There was an accident on one of LA's mountain roads Monday night where a Porsche 911 cab (appeared to be a 996TT), with 3 adults in it, went through a guard rail, became airborne, and landed right-side-up 400-500 feet down a canyon. The car subsequently became engulfed in flames and burned up. All occupants survived. See video on link below.

http://www.ktla.com/landing_news/?Th...827&feedID=171

 

ouch - hate to see that. Glad all are ok. Porsches are well built and don't split in 2. I drive that road once in awhile -I'm guessing he was a little fast...

 

Wow, I thought something happened to you when I read the Thread title.

Glad everyone is OK.

 

what I like best about this story is the woman...was fit enough to climb the hill...

in other words...

the PORSCHE gets the hot mamas.

lol

 

Wow! Hard to believe they all survived. 25 year old driver at 1:30 AM, doubt they were just cruising along the canyon.

 

What goes thru your mind as your careening down a 400-500 foot canyon? Other than, oh sh*t.

 

What about "I'm going to die or at least get seriously injured. Damn, my car (or in this case probably my dad's) is going to get totaled. What if I tried to jump out onto that tree? It looks soft..."

 

I know that road very well. It's very hard to drive slow given the awesome turns and smooth pavement....and no traffic @ 1:30am! That drop was insane! Glad everyone's ok.

 

I can tell you from first hand experience -- though it wasn't because I was going down a 500 canyon but that the 500 canyon was on my right and if my wheels hadn't caught I was done for.

When I was 17 (and stupid) I had a 92 Dodge Stealth R/T that I took on a back road to a then-girfriend's house. Mix a residential windy road with a bunch of s turns with changing elevation (from uphill to the left to down hill to the right) + excessive speed (I believe I was going 70ish) + dumb 17 year old driver who had no business behind a car with 222 hp and you get an out of control car careening toward a canyon and a driver who had no idea what the heck to do (and slammed on the brakes for good measure).

The only words that came out of my mouth were "OH GOD" and then WHAM I slammed into a tree (which saved my life). Ears rang for a day from the airbag's impact into my face... walked away with a bloodied up face and bruises on the chest not to mention ego... I replay every moment of that incident from 17 years ago on a twice weekly basis.

Glad everyone was ok in this case and hopefully the driver learns a very valuable -- if not painful -- lesson....

 

Probably something along the lines: "beautiful daffodils and wild gerber daisies we have growing here this time of year" would be my guess.

 

"Man, these new rims really make the car feel lighter"

 

I've driven some twisty mountain roads with some serious dropoffs, just looking over the edge made my stomach sink and on roads like that I prefer not to push my car to its max.

 

I don't understand how they could have survived that one, wow.. I think two "thank you" letters are inorder... One to Porsche and the other to their 'god'

 

Winner

 

Amen.