Solar car crash

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Solar car crash

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KITCHENER, Ont.-- A University of Toronto student is dead after his solar car veered out of control on a southwestern Ontario highway Thursday afternoon.

Andrew Frow, 21, of Toronto was driving the university's team car from Stratford to Waterloo as part of a Canadian solar car tour.

The small low-riding car suddenly lost control at about 4:30 p.m., veering across the centre line of the two-lane highway, said Const. Glen Childerley, an Ontario Provincial Police spokesman.

The car then swerved back into its lane, hitting the right shoulder. It then plowed across the highway into the path of an oncoming minivan in the westbound lane.

"It zoomed right across the road and was T-boned by the van,'' said Childerley, who said the driver was alone.

The impact destroyed the car. Its solar-panelled roof flew off and its shell ended up in the ditch on the north side of the highway.

The driver's teammates, who were in two minivans in front and behind of the solar car, rushed to his aide.

Two of his teammates frantically performed CPR on Frow as he lay in the wreckage before paramedics took Frow by ambulance to a Kitchener hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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I remember seeing this in the news before the guy started his journey. I told a few people that the car shouldn't be on the highway. It just didn't look safe. The whole point of this was to prove that solar cars can be a reliable mode of transportation. Boy was he wrong.
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What caused it to veer? Bad driving, strong wind, broken axel, what?
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Its under review right now. My bet is the wind.
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i bet he was drunk!
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Fell asleep is the most likely answer.
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Sunstroke?
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Dregor Thule wrote:Sunstroke?

lol

now that's fucking funny.
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Post by Adex_Xeda »

I was on the solar racecar team at Texas A&M back in 97.

Those solar cars are built *very* light and low profile. They'd colapse like match sticks if slammed sidways by a van.
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My bet is on Halliburton sabotage.
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