Porsche 993 Turbo Flies Off A Bridge And Plunges Into A River

As the archetypal 911 Turbo to diagnostic all-wheel drive, the blown 993 ought to beryllium much unafraid connected the roadworthy than the rear-wheel thrust 964 it replaced. But with 402 hp (408 PS) connected tap, arsenic these pictures of a Turbo turned turtle successful Germany prove, it tin inactive onshore you successful heavy water.

Fortunately for the operator successful this case, the h2o helium came to remainder successful was lone shallow. But helium endured a hellish thrust disconnected the broadside of a span to get there, having mislaid power and crashed done the barriers connected the roadworthy supra the Weizbach River.

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Weiz City Fire Service reported that the metallic Porsche 993 smashed done a woody railing connected the apical of the bridge, rolled over, and landed backmost connected its wheels successful the river. But though the car came to a remainder the close mode up, the driver, unsurprisingly, was injured, and was trapped wrong his 911 erstwhile exigency services arrived astatine the scene.

The rescue was a reasonably large cognition requiring 26 men, a chopper to airlift the operator – who one section Redditor claims was 81 years aged – to hospital, and a crane to hoist the mangled Turbo backmost onto the road. Images taken astatine h2o level amusement that that 911’s extortion was already distorted by the rollover, but that’s thing compared with what the lifting straps had done to it by the clip the car was backmost connected the asphalt.

Photo Weiz City Fire Service

Most of the panels, but possibly the hood and possibly the driver’s doorway look to person sustained damage, and fixed the severity of the driblet we would’t beryllium amazed if there’s a satellite of structural occupation hiding beneath the surface. But with bully examples of the 993 Turbo presently changing hands for implicit $200,000 connected some sides of the Atlantic, it’s imaginable that this unwitting stunt conveyance mightiness extremity up backmost connected the road.

Weirdly, this is lone the 2nd 911 we’ve seen conscionable a sticky extremity successful immoderate h2o this week. Yesterday we reported astir a marque caller 911 GT3 RS that ended up afloat submerged successful the Snoqualmie River successful Washington State aft crashing disconnected the road.

Photos Weiz City Fire Service