Nissan GT-R driver killed by concrete that was deliberately thrown off Bridge - Sensationalist Headlines

http://www.thedrive.com/news/25041/nissan-gt-r-driver-killed-by-concrete-that-was-allegedly-thrown-off-bridge The driver of a Nissan GT-R was killed in downtown Nashville early Tuesday morning after a large piece of concrete was allegedly thrown off of the Shelby Avenue Bridge and onto I-24, according to WKRN. The man behind the wheel, 54-year-old Joe C. Shelton Jr., was reportedly a Nissan employee. According to the original article, the piece of concrete went through the GT-R's windshield and hit Shelton in the face, as corroborated by police photos of the aftermath. The Nissan then sideswiped a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, hit the guardrail, and then stopped at the Silliman Evans Bridge. Per the Tennessee Department of Transportation, which has since inspected the Shelby Avenue Bridge, the piece of concrete that went through Shelton's windshield "was not part of the structure and more closely resembles a roadway curb." Police believe it likely that the concrete was deliberately thrown off of Shelby Avenue and not a piece of crumbling infrastructure. Hence, the incident is now being investigated as a homicide and police are reviewing nearby surveillance footage as well as asking the public for tips. Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 615-742-7463 or contact Nashville PD directly through social media. It's unclear whether the supercar was Shelton's personal vehicle or a company car. In any case, Nissan issued the following statement: "We are saddened to learn of Joe's passing. Our deepest sympathies are with his family members, friends, and colleagues at this difficult time." https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/774/0c617f3f-1e8f-44c3-98f7-5d758cc68a77/edf65df2cc9aff48cd6df31ed827ce92.jpg

WHO DID THIS

Straight through the windshield, holy hell.

hope they catch the piece of shit, cubeman they're coming for you.............

that's so terrible, just why ffs

Fuck people who do that. Throwing objects from an overpass is such a shitty thing to do.

wouldn't be surprised if it was a bunch of kids doing some epic prank

is that blood on the windshield?

Yes.

Yes because property damage (and potential loss of life in this situation) is a great prank to pull. Absolute wankers.

No shit it's not a prank, but considering the amount of retards who think physical assault can be brushed off as a prank these days.

We're still dealing with this shit in Denmark. It was a fucking weekly thing at one point last year, and it there's been casualties because of it. Pavement slabs thrown from bridges over highways.

quite the reminder of the force vector of a vehicle traveling horizontally at 70 mph and a rock falling at 25 mph

Hopefully the fucker gets what they deserve.

Hope they get caught and bent over in prison, assholes.

This happens way too often. We need to start making examples out of the people who do this.

You'd think people dying is an example enough, people are fucked

Its such a fucking pointless way to die. As lekkimsm said, this shit has been happening over here. Where among others ,a thrown concrete slab took out a whole family, kids and all.

Hope that if they are teens they're charged as adults. This is practically murder.

It IS murder. They're directly responsible for the death of this man.

This is my biggest fear everytime I drive under an overpass.

Goddamn, if they were driving a mustang or prius I might not have cared, but to kill an honest god fearing nissan GT-R driver? It's like morality and ethics have been thrown out of the damn window...

morality and ethics were thrown out the window when we cared more about what they were driving instead of an innocent person being almost intentionally killed

Yeah this was happening in Indiana in the summer and i think there were a couple of deaths and some major accidents. Ive some towns that have full on curved fences installed on all the bridges, i think it might have to come to that.

That was kinda my whole point.

This seems to be in the news a lot lately. Truly hope they get what's coming to them. I can just see a bunch of YouTube assholes doing something like this then using the picture of a crashed car for a thumbnail. with any luck their "whole lotta gang shit" will turn into a whole lotta gangbang shit in jail.

This is some shit that you have to be a psychopath to do.

Or just incredibly stupid.

seriously teenagers are fucking retarded, I remember there was a story in my area when I was in my teens of a kid throwing a bag of frozen peas at a driver through his side window and causing a crash And forgive the levity in a thread like this, but I always remember thinking 'okay, either you were walking home with frozen peas for your mum then decided "nope, I need to fucking throw these at that car", or you bought a bag of frozen peas with the express intention of chucking them through someone's window' and both are equally retarded.

I suspect people don't realize your post wasn't serious and was instead pointing out that the car he was driving wasn't nearly relevant enough to be the title of the article.