The Chevrolet Corvette is a great driving sports car: you know it, I know it, we all know it. However, with great power comes great responsibility. For the outgoing C7 Corvette, even the least powerful variant – the Stingray – produced 460 horsepower (when equipped with the optional Z51 package), making the Chevy sports car capable of sub-four second 0-60 acceleration runs. That’s fast.
Unfortunately, the old adage that “money can’t buy talent” continues to ring true to this day, as this recent Corvette C7 crash serves to prove. In this case, the subject of the crash is a black C7 Corvette Stingray that seems to be equipped with the Z51 performance package, based on the bright yellow brake calipers hanging off the tattered remains of the wreckage. Unfortunately, those high-performance brakes weren’t enough to halt this Corvette from crashing and flipping.
The crash reportedly took place in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Locals contacted the police about a vehicle rolled over in a ditch near the intersection of Chinguacousy and Mayfield Road. Emergency services arrived on the scene and found the vehicle, but no driver or passengers. Following a rescue search, the driver, a 38 year old man, was found and arrested just over a mile away from the accident. He is being charged with dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scene of a collision.
Fortunately, the driver appears to have sustained no serious injuries from the collision, a testament to the safety and engineering behind the Corvette. Police are conducting an investigation into whether or not the driver was impaired while behind the wheel.
While the driver may not have sustained any physical injury, he has been the recipient of some sick burns, chief among which was an online comment exclaiming that the driver has “… got the money, yet not the driving skills.” Like we said, money can’t buy talent.
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It’s easy to laugh at someone’s misfortune even if you don’t know the circumstances of the accident. I know first hand that if you get a concussion you could be totally out of it for hours. People flip normal cars too
With that being said there are a lot of bad and distracted drivers out there and a C7 Vette is a lot of car for most people
Maybe. But rolling a vette on a flat surface probably takes ‘aggressive’ driving, rather than ‘distracted’ driving. And often when drivers leave the scene and are found at home later, they are trying to allow for the alcohol to leave their system before talking to the cops.
It’s also possible that he was trying to walk to safety, water, a telephone…if my cell phone got lost or broken in the crash, I certainly wouldn’t sit there waiting in the middle of nowhere for a police officer to hopefully stop by…
I agree with Magirus. It either takes a LOT of effort, or a LOT of stupidity to flip a c7 Vette on a flat surface.
The vast majority of these “supercars” pack way more capability than the vast majority of their drivers. Paul Walker bought it like that. And, Kevin Hart just lost a resto mod Challenger, and almost his life, like that.
Walker wasn’t driving.
I’m trying to picture in my head what kind of bonehead stunt it would take to flip a Corvette like that on flat ground.
Another dumbass bites the dust…………………
most likely he shut off the active handling and traction control because those cars are hard to wreck.
…..go accoss the street, order a beer while asking the bar tender to call the police because there’s been an accident. Just saying because it isn’t rocket science.