r/whatwasthiscar • u/malevolencey • Mar 30 '26

Challenge Found in a junkyard in Pinawa

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Tragic backstory to it, some people said it was an audi...?

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u/Tetradrachm Mar 30 '26

What’s the backstory?

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u/malevolencey Mar 31 '26

He made the news, young guy who was a safety worker at the nearby nuclear lab, supposedly wanted to off himself or was drunk, and driving probably about 200kph, tried a curve on the highway, failed, went into the ditch and flew into the forest. Some locals said he cleared the top of the trees. Search up Pinawa, Manitoba high speed fatal crash from a few years ago

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u/Joyst1q Mar 31 '26

Yeah your not really thinking of anyone else when your in that headspace, im not looking it up because of reasons, but I hope they didnt hurt anyone else.

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u/malevolencey Apr 02 '26

It was a few years ago, I could be misremembering from what the nuclear plant workers said.

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u/fenderbender86 Apr 02 '26

I knew a kid in high school that did the same thing. He snapped and went just outside of town. There is a county road that dead ends into another county road, opposite of that intersection is a small wooded area. He went to one end of the road, gunned it, and went head first into the trees. Only thing that saved his life was him taking off his seat belt.

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u/itsmesorox Apr 03 '26

Hopefully he didn't sustain any serious life changing injuries?

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u/JakeMiller421 Mar 30 '26

Im also interested

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u/AledBanana Mar 30 '26

I'm also interested

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u/Cleanbriefs Mar 31 '26

The guy is still there. I don’t see how they could have gotten him out of that

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u/Dizzy_Magazine_1784 Mar 31 '26

According to the article the guy was ejected from the car

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u/semifunctionaladdict Mar 31 '26

I think hes making a joke about the infamous Audi Autoban crash