybe he was tired of paying way too much for name brand bike shorts, and severely overpaying for waterproof (but not very breathable) jackets and decided to end it all right there on the wrong side of the tracks? That seems a lot more plausible to me.
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Nope, where the car came to rest is a good 100 yards West of the point of impact. The point of impact is established by two of the fence posts that were sheared off at their base clean without even pulling up the base mounted to the small sea wall. The bumper which was the first contact came off about 20 yards east of the point of impact. He was traveling east to west on top of the Bike Path the same direction the car is pointing at a high rate of speed. For that car to launch itself over the small sea wall and carry another 100 yards past where it went over the sea wall, he had to be going 40 - 50 mph as a good guess. That's 40 - 50 mph on a 9' wide bike path lined with 3' square concrete trash cans most probably at night. Go figure.
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I agree. Not being familiar with that road design it's hard to interpret the pictures but surely he must have hit the fence from the railway line side or the fence would be down the other way.
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Or maybe AdkMtnMonster doesn't know what he is talking about and is running his mouth. That is where my money is.
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So, while we are all trying our best to have a good time until this virus clears out, let's ride, have some fun, joke with one another, and do our best to stay well and fit. Don't take things too seriously, I'm sure it was "tongue in cheek".
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I have no explanation as to why the fence is laying on the bike path. I can only guess the cops might have pulled it over so they could climb down the wall but that is a wild guess.
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