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I don't know about anyone else, but I feel something isn't quite right. "Fearless Journalist Car Crash Into Tree And Dies In Explosion.". http://ktla.com/2013/06/18/driver-killed-in-fiery-car-crash-... Mythbusters have shown this doesn't usually happen. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/crash-a...

EDIT: I made up the headline.

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The intersection where the car crashed. A median with trees and light posts begins here heading southbound, as well as some trees on the sidewalk west of the street. I don't know which tree was collided with.

https://maps.google.com/?ll=34.083531,-118.338458&spn=0.0013...

Either the reporter was driving drunk (at 4:15am on a Tuesday morning aka Monday night) or this is some kind of conspiracy (body burned beyond recognition).

I'm still not sure how a car "jacknifes", unless that's referring to the opposite ends of the car wrapping around a tree. Normally, that phrase refers to a tractor-trailer combination turning sideways around the towing joint.

I saw this on my way to work this morning. I live close, actually. I went around to survey the accident since it's looked pretty odd. Those tree's span for quite a while, and it took him all that time to "jacknife" into one?

To answer your question: He hit the 3 or 4 tree in.

"Explosion" is likely a dramatization of "caught fire and burned rapidly".

Just google "fiery car crash" and you'll see it is unfortunately fairly common.

A close friend of mine died in much the same way. It happens.

Wow. Yeah, that's ... unusual.

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