Driver loses control – lands car on church roof
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A German motorist missed a bend in the road, broke through a barrier and hurtled up a bank, crash-landing on a church roof in eastern Germany.
The bank acted like a springboard, propelling the black Skoda about 35 meters (115 ft) forward and straight into the church’s roof frame, where it remained wedged 7 meters off the ground, police said in a statement.
“We’ve never ever had a case of a car landing in a church before,” said Frank Fischer, a spokesman for Chemnitz police in the state of Saxony.
The 23-year-old driver suffered serious injuries. The damage to the car, which was extracted from the roof by a crane, amounts to about 10,000 euros ($13,000), police said. The cost of damage to the church has not yet been estimated.
Har!
I’ll bet the last couple of seconds of that road trip were a real hoot!
Oh, yeah, I have a slight quibble with the headline. I think the vehicle landed ‘in the roof’, not ‘on the roof’.
Har!
Cinaedh
January 27, 2009 at 7:04 am
Really mystic accident!! More photos and video here: http://autoworld.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/very-strange-accident-car-lands-on-church-roof-in-germany-photos-and-video/
Trance4you
January 27, 2009 at 12:08 pm