And we lose another News correspondent...

ucbalumnus
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:40:58 +0000

CountingDown:

I realize that – it’s the side impact and how badly the interior was damaged that led me to my opinion.

The pictures showing random looking car parts inside the car appear to be from after the rescuers were done (note the cut marks where the roof was cut off, then later put back on top of the car). Common practice is to put whatever car parts were cut off or broken off during the crash in the car so that they are not all over the street after the car is towed away. If you look closely at these pictures from the article linked in reply #3, neither side of the car appears to be that badly smashed in, based on the floor rail and the side of the roof.

http://static3.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2112221.1423727969!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/article-crash-0212.jpg

http://static1.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2112219.1423727830!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/article-crash-0212.jpg

Compare to the damage of a similar car after a side crash test: