Article and photo at the BBC.
How on earth did he manage to get the front door of the house lodged in his windscreen at that angle, all without totally wrecking the front of the car? The angle suggests that the door flew in from above and behind.
The photo appears to have been taken from here.
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My guess would be that the car hit the porch from the side (ie the car was travelling parallel to the front of the house, very close to it). If the porch was fairly lightly built (plastic frame or wood) it wouldn't damage the front of the car much (it does look like the car hit something at the front, there's one largish dent). I'd guess the door was flipped upwards as the car hit it sideways on (maybe the edge of the door is what made that dent in the bonnet) and then was trapped between the house and the car, and the forward motion of the car forced it sideways into the drivers compartment.
S, thanks, for lack of a better explanation, it must have been something like that.
I still find it difficult to visualise a door being initially pushed forward, and then scything round to hit to roof from behind. Was it caught on something at ground level and rotating faster than the car was moving?
"I still find it difficult to visualise a door being initially pushed forward, and then scything round to hit to roof from behind. Was it caught on something at ground level and rotating faster than the car was moving?"
No I reckon as the front of the car hit the door edge on low down, below its centre of gravity, thus forcing the top back towards towards the windscreen, probably the top corner of the door hitting the very top left hand of the windscreen and getting hooked into the steel frame. As the car continued forwards it pushed the door to the side, but being close to the house wall the door would become wedged between the wall and the car, and as the gap between house and car was far narrower than the door was tall, and you weren't going to push the house over, the door had only one place to go - the other way, slicing sideways through the roof of the car.
A thin flat object with good lengthways compressible strength getting caught and rotated between a fixed point (the wall) and a moving item can create a strong sideways force. It requires the points of contact to be quite precisely aligned, but I can see it happening.
S, again, thanks. Like I say, that does seem to be the most likely - and only - explanation.
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