Once again a Mustang owner ran out of driving skill and open space before they ran out of horsepower
August 25, 2024 at 20:41
- A Mustang driver’s failed burnout at Cars and Coffee ended with a crash.
- The driver lost control, rolling into a parked Chevrolet Corvette nearby.
- Fortunately, it appears that everyone involved in the incident escaped unharmed.
It’s a tale as old as 1964. Ford Mustangs seem to find a way to crash and it’s happened again in Lockport, Illinois. This time, the driver was in the midst of leaving a Cars and Coffee event when he attempted to do a burnout during his exit and just ended up smacking a Corvette when his skill ran out.
KRW Performance and Customs hosts a monthly Cars and Coffee event and it last held one on August 11. Upon leaving the parking lot there, a Mustang driver decided it was his time to shine. The video shows him stopped in the road, congesting traffic as entitled drivers sometimes do, and then his rear tires begin to spin.
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The car actually makes it quite a distance down the road which is key because they’re building speed the whole way. Before too long, the rear end tries to overtake the front though. The car begins to slide clockwise, the driver tries to countersteer, but to no avail. As it’s almost made an entire 180-degree turn it slides up onto the curb, hits a parked C7 Chevrolet Corvette, and stops.
Amazingly, three bystanders standing just to the left (from the camera’s perspective) of the Corvette escape any injury as the car stops before hitting them. Two motorcycles parked to the left of the sports car also appear to escape without damage. It’s unclear just how expensive the fix will be on the Ford but the impact was hard enough that it moved the Chevrolet.
Everything happens so quickly that it’s impossible to tell exactly what went on in the cabin to cause this. It could be that the driver tried to reel in the burnout speed by taping the brakes or they might have simply held it too long and not been capable of handling the sideways movement of the rear. Either way, the lesson is clear: never drive a car beyond your personal skill level like this person did.