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MacScuba 09-03-2023 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2252694)
Yep! Impossible! I vote photoshop. But the sporty red car screams "type A" personality and heavy foot would have been involved.

Not Photoshop. Took the picture myself.

MacScuba 09-03-2023 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2252651)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qzjdH46gY

Hope this works. Car hits a gate that was just opened and flips.

Great theory. But I would think the little piece of fence and the box with the red button would have been damaged if they ran up on it.

Impressive video you found!

Papa 09-03-2023 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MacScuba (Post 2252601)
Happened yesterday. West bound Pinellas, just coming off the Morse traffic circle. Can anyone give me a serious theory on you roll a car just before scanning your gate card? Joke answers not requested.

Another pic…

coffeebean 09-03-2023 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2252651)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qzjdH46gY

Hope this works. Car hits a gate that was just opened and flips.

Very impressive. I have no idea that could happen at such a low speed.

Taltarzac725 09-03-2023 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2252750)
Very impressive. I have no idea that could happen at such a low speed.

They might have planned that so that they could put it online.

Taltarzac725 09-03-2023 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Papa (Post 2252742)
Another pic…

That makes it look like some high rate of speed was involved. High rate for the Villages' roads. I do see cars ripping by doing 50 or so once in a while on these 25 mile an hour roads. Maybe the driver hit the gas rather than the brake.

margaretmattson 09-03-2023 07:21 PM

[QUOTE=MacScuba;2252698]Not Photoshop. Took the picture myself.[/QUOTE)

Sadly, I have seen worse. Living here for 20 + years, you learn to expect these kinds of things. Just another day in paradise!

My vote is the driver couldn't wait his turn. Got mad, accelerated, and the rest.....
Well! As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words.

JMintzer 09-03-2023 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2252651)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qzjdH46gY

Hope this works. Car hits a gate that was just opened and flips.

There's something along the wall to the car's right. A post, or something. That appears to be what flipped the car. Makes the light post theory more plausible...

JMintzer 09-03-2023 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 2252753)
They might have planned that so that they could put it online.

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

JMintzer 09-03-2023 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2252750)
Very impressive. I have no idea that could happen at such a low speed.

Remember, a golf cart flipped (or almost flipped) in a tunnel at a relatively low speed. It hit the wall and just climbed up the side...

huge-pigeons 09-04-2023 05:17 AM

If they were speeding, it couldn’t have been anybody that lives inside the villages. How about trying to make a u-turn around the island to go back into the village?

golfing eagles 09-04-2023 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by huge-pigeons (Post 2252806)
If they were speeding, it couldn’t have been anybody that lives inside the villages. How about trying to make a u-turn around the island to go back into the village?

Because no Villager speeds?????

However, you may be on to something. What if the driver was inattentive and took the exit too quick, (or possibly was forced to turn by some idiot to his left trying to take the first exit, or he was wrong by entering the RB when a car was coming around in the inner lane and similarly forced to exit, possibly when he intended to go straight through). Then, upon seeing the gate and gatehouse, as well as the U-turn break in the island, tried to swing right for radius and then turn left into that break, but hit the passenger side tires against the right hand curb. Depending on speed, that might flip the car. Of course, given the distance to the gate, unless he was driving a junker with bad brakes, there should be enough time to stop, so my vote is for either drunk or texting.

MidWestIA 09-04-2023 05:33 AM

flip
 
When I was a kid I was running my barracuda hard glanced a curb on a curve lost the tire bead and it flipped on it's side. Curb probably involved, brakes & acceleration with bad timing

PS I have been warned running a cart fast down a incline then hard brake will get squirrelly and flip it. Played with a guy that broke a arm as a passenger from that.

maggie1 09-04-2023 06:00 AM

Traffic Crash
 
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Originally Posted by MacScuba (Post 2252601)
Happened yesterday. West bound Pinellas, just coming off the Morse traffic circle. Can anyone give me a serious theory on you roll a car just before scanning your gate card? Joke answers not requested.

Absolutely speed-related coupled with inattention or medical event. The driver entered the traffic circle at a speed higher than to negotiate the curve and ran off the right side of the road where the left side of the car struck the light post. He/She overcorrected and pulled hard to the left thus causing the rear of the vehicle to swing around where the inertia of the vehicle was now sliding sideways. The right side of the vehicle then dropped off the curb with the weight now being thrown to the right causing it to roll over and ending upside down.

The vehicle would have had to have skidded across the roadway, but I can see no marks on the roadway to support that theory, so I could be all wrong. Hopefully, the newspaper will explain the details, and if so, I hope someone will give the explanation in tomorrow's TOTV.

golfing eagles 09-04-2023 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by maggie1 (Post 2252820)
Absolutely speed-related coupled with inattention or medical event. The driver entered the traffic circle at a speed higher than to negotiate the curve and ran off the right side of the road where the left side of the car struck the light post. He/She overcorrected and pulled hard to the left thus causing the rear of the vehicle to swing around where the inertia of the vehicle was now sliding sideways. The right side of the vehicle then dropped off the curb with the weight now being thrown to the right causing it to roll over and ending upside down.

The vehicle would have had to have skidded across the roadway, but I can see no marks on the roadway to support that theory, so I could be all wrong. Hopefully, the newspaper will explain the details, and if so, I hope someone will give the explanation in tomorrow's TOTV.

While I agree that is a possible scenario, especially since I had just previously posted the exact same theory, I must also quote Obi Wan Kenobi---"Only a Sith speaks in absolutes":1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:


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