R.I.P Ryan Dunn

[philbey]

Roger Ebert, renowned film critic. He's the one who rolled out a couple of poor taste tweets in Reeds link.

[LittleRedSpirit]

At 100MPH+? Asleep? With another young male passenger in the car? Unlikely.

 

Its a f@$ked up situation no matter how it went down exactly, the corner was probably good for 120-130klm/hr. Its a 90 degree uphill right hander about an even 35m radius. It was his usual way home from the bar to his home. He never even got turned in properly, he didn't get anywhere near an apex, the rail he went through was still on the straight bit of road he was turning from, he just left four black marks leading straight into the forest. The speed he came into the corner with was massive, he needed to attain 90 degrees of turning he probably got 5 degrees done.

 

Factor number one was excessive speed to talent ratio. Secondary causes I guess we have to speculate about until the lab results are in. I am not expecting any surprises.

 

 

Have a look from above:

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=US-202+N&hl=en&sll=39.973595,-75.614066&sspn=0.001554,0.003484&geocode=FfryYQIdejl--w%3BFdwYYgIdG5l--w&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=19&t=h&z=19

 

A lot of long straight road leading up to the corner, he could have attained a massive speed before the corner in a 2007 GT3 Porsche.

[SLO-030]

Report claims he was travelling at around 130MPH.

 

Never had a chance.

[t18drifts]

wow thats quick for that type of corner

[Twinky]

Results have come in that show he had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed.

[t18drifts]

ive had my scare driving a falcon after 5 brews ralling on pea gravel tracks gone in to fast and gone thru 3 trees scared thee freaking bajesus out my wont iver try any form of driving under the influence again

[irokin]

Results have come in that show he had a blood-alcohol content that was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed.

 

That's twice the legal limit in Pennsylvania which is 0.08. He was 0.196, almost 4 times our legal limit.

 

 

Sad :(

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Bla bla bla anyway...

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=x4vZOESSltA

 

What a life.

Edited June 23, 2011 by blzbub666

[LittleRedSpirit]

Bit harsh mate, he died foolishly but I must say he had a lot going for him.

 

World recognition, money, good friends.

 

An interesting and fun life really. He died in a car that's worth more than most of us earn in 10 years. Unfortunately we may always remember him for his worst day. We all are capable of epic mistakes.

 

I think if he got the braking earlier and got to the uphill bit of the corner he could have potentially saved it. Perhaps it was a bit dewy, nature is hard to comprehend at 130MPH and water is rather slippery, even in the top Porsche. Its such a sad day in too many ways to too many people.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Yeah true, I wasnt trying to start an anti drink driving campaign thats all, I'll miss him.

 

Never been affected by a celebrity death before. I suppose that he was a real person and wasn't playing a character makes it more real.

 

The person that died was the person that died.

 

 

I'd rather remember a great funny guy and not dwell on his mistakes, as we all make them, sometime tragically.

 

R.I.P Random Hero.

[Raven]

Stumbled across this one just tonight.

 

This is what 130-140mph looks like.

 

Clicketh Linketh

Edited June 24, 2011 by Raven

[LittleRedSpirit]

For the record, the speed he hit the barrier at was as fast as my AE71 is geared to go in 5th gear. Ive never driven that fast, he was probably doing Close to 260klm/hr before he locked the brakes. i did see one angle that showed the skid marks crossing a bad bit of bitumen, a bit of a poorly filled pothole, something like that could upset a car thats trying to turn in with a lot of sideways G forces.

 

Just bad judgement I guess.

 

I found a clip on youtube where Bam is talking about how Ryan Dunn drives. It was made in April this year, and Bam says Ryan has wrecked 9 cars in major accidents, 6 belonging to other people and 3 of his own. Bam even predicts that if Ryan was to die young, in a car would be 'his thing'. Ryan was known to drive like an asshole, but Bam specifically mentions that Ryan is a terrible driver aswell. I guess you can only cheat death for so long, it was a reckless move, one of many in the life of a person who made reckless moves a career. I guess this is retirement.

 

So long random hero.

[t18drifts]

wow i wonder if the engine come out becuse of the crash so brutal :blinks:

[LittleRedSpirit]

Most reports seem to indicate that the car became airborne after it hit the gaurd rail and then the ground behind the rail dropped away as well, they sort of got shredded in the trees. The place where the majority of the car and its occupants was found was a fair way after the initial crash site, and not too far from the road he was initially travelling on, just a few feet into the woods, but a fair way after the rail he hit.

 

Cause of death could not be determined between the fire or blunt force trauma in the early reports. Perhaps later studies or results will show more. Of course there's a long line of money grubbing people gathering there picking up shrapnell from the site and selling it on ebay.

[Spencer[RL]]

Watching Gumball as we speak and Dunn is in some shit lincon Suv keeping up with a Merc s500, he's driving like a mad man ! :laff: