Filed under: Etc., Safety, SMART
Have a nice trip? Man falls 120 feet and lives by landing on Smart car
Picture it: one minute you're standing on your 12th story patio enjoying the fresh air, and the next you're falling from said balcony. Your first thought is that you're probably a goner. Then, as the ground approaches, you realize that the car below you may break your fall. Your next (and presumably last) thought would probably go something like "Oh great, it's a Smart C...(splat)."
For Slovenian Darko Mirinovic, the above hypothetical has more truth to it than he'd ever hoped. Young Darko, 25, did fall from a 12 story balcony, but he miraculously survived. The Smart car that rested 120 feet below his window broke his fall, and in return Darko broke a bunch of bones. Not surprisingly, doctors were more than a little shocked that Darko survived the fall, even with news of his make-shift safety net. The owner of the Smart car didn't know whether "to be happy or sad" since his car was destroyed, but Darko lived. We hope he had insurance.
[Source: eGMCarTech]
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Aprime 7:12PM (5/23/2007)
IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE TRIDION CELL!
THANK YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD OF THE SMART.
(please do something about Daimler/Chrysler, your gang isn't environmentally friendly enough for "concerned scientists".
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Joze 5:09AM (5/24/2007)
Wasn't Smart, guys, but an old Opel Astra Caravan
Picture here:
http://24ur.com/bin/article.php?article_id=3097657&show_media=60016407
http://24ur.com/media/images///extra/May2007//60016389.jpg
Video is not half bad either ;)
LP
Joze
Enthusiast 7:15PM (5/23/2007)
Good thing that Smart car doesn't have an aerial antenna sticking up on the roof.
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Aprime 7:19PM (5/23/2007)
Good one, haha.
tim 7:29PM (5/23/2007)
Sadly the occupants of the car were killed.
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David S. 7:52PM (5/23/2007)
In other news, Darko's friends call him "Donnie".
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far jr 7:57PM (5/23/2007)
Insurance? If I were Darko, I'd buy the owner a new one!
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fizzandpop 8:11PM (5/23/2007)
He fell off the balcony because he was distracted by the Autoblog redesign, allegedly. "Too many tiny square pictures!!!!! My eyes!!!!!!!!!!"
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Clinton 8:26PM (5/23/2007)
So this begs the question: What car would you most like to be caught dead in (or, in this case, on top of)?
I've liked the Dodge Viper since it debuted, so it gets my vote.
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Don 9:12PM (5/23/2007)
How the hell do you "fall" off a balcony?
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Phil L. 11:48PM (5/23/2007)
And no one has pics of the squished Smart?
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Will 1:38AM (5/24/2007)
...really not helping the belief that they're safe cars...
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Mirko 3:49AM (5/24/2007)
So the next big thing after pedestrian safety ratings will be the important people-falling-from-balcony safety rating?
Would be interesting what kind of smart it was - glass roof, plastic roof or convertible...
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bathtub gin 8:15AM (5/24/2007)
So, exactly how soft is the suspension on one of these things?
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Tim 9:39AM (5/24/2007)
That had to, well....smart!
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