Fatal Cash in SLR Mercedes

[Sudesh]

This is basically what is left of the SLR after a highspeed crash in Quatar. The driver believed to be 22 didnt make it.

[Sudesh]

[AR]

Truly sad, i wonder what happened?

The passenger compartment seems to have remained one piece.

CF and crashes is not a good combo.

[Sudesh]

Yeah RIP to anyone involved, Apparently he was doing circa 300kph at the time, and supposedly went airborne and flipped.... Not sure if thats true but not good no matter what the circumstances.

[dan the man]

tub still intact.

[eclipse1501]

Hate to have seen what the camel looked like.

[Senninha]

Not a nice end to a drive out for someone

Airbourne? As in its come over a crest and lifted? Thought Merc would have learnt from their Le Mans experience how to avoid a repeat.

With the tub intact ( and seats appear ok) I'm guessing it must be the violence of the roll/impacts that took the drivers life. Was there an innocent passenger at the time?

RIP

[simonprelude]

From other reports I have heard on this one, the use of seatbelts is not common in Qatar.

[TheSebringOne]

Even though there are many deserted roads away from the urban areas, there will be alot of blowing sand & grip maybe compromised too? The wreckage & scattering of car bits looks scary.

[snnsx]

Qatar has the highest accident rate in the world, by a long way.
When you see how they drive, it is no surprise. Every idiot thinks he has the exclusive right to the road. Roundabouts are locally known as "straight-on-abouts".
It also has the most amazing concentration of high-end supercars you can imagine. If you don't see some SLRs, Porsche GT2s, Veyrons, Masers, not to mention common old Ferraris, Bentleys, souped up dayglow yellow Hummers and Lambos every time you go out, you must have your eyes closed.

There is so little for the local youf to do here, they congregate late at night on the one long, straight road in the country, to the north from Doha, and race each other.
When I told someone that I was thinking of importing my NSX (I didn't, in the end), I was invited to come out into the desert and "have some fun". But I know that the "fun" involves doing what in some parts of the UK would be racing Fiestas at 100mph along a dual carriagway, but in Qatar means 170+ along a narrow two lane road with the occasional pothole, wind-blown sand, and bits left over from last nights crash.

When my wife picked up her Porsche, the dealer told us he had just returned from salvaging the pieces of a similar car that had come to grief with the speedo stuck at 260k, driver no longer with us. We know of plenty of people who are in wheelchairs, comas, crippled or just just plain gaga.

But hey, call me boring, I get enough enjoyment from driving my engineering masterpiece of an NSX at normal speeds, and staying alive and healthy enough to enjoy it again the next time.