Southwest Philadelphia was the scene of a jarring and visually stunning crash Thursday night that left one vehicle torn completely in two, drawing police and aerial news coverage just before midnight. The incident took place near the intersection of 61st Street and Passyunk Avenue, and the images coming out of the scene were the kind that stop you mid-scroll. A car, split clean in half, sitting in the street like something out of a Hollywood action sequence, except this was very real and happening in a residential Philadelphia neighborhood.
SkyForce10, a helicopter news crew from a local outlet, was hovering over the scene around 11 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, capturing aerial footage that showed just how severe the impact must have been. For a vehicle to split in half, the forces involved are almost difficult to wrap your head around. These are thousands of pounds of steel and engineering, and something reduced one of them to two separate pieces lying in the road.
A second vehicle was also spotted stopped nearby, sitting in the middle of the roadway with police cruisers surrounding the area. Whether that second car was directly involved in the collision or simply caught up in the chaos of the aftermath was not immediately clear. What was clear is that officers moved quickly to secure the scene, close off the intersection, and begin sorting through what happened…