S197 Mustang GT Slides, then Flips After Cars & Coffee in North Carolina
Though it’s not the first time someone has crashed a Mustang leaving a car show, this driver clearly doesn’t do rolling burnouts very often.
Let’s designate the recipe for ruining your local car events because it’s pretty simple. Crash your car while leaving the event. Unfortunately, as seen and plaster over social media, a good amount of these cars end up being Mustangs. However, at the end of the day, its not really the car that’s the problem, but the person behind the wheel. When you are given a powerful V8 rear-wheel drive machine there are some caveats that a lot of people seem not to realize. Too much throttle or any snap of the clutch will rotate the car easily and if you aren’t ready to counter-steer that action back into place, anything and everything can happen.
This video comes to us from John Brooks on YouTube. This event happened to be a recent Cars and Coffee event in Knightdale, North Carolina. As many of us know who have attended such events in the past, there can always be some shenanigans while cars are leaving events like this. People get excited to show off their cars and testosterone is a hell of a drug in situations like this.
The offender in this situation is a from what we can tell in the video a 2010 or 2011 S197 Mustang GT. The error was simple, the driver attempted what seemed to be a rolling burnout, he loses control and ends up sliding off the side of the road into a concave median. The result is none other the car flipping due to the nature of the median.
Second Angle
There is a second video that depicts the aftermath of the situation, where around a dozen or more spectators run to see if they can help the wounded driver. The driver actually manages to slide out of the car easily through the passenger door and is obviously a bit stirred up, but safe. Obviously the car as a result is 100 percent totaled, but it did its job at keeping the driver safe.
As fun as it may be to slide a driver around on public roads, there is an inherent safety risk not only for you, but everybody else on the road. There are dozens of drift and track events happening on a weekly basis! Check your motorsports event calendar and learn how to control a car in a safer environment.
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