Commander=Owned

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Perhaps this was posted before:
http://www.jeepcommander.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1022

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/onabuggy2/wreck.jpg

[ssgharkness020147]

****. Did the occupants survive?

[Desert Dan]

Wow that is an awful wreck!

I wonder how fast they were going

[ssgharkness020147]

Well. Now we know that the Commander is not light pole rated.

[Steve - SanJose]

Sad. Hemi-powered right into the pole.

[BlueHUMMERH2]

****. Did the occupants survive?

The driver (only occupant) died according to the story with the photo. :(

[RuggedH2]

I'm not suprised. The entire vehicle folded around the pole, right at the passenger compartment. Looks like any open space inside the vehicle at that area collapsed.

[3Hummer]

my sorrows for the victims family. And that was a horrible wreck any idea on the speed of the vehicle and how it woulded up sideways on the poll??? And why does the glass on the drivers door just look bent???

[NEOCON1]

Well. Now we know that the Commander is not light pole rated.


LMFAO :giggling: :giggling:



Hemi-powered into the pole was pretty good too :beerchug:

[usetosellhummer]

I think this is the problem, cars that people think are safe trucks. from the jeep forum....

the commander is frameless so it would probably bend in this direction easier than most vehicles but Jeep probably never thought of an impact like this.
i agree it still should have held up better but with no frame and the weakened roof structure then this could be a possibility.
this was probably the 1 in a million that jeep thought would never happen.
hope i never have this problem.

[Steve - SanJose]

Yea but that pole had structural integrity.

[KenP]

Found this:Fatal Crash In Waukegan


WAUKEGAN, Ill. (STNG) -- A Beach Park man was killed and a Gurnee woman injured Monday morning when their cars collided at a north suburban Waukegan intersection.

Witnesses told police that at about 8:20 a.m., Kery Bond of Beach Park was driving a Jeep Commander southbound on Route 43 entering the Norman Drive intersection when a 2004 Jeep Wrangler, driven by Ashley Story, turned westbound from the northbound lanes on Route 43 and struck Bond’s vehicle, according to a release from Waukegan police.

The impact caused the Commander to slide across the intersection and strike a traffic light support, police said.

According to the release, Bond, 35,who suffered internal injuries, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lake County Coroner’s office.

Story, 42, was transported to Condell Health Network in Libertyville with a broken leg, the release said. She was treated and released. The Gurnee woman was cited with making an improper left turn, Waukegan police Cmdr. Wayne Walles said.


Story and Bond were the only occupants in their vehicles, the release said.

Waukegan Police Major Traffic Accident Investigators continue to investigate the accident.

[lotus4s]

OMG, taken out by another jeep......:giggling:

[Steve - SanJose]

Almost as bad as headon crash of 2 motorcycles at high speed...

[wpage]

Damn improper left turns:twak:

[Zeero]

At high speed any vehicle no matter how storng would bend like that....I guarantee he was going way faster than he should have with damage like that.... :OWNED:

[BlueTJCO]

At high speed any vehicle no matter how storng would bend like that....I guarantee he was going way faster than he should have with damage like that.... :OWNED:


yep..............:beerchug:

[usetosellhummer]

commander shares the underpinning of the cherokee, weak and yea, not much could have saved him hitting that

[Steve - SanJose]

commander shares the underpinning of the cherokee, weak and yea, not much could have saved him hitting that

of the grand cherokee

[Russell-h3-alpha]

I guess thats what happens when you drive a commander like an ass. Still really sad that a person died because of poor choices they made. This is why I would never buy a suv like a cayenne turbo or a cherokee srt8. Trouble happens a lot faster in an suv at high speeds than it will in a car.

[mikejr]

that is an incredible crash, like it was said before a 1 in a million set of circumstances and result. Our sympathies go out to the family who lost a loved one. Not sure any vehicle would have been able to withstand that crash and not suffer the similar damage.