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Man Dies After Crashing '70 Plymouth 'Cuda Into Telephone Pole - Street Legal TV

WoW.

Jack.

That gave me a flashback. Back in the early seventies, I got called out on a weekend afternoon for a "car hit pole". A guy in a "Cuda" - I remember it was bright orange - lost it at about 80 to 90 mph on a left sweeping curve, climbed an eight to ten foot cut bank and hit a 75 foot wood pole that had four heavy circuits on it, along with two telephone trunk cables and a CATV trunk; all big heavy wire and cable; the pole was about thirty inches in diameter at ground level. The way the car hit the pole, it broke it and caused it to sort of pop straight up - it couldn't go much of any other way - and when it came down, it went straight through the windshield and the broken butt landed in the guys lap. We had to get a one hundred fifty foot crane out there to lift the pole straight up off of the poor guy - and, believe it or not, he lived.

He's probably a Monk somewhere, eh Rrum????

When I was in the Army at Fort Ord, I seen a guy in a Mach 1 go off the road side ways and hit a pole.
It took the front clip right off the car, the motor dropped out where it hit the pole.
The front end shot accrossed the highway and the back of the car spun off in to a field on the same side as the pole.
The driver came out the front window and landed in the middle of the highway, head facing the wrong way.
The guy in the back seat went out the back window and hit the pole and had a piece of wood stuck in his head. Died.
The guy in the front passenger seat was the only one seat belted in he lived with a broken hip.