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Teenaged YouTube 'Counter-Strike' Star Dies, Kills Two In Fiery Wrong-Way Highway Crash (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports:
The 18-year-old who sped the wrong way down state Route 805 Thursday, crashing into a SUV and killing himself, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, was a YouTube star who had made a small fortune in video gaming gambling, according to authorities and hundreds of gaming fans on Twitter. The California Highway Patrol identified him Friday as Trevor Heitmann of San Diego. But the nearly 900,000 subscribers to his YouTube video channel and his Twitter followers knew him as "McSkillet"...
Kevin Hitt, editor in chief of VPesport.com online gaming news outlet, said Valve, under constraints from the state of Washington gambling commission, confiscated about $200,000 worth of McSkillet's skins and shut down his ability to acquire more.
VPEsports reports: Heitmann was one of the biggest names in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) skin trading when in late 2017, Valve, developers of CSGO, banned all of Heitmann's Steam platform accounts, shutting down his entire skin trading and collecting empire... The ban by Valve precluded Heitmann from being able to unbox, gamble, or trade skins which directly affected his ability to monetize his YouTube videos which saw viewer counts anywhere between 250,000 to 4.3 million. He hasn't posted a video since....
Before the fatal crash, Heitmann purposely drove his vehicle into the Ashley Falls Elementary School front gate that had a sign on the front that had the word "STEAM" printed on it in reference to a magnet program which supports science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. After breaking a window, he then drove onto the soccer field, spinning his car in circles a couple of times before leaving.
A CHP office says Heitmann's speed was estimated at over 100 miles per hour before his final fiery crash -- and that Heitmann's $250,000 McLaren sports car "disintegrated", while the SUV was so badly burned investigators couldn't determine whether its two passengers -- Aileen Pizarro and her 12-year-old daughter Aryana Pizarro -- had been wearing seat belts.
Aileen's 22-year-old son has started a GoFundMe page "to help aid my family with funeral costs and any additional expenses related to Aileen and Aryana's deaths."
Kevin Hitt, editor in chief of VPesport.com online gaming news outlet, said Valve, under constraints from the state of Washington gambling commission, confiscated about $200,000 worth of McSkillet's skins and shut down his ability to acquire more.
VPEsports reports: Heitmann was one of the biggest names in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) skin trading when in late 2017, Valve, developers of CSGO, banned all of Heitmann's Steam platform accounts, shutting down his entire skin trading and collecting empire... The ban by Valve precluded Heitmann from being able to unbox, gamble, or trade skins which directly affected his ability to monetize his YouTube videos which saw viewer counts anywhere between 250,000 to 4.3 million. He hasn't posted a video since....
Before the fatal crash, Heitmann purposely drove his vehicle into the Ashley Falls Elementary School front gate that had a sign on the front that had the word "STEAM" printed on it in reference to a magnet program which supports science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. After breaking a window, he then drove onto the soccer field, spinning his car in circles a couple of times before leaving.
A CHP office says Heitmann's speed was estimated at over 100 miles per hour before his final fiery crash -- and that Heitmann's $250,000 McLaren sports car "disintegrated", while the SUV was so badly burned investigators couldn't determine whether its two passengers -- Aileen Pizarro and her 12-year-old daughter Aryana Pizarro -- had been wearing seat belts.
Aileen's 22-year-old son has started a GoFundMe page "to help aid my family with funeral costs and any additional expenses related to Aileen and Aryana's deaths."
It was theoretically legal, so Valve just let it happen since they're typically pretty hands off and since they get a cut of sales, they don't have much financial incentive to care either. However, a few states got sick of companies like Valve being able to engage in (or a least facilitate) what is for all intents and purposes online gambling despite laws that prohibit this in its most typical forms. So Valve had no choice but to clamp down on their users in turn. If Valve weren't putting a stop to it, they would be the ones in legal trouble.
Firefighter here - in my response area we have a single lane undivided roadway with a 50mph speed limit and we routinely see survivors of head on 100-120mph collisions. Airbags play a big factor as do crumple zones, as do seatbelts. Iâ(TM)ll add that in my career, 16+ years and counting, everyone Iâ(TM)ve cut out of cars who was wearing a seat belt survived. As an aside, we sometimes have to pick up motorcyclists with a shovel, and hose away the pieces too small to pick up.
That requires proving intent and a certain amount of premeditation on his part. If he left some kind of angry online screed outlining that this was his intent all along, sure call him a murderer. Otherwise he may have just been out of his mind and not intending to kill himself or anyone else. The summary indicates that he's still a teenager, so I would be more likely to believe that he just lacked the ability to control his emotions and got swept up in it.
If he somehow managed to live and had to face trial for this, it would almost certainly be on manslaughter charges. Let's call it murder on if it is in fact murder, not because calling it murder makes us feel better or allows us to cast further moral judgement on this man's actions through the weight of the words alone. You can still despise him perfectly well without labeling him a murderer.
You have to add the velocities together (like you did with your 50+50 example).
Nope, a head-on collision of 50+50 doesn't add velocities -- it's the equivalent of going 50 into a wall or a similar solid obstacle. Here's an explanation.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
So full of crap.
The P=mv equation plays here. Mass and relative velocity of BOTH vehicles must be considered.
If they are moving in opposite directions, then there is more energy in the collision.
Then you can't treat a CAR as a SOLID WALL. They are designed to deform during the crash. This is the difference between an elastic and in-elastic collision. During the collision, some energy will be lost in deforming of the vehicles.
A head on by two cars travelling at 50MPH is definitely worse than a single car hitting a solid immovable wall at 50MPH. But not double, because the wall is assumed to be immovable/non-deformable.