Posted on 11/03/2021 11:39:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Henry Ruggs III was driving his Corvette 156 miles per hour seconds before allegedly causing a fiery car crash Tuesday that left a 23-year-old woman dead, Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Eric Bauman said in court Wednesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Ruggs, the former Raiders receiver who was cut by the team Tuesday night and is facing felony DUI charges, also had a blood alcohol content of .161, Bauman said, according to the Las Vegas Sun. That is more than twice the state’s legal limit of .08.
Bauman said the speed of Ruggs’ vehicle was 127 mph when the airbags were deployed, and that a dog was killed in the crash.
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I am terribly sorry that this drunken reprobate killed an innocent woman and a dog.
However, as an engineer, I gotta admire a car you can crash at 127 mph, and survive to be charged with DUI.
Seriously, a Corvette is not a massive vehicle. Yet the safety systems kept this guy alive through a 127 mph impact. That’s impressive.
He is getting off a lot better than the woman in the other car.
OJ is going to find the real driver.
If that was my daughter he murdered, I’d bide my time until I could execute him. That was not an accident, that was murder.
“Ruggs was driving a Chevrolet Corvette at a “high rate of speed” north on Rainbow. He eventually went on to hit a Toyota Rav4 SUV from behind, which caught fire. The driver, a 23-year-old Las Vegas woman trapped in her seat, died.”
Yeah, I've seen them on LA freeways come apart like a fragmentation grenades. High speed vet collisions generally resemble an aircraft crashes.
I just read a story about a former NFL player who died in a car wreck hours after he was cut from the team.
The amazing thing was her car, structurally, did not appear to be that damaged. I would have thought it would have been crushed. I wonder why it caught fire.
His car had the whole front end flattened.
When you are going 150 and come up on someone going 60 you are approaching very fast. Like 90 approaching something standing still. It is hard for the mind to comprehend. If the other driver changes lanes you have no time to correct.
Also, it looked like a subdivision not an interstate. I couldn’t imagine going 150 there.
I don’t drink so I can’t imagine driving with a .16 BAL.
Yes, General Motors has incorporated Critical Race Theory in it's construction of safety systems, in addition to the Woke AI algorithm.
It worked perfectly.
Seems like an odd decision.
Legislature: DUI causing death = 2nd Degree
Court: you can’t do that.
Curious what their reasoning was.
Don't rule out the possibility of him fathering children through conjugal visit.
He was on his way to start divinity school
Drunks will often survive severe collisions due to being drunk, it's almost as if they're rubberized. I know of cases where drunks have been ejected from their vehicles, and launched 60+ feet over the K-wall, and survived.
That is a little over the top. Have you ever heard of grace, forgiveness, or redemption? I know many productive, good people that went on to lead exemplary lives after DUI’s. I guess they would all be dead in your sick world.
Lawmakers, especially democrats need laws that allow them to drive drunk.
I agree, although it looks like he hit a Prius which is likely a best case scenario for the physics.
If it was a tri-ax dump, he’d be the late Henry Ruggs.
this was due to the extremely low profile of the corvette and the fact the corvette engine is behind the drivers. The vette wedged its way underneath the back of the RAV-4 rather than crushed directly into it. Unfortunately, this must have ruptured the fuel tank on the RAV-4 and started the fire.
I have a car that is supposed to be able to do 150mph. If it would start. I cannot imagine doing it on a residential street. I can hardly imagine doing it on a good highway.
My guess is the rear impact caused enough deformation to puncture the fuel tank. It takes a lot to do that, because it’s in front if the rear axle, but this was a good wallop.
The body panels come off, but the base structure is quite robust.
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