Alada said:Good lord, he must have been traveling unbelievably fast for the car to have done that, not just ‘get home a bit quicker’ speed but insanely fast.
Must have been pretty shocking being so close to home. I’m glad you guys are safe, I think it’s kind of symbolic that ‘nothing major got through the fence’. Still, a chilling and horrible way to get a message if that’s what it is.
"Insanely fast" is about the conclusion that everyone is coming to at this point. Even with the skid marks on the road, he took out the kiwis you see in the photo AND went airborne. I think the estimate is about 180 KMH just before the braking which took the car out of control. The place is right after a rather gentle curve in the road so he may have come around that, saw something, like a deer, and slammed on his brakes on a wet road and that was it. (It was raining.)
Nancy2feathers said:Laura, I remember you talking about the ghost you saw some time back. Did you say he was wearing some kind of military jacket?
Yes.
Serendipity said:Those are tire tracks on the 3d photo right? If that is so, it means that he traveled considerable length in parallel to the road, in straight line, and only turned to the right shortly before crash. It could explain how the car ended there, but it would still be very weird and very improbable for it to have happened the way it did, I think.
Those tracks are made in the soft, wet ground by the tow truck that went in to get the car and pull it out. The wrecked car only made all that damage to the kiwis on the right of that photo. See it again here:
Tracks on the left made by wrecker. Fallen kiwis (and row-end posts) on the right mowed down by car. What is horrifying is that, after the first 3 or 4 rows of damaged kiwis, there is NO sign of the car on the ground until it comes to rest in the ditch. That means he was airborne.
There were intense black skid marks on the road before the car went off into the ditch which means he braked strongly. Then, when he hit the ditch parallel to the road sideways it must have flipped him over, changed the trajectory, and he rolled through the kiwis, then flipped again into the air before landing in the final ditch. That last flip covered about 20 meters of distance that there were no marks on the ground, so he was in the air for that distance and then the momentum must have been mostly downward because the damage to the power pole is minimal. I guess while he was flying to the final impact, he was thrown from the car. I haven't heard whether or not his seat-belt was fastened. His battery also flew out of the car and was on the side of the road. Even if we had gone outside to look, there would have been no power to the lights or anything to draw us to the location and it's a big place to search for a noise in the middle of the night.
Serendipity said:Considering that it happened exactly 10 years after Columbia incident which was meant as warning to Bush from PTB according to C's, if I'm not mistaken, then is it possible that this was warning too, but this time meant for Laura and the crew?
Just my thoughts. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think that we are anywhere near the same level as Bush and Co in terms of needing "warnings". Also note that the car did not come onto our property; it stopped at the "moat" and power pole.
We sent flowers to the family late yesterday. Ya'll don't need to worry about the family. This is France, remember? He was local and the community is looking after things.