Lesson: Mount your speakers correctly. This would ****.

[pilyin 10+ year member]

Redmond man paralyzed after crash sends speaker flying

By Peyton Whitely

 

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

A 27-year-old Redmond man is a quadriplegic after a stereo speaker in his car came loose in a rear-end crash and smashed into him, breaking his neck.

The speaker, in the rear of the man's 1973 Datsun 240Z, was not attached to the car, said Trooper Jeff Merrill, public-information officer for the State Patrol.

The man was rear-ended by a pickup while stopped at a ramp-metering light at the Northeast 70th Street entrance to Interstate 405 about 4:15 p.m. Saturday.

The driver of the 1998 Ford F-250 truck, a 40-year-old Bothell man, was speeding when he approached the ramp and failed to stop, Merrill said.

The speaker flew forward on impact and hit the Datsun driver in the neck. He was paralyzed by the injury and remains in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center, Merrill said.

The driver of the truck was not injured. The pickup was owned by a Seattle painting company.

The collision remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed. The drivers' names were not released.

The Patrol warned that it is important to secure objects in vehicles to prevent such catastrophes.

A widely reported incident involving similar circumstances took place in Kirkland in 1994 when Mike Frier, a Seattle Seahawks player, was paralyzed from the waist down when a 200-pound stereo speaker broke loose from the rear cargo area of a sport-utility vehicle and crushed him in a collision on 108th Avenue Northeast.

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[CaliforniabOY5 10+ year member]

OMG!!! Hatchbacks FTMFL

 

[MemphisSoul4U 10+ year member]

Redmond man paralyzed after crash sends speaker flying
By Peyton Whitely

 

Seattle Times Eastside bureau

A 27-year-old Redmond man is a quadriplegic after a stereo speaker in his car came loose in a rear-end crash and smashed into him, breaking his neck.

The speaker, in the rear of the man's 1973 Datsun 240Z, was not attached to the car, said Trooper Jeff Merrill, public-information officer for the State Patrol.

The man was rear-ended by a pickup while stopped at a ramp-metering light at the Northeast 70th Street entrance to Interstate 405 about 4:15 p.m. Saturday.

The driver of the 1998 Ford F-250 truck, a 40-year-old Bothell man, was speeding when he approached the ramp and failed to stop, Merrill said.

The speaker flew forward on impact and hit the Datsun driver in the neck. He was paralyzed by the injury and remains in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center, Merrill said.

The driver of the truck was not injured. The pickup was owned by a Seattle painting company.

The collision remains under investigation, and no charges have been filed. The drivers' names were not released.

The Patrol warned that it is important to secure objects in vehicles to prevent such catastrophes.

A widely reported incident involving similar circumstances took place in Kirkland in 1994 when Mike Frier, a Seattle Seahawks player, was paralyzed from the waist down when a 200-pound stereo speaker broke loose from the rear cargo area of a sport-utility vehicle and crushed him in a collision on 108th Avenue Northeast.

That would ****... I see tons of people ridin around here with 6x9s n boxes settin on the rear deck.

 

[NeverEnuffBass 10+ year member]

Heres a pic in this link:

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_073107WAB_speaker_paralyzed_SW.cd0f27f1.html

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

were probably talkin about subwoofers here...

 

[CaliforniabOY5 10+ year member]

least it wasnt some PYLE garbage..

 

[brchd]

dayumm! Kicker amp paralyzes!!

 

[wesl56 10+ year member]

at first i thought it said "random man paralyzed..." lol

secure ur subz plz kthx

 

[dbubble 10+ year member]

thats crazy

 

[bigwheel15 10+ year member]

I see a kicker amp, wonder what subs he had?

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Bolt that shit real proppa like.

 

[2002XLT 5,000+ posts]

no kidding. Back in the day with my first system i had my amps just held down with some velcro straps, i rolled the truck and one of my amps cut the side of my head, the other amp flew out the side window and down the street about 30 feet. Scary sht. There is a lesson in there somewhere...

 

[sdmtnbiker420 10+ year member]

Its crazy to see people with huge sub boxes that aren't held down by ANYTHING!

Mine are bolted down and held tight by a hidden tow strap

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

wow. that blows