We were at the Cars & Coffee meeting further north on Eastern Av when one of the Corvette guys came up to us and said: "Do you guys know anyone with a black Cobra?". We immediately thought of a few guys we know with black Cobras and went to see if it was one of our friends (what a scary thought that is . . . )
We arrived at the scene of the incident to see a black Cobra smashed completely flat in the front with no windshield and the steering wheel fully collapsd. We were trying to figure out who it belonged to by trying to identify the manufacture make. It had extended doors, a 1½" rollbar, bolt on wheels and a rounded trunk . . . thought it might be an early Classic Roadster or a Street Beast. It was so messed up that it was hard to tell. Someone posted in the Las Vegas SUN article that it was an original . . . it wasn't.
Best thing (as bad as that might sound) was it wasn't someone we knew.
The police report hasn't clarified whether or not what the cause of the accident was, we just know he crossed the median between north and south bound traffic and hit an Audi and was then struck by a Ford Contour that couldn't stop . . . hit him head-on, ejecting him from the Cobra.
We are always horrified to hear of another Cobra owner crashing their dream, sometimes getting hurt in the process, but when one of our fellow Cobra owners gets killed, well, that just hits too close to home.
I hope that the police investigation finds that there was a mechanical failure and that this wasn't caused by some type of impairment or recklessness. Some have mentioned that it was a combined speed of 100MPH . . . no so, he had just left the traffic light to the south, from what we overheard at the scene, and he was not trying to turn left, there was no place to make a left turn on that section of the road. Near as the police can tell at this point, he just veered to the left aburptly.
Our prayers go out to his family in this time of loss . . .
Please be careful out there, guys . . . we all know how fast these cars can get away from us . . . . . in a heartbeat.
Doc