Car flies into church roof

Meemo · Jan 30, 2009

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Car Lands in Church Roof after Spectacular Accident

Police on Monday were trying to figure out exactly how a 23-year-old driver in a town near Chemnitz managed to crash his car into a church roof seven meters off the ground.

Forget the "Dukes of Hazard." In the eastern German town of Limbach-Oberfrohna on Sunday night, a 23-year-old driver speeding through the town center lost control of his vehicle, launched off an embankment and ended up smashed into the roof of the village church some seven meters (23 feet) up. And far from driving a 1969 Dodge Charger, as Bo and Luke Duke favored, the man was behind the wheel of a modest Skoda Octavia station wagon.

Just how the driver, who was evacuated out of the church attic and taken to the hospital with serious injuries, ended up flying so high remains something of a mystery. Police officer Knut Wagner told reporters merely that "the driver took off due to unexplained circumstances, flew some 30 meters (98 feet) through the air and ended up seven meters up in the church roof."

Police surmise that the driver's speed caused him to miss a corner and hit the embankment. The roof of the church was seriously damaged by the car, which remained lodged in the timbers until a crane could be brought in to remove it.

A blood test is to reveal whether the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the incident. When asked just how such an accident could happen, Wagner responded: "That is a very good question. I've never seen anything like it."

Specialists, including physicists, are at the scene trying to reconstruct exactly what happened.
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A poster on another board ran some quick calculations to calculate that the driver must of been doing at least 100 km/h (63mph) when he left the ground. These calculations include various assumptions that would lower the calculated speed.

The Communist · Jan 30, 2009

That would be a story to tell forever!

s o k a r · Jan 30, 2009

Trying to think of a jesus joke that has something to do with a roof and a car.

Lev · Jan 30, 2009

What kind of church? I guess if people don't say otherwise it's going to be Christian huh.
I still find it funny when those 2 Canadian soldiers got shot in afgani and the news said "2 non-americans shot".

Rubius · Jan 31, 2009

It was a Church of Scientology.

Lev · Jan 31, 2009

GASP AND ALARM =O

Roch The Shaman · Feb 2, 2009

lol at 2 non american soldiers

but wow thats crazy went 30 meters through the air, and if he went off an embankment what happened did he hit the soft ground get his wheel stuck then kind of sling shot the back end of his car end over end?

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