Family Comes Together in Touching Father-Son Tunnel Crash

by Matt Posky

Published: November 27th, 2019

family comes together in touching father son tunnel crash

Fred Ordine and his 25-year-old son, Chadwick Quinones, were arrested on Tuesday for crashing two Chevrolet Corvettes in New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel. This unique bout of family togetherness actually took place on the night of February 9th, according to New York Daily News. However, the arrest and video footage (below the break) of the two crashing into each other are newer and absolutely perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday, which is all about bringing people closer.

Though this may have been too close.

While reports indicate that the two were “drag racing” through the tunnel in the late evening, dash cam footage of the lead car seems to suggest a milder competition. Frankly, the narrowness of the tunnel prohibits pretty much anything other than moderate speeds. Traffic further increases the likelihood of any high-speed runs ending in complete tragedy. Suffice it to say this isn’t the kind of place you want to be testing the boundaries of physics.

However, while a by-the-books race didn’t appear to take place, the two were still driving like imbeciles. Chadwick’s footage shows the lead Corvette picking up quite a bit of speed as it passes several buses. Moments before the