A set of photos showing a lime green C8 Corvette Stingray that was split in half following a high-speed crash are being circulated online this week.
The photos were posted by the Mantua Township Fire Department, based in Sewell, New Jersey, to its own Facebook page on January 22nd. The gallery shows a modified lime green C8 Corvette Stingray split clean in half, with the passenger cell sitting near a wooded area, about 15 or 20 feet away from the rear sub-assembly.
While local police have not shared any official details on the crash, it seems as though the vehicle was travelling at a very high rate of speed, as the impact ripped the 6.2L LT2 V8 engine and eight-speed dual-clutch transmission right out of the car.
The two occupants of the Corvette were later transported to hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries – a true testament to the engineering prowess of the folks over at General Motors.
“During the overnight hours, Rescue 2218 responded to Route 55 in the area of mike marker 57 for a reported motor vehicle crash with entrapment and fire,” the fire department said in the Facebook post. “Crews arrived and were able to remove the patients inside the vehicle as well as extinguish the engine that was on fire. All patients were transported to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. The crash is currently under investigation by the New Jersey State Police.”
A user shared a photo they had taken of the lime green C8 Corvette earlier that same day in the comments of the fire department’s Facebook post. Judging by this photo, the car appears to have been fully repainted in the eye-popping lime green color, rather than vinyl wrapped, while the brake calipers were also painted lime green to match. The car features the optional GM High Wing Rear Spoiler as well, and appears to have left the factory with the optional Z51 Performance Package.
View this post on Instagram
It’s possible the owner of this vehicle owned it for only a handful of months before totaling it. Ciocca Corvette, a high-profile Chevy dealer located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, shared a photo of an identical-looking lime green C8 Corvette to its Instagram page back in October, which indicated the vehicle was available for purchase. If this is indeed the same car, it seems as though the owner may be paying Ciocca Corvette another visit in the near future.
Subscribe to GM Authority for more Corvette C8 news, Corvette news, Chevrolet news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
Comments
Nice the passenger compartment survived, but GM Engineering should obtain the wreck and understand where and how it broke. This is not optimal.
What looks like a crash in excess of 100mph and the occupants basically walked away and you think there was a problem? What were you expecting, a 1000 dollar repair bill? It is amazing the occupants did not die on impact. You may be right though, maybe they should obtain it for an ad showing the safety of a C8 and maybe show the Porsche Walker died in at less than a 100mph crash. (90mph) Nah, too crass to show on tv.
Pretty sure it is optimal to split like that. Have you ever seen a race car crash? The goal is to shed as much weight as quickly as possible while keeping the driver compartment secure. Sure its not optimal to crash, but in a high speed crash, having the engine separate like that is extremely helpful. You are losing kinetic energy when that happens, and that is optimal. With that said, I agree GM Engineering should obtain the wreck to study it, just as we do airplane crashes. Always best to progress safety measures.
Nice to hear that both occupants survived.
This idiot is lucky he didn’t take some innocent driver’s life as collateral damage.
Pretty sure that’s exactly how it’s designed. Would you rather the occupants die and the engine stay attached.
“Would you rather the occupants die”
In this case, yeah maybe…
Why? The engine broke away and caught fire, not the passenger compartment.
A high speed crash in NJ showing off, such a Vette thing to do..🙃😶🙃
Mullets no doubt involved, maybe even a ‘Member’s Only’ jacket or two…
Nice, literal LOL
For sale: Corvette – half off!
It’d be neat if the NJ State Police would share the last recorded speed read by the black box. For obvious reasons, doubt they will.
Many mid engines will break in half. Even the front engine Corvettes I have seen break at the fire wall if hit in the side at high speed. Anyone recall the Enzo in California that broken in the same place.
We have seen a number of high speed crashes in the C8 and most people walk away. A sign of a well constructed car.
The only real accident is that color!!!!!
Most front-wheel-drive cars will separate at the bulkhead if the front section receives a big enough lateral impact.
I’m not sure it’s a safety design, or just the way the front cradle-unibody design works. Regardless, it’s not a bad thing.
Has been designed that way since the eighties when certain vehicles had engines that tended to intrude into the drivers compartment. GM FED engines are designed to roll under in a frontal crash also.
The crash happened near “Mike Marker 57.”
What does the driver have against Mike?
Read that as Mike Marlar 57, thinking of the 157 dirt late model, haha. Didn’t think there would be many dirt race fans on this page though.
I think the reason it split is because of the V8 engine the weight of it at that high speed..I think it slow the car down also when it started to flip therefore saving their lives,by the grace of God, because if it had of wrap around one those trees I don’t think they wouldn’t made it.
I have to disagree with the writer, looking at the way the green has peeled off of the body, I think the green is (was) a wrap.
I agree. It did peel off.
They have been designed to break off like that in cases of high speed crashes to do exactly what previous comments said loses kinetic energy and decreases the risk of it rolling over while still keeping the passengers safe.
Don’t deactivate the anti skid feature but we’ll never know if it was. A saying from the muscle car days, more HP than brains. I drove my brother’s C8 and its tracking and steering is incredible. The driver must have really punched it to lose control.
This shows more driver training is needed , lucky no one was killed . G.M. is trying to do there part by providing a driving school for new owners , maybe more people should attend .
