- A Honda CR-V was sent flying at a car meet in Tomball, Texas.
- The SUV was hit by an Infiniti driver attempting a drifty exit.
- Both cars were totally wrecked, but reports say no one was killed.
Cars have got much safer in the last 30 years, but we’re still waiting for one feature that could prevent a lot of innocent people from being caught up in accidents. And that’s a sat nav that routes them away from car meets like the one that resulted in a CR-V somersaulting down a Texas road.
The incident happened last month near Tomball and was sparked by an Infiniti G50 sedan driver trying to prove to the crowd near the exit how well he could handle his car’s rear-wheel drive chassis. The only trouble is, he couldn’t handle it at all.
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You know the drill by now, having seen 1,000 other car meet crash videos, mostly involving Mustangs. The driver smokes out of the intersection onto a four-lane road and then gets off the gas pedal before he straightens the steering wheel. That sudden weight transfer sends the silver G50 sharply left, that being the direction of the two lanes for traffic heading the opposite way.
And one of those vehicles heading the opposite way is a CR-V minding its own business. The G50’s nose catches the back of the wine-red Honda moving briskly down the road, sending the SUV skidding sideways, then onto its side before it stands up on its front bumper, and finally comes to rest in a ditch.
Three-Wheeling G50
While this is happening, one of the Infiniti’s wheels, which was broken off in the initial crash, strikes an innocent sedan that was following in the CR-V’s wake, before rebounding and heading down the road and out of shot at quite a rate of knots. For all we know, it could have collected someone else after the dust had settled on the main crash.
At least two cameraphone angles are circulating online showing the accident, and in one of them the G50’s driver can be seen sprinting from his wrecked sedan to check if the occupants of the Honda are okay. Fortunately, reports from the scene say no one was killed, though it could easily have been a different story.
