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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."
Committing suicide is one thing, but in do it in such a manner that you take other innocent lives with you, is fucking horribly twisted. Almost makes me wish that a Hell really does exist.
I think it's more the fact that the bodies we so badly burned, the investigators were not able to complete straightforwards and standard tasks, like determining if the seat belts were worn by the occupants.
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For the life of me, I cannot wrap my head around the vanity needed to be buying skins for a shooter game.
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I have been wondering why driving licenses are given to persons with high testosterone level?
Why not ban driving if your testosterone level is above certain safe threshold?
This has nothing to do with unsafe driving, it was a guy committing suicide in a way that killed two other people in the process.
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I guess he taught us a lesson. What was it?
"Kills"? Try the word "murders". Killing people in a car crash can be accidental. This guy murdered two innocent people.
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The seatbelt thing is meant to describe the level of carnage that this hormone-filled douche bag inflicted on innocent bystanders due to his inability to control his emotions. He torched a little girl and his mother so bad the police could barely figure out who he murdered. It has nothing to do with safety. Obviously everyone will be dead in a 100mph head-on collision. I hope he burns in hell.
Yet alcohol abuse is lower in countries where the drinking age is between 0-5.
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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.
How's it sexist? Women also have testosterone, just as men also have oestrogen.
People with less melanin commit fewer crimes, therefore people with high melanin should be placed in jail by default. Totally not racist tho.
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I've been in car crashes that didn't kill anyone. That's as much experience as most of the people around here are going to have -- or are you saying that only traffic safety engineers and automotive engineers have any right to discuss the topic?
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
I assume you do realize that the trigger event from Valve was demonetizing skin gambling. They prohibited the gambling due to bad actors, and some guy that makes his living from gambling runs his car into some innocent people. Valve taking away someone's illegitimate revenue stream does not make them complicit in his desire to murder people on the highway. He is responsible for his own actions.
There is no system that "corrects issues early, quickly, cheaply and effectively". Even if mental health services were socialized (which they should be, really, because untreated mental illness affects us all), it would still be neither quick nor necessarily effective.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
>"This event also makes driving laws in some other countries (Australia is the first that comes to mind) look better than our own. They restrict the use of high-powered vehicles until the driver has a certain amount of driving experience -- five years, if I remember right."
Different (objective), not better (generally subjective).
In any case- ANY modern car can go 100 MPH, the estimated speed of this accident. In many places in the USA, the highest speed limit is 80 (and 85 in a few tiny spots), with people reasonably going 5 over. You don't need a "performance" [high-powered] vehicle to do that.
Now, most would admit that "performance" vehicles may further coax certain [already reckless-leaning] people to do reckless things.
Or, he wouldn't have found it so easy to build up that much speed
My beat-to-hell, 5500 pound pickup truck that's coming up on 200,000 miles will still hit 100 mph faster than a lot of cars will. That speed is a pretty low bar for modern cars, and my truck is about the least flashy thing anyone could hope to drive.
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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.
I take it that Australia also makes it illegal to travel the wrong way down a highway if you're an inexperienced driver?
Face it, going 100 the wrong way down a highway sounds more like a suicide attempt than a failure in driving laws....
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I'm glad this brat is out of the gene pool too. But I don't want to be liable, as a 70 year old, for the actions of my brother or my 50 year old kid. That's a hell of a thing to have hanging over your head for which you have zero control. I'd rather have myself declared an orphan.
Every penny of what he had should be given/sold to the family so they don't need a gofundme to pay for the funeral/reparations.
Do you people just intuitively try to restrict freedom?
Because it's so much easier than usefully addressing the cause of the problem?
I'm reminded of the woman who likewise killed herself and tried to kill others, when she was likewise effectively fired from her job making Youtube videos without appeal or recourse. She didn't even get an explanation, I don't know if that's the case for this guy.
The "gig economy" involves monopolistic control for the gatekeepers, and zero rights for employees. We can probably expect more of this, barring some regulatory effort.
I've heard this stupid mantra for 40+ years. The chances of you being in an accident where, seatbelt = burned alive and no seat belt = instant death, is very close to zero.
The other common argument is no seatbelt = instant death is better than seatbelt = vegetable. Which is fine except the set of car accidents where no seat belt = vegetable and seatbelt = perfectly fine is much much larger.
