Watch: Man critical after BMW smashes into lane divider in Cape Town

[SaiyanZ]

The mom should be thanking us taxpayers as well instead of just God or Allah.

We all paid for the cleanup crew, emergency services and road/barrier repairs which probably is a tender so not cheap.

Also if you're on the same medical aid as this guy you're also technically paying for his medical expenses.

 

[Rustum]

I surely do understand the words.

To answer your question - hilton college, kzn.
I was in falcon house.
Where was it you went to school ?

"Where did you go to school" = rhetorical question.

 

[Grant]

"Where did you go to school" = rhetorical question.

i gave a literal answer to rhetorical question

that aside, you are seeking to create false equivalency out of a statement claiming muslim prisoners in pollsmoor, is somehow equivalent to all muslims are gangsters.
taking that lunacy a step further would be to imply all muslims are therefore prisoners in pollsmoor.

we both know the above are patently false

 

[Grant]

Also if you're on the same medical aid as this guy you're also technically paying for his medical expenses.

there is a chance medical aid may not even pay.
he took part in an organized race.
medical aid companies have become very sticky regards claims, risks & disclosure

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

BMW quality right there!

Bwhahahaha! I thought your post about the Harleys or Harlys...or however you spell that **** waas tops, earlier. This did it!

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

His wife and father were on the bridge but his mother didn't know? Yeah right.

People in their 50s aren't senile. They can connect two and two just as well as a person in their 20s/30s.

Urgh, if it went over your head as well, that was a terrible comment of mine

 

[Knyro]

Urgh, if it went over your head as well, that was a terrible comment of mine

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

I'm not hearing any limiters on that bike. I'm calling bs on the 330 and the 290 speeds.

I'm not a "bike guy", and I suspect a lot of us aren't, what does it actually mean. A certain sound?

 

[Grant]

what hospital did he land up at ?
all the hospitals with proper trauma centres are quite a distance from the accident scene

chris barnard is a long sprint back to the city - but on a freeway the entire distance
vincent pallotti - part freeway
panorama - also part freeway
tygerberg - a really long sprint, but probably the most experienced in high impact trauma

 

[Edelweiss]

LOL at the idiot trying to justify driving at 250km/h+ on a highway, "But driving 80 in a 60 zone is also illegal!"

My god these people can't reason

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1195104400645283

 

[Tokolotshe]

Expecting someone in her (I'm assuming here) 50's to know why her son was driving an M3 F80, is a bit harsh.

Scratches @Honey Badger from the Christmas card list ... before I forget. (have plausible deniability)

 

[IT_Steven]

Trying some unscientific and back of the napkin calculations
Anyone know what the distance is between those lamp posts in the image (red line)?

Rough time estimates I have between lamp posts are:
0.58s for the bike
and 0.77s for the leading car
(Would be interesting if other people could see what figures they can come up with.)

So, if for example the distance between posts are say 50m (and assuming those times mentioned are correct) then we would get :

Bike : 310 km/h (seems a bit fast - don't know bike speeds - if so maybe 50m incorrect or timing a bit off)
Car : 233 km/h

Oh yes : queue the criticism

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

I'm not a "bike guy", and I suspect a lot of us aren't, what does it actually mean. A certain sound?

Not so easy to hear when they go for top speed like this case, here, you'll see the bike's rev counter "stuck" at 11,000rpm and every few seconds hear the engine tone change slightly like it is misfiring briefly, that is the rev limiter:

Similar noise from F1 cars when their traction control kicks in, very easy to hear on a bike when it is just being revved or on a dyno etc though, at exactly 16s into this clip the limiter is hit:

I too call BS on the speeds, if you watch comparable youtube clips of people going those speeds it looks significantly faster than what we saw in this local "race".

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

what hospital did he land up at ?
all the hospitals with proper trauma centres are quite a distance from the accident scene

chris barnard is a long sprint back to the city - but on a freeway the entire distance
vincent pallotti - part freeway
panorama - also part freeway
tygerberg - a really long sprint, but probably the most experienced in high impact trauma

Milnerton Medi Clinic is just under 5km from the scene and is where I ended up when a car smashed into me while on a bike on that exact stretch of road.

Potentially there?

 

[Drifter]

BMW quality right there!
Sadly they didn't install the driver's brain.

!st requirement for buying a BMW is frontal lobotomy.

 

[2023]

Trying some unscientific and back of the napkin calculations
Anyone know what the distance is between those lamp posts in the image (red line)?

Google says it's about 54m, so maybe 55 or 50 is a good number.

I've been having a few quick looks there as I pass, looks like he just missed the bridge pillar by like 2m where he went off

 

[rph72]

Milnerton Medi Clinic is just under 5km from the scene and is where I ended up when a car smashed into me while on a bike on that exact stretch of road.

Potentially there?

Think I read somewhere that he is in Vincent Palotti.

 

[ToxicBunny]

The data on the car showed that the air bags popped at 290.

Really? Did you gave access to the car prior to the police removing it from the accident scene?

There was sweet fa chance that car was doing 290 when the airbags popped.

 

[Drifter]

Think I read somewhere that he is in Vincent Palotti.

In his condition? How does Vincent feel about that , or does he have a thing for bleeding amputees?

 

[rph72]

OK, it is called Live Vincent Pallotti Hospital

Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital
Alexandra Rd, Pinelands, Cape Town, 7405
021 506 5111
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LZW3H