Dodge Driver Trashes Front End Zooming Through Texas Parking Lot
This is what happens when you go 70 mph in a parking lot. I’m glad no bystanders were hurt and the driver is ok. Don’t ruin these car meets for everyone by doing stupid stuff. pic.twitter.com/XFeLBN4IdC
— josiah 😎 (@JosiahPerez64) January 6, 2020
Challenger’s dangerously-fast trip through a parking lot leaves it with a detached wheel and a snapped front control arm.
A parking lot can be a dangerous place for both people and vehicles. You have to constantly watch out for cars backing out of spots and pedestrians darting out from between them. Runaway shopping carts are another hazard that can pop out of nowhere. When you add high speed to the mix, something awful is bound to happen. Just ask the owner of this ill-fated Dodge Challenger.
A Twitter user by the name of Josiah Perez captured video of the Mopar muscle car flying through the parking lot of a shopping center (judging from the comments on the footage, the action took place in the Stone Hill area of Pflugerville, Texas). Despite the buildings around them, it seems the driver can’t resist the lure of a straight path ahead.
They put their right foot down and unleash the Challenger’s V8 grunt. They roar past a gas station and an In-N-Out. Only seconds later, they appear to hit a bump in the pavement that sends sparks flying out from underneath the car as it bucks and bounces.
Right after Perez lets out of a reflexive “Ohhh…,” the Challenger veers right, then goes hard left with its tires squealing the whole way. It makes an audible crashing noise, then comes to a stop, which causes Perez and other onlookers to rush to the scene of the accident.
The good news is that no one, including the driver, got hurt. The bad news is that the Challenger took the brunt of the impact. That was so hard that it broke the Challenger into three parts: the front driver’s-side wheel, a fragment of control arm, and the rest of the car.
Someone goes into tall grass to roll the damaged wheel into view. One spectator can’t help but scream with morbid laughter at the ragged sight of the brake assembly still attached to the inside of the wheel.
Perez manages to get his hands on the chunk of control arm and brings it into view of his camera. Perhaps he thought the best of course of action in such a tense time is to lighten things up with some humor because he asks the owner of the damaged Dodge, “Hey, can I have your Brembos?” He quickly offers his condolences, saying, “That sucks, bro.” Perez then tosses the broken, worthless piece of metal in his hand toward the wheel that it was once attached to. “That’s no bueno.” It sure isn’t, but things could’ve been a whole lot less bueno than they turned out to be.
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