I edited article and removed names...


Three young men took a curve too fast early Sunday morning, hit a concrete utility pole and - after their Mazda RX-8 flipped and split apart, scattering car parts for 100 yards - only one is alive.

Rescue workers had to cut the driver, 21-year-old of West Palm Beach, from inside the mangled Mazda. They took him to Palms West Hospital; officials said he will recover.

Palm Beach County sheriff's investigators suspect alcohol played a role.

As the driver maneuvered a slight curve heading north along Jog Road just south of Okeechobee Boulevard west of West Palm Beach, he lost control of the car, officials said. It hit a curb and rolled before striking the pole shortly before 6:30 a.m.

As the back of the car tore apart from the front, a passenger from Royal Palm Beach was thrown, sheriff's investigators said.

He died in the roadway.

A second passenger from West Palm Beach, was partially ejected from the car. He was flown to St. Mary's Medical Center, where he died, officials said.

Reached by phone, a boy's father said he did not want to speak.

"At this moment, I don't even want to live," the father said.

Vehicle homicide investigators believe speed contributed to the accident, but sheriff's Sgt. John Churchill said the car hit at such an angle that the driver might not have been driving as fast as it appears.

A part of the car landed in the median, while most of the remainder, though ripped apart, lay alongside the right shoulder.

Onlookers at a nearby Hess gas station gathered along crime scene tape cordoning off car parts and lamented drag racing in the area.

Churchill said investigators did not know if other cars were involved in the crash. They hoped to find witnesses.

An ambulance pulled away from the scene shortly after 8:30 a.m., after the medical examiner's office took custody of one of the men's bodies.

 

wow thats terrible.....and i think one of the sheriffs in that picture is my sisters husband....they live right around the corner and i believe that is his jurisdiction

 

Wow, I'm surprised its not a silver.

 

sad story, had this happen to one of my friends killed him instantly, and now the driver has to live with the fact that two people died because of his actions...

 

Additional Photos:

 

Nasty.

 

I'm starting to get really annoyed with stupid comments about silver. It's not funny, and in the context of 2 dying, it's idiotic.

 

Whoa, so sad.

 

Did you know them? Were they apart of a local rotary club?

 

wwp with white rims. musta been a really clean 8. its so mangled now. how is that even possible.

that sucks.

 

It just goes to show that even our beloved 8's have their limits. Alot of people want to think them 'kill proof" but it should serve as a reminder that yes we are still driving a 3K lbs chunk of metal capable of getting really ugly when we aren't watching.

 

key part is the point about alcohol playing a factor. seems like 9/10 times when alcohol is involved, the drinker/driver survives and any passengers, innocent bystanders, and other vehicles involved are almost always killed. sad really

dont drink and drive.

 

Boy that thing looks bent up. They must've been doing something crazy, sorry to hear

 

My brother is a paramedic/firefighter in a college town that loves to party. Sorry for my dark sense of humor.

Even if he did nothing wrong and it ended up that way things happen like that everyday.


I don't really care about the curse of the silver RX-8's. It just happens that in a group photo of RX-8's the only silver one there wasn't reflecting any sunlight as though heaven had no love for it. I clicked this thread next while still thinking about the other one.

Yes, I'm bored at work.

 

Stupid decisions lead to bad situations.

 

wow thats a horrible accident... I couldnt imagine the sorrow for the families

 

........

 

Damn. What kind of speed do you need to be going to tear the back end of your car off when you hit a curb. Somehow I get the feeling it's less then I think...

What a waste.

 

Ive seen some nasty rx8 crashes online, but this is by far the worst Ive seen. The thing thats throwing me for a loop is the article says it may not have been a high speed accident. But c'mon, how else would you tear a freakin rx8 in half and flip it!

 

sorry to see this happen to a fellow 8 owner.

hopefully, he wasn't drinking...

 

im curious as if those who were ejected and passed had their seatbelts on, or if the car breaking in half took out the functinality of the seat belts.

 

i feel terrible for the people that died. imagine what the driver is going to go through because he was the only survivor....sad.

 

Link to story:

http://www.wflxfox29.com/Global/stor...8&nav=menu98_3

Footage of it is worse than the pictures.


Edit: The news says he hit a utility pole. My guess is that it was a telephone pole or a metal traffic signal pole. Light poles will actually fall down (they are made that way). Telephone poles are at least 3 1/2 feet in the ground and unless an 18 wheeler hits it or it is forever old its not budging. Metal signal poles are just as bad.

No car can take an impact like that. My friend a couple years ago delivered pizzas and was hit by a drunk driver. Pushed him into a telephone pole at 40mph and it sliced his car almost completely in half.

 

tell that to Nick hogan! His friend is forever brain dead, His *** is sitting in jail waiting to shoot a reality show.

 

I'm still amazed at how stout those utility/telephone/light poles are and how a 3000 lb object in motion crumbles around them.