Sad Day For This Suburban

18702GMT900 · August 8, 2008

Came across this today I thought I would share and this is the information the site gave for what happened to it.

"They need this on the Police helicopter to stop high speed chases. Sobering shot of an SUV that got lit up by mistake, by an F16 driver near the air-ground gunnery range outside Dugway, Utah. The 'light paint and body damage' is the result of a one-quarter-second burst by the fighter's 20 mm gun, which fires about 3000 rounds per minute. An estimated 70 rounds left the gun; the results are as you see here. What's even more astonishing is - the SUV was being driven at the time. The driver and the guy in the right-hand passenger seat escaped with some light glass injury to the driver, and a dislocated shoulder to the passenger. The shots hit the gas tank, but didn't explode; the gas just leaked out. The passenger who normally sits in the back seat had just moved to another vehicle. The vehicle was on the military reservation, but a full three miles away from the gunnery range. The pilot is probably doubtless be busily writing 'I WILL NOT ENGAGE SOFT CIVILIAN VEHICLES IN NO-FIRE ZONES' 1,000 times, after which he will be PCS'd to Shemeya AFB, Alaska."

huero626 · August 8, 2008

Damn, that sucks poor Suburban.

J-man67 · August 8, 2008

Holy crap...they are DEF lucky to be alive. Thats crazy.

Outbacker · August 8, 2008

Can you imagine if the driver hit Onstar and tried to report what was happening? Wow, that is brutal. I personally would have slid out of the seat on account of all the crap I laid everywhere. Glad to see no one was killed.