- A brutal accident involving a Honda Civic has left emergency responders scratching their heads.
- The two-door coupe was completely ripped apart, but there was no sign of the driver in the wreck.
- Images show that the mildly-modified sixth-gen Civic split in two and had its entire roof ripped off.
Emergency responders at a California fire department are struggling to make sense of a major accident that cut a Honda Civic in half and by rights should have made its driver’s next journey one to the morgue. Instead, the Calaveras Consolidated Fire found no sign of the driver in the Honda’s mangled remains.
“Firefighters responded this morning to a vehicle that crashed into a tree and off the roadway on Lake Camanche Parkway in Burson,” the fire department wrote on a social media posting.
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“The driver fled the scene, and we can’t figure out how anyone could have walked away from this accident! CHP is handling the investigation.”
Photos from the scene in Burson, around 90 minutes southeast of Sacramento, show a sixth-generation Civic coupe, or what’s left of it, looking rather worse for wear. The car has been ripped apart by the force of the crash, cutting the floorpan in half and tearing off the roof. If it weren’t for details like the HVAC controls and the rear quarter window, we’d have been none the wiser about its identity.
With the roof and windshield gone, the Civic has been turned into a speedster, although the pictures show the driver had already added a few less extreme mods prior to the smash. There’s an induction kit with a cone air filter visible in the now-exposed engine bay and a three-spoke steering wheel that looks like it belongs on a 1970s custom van with porthole windows and a shag-pile headliner.
That aftermarket wheel meant there was no driver’s airbag for the driver (though we can see the passenger one did deploy), making it even more surprising that fire crews didn’t find the driver had expired on his ‘Honda’ branded seat cover.
Facebook users have come up with various theories, some claiming the car looks like it was dumped there some time ago, and others suggesting wild animals could have dragged the driver’s body into the trees. One woman says she saw a man walking away from the crash, and if that’s true, the driver owes the man upstairs big-time. But so far, police have been unable to locate the driver either in the area or in local hospitals.
