Was this once a Crown Vic or similar?

[S&W Fan]

seeing it here in CO. Not unique to Vegas. I think Covid made people stupid. I am seeing more and more people driving very poorly. It almost isn't worth honking your horn because then you are the jerk. I am even more careful when riding my motorcycle. People just don't look.

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!!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Most noticeable about this tragic pic is the pole. It seems not to have moved 1 degree off plumb.

Certainly no "snap-away".

 

[LVSteve]

I guess they don't have break-away poles in las vegas? No matter what they were driving..that impact was going to kill. So sad..

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."

 

[Ματθιας]

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.

 

[WardenRoss]

"He wrapped it around a telephone pole!" is the Southern description of such an occurrence.


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[WardenRoss]

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.

 

[GaryS]

"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."

It's all about distraction. Cell phones are the worst but if you look at the cars around you as you travel on the Southeast Expressway, they are doing everything from eating to having sex. Everything but paying attention to the road. The only saving grace around here is that there is so much traffic you really can't go fast enough to have a bad accident.

 

[lihpster]

"911, what's your emergency?" responded the operator when I called it in on my land line.

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.

 

[Golddollar]

The tail light says Crown Vic, Marquis, or Town Car. Spotlight says surplus police car, therefore a Crown Vic.

I think I saw an oval in the grill so that would make it a Ford.

 

[Retired W4]

It's got a cop motor, cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks . . . but it's not a cop car anymore.

Yes, but does the cigarette lighter work?

Sorry, I could not help myself.

 

[smoothshooter]

How often are the crashes caused by illegals?

 

[ladder13]

Raleigh PD still has some CV's on the road.

 

[BC38]

It's got a cop motor, cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks . . . but it's not a cop car anymore.

OK Elwood....

I just made a 3200 mile round trip to southern AZ.

I've lived 48 of my 61 years in and around major cities. But I have never seen so many crazy drivers as when I drove through Phoenix and Tucson!

The speed limit was mostly 55mph and EVERYBODY was doing 70mph - except the ones who were doing 75mph or 85mph. And they were driving like it was a NASCAR track. I was mostly driving in the center lane and I saw multiple people do a 3-lane change - left to center to right lane OR even right to center to left lane. And they'd do it all in one "swipe" as they cut between me and the car ahead - even though there was only 3 car lengths between me and the car ahead.

Never seen anything like it - it was nuts!

 

[LVSteve]

OK Elwood....

I just made a 3200 mile round trip to southern AZ.

I've lived 48 of my 61 years in and around major cities. But I have never seen so many crazy drivers as when I drove through Phoenix and Tucson!

The speed limit was mostly 55mph and EVERYBODY was doing 70mph - except the ones who were doing 75mph or 85mph. And they were driving like it was a NASCAR track. I was mostly driving in the center lane and I saw multiple people do a 3-lane change - left to center to right lane OR even right to center to left lane. And they'd do it all in one "swipe" as they cut between me and the car ahead - even though there was only 3 car lengths between me and the car ahead.

Never seen anything like it - it was nuts!

An average day in Vegas.

 

[delcrossv]

An average day in Vegas.

Or Chicago.