I'd bet you Ryan Dunn was street racing when he crashed

[Money]

i dont know facts, but if he was drinking and driving its hard to sympathize with him

[EDDIE MONEY LINE]

I think cuse is right...was going way to fast to make the exit...slams breaks when he realizes his exit is up and then skids into rail and into forest

[Cuse0323]

I respect your opinion, but I think something else happened. I think Ryan was being chased by aliens and when the spacecraft closed in on him, he tried to shake them off, but lost control of the car.

[StraitShooter]

happens everyday

jerome brown killed himself in his new vette a few miles after the dealership

david overstreet hit a gas pump and french fried himself also

a widow weeps in tyler texas

[robmpink]

Notice there are two sets of tire marks. The ones on the right are his Porche which hit the guardrail and then went airborne and hit the tree and was engulfed in flames. But there is a second set of tires to the left.

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Lets eliminate him trying to get off the exit theory. If he was driving over 100 mph how on earth would he have been able to negotiate that turn on the exit even if he made it? No way in heck.

[Cuse0323]

Lets eliminate him trying to get off the exit theory. If he was driving over 100 mph how on earth would he have been able to negotiate that turn on the exit even if he made it? No way in heck.

Well for one he was probably drunk and you don't know for sure how fast he was going at impact.

[EDDIE MONEY LINE]

Lets eliminate him trying to get off the exit theory. If he was driving over 100 mph how on earth would he have been able to negotiate that turn on the exit even if he made it? No way in heck.

I've done this one before...if ur going drunk and fast u sometimes forget ur exit is coming up and then when u realize u slam breaks and try to make turn....especially in a high performance vehicle and drunk u think u can make any turn....luckily for me I didn't fly into the rail and woods and die. But then again, I probably wasn't as drunk.

[robmpink]

Well for one he was probably drunk and you don't know for sure how fast he was going at impact.

I'm not a car guy, but could someone going 50mph make the turn in the exit?

[EDDIE MONEY LINE]

I'm not a car guy, but could someone going 50mph make the turn in the exit?

Yes...definitely

[Cuse0323]

And it doesn't matter if he couldn't make the exit, obviously he couldn't but he may have thought he could.

Like eddie said.

[dzzznutz]

good for you ei but seriously nobody gives a rats ass

its always interesting anayzing vectors and angular velocity at point of impact i welcome mr extra innings and racer unique insight into this situation.

[Extra Innings]

Interesting little tidbit here.

I have had my car up to 135-145 mph, 110 is common place. After this story, especially after learning his car flew 40 yards afterwards....not going to go over 95mph ever again. This guy saved my life.

[Deuce]

Interesting little tidbit here. I have had my car up to 135-145 mph, 110 is common place. After this story, especially after learning his car flew 40 yards afterwards....not going to go over 95mph ever again. This guy saved my life.

When I was in high school I had a sporty little car and would drive 114mph with a car full of friends to the mall. Thank, God for the speed governor. My dad had my uncles BMW M-Coupe up to 155 on a Delaware highway a few years back. Scary to think a rabbit running out would have killed us. I don't go over 85 now, ever.

[ColdBeerHere]

When I was in high school I had a sporty little car and would drive 114mph with a car full of friends to the mall. Thank, God for the speed governor. My dad had my uncles BMW M-Coupe up to 155 on a Delaware highway a few years back. Scary to think a rabbit running out would have killed us. I don't go over 85 now, ever.

What do you mean by that ?

[jjgold]

Dont feel sorry for anyone that gets killed drinking and driving

They will never learn

Like a few said thank God innocent people did not get killed

[will2survive]

You have to have compassion. The man died a brutal death, before his time, and left friends and family behind. JJ: would you want someone to make a comment about you if you were Dunn? I highly doubt it. The man made his bed and he paid for it. He doesn't need people crapping on his memory

[babyjesus]

So the tires to the left, he was either stomping on his brakes or taking off from a stand still. The car next to him would have done neither because the reaction to Dunn crashing, the tire marks from braking would be near the overpass by the time the second driver even noticed Dunn crashed. Also, when cars brake, even though they have 4 tires, there are only two sets of tire marks not four. Just a thought.

Interesting observation.

[babyjesus]

Maybe he tried to pass a truck with rear dual tires and lost control and hit the guardrail and the truck with the dual tires hit the brakes at the same time to let him pass him and won't crash.

hmmm

[babyjesus]

yeah but 4 even tracks? think about how the tires would have to be in order to make those.

think of this as looking at the back of a normal trucks wheels (disregard the underscore):

0___0

now a dually:

00__00

wtf out there could make something like this?

0 0 0 0

hmmmmm

[NrmlCurvSurfr]

It is quite possible he was cut off looking from a different angle.

This is my theory, simple but here we go. First ignore the 4 other tracks. If you look at look at the 3 tracks from the Porsche, there are only three. which means he was trying to steer quite hard while braking. I think he was planning on taking the exit and realized(too late) that he was going too fast. He then applied full brakes making the two dark marks with the front tires. The third, thinner mark, was made by the right rear tire. The line is not as thick due to the camber of the wheel. The left rear tire had the least amount of load so there was not a mark.

[70kgman]

Foreshadowing.