In short if you want to avoid horrible death or long term disability then wear a fucking seatbelt, or don't reproduce because you're mucking up the gene pool
Not this crap again. Didn't they bust this myth on Mythbusters too? It doesn't matter what you hit, a wall or another object travelling at an arbitrary speed in arbitrary direction. All that matters is delta V. If you were travelling at 50 mph and then as the result of collision ended up travelling 0 mph -- it absolutely doesn't matter what was the object that you hit, a wall, or another car with similar mass head on -- the kinetic energy that you need to dissipate is exactly the same. Yeah, there are nuances about crumple zones and unlike the wall, you hardly every stop at exactly 0 mph with head on collision, but that's minor details.
It's a different story if you hit a truck with a much larger mass, and the truck continues on its path with slightly reduced speed (i.e. it plows through your car). Then yeah, it's much worse, because you get some of the truck's kinetic energy. On the other hand, if you hit a bike head on, you win hands down. But assuming both cars involved in a head-on collision are about the same mass (and ignoring crumple zones and any residual speed you might have), it will be exactly the same as hitting a wall.
All that matters is delta V.
Energy-wise yeah, but the damage is drastically different depending on the distance that energy has been dissipated over:
* if you hit a solid wall, the distance is 0 (plus your car's internal crumple zones)
* if you hit a similar car coming head-on with the same speed, the distance is 0 (plus your own car's (only) internal crumple zones)
* if you hit a parked car with handbrake off, you may move it several meters before coming to a halt
Same difference as falling onto hard floor vs falling onto a pillow, from the same height.
But, as you can notice, the dissipation distance for solid wall vs head-on collision is identical.
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A head on by two cars travelling at 50MPH is definitely worse than a single car hitting a solid immovable wall at 50MPH.
No. Your car will deform on your side, their car will deform on their side and the net effect is the same as hitting an immovable wall. Now between two equal cars the damage scales with the relative speed difference, regardless of distribution. Like 50+50 and 100+0 ends up the same, it's still two crumple zones meeting at 100 mph. If you have unequal weights the heavier vehicle will maintain some momentum and thus have less deceleration, which is quite obvious if you consider car vs motorcycle. Though what happens to the passengers depends on the car, there's some very complex systems to soften the impact of the deceleration. If you connected a solid steel rod from the front of the car to the car seat people would die real quick.
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Two cars colliding frontal with 50 mph each, is equivalent to one car hitting a standing car (wall) with 100mph.
It seems intuitive, but it's not true, because kinetic energy is not proportional to the speed, but to the speed squared. For simplification let's assume the vast majority of the cars' kinetic energy before the collision ends up in the deformation of the crumple zones, and compare the energies in the two cases. In both cases, the kinetic energy after the collision is 0, so by computing the kinetic energy before the collision we can find out how much the crumple zones have absorbed.
In the car-car scenario, the total energy of the system before the collision is the sum of the kinetic energy of the two cars (each at 50 mph). Because they're identical, each car absorbs half of this, so each car has to absorb m * (50mph)^2 /2.
In the car-wall scenario the total energy in the system is m* (100mph)^2/2; that's four times the energy of the single car at 50 mph - because the factor of two in the speed gets squared. Moreover, all this energy is absorbed by a single car (because the wall is immovable), not split between both cars. In the end, the car-wall collision pumps four times more energy in the car's crumple zones than the car-car scenario, which makes it much worse.
I remember when I was new to driving. I ended up using a 1967 Mustang for a day, with a 302, that belonged to a friend. Well that was OK until it started raining and I managed to spin out while trying to make a left turn. Luckily I didn't hit anything, but I found myself facing directly into traffic, which had already stopped to watch my foolishness.
Having some more experience would have helped.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Some people don't know how to control high powered vehicles. Of course, it only takes a short bit of training to get used to them, which I'm sure this dork had. It basically sounds like he was drunk, rich, or drunk and rich, either way not suitable for being on the road.
Your conclusion is correct but you're off with the kinetic energy formula. The formula presumes an inertial frame of reference; simply put, the "oncoming" object - whether a car or a wall - will have the same relative speed so the KE transfer will be the same (mass differences and inelasticity aside) in both scenarios.
However, as you point out, the "car vs car" scenario involves twice as much crumple zone - which means for any given relative speed, twice as much energy can be absorbed rather than going into the occupants.