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The C8 Corvette keeps proving one thing over and over again: when the worst happens, this car knows how to protect its driver.
The latest example comes out of California, where a Stingray hardtop convertible was completely destroyed in a violent rollover crash — yet the driver survived, despite suffering serious, life threatening injuries that required hospitalization.
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According to the California Highway Patrol in Fresno, the Corvette was traveling at high speed when the driver lost control. The car slid hundreds of feet, then flipped, leaving behind a mangled shell that barely resembles the 495 horsepower machine it once was.
What’s left of the Corvette is a sobering sight, but also a testament to the engineering behind the mid engine platform. Even in a catastrophic rollover, the safety cell did its job.
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CHP used the crash as a reminder that speed dramatically increases both the likelihood of a wreck and the force of impact — something this twisted Stingray illustrates all too clearly.
Source:
CHP – Fresno
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Do you know how long I’ve waited for a Blade Silver C8?
Dan, I know where you can get one real cheap.
Another idiot just raising everyone’s insurance rates.
Just be glad he didnt kill a family an their children.
You know with so many new Corvette C8 owners, maybe they should get tested for driving skills and maturity. Right now anyone who has the money and no driver skills can walk into a Chevy dealer, and buy a car which he can kill or injure him in a heart beat.. High Performance car and a low performance driver. A bad combination There are just some people that should never have nice things. They don’t respect the car for the performance it has, they just want to show off to their friends. Its nice that the C8 is built so well that it can experience violent crashes and the driver can survive. But the survivors won’t change there ways and when they are healed up, they will go out an buy another performance car, and probably crash that one also
Need background checks and a 30 day waiting period.
Looks like Silver Flare or most likely HSG, not Blade Silver.
It is hard for me to determine, but judging for what I see in the pictures, I do not see deployed air bags. Just my observation.
You typically won’t see the airbags deploy unless there is a frontal impact, site impact airbags excluded.
Can see the convertible was down & had an open top..Not good to have the convertible top down at extremely high rates of speed. A Closed top he might not be in as bad of a condition. Hopefully he makes it through it all.
Jeff, this crash could have happened in a Toyota Corolla. Doesn’t have to be a “high-performance” car.
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