I agree with training and a chance to understand how the car works. Ron Fellows school in Pahrump Nevada
taught me a lot. But on the track at the school, I never exceeded 100 or so mph because the tracks are small, short, lots
of turns. So you never got to practice driving at speed.
An old long straight country road is nice, but wild animals are a real threat, I do not drive fast because of nature
and unexpected things. And I like race tracks with long runs, and sweeping turns where I can stay at speed.
RON FELLOWS SCHOOL also teaches emergency braking exercises , if you take the advanced classes you do a different layout of the tracks with longer straights and sweeping turns , plus car control exercises .
At 100mph a deer would peel the roof and windshield clean off.
Yeah, drivers training. Good idea.
First day of class should cover not driving over 100 mph on public highway.
I agree with everything written on this page by everyone. What a great community.
From the window sticker on my 2021 Z51 C8, in the “Government 5-Star Safety Ratings” box”
This vehicle has not been rated by the government
for overall vehicle score, frontal crash, side crash
or rollover risk.
I was very surprised to read that on my new car, I thought all cars had to be rated. Then I just wondered if it was not tested!
i had a state trooper friend who told me he never unbuckled a corpse from a corvette accident. he said the fiberglass body absorbed the force of the crash.
And as everyone knows, the car has a speed limiter that can be set, and I do set this limit for anyone other than me.
If you “accidentally” floor it and exceed 130, 140, 150 it gets real dangerous real fast, and it can happen without warning.
So the few times I let anyone drive it, they get the special key programmed to limit speed.
Now, if this car was crashed by the owner, probably could never convince anyone that if they own it, they should
limit it.
I am concerned that some government agency will decide to limit vehicles on highways to certain speeds and only allow
cars to switch off on closed course racing.
The news today reported more vehicle fatalities last year and a desire to limit highway speeds.
I do not want or need a NANNY to hobble my new car.
For years many cars were limited to 99mph, I wonder when that changed.
I have read too many stories of crashed Ferrari, Lambo, etc with cars split in half, and drivers dead.
It made me question brittle carbon fiber tubs and if these cars could ever be safe.
I am actually stunned that anyone cold live after those pictures above.
Amazing.
500 HP corvette 250 HP driver. i drove a 500+ HP pick up truck for years and never had a problem. i used to put dirtbikes or a snowmobile in the bed for traction or you could spin the tires a 60 MPH on a dry road
Note to self.. Spend the money on driver training instead of cosmetics.
Maybe it was one of the tornado damaged Bowling Green cars they missed, destroyed, they didn’t say how.
Gee, I wonder how the driver of this wreck will blame gm for the accident?
A pure case of more money than talent.
A fool & his green wrap are soon parted, literally!
Obviously, you can’t fix stupid. Personal note here: anyone who’d color their new C8 in this color (whether in a Wrap or in paint) just doesn’t get it, the factory doesn’t paint their Corvette’s this color and many other colors for a very distinct reason, it just does not “look right” on the dealers floor nor does it do anything for most future buyers who’d pass on such a color.
That leaves us with one very obvious reason why this particular Corvette was colored in this particular color…a complete lack of understanding about life in general. People that buy these cars are looking for attention (and yes, me too, I drive a late model Corvette, but in the factory silver color, and yes it was my choice) and that’s fine, we all enjoy be noticed by friends and family, and usually it’s in a good way…except when someone drives these amazing Corvettes in a really childish manner and manages to literally disassemble what the factor assembled for them…throw in a “Gawd Awful” color and you have the makings of a “late breaking news” feature that will surely raise the ire of those who are always ready to point a finger at Corvette drivers (in general) and proceed to put all of us in this same category as “Nut Jobs” behind the steering wheel and a danger to society. I realize that “factory color” Corvettes too have had mishaps like this, but seriously, it just seems to me that coloring a Corvette in some “here, hold my beer” or “watch this” color is just asking for trouble, and darn if this C8 Corvette owner/driver didn’t get exactly what they wanted…the worst kind of notoriety you can give a Corvette owner…and now, I’ll accept return remarks from those who might not agree with me. Please remember, “with great power comes great responsibility”. Enjoy your Corvette, drive it, do a little showing off, but please show a responsibility and remember that we all can be hurt by childish antics like this being shown here, and we can also thank god that no one lost their lives in this incredible crash, you have no idea the physical force of Kinetic Energy it takes to destroy this vehicle in this manner! I do believe that those Corvette Engineers are to be congratulated on a “job well done”.
Corvette not center-punched is what saved their lives. Glad they crashed into themselves instead of an innocent party.
I’m really pleased that they walked away but honestly quite surprised. I’ve seen a couple of pics of destroyed C8s without serious injury but this one is surprising. I have raced closed wheel on and off for 25 years, and instructed for 15 but I scared myself a couple of times when I pushed hard on up C8 after the break in period was over. I was passing a small group of cars on a secondary hwy and only realized the speed differential as I blew past the last one. I’m sure the guy in the vintage Alfa called me an idiot or worse, and he was correct.
Of course it survived, it chassis is the Aussie VE Commodore utility. Just with a motor in the rear, why all the storage space in the rear. ?.
Built Aussie tuff. !