# Crazy R8 accident.  Driver loses legs, guard rail shishkabobs R8.

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-r8-accident-driver-loses-legs-guard-rail-shishkabobs-r8/249273>\
**Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 22, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-r8-accident-driver-loses-legs-guard-rail-shishkabobs-r8/249273 "2009-12-22T10:43:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 16

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-r8-accident-driver-loses-legs-guard-rail-shishkabobs-r8/249273/16 "2009-12-22T13:11:03Z")

</div>

> [@FS: 1998 vw new beetle](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-1998-vw-new-beetle/27484/14):
>
> Actually if the engine was in the front, the guard rail might just skim right past the drivers side of it and still hit the driver. Maybe if it had a steering shaft it would of deflected the guard rail a bit…

Possibly. Or maybe it would have just hit enough of the block, if there was one there. Who knows. Too late now.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/crazy-r8-accident-driver-loses-legs-guard-rail-shishkabobs-r8/249273)._