It’s a sad day to see a Viper in this condition, obviously well beyond the scope of any new car warranty. The story is told in a good auto blog you might like to bookmark for future reference, goes by the name Jalopnik.
Here the proprietor of Jalopnik ponders what could have caused this wreck,and no, a high rate of speed in not the reason.

“My uncle has been bugging the hell out of me to help him find a red Viper. We end up finding him a nice 04 with only 3K miles on it. Perfect shape and not a scratch or mark on it! He brought it by Friday afternoon to show it off to me. 24 hours later I’m having dinner with my wife and my cell phone keeps ringing. Pissed off, I finally pull it out of my pocket and it’s his boss/friend telling me that I needed to rush to the hospital and my uncle just flipped his new Viper. He’s going to be fine, but his passenger / brother in law got ejected (for some reason he didn’t put his seatbelt on and he’s got broken bones all over including his pelvis. Also, there’s tire marks all over his jacket as if the car ran over him after he got thrown out). Really odd accident!
Need help here for anyone with thoughts on what could have happened. My uncle told me he just pulled out of his neighborhood and knew the car was cold so he wasn’t getting on it at all. Plus, he lives right where it happened and knows there’s a stop sign just up the road. So, speed really didn’t have much to do with this. He says he just went into second, barely rolling along at about 30-40 mph and he hears a LOUD bang or pop! His first instinct was that he got rearended somehow, said that’s what it felt like. The next thing he knows, the steering is gone and the car veers off the road, across a driveway and then BAM, he’s upside down, stuck in the mud!”
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