7 Series into Concrete Abutment

["Chao, Harvey" <harvey.chao@xxxxxxxx>]

Caught the closing scene of "Millennium" tonight where a 7 series is
deliberately accelerated into a concrete bridge overpass support as
supposedly somewhere around 80 mph.

Anybody else see it?

A subsequent shot shows the car at rest with a very convincing "U" that
matches the radius of the impacted concrete pillar - looks like a slightly
right (passenger side) of center impact, with the bumper/grill/hood pushed
back about 1/3 the original length of the hood.  

IF they ran a real car into the pillar as it appears to the viewer, it is
notable that the passenger compartment appears free of collision intrusion
and they (gave the impression?)  showed the driver opening her door and
managing to exit the car (bad guy in passenger seat w/o seat belt lying
halfway out onto hood through where the front windshield was)  [curiously,
windshield is totally absent - supposedly it "popped" out, but more
realistically, I would have thought in reality the bad guy would be halfway
through the shattered safety glass.]

I suppose that they could have  (probably did) staged the real collision by
running an empty car into the concrete pillar at any speed they wanted and
then placed the actors in place.  None the less, it would be interesting to
know what actual speed created that damage - the show's story line aside -
and still left the passenger compartment and front door frames intact and
w/o intrusion.

Any comments/ideas . etc.???  

Harvey

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