Witness: Hastings’ speeding car ‘shook my car—like a freight truck going by’

Yahoo! News ^ | 2 hrs 48 mins ago | Dylan Stableford,

[BenLurkin]

A driver who witnessed the fiery crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings says the vehicle the 33-year-old was driving shook his car "like a freight truck" as it flew by early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles.

"Was stopped at a red light tonight when a pearl white Mercedes flew past," Michael Carter wrote on Facebook a few hours later. "It shook my car like a freight truck going by. Saw it burst into flames a quarter mile down the road when it hit a tree."

In a Facebook message to Yahoo News, Carter explained in detail what he saw:

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A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) claims that award winning American journalist Michael Hastings [photo top left] was assassinated by a US military drone strike early this past Tuesday morning (PDT) while attempting to reach what he believed would be a safe haven at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles, California.

An interesting point of view.

[txrefugee]

Didn’t one of the Clinton associates’ car inexplicably veer off the highway and hit a tree? It caused some comment during the Clinton regime.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Didn’t one of the Clinton associates’ car inexplicably veer off the highway and hit a tree? It caused some comment during the Clinton regime.

That sounds like Karen Silkwood, which was long before The Rapist took office.

[schm0e]

it sure looks like suicide.

[circlecity]

Sounds like a man driving as if he thought he was being chased. Or hunted.

[Fresh Wind]

It was SUPPOSED to look like suicide.

[knarf]

All deliciously suspicious.

[Hardraade]

Sometimes a cigar is just an exploding cigar.

[Vaquero]

Wasn’t he working on a Benghazi expose’?

Sounds like he was a victim of Kenyacide

[cuban leaf]

Reminded me of the glue under the gas pedal of the motorhome in the movie “The Blues Brothers”.

[liberalh8ter]

Seems he traveled at a high rate of speed, on a straight trajectory for a pretty good distance. Doesn't sound like a drunk driver, to me.

[MHGinTN]

Sounds to me like a man whose accelerator was stuck ‘down’. The bomb might have been placed in order to end the racing car before it did too much damage to the city/populace. I would guess a remote detonator was used and someone was timing when to detonate the speeding vehicle IF there was a bomb which separated the motor and transmission from the chasis.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Must have been a Prius.

[libstripper]

Indeed, what was he doing out at 4:30 a.m., a time mostly used by sleepy travelers going to catch early planes and people with early stating jobs? Also, why travel at well over 100 m.p.h. on LA city surface streets??

[rolling_stone]

I’d be interested in seeing pictures of the car. If it was a Mercedes, they are pretty crash proof....

[libstripper]

Why not turn off the ignition and shift the vehicle into neutral?

[GreatRoad]

New cars are almost entirely automated and can be stopped or directed remotely by computer.

[Orangedog]

Crash proof maybe. Fire proof...not so much.

[Biggirl]

But you still have to have a key to start the car though.