Folks Of Interest Any Nashville area HAMBers recognize this wrecked hotrod?

I know a lot of times these “crash”threads get off track, but I saw this story on a Nashville news outlet last night and wondered if anyone recognized this car. Looks like it happened Friday-11th. I don’t know how to add a link to the story, so I screenshot these from the story. Hope the driver will be okay.

 

Holy Crap!

 

Glad there were no "critical" patients. Not exactly sure what that means, but if no one was critical, hopefully all will recover completely. Could have been so much worse. Prayers to all involved.

 

Wow, that is a nasty hit. Appears the car was hit from the side in the front. Hope everyone recovers.

 

I should have added that the article said this happened near Arrington Tn, which is not far south of the Nashville metro area.

 

Terrible looking accident…hope all recover fully.

 

The transmission was broken off of the engine at the bell housing! Torque converter is visible on the engine in the ditch. Even the exhaust manifold was ripped off. Amazing no one was killed.

 

Anyone care to contemplate why the front crossmember is ripped out and it looks like the chassis has spread all the way to the doors as opposed to a bent chassis where both rails usually are bent the same direction and not one to the left and one to the right ?

 

..Guess it could have been multiple hits to different sides. Once the engine and transmission exited along with the crossmember, no telling what may have transpired.

 

The passenger area appears in survivable shape if wearing restraints.., .....The front end getting ripped off absorbed the energy...

 

I think some how the dump truck drove over just the front end of it, must have been sideways. Front on hit and the whole car would be destroyed but the back half looks good.

look at the rim, bent pretty good so it took some force driving over it and if I am correct that front end is still attached to the frame on the passenger side by the suspension link.

 

articles read head on but I don't buy it. From what I see the truck hit the front on the drivers side, bent the frame down and ripped the engine out, peeling the front suspension out the passenger side pulling the passenger frame rail that way while the rear wheels of the dump truck threw the drivers frame out the other way.

white car damaged from rear ending the dump truck when he slowed down so fast and not paying attention. .

 

This a real shame. I really hope everyone is ok. I feel real bad for the owner/driver of, what I'm sure was, a very cool hot rod. This is why I've stopped riding my motorcycle; too many drivers not paying attention. And at 70 my reflexes aren't quite what they once were to defend against these idiots.

 

That looks scary, Hopefully the roadster driver will be OK, from the looks of the car it's amazing the driver survived. HRP

 

When I first noticed the roadster in the article and zoomed in on it before reading the text, I expected to read of a fatality. Thankfully I did not. I didn’t buy the “head on” part either, but hopefully their info on injuries is accurate.

 

The head-on part could be about the SUV and the dump truck as both seem to have front end damage and ended up close to each other. I have no idea how the roadster was damaged though. Strange with the engine missing, the rails splayed yet no significant (that I can see) cab/body damage.

 

I'd say the roadster hit the dump in the gas tank and the front of the roadster then came apart as the dump kept moving, interesting hit thought.

Turned down a job once, becoming a accident scene investigator, should of taken it.

This also why I over build everything.

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This is tough to look at.

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I'll take a shot. Cold MIG welded edges ground smooth, no gusseted transitions opting for minimal materials and clean lines, high tensile 8 over 5's fasteners, too much tied to a front crossmember and some blunt force trauma.



Did it have a bumper, or was it a cool car? As far as how it happened...

I think you better keep the day job.
As I see it, the roadster was the innocent victim. Small white car with the front-end damage, it was the culprit. The Big Yellow Truck, the tank damage was drivers side, it was the distraction to set it all in motion.
Road work was in the area, two lane divided. Just waiting to happen. Almost a Gary Larson.

 

No really can't tell anything from those pics as everything has been moved.

It's really, at this point, a worthless game of guess the scenario.

If I was to get serious with what is there, the two cars hit each other, the dump was in the other lane, on inpact the rhe roadster went sideways into the gas tank of the dump at which point the roadster came apart.

And if I were to take it a step further, I'd say one of the cars was passing the dump trunk and that's what caused the head on but again it's all speculation as I stated things/cars have been moved.

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Hope everyone recovers quickly.

Too many questions, was that an active highway construction site, was the yellow dump truck working there, why is the hood open on the truck, was the truck parked or moving, seat belts in the Roadster, Glass or Steel body on the Roadster?

 

Pure speculation guys when a dump truck is involved with a 'T' roadster, as stout as nascar requirement are, I recall a pit wall collision where Michael Waltrip was left sitting on the track with only bits & pieces of his car surrounding him.

 

If we build with traditional practices, the accidents will have traditional damage. We are only a little safer than a motorcyclist and always need to drive defensively like one. Stay safe!

 

Just my 2 cents, but the windshield and the cowl are pretty much untouched from what I can see which should preclude a direct front hit. I would vote for some kind of side crushing hit. Regardless, given the year of the traditional hot rod the fact that the driver escaped alive is still IMHO a miracle.

 

Wonder if that yellow dump truck just had a brake failure and rolled back over the Roadster and down the hill?

 

Its good that there were no critical injuries. The roadster driver needs to go buy lottery tickets, it was his lucky day.

My take on the crash: The white car slammed into the dump truck, maybe head on, (if either had hit the roadster, it would have been more bent up in the front). The yet undamaged roadster made an evasive move and went down through the ditch (the only option out?) The roadster damage occurred when the roadster frame rail dug into the ground at the bottom of the ditch (it appears the ground is tore up on the other side of the motor, not far away). The impact with the bottom of the ditch spun the roadster around and tore it apart (likely only the right side rail was what dug in, which spread the rails). The motor would have been the heaviest part of the car and could have bent the wheel (and the left frame rail) as it dislodged from the spread frame (probably over the top of the left side frame and tire & wheel). Where the back 1/2 of the roadster sat was where it stopped moving. Without looking at the welds, there is no condemnation here, a car traveling even 30 mph that has one corner dig into the ground and cause the car to violently spin around causes a lot of damage, metal tears.

For years, my shop was next door to a wrecker company tow in yard. I looked at a lot of wrecked vehicles.

 

4632 Murfreesboro Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hueVjxSZ7f1aZSC2A

Looks to be here- wide sweeping bend. I'm guessing someone drifted into the oncoming lane?

 

fuzzface has it right; roadster came out of side road, front end was run over by dump truck and wreckage pushed up hill, dump truck rolled back down hill hitting SUV. Roadster driver was extremely lucky, a split second later and the dump truck would have rolled over the back half instead of the front half. This also means the roadster driver was at fault.

 

Soooo.....Does anyone recognize the car?

 

I'm with Fuzzface, something clipped the front wheel on the roadster, levering the axle out along with the crossmember and the engine attached to it. Glad no one was mortally hurt, and honestly, the body on the T looks like it can go on another frame and live to see another day.