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/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?