Two people were killed after a C8 Corvette Stingray with three people on board flew over a fence and crashed into a pool in Chino, California this week.
According to local CBS affiliate CBSLA, the C8 Corvette Stingray was travelling at a high rate of speed on a road near Schaefer and East End in Chino at 2 a.m. Wednesday morning when the driver of the vehicle lost control, hit a curb and went airborne. The vehicle came to rest in an area resident’s pool, with helicopter footage showing the Sebring Orange Tintcoat Corvette resting upside down in the pool’s deep end. All three passengers were ejected from the vehicle, as well.
The driver of the Corvette, a 27-year-old man, along with one of the passengers, a 21-year-old woman, were both killed in the high-speed wreck. A third passenger of the vehicle, a 23-year-old woman, was hospitalized with serious injuries. To be clear, the C8 Corvette Stingray is a two-person car and was not designed to carry three passengers safely.
“I heard a loud screeching or I don’t know what, but then I heard a bang,” Art Guerrero, who owns the home and swimming pool the vehicle crashed into, told CBSLA “It was right here, and I was talking. And I hear some moaning and groaning over here.”
“The officer was talking to her. ‘Stay awake, stay awake,’ trying to keep her up,” Guerrero added.
Chino police are now investigating the crash. There is no word if drugs or alcohol were a factor in this crash, although police said speed was likely a major contributor.
Check out the news report embedded below for a little more information on this scary deadly crash.
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Comments
Where there 3 or 4 total people on board? If there were 3 total, it should be “3 occupants” since the driver isn’t a passenger.
Is that really a worth while argument? Story states a man and two women. I believe the driver is also an occupant of the vehicle.
Fitting 2 smaller women in the passenger seat seems possible. 4 total people in a Corvette, like the headline implies, is a clown car.
No one likes a pedant.
Several things tell this entire story: 3 people on board. CBSLA (so in other words, California) and in Chino. 27 YOM with two younger females.
The rest writes itself. Too much money. Look at me show off. Trying to impress and instead kills. Too bad this dumb-a-s driver didn’t survive so he could be charged and thrown in jail for the rest of his life.
There are plenty of rich young dumbasses in other states, both liberal and conservative.
That, and plenty with “too much money” who aren’t idiots.
That guy was my friend and he wasn’t driving. Show some fkn respect you piece of crap!
Article says the driver was a 27 YO man.
Aaron: Read the article. 27 YOM driver. So you know more about this than the article does?
BTW, screw you and your “respect” cry. Dirt bags like this who endanger so many people because they think they are entitled have no place in my world. Period. The parents of this driver should be held accountable too.
Aaron. YOU have NO friends. Go back to watching Sesame Street & drinking chocolate milk!
1st, Sorry about the loss of your friends. Know Jesus as Lord and Savior for this exact reason! You don’t know when or who you will go.
2nd seatbelts
3rd 3 people in car is not wise, especially when your unfamiliar with the road
Do we really need death videos on this site? It really isn’t news, just voyeurism.
Did he pay a markup ? We just all talked about that for a few days poor young girl have to remember this for the rest of her life
Speeding , drinking, high on drugs ,they don’t mix well.
Very very sad for all involved. The driver, passengers, their family and friends, first responders. Home owner. Takes a toll on everyone involved. We’ve all been irresponsible and pushed the limits in our youth, at one time or another and by the grace of God were given a pass. Be thankful for the passes you were given and pray for peace and healing for those that were involved in this tragedy.
LOL, love it.
One of many to come….. in this car.
Blather: It’s not just this car or sports cars in general. Out here in the Los Angeles area, you see people driving like lunatics all the time. They are in Prius’s, SUV’s, Kia’s, etc. Just the other night on the news, they showed a horrific accident where some guy in an older Ford SUV (larger one I think) that was going over 100 mph on an open stretch of city streets. He was going so fast that he hit two separate cars killing two ladies in the Honda and critically injuring another driver. Several parked cars were also badly damaged. I don’t recall the status of the driver who caused the accident.
This country must get serious about our driving. The driver’s license in our pocket isn’t ours. It’s property of the state in which it’s issued. We need to push back our age from 16 to 18 to get a license. Then getting that license needs to be made much harder to attain. More hours of driving with skilled driving a must. Then we need to adopt a much more strict policy on people losing that license if/when they do get caught. Lastly, the police need to enforce those laws and the current laws much more forcefully. Those who don’t comply need to face real jail time.
If the victim rushed to the ER dies the autopsy will read: Coronavirus.
This crash is obviously a “sudden acceleration” crash, the same issue that NHTSA investigated of the Toyota SA in 2010. The investigation was ended finding nothing to fix the SA problem. Toyota’s crash today, ten years later with SA because the problem was not solved. NHTSA did not fix the SA problem, but they have the power to prevent -“SA” from being used in an accident report, shifting blame on the many times innocent driver. All comments to this article proves the NHTSA has the power to mold every ones mind. The SA is enabled by a defect in the ABS Brake allowing the Brake pedal to go to the floor with no braking force on the vehicle. As the brake pedal goes to the floor, if the driver’s foot is slightly to the right, the accelerator pedal is pushed also. With the car speeding up, the driver presses the non functional brake pedal harder. Not finding this issue in Toyota’s, NHTSA had no chance to discover this same problem in likely all other makes of vehicles. High horsepower vehicles crash daily with SA but the innocent driver is always blamed. This problem is the same in the electric Tesla. Will anyone help prevent the many crash fatalities or continue to blame innocent drivers.
You’re obviously “an idiot”. You can surmise the cause of the crash by the pix and narrative here? Stupid should hurt.
As a comparison our constitution does not give us a right to drive. We are however guaranteed the right to own firearms. Tell me why firearms are vilified and automobiles get a pass when they clearly are a key factor in the deaths of many more than are firearms? Food for thought…….