'Carbon-fiber body and aluminum chassis held up remarkably well'
http://www.bmwblog.com/2016/02/25/bmw-i8-crushed-by-cement-truck-in-orange-county/ BMW i8 crushed by cement truck in Orange County February 25th, 2016 Horatiu Boeriu [images / Orange County Fire Authority http://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BMW-i8-2.jpg (crushed i8 pih) http://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BMW-i8-1.jpg http://cdn.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BMW-i8-3.jpg (FD on-scene, I8 pih off to the side) ] A cement truck collided with two other vehicles Thursday morning, including a BMW i8 [pih] Protonic Blue. The crash occured near the 73 freeway offramp and Newport Coast Drive. Local reports say three people were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. California Highway Patrol officials said the collision happened at 8:42 a.m. between a gardening truck and a cement truck, causing the cement truck to tip over into southbound Newport Coast Drive lanes. After the collision, the truck fell onto the BMW i8, according to Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Larry Kurtz. A 50-year-old man and 49-year-old woman were taken with moderate traumatic injuries to Mission Hospital and the 50-year-old man who was in critical condition was taken to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana, where his condition began to improve, Kurtz said. As you can see from the images embedded here, the i8 was severely damaged in one of the unluckiest crashes that can occur on the street. [© bmwblog.com] http://jalopnik.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-cement-truck-falls-on-a-bmw-i-1761389306 Here's What Happens When A Cement Truck Falls On A BMW i8 [February 25th, 2016] Andrew P Collins ht2 David California Highway Patrol says a cement truck collided with a small pickup in Newport Beach, CA this morning causing carnage across multiple lanes. The cement truck crushed this BMW i8 electric sports car as it toppled to a halt. The OC Register says three people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries, but does not specify who was in which vehicle. Orange County Fire Authority Captain Larry Kurtz told local news that one 50-year-old man was initially assessed as “critical,” but began recovering after being taken to nearby Orange County Global Medical Center. All three vehicles involved appear to have taken substantial damage; the i8 is essentially unrecognizable from the front. Seems miraculous that anyone would have made it out of that vehicle at all. Here’s to a quick recovery for all involved ... [© jalopnik.com] http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/26/bmw-i8-cement-truck-accident-video/ BMW i8 crushed by cement truck will break your heart Feb 26th 2016 Erin Marquis Look away, Bimmer lovers. When a car like a BMW i8 is totaled, it's the end of not just a superb machine, but also a work of art. In a scene reminiscent of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon, a cement truck flattened one of the luxury [plug-in] hybrid coupes on an offramp in Newport Beach, CA on Thursday. According to California Highway Patrol, the trouble started when a large gardening truck hit a cement truck on highway 73, OCRegister reported. The impact caused the cement truck to tip over into southbound Newport Coast Drive lanes. It just so happens that a $135,000 i8 was underneath it. Three people were severely injured in the crash, one critically. All were taken to area hospitals and are recovering from their injuries. The fact that the driver and passengers survived such a catastrophic crash is a testament to the i8's safety. The carbon-fiber body and aluminum chassis held up remarkably well under such an intense crash ... [© autoblog.com] http://www.ocregister.com/articles/truck-705698-newport-coast.html 3 hospitalized after cement truck collision with 3 vehicles on Newport Coast Drive Feb. 25, 2016 ALYSSA DURANTY Three people were hospitalized Thursday morning after a cement truck and gardening truck collided on the 73 freeway offramp and onto Newport Coast Drive. The cement truck fell onto a blue car after the collision, officials said. NEWPORT BEACH – A cement truck driver lost control Thursday morning after avoiding stopped cars at the end of the 73 freeway off-ramp, causing him to tip over onto Newport Coast Drive and collide with three drivers, officials said. James Andrew Case, 49, of Orange, slammed on his brakes around 8:40 a.m. and turned right to avoid cars waiting at a red light at the end of the Newport Coast Drive off-ramp, As he swerved, he hit a curb, which sent him onto a dirt right shoulder before he struck a wooden sign post and a traffic signal, according to California Highway Patrol. Case continued to drive the wobbly truck onto eastbound Newport Coast Drive, where it tipped onto its left side before hitting a Newport Beach woman in a blue BMW i8 and a Santa Ana man in a gardening truck. An Anaheim man who was driving toward the collision on Newport Coast Drive attempted to avoid the accident, but failed, hitting the cement truck. He was not injured, but the other three drivers involved in the accident were hospitalized and expected to survive. Irvine and Newport Beach police officers blocked southbound traffic and one northbound lane on Newport Coast Drive for more than 7 hours. [© 2016 Orange County Register] http://www.autoevolution.com/news/weird-accident-involves-a-bmw-i8-a-cement-truck-and-a-gardening-truck-105043.html Weird Accident Involves a BMW i8, a Cement Truck and a Gardening Truck 26TH FEBRUARY 2016 VLAD MITRACHE Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is not something we can control, but what we can do (to some extent, usually dictated by our financial potency) is to make sure that when the worst is about to happen, at least, we’ll be sitting in one of the safest cars on the road. The BMW i8 hasn’t been tested by none of the major organizations devoted to this type of classifications - the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or their European equivalent, the EuroNCAP. Now, though, we have found out the hard way that it can withstand a large cement truck toppling over on top of it. On Thursday morning, a cement truck hit a garden truck under undisclosed circumstances near the 73 freeway offramp and Newport Coast Drive. Surprisingly, the much bigger vehicle was the one that tipped over following the impact, dragging a third car - the blue BMW i8 plug-in hybrid - into the accident. Three people have been taken to hospital as a result of this incident, with one initially in critical condition while the other two suffered life-threatening injuries. Orange County Fire Authority Captain Larry Kurtz said that a 50-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman were taken to Mission Hospital with moderate traumatic injuries, while the 50-year-old man with more severe injuries has been brought to Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Ana. The report from The Orange County Register doesn’t state the vehicles these three injured people were in, nor does it make it clear who was at fault or what exactly happened. Since the collision took place at around 8:42 in the morning, the traffic was pretty heavy so about 50 cars were forced to extend their morning commute before the authorities closed down the road to allow the paramedics to focus on the victims. Six hours later, traffic was still blocked despite the efforts of both New Port and Irvine authorities, since streets in both cities were affected. [© 2016 SoftNews NET] http://www.carscoops.com/2016/02/bmw-i8-rolled-over-by-cement-mixer-in-la.html BMW i8 Rolled Over By Cement Mixer Truck In California February 25, 2016 John Halas ht2 Troy W In what can only be described as a freak accident, a BMW i8 was rolled over by a cement mixer truck in Newport Beach, California this morning, yet amazingly, no one was killed. Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Larry Kurtz told the LA Times that a 40-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman were transported to the hospital with “moderate injuries”, while a 50 year-old man was initially taken to the hospital in “critical condition, but he has since improved”. According to authorities, the accident happened Thursday morning at around 8:40 a.m. when a gardening truck collided with a cement truck, which then tipped over onto an offramp, crushing the BMW i8 hybrid sports car. Given the circumstances and keeping in mind that these pictures were taken after the firefighters extracted the passengers out of the car - most likely cutting into it, the carbon-fiber bodied i8 seems to have held pretty well. 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