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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:31 AM
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HOW did this guy survive this wreck?


Pacelli, a father of two, has a herniated disk in his neck, a couple of pinched nerves, and some scratches. No one can believe it — especially after watching the dramatic video captured by a camera mounted on the dashboard of the bus. He cannot remember the accident, but his wife, Kelly, passed the crash site as she was rushed to Nassau University Medical Center.



http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1736888
March 17, 2006 — No one understands how Bryan Pacelli survived a terrible car accident on the Long Island Expressway. An out-of-control tractor-trailer careened across the highway, pushed his small, black Audi into the median, and plowed into a bus.






VIDEO-->Highway Miracle Caught on Tape
http://www.abcnews.go.com/

The tractor-trailer was sited for a missing tax sticker, bald tires, improper registration for weight, and for carrying 16,000 pounds above the maximum weight.


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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:38 AM
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1. Really fucking lucky.
Looks much worse than the wreck my mom survived. She was doing 65 on a freeway and blew a tire. Flew off the road and flipped her car end over end three times. She broke a few vertebrae, but is walking today.

Usually the car versus big rig accidents don't go as well.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:44 AM
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2. I'm buying an Audi
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 11:44 AM by DS1
:D
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:47 AM
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3. That's like the Ferrari accident where the driver
was going 160 mph, crashed and broke in two. The driver walked away.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:51 AM
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5. Watch the video on this one
If you haven't before.

A tractor trailer comes across two lanes of traffic basically locks this guy between the trailer wheels and carries him (the car) into a "jersy wall" and the bus with the video equipment plows into the back of them. All of it looked like it happened at about oh 70MPH.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:50 AM
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4. Think the car is fixable?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:52 AM
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7. Insurance adjustor
Okay yeah it is totalled sir...except for this mirror that is still good so thats minus $120 then there is the ashtray we found that so thats another $83 and then the tire stems are still good so thats $18 each or another $72....
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:51 AM
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6. F*ing A... That guy should buy a lottery ticket!
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