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[GhostInTheMachine]

This post is simply me musing about my backup plan. You see, plan A is pretty straightforward as it's just blowing my head off with a magnum or shotgun. Plan B is a little more involved, but doesn't need much either. All I need is my car, a long stretch of road, and a bridge abutment. For those that don't know what that is, it's the solid walls on each side of a bridge underpass. My car is also very fast, as it came stock with pretty good specs, and I have modified it over the years to be able to go faster.

Here's a picture of the prime style of abutment I'm looking for:


This example here had a spotlight shone on it when the co-owner of the OKC Thunder (NBA) crashed into it and died. For a while, it was believed to be a suicide, but recently that idea has been challenged. Either way, that death highlighted a potential method that I've considered in the event that I can not obtain a gun. I don't even mind having to travel just to pull it off.

So, the plan is pretty simple, go to the bridge, and then drive a sufficient distance to be able to reach my car's top speed. My car has a 0-60 (mph) of around 5ish seconds, and it gets to over 100 in less than 15. It'll just be me, the road, my last song, the roar of my engine, then *BANG*... silence. I estimate I'll easily be going over 120mph when I hit, so the chances of survival will essentially be zero.

Here's a video which demonstrates the sheer destruction of this method:

As you can see, the vehicle had no chance, and it's occupants less so. My only hang-up with this method is that I do genuinely love my car, as it's the encapsulation of years of blood, sweat, and tears that I shed to make it what it is today. However, if it comes down to it, sacrifices will have to be made, and it's not like I can take my car with me to oblivion. Hopefully though, it won't have to come to this and I'll be able to give my car to a friend who I know would take good care of it.

We'll see what happens, because a lot of these bridges are being changed so that such crashes are impossible. Only time will tell.

 

[k1m]

This seems like a very easy way to spend hours in a lot of pain, semi-conscious, being resuscitated over and over again. You don't know how your car will handle offroad at high speed. You could entirely mess up. You could hurt someone else.

 

[Daphne]

Plan A isn't as exciting but it gets the job done. Less risk of maiming yourself or hurting others.

 

[GhostInTheMachine]

This seems like a very easy way to spend hours in a lot of pain, semi-conscious, being resuscitated over and over again. You don't know how your car will handle offroad at high speed. You could entirely mess up. You could hurt someone else.

I know how my car handles very well. At high speed, off-road, and both. I literally built and race the thing, so this would not be a challenge for me. I also plan on doing it during the least busy hours of the night, so the chance of somebody else being hurt would be miniscule. If you watched the provided video, you would see that there's no resuscitating a pile of meat.

 

[U. A.]

the fact that you titled this thread "Zoom zoom"

would you be driving into that section of wall just off to the side of the road? seems narrow...

re: your car - could be "going together" or something similar if you spin it that way. hellracer

 

[somebodyfromeast]

To reach 120 mph in 15 seconds, you need at least 1/3 mile of absolutely straight and level road. Even if your starting speed is not zero, this figure will not change much. This fact complicates the search for a suitable place quite a lot, considering that abutments are often equipped with a barrier, shoulder, earthen embankment and other things to ensure safety. You need not only a suitable abutment but also a suitable road to it.

The second thing is your car. Here many factors matter: safety class, year of manufacture, degree of engine improvement, and so on.
The video shows a car that would never accelerate to 120 mph on its stock engine. Your car, judging by the description, is quite sporty from the start. And most likely the engineers made sure that you did not die. The power structure and safety systems are very different from the car in the video. Unless, of course, the video is not your car. But try to look for official crash tests of your model and their descriptions. Where not store mannequins are used, but specially created for crash tests.
And the last thing. In this scenario, the SI is crucial. You can brake, swerve, let off the gas pedal and do many other things that will make the scenario less than ideal. And then the chances of your survival increase greatly.

I'm not saying that this method is bad. People often die in accidents at 60 mph. It's just too... unreliable. There are too many factors that turn the result into a roulette.

 

[GhostInTheMachine]

the fact that you titled this thread "Zoom zoom"

would you be driving into that section of wall just off to the side of the road? seems narrow...

re: your car - could be "going together" or something similar if you spin it that way. hellracer

Yeah, it's a narrow section, but completely solid. The biggest hurdle is getting a good line into it. Bridges out in the rural midwest seem to have the best layout for this since they're not developed for safety yet.

And yeah, would be fun to rip around in my car in the afterlife.

To reach 120 mph in 15 seconds, you need at least 1/3 mile of absolutely straight and level road. Even if your starting speed is not zero, this figure will not change much. This fact complicates the search for a suitable place quite a lot, considering that abutments are often equipped with a barrier, shoulder, earthen embankment and other things to ensure safety. You need not only a suitable abutment but also a suitable road to it.

The second thing is your car. Here many factors matter: safety class, year of manufacture, degree of engine improvement, and so on.
The video shows a car that would never accelerate to 120 mph on its stock engine. Your car, judging by the description, is quite sporty from the start. And most likely the engineers made sure that you did not die. The power structure and safety systems are very different from the car in the video. Unless, of course, the video is not your car. But try to look for official crash tests of your model and their descriptions. Where not store mannequins are used, but specially created for crash tests.
And the last thing. In this scenario, the SI is crucial. You can brake, swerve, let off the gas pedal and do many other things that will make the scenario less than ideal. And then the chances of your survival increase greatly.

I'm not saying that this method is bad. People often die in accidents at 60 mph. It's just too... unreliable. There are too many factors that turn the result into a roulette.

Good points, the picture I gave in my post is an example of an ideal scenario. Long, straight road, low traffic, clear path to the abutement, etc. My car actually has one of the better crash ratings for it's age and class, but no car is built to withstand the impact I have in mind. The car in the video is a base model Ford Focus, which would struggle to hit 120mph, but could likely still manage it. I won't reveal my actual car, but it is in the same class as the turbo model of Focus, and still very much faster.

SI is a challenge still, yes. Really, that is my largest concern with all this.