Was this once a Crown Vic or similar?
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One fatality yesterday East of here and all Southbound lanes of Rt. 17 are now closed due to another vehicle crash. Drivers theses days are crazy.
Looks like a Crown Vic, likely an agency run-out that are often bought at auction by dirt bags, who want to experience riding in the front seat. Seems Clarke and Nye counties have dumped many of these beaters on our streets.
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I drove a Crown Vic for a while. It was fun. A lot of the time people thought I was a cop.
One guy who didn't started tailgating me aggressively. He was getting his road rage on. I reached down and grabbed the plug on my coiled cellphone charging cord and held it up to my mouth, which he could clearly see through the rear window. He quickly backed off and immediately exited.
That was hilarious.
One guy who didn't started tailgating me aggressively. He was getting his road rage on. I reached down and grabbed the plug on my coiled cellphone charging cord and held it up to my mouth, which he could clearly see through the rear window. He quickly backed off and immediately exited.
That was hilarious.
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NOPE! That will not buff out! That has to be one of the worst wrecks I've seen!!
Worst I ever saw was a '57 Chevy 4-door t-boned by a county Mountie traveling at high speed. No lights, no siren, at night. It went right through the Chevy and was sticking out the far side. The front seat and what was left of the two women in the Chevy were in the road about 50 yards down the road. Bad.
I'm pretty sure this was a police Interceptor. spotlight on drivers door and it looks look police rims too.
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The spot light gives it away. I've never seen a Marquis cruiser, not to say there never was one. I'm saying this was probably a retired cruiser. They last made them in 2011 and very few are still in service. I wish they still made them. They were affordable, comfortable, and tough, capable of many miles of service. I've owned several and driven many more in a long LEO career. If they still made them I would have one.
The tail light says Crown Vic, Marquis, or Town Car. Spotlight says surplus police car, therefore a Crown Vic. That is a serious mess. The chassis and unibody is a tank, so it must have been moving at over twice the marked speed. I see they got the driver's door open.
I had a Town Car, likely the same age as the CV. It got totalled while parked sitting in from of my building by a mini-Buick doing about 40 that blew through a stop sign. Driver had a cell phone in her face. Shoved the trunk into the back seat and jammed the back doors shut. It would still drive, but insurance totalled it because of the age. Buick driver walked away with a broken nose.
I had a Town Car, likely the same age as the CV. It got totalled while parked sitting in from of my building by a mini-Buick doing about 40 that blew through a stop sign. Driver had a cell phone in her face. Shoved the trunk into the back seat and jammed the back doors shut. It would still drive, but insurance totalled it because of the age. Buick driver walked away with a broken nose.
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True, but here in Vegas they stepped it up a few notches during and after COVID. What my coworkers and I observed was that during COVID, those that were working got used to the largely empty freeways and started going everywhere at 85+ mph. This meant they could sleep in longer and got home sooner. The true difference was likely 10 minutes or less, but I can guarantee the perception of these drivers was "Oh, it's a WAY quicker ride to work."
Then COVID ended and the traffic returned. Oh the horror! There were normal drivers in large numbers driving at a bare 5 or maybe 10 over the limit on the freeway. Some even drove at the limit or below it!! The nerve of these people, clogging up the roads in such a manner.
This has led to the COVID speed demons resorting to chopping across lanes, using exit and on ramps to pass, you name it. Anything is allowed in their minds to avoid returning to the pre-COVID schedule. It's not been much better on the surface streets. No school meant no school zones, and speed enforcement on the Vegas streets in minimal at best, usually concentrating on certain areas that have become the Happy Hunting Grounds for Metro's traffic cops. As a result the idiots got used to cruising at 60 mph on many of our larger surface streets, with the inevitable issues if the light ahead changes. Those lights aren't timed for traffic at that speed. Post COVID they still want to go those speeds, but now when they run the red light because they cannot/refuse to stop, there is another vehicle coming on the green. The results are ugly.
Yup, there's a bill in the Colorado legislature to stop the "right turn on red" thing. It's just one small part of the problem. I good friend that was a Denver PD motorcop, now retired, used to say "you knew you were in Denver when you see the 7th car run through the red light". Not just limited to the ****** Denver drivers, it's the whole state, like all the others.
What's the old saying? Anyone driving faster than me is a maniac and those driving slower are morons!!
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Most noticeable about this tragic pic is the pole. It seems not to have moved 1 degree off plumb.
Certainly no "snap-away".
Certainly no "snap-away".
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I suspect it gets too windy here for snap off poles, but I'm not a pole engineer, nor do I play one on TV. Maybe we should call the poles in Vegas "Darwin Poles."
In ABQ, I don't think the light/utility poles are breakaway - at least where I live. I say that because a light pole on a major street got hit by an idiot street racing. He hit the pole, hard, the car rolled, he was ejected and took the asphalt temperature challenge. The pole is still up right, but with a big dent.
"He wrapped it around a telephone pole!" is the Southern description of such an occurrence.
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True story. I lived on a very sharp curve circa 1980.
I was eating supper when I heard the neighborhood hot-rod Mustang power sliding around that curve, then ka-boom.
"911, what's your emergency?" responded the operator when I called it in on my land line.
"Neighbor boy just wrapped his Mustang around a telephone pole." was my answer.
"What is his medical condition?" says the operator.
"I'm about to check. Just calling from my supper table." says I.
"How do you know he needs medical assistance?" she asks.
"Well, I'm looking through my window and the rear axle is about 100 yards beyond the wreck. It's standing up like a Christmas tree. That and our lights went out."
"Gotcha! Dispatching ambulance!" she says.
Turned out he was drunk and had no injuries, just pinned in his seat.
I was eating supper when I heard the neighborhood hot-rod Mustang power sliding around that curve, then ka-boom.
"911, what's your emergency?" responded the operator when I called it in on my land line.
"Neighbor boy just wrapped his Mustang around a telephone pole." was my answer.
"What is his medical condition?" says the operator.
"I'm about to check. Just calling from my supper table." says I.
"How do you know he needs medical assistance?" she asks.
"Well, I'm looking through my window and the rear axle is about 100 yards beyond the wreck. It's standing up like a Christmas tree. That and our lights went out."
"Gotcha! Dispatching ambulance!" she says.
Turned out he was drunk and had no injuries, just pinned in his seat.
"Southeast Expressway." Showing your age. 
I still call it the "Xway" since I went to so many accidents on it from 1979-2012.
There are no "breakaway" trees as you'll know if you ever drove on the "J Way."
I still call it the "Xway" since I went to so many accidents on it from 1979-2012. There are no "breakaway" trees as you'll know if you ever drove on the "J Way."
You're a good person and he's a lucky guy.
True story. My brother and his buddy were out in my mom's Buick Skylark one evening. They were on a hill in the middle of town, going down one of the roads the came down from the top. Some of these roads went all the way down, some didn't. He thought he was on one that went all the way. He wasn't.
So, 75MPH, heavy car, moist road, dark and a 90 degree left appears. Brakes don't do anything and trying to steer through the turn ain't happening either. Car hits the edge of the road and rolls about 6 times, coming to rest upside down with the back end on the ground and the front propped up by a boulder the size of a house.
Luckily they were OK. That Buick protected them well, at the expense of it's own life. They get out and quickly, first thing is toss the beer down the hill. They just came roaring down the hill, engine revving, tires squealing from the brakes and the rolled the damn car 6 times. Somebody's calling the cops, right? I mean it's 8 PM and they're 50 yards from 3 houses with lights on. Better get the stories straight. "I swerved to miss a deer!" Meanwhile they're waiting for someone to come.
Finally, after waiting for 30-45 minutes, my brother knocks on one of the doors and asks to use their phone to call a wrecker. Nobody had called it in. The people whose phone he used hadn't even looked outside to see what had happened. If they had been seriously hurt, or trapped in the car, things might have been much worse.
I think I saw an oval in the grill so that would make it a Ford.
