
A Toyota Supra MK4 driver tried to evade Florida police and ended up the topic of a trooper’s PIT maneuver. However the web is extra involved with the judgement of the driving force, based mostly on the specs of the automobile.
A Reddit person posted dashcam footage of the incident to the Supra subreddit on June 11. The video reveals a Florida Freeway Patrol trooper pursuing a black Supra MK4 at a presumably excessive charge of pace. The trooper catches as much as the Supra and performs the PIT maneuver, which sends it spinning throughout the freeway and right into a utility pole.
A PIT maneuver, or precision immobilization approach, entails placing the rear finish of a automobile to trigger it to spin out. Its use is controversial, because it typically results in wrecks just like the one which ended with the MK4 Toyota Supra smashed up like an aluminum can.
The Redditor who posted it questioned, “What’s the story behind this chase?” One other sarcastically replied, “Fool watched an excessive amount of Quick and Livid.”
Others pointed to a different r/Supra thread discussing a screenshot of the FHP Tampa’s Instagram post concerning the incident. The put up consists of three images of the Supra, which was fully destroyed.
The caption explains {that a} trooper tried to cease the driving force for going 93 mph in a 55 mph pace zone. A chase ensued, adopted by a crash.
Quite miraculously, the driving force reportedly walked away from the crash with non-life-threatening accidents and went to an area hospital for therapy.
One factor that just about everybody throughout platforms agrees on is that the driving force (if what police say is true) made a poor choice with a treasured automobile.
“I drive an NA Supra,” wrote one Redditor. “There is a motive I do not do silly issues. Why destroy the phantasm that every one Supras make 1000 horsepower by placing the foot down and displaying you solely have 150 horsepower? Now everybody will know simply how gradual my automotive is. Jerk.”
The Supra MK4, which Toyota launched from 1993-2002, was one of many definitive sports activities automobiles of that decade. The fourth technology of the mannequin is understood for its energy and look within the Quick and Livid movie collection.
An Instagram person blamed the police. “You totaled a particular automotive and caught a man rushing. Virtually killed the driving force and passenger with the maneuver,” they wrote. “Good job.”
“The junkyard’s gonna love this one,” one other person joked.
This can be a uncommon mannequin of Supra. An individual on an MK4 discussion board claims that there have been solely about 47,000 ver produced. So it’s comprehensible that some corners of the web are upset that this one was destroyed in an arguably avoidable crash.
Motor1 reached out to Toyota through e-mail for remark.