Police suspect that alcohol may have played a role in a late-night, high-speed crash involving a Porsche Taycan driven by a 19-year-old woman, causing it to roll through a gas station
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A Michigan man sustained critical injuries, while two others suffered minor injuries in an early morning, high-speed crash that resulted in a Porsche Taycan barrel rolling across a gas station parking lot and into a neighboring property.
In security camera footage of the crash, which happened at 4:00 a.m., on Saturday, March 16 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the electric Porsche sedan can be seen launching into a gas station, and catching some air. What led the vehicle to lose control is still not clear, but it only narrowly missed the pumps.
However, it does appear to strike something in its path, perhaps a bollard or a berm, and twists sideways before broadsiding a row of parked cars. This causes it to roll several times through the air before landing on its wheels in a strip mall’s parking lot. Detroit’s Fox 2 reports that the driver was a 19-year-old woman and that police believe alcohol may have been a factor in the accident.
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According to Omar Hasan, the manager of the Shell gas station where the crash occurred, speed was undoubtedly a contributing factor. He estimates that the high-performance electric vehicle must have been traveling at “over 100 mph (160 km/h)” to cause such extensive damage. However, it’s important to emphasize that this estimation is subjective, and is best left to official police investigations, which rely on specialized methods to determine the precise speed.
Some of the parked vehicles that were damaged in the accident were on his lot, including a Ford Escape whose alarm can be seen going off in the wake of the crash. That’s because a wheel was torn off the Taycan, and landed in its windshield.
Hasan says that he’s grateful the Ford was there, despite the fact that he had been telling his brother to move it for some time. Without it, there’s no telling where the Porsche’s wheels might have ended up.
“We were thinking they had to be going over 100 miles per hour. (They) hit that curb, they ran through our whole lot, and they flipped and somersaulted and landed into the plaza next door,” Hasan told Fox2.
“Thankfully he didn’t [move it] because there was oncoming traffic that morning. While they were somersaulting, the tire flew out and it just smashed – it totaled that car. Just thinking about it, if that car wasn’t there, it would’ve hit oncoming traffic and probably could’ve killed someone,” the gas station manager added.
Fortunately, no bystanders were injured in the incident. Unfortunately, the vehicle’s three occupants sustained injuries, with one individual, a 20-year-old man, critically injured. First responders had to extricate him from the vehicle, and his current condition remains unknown.