Fatal 401 collision with sign standard seems to defy physics


The photgrapher, Tony Smyth @LateNightCam, saw it at the scene and was left astounded. Two persons died in this terrible wreck when the car somehow collided with the stout steel support for a highway sign on the 401 eastbound at Warden Ave. Smyth says: “Just when you thought you’d seen it all. This vehicle is wrapped around the overhead sign support beam. Folded in half.” Indeed. What dynamic creates such a strange collision. One clue may be the sloped concrete barriers which rise to meet the metal support. If the driver got a wheel on that cement at high speed it might have flipped the vehicle roof-first against the steel with terible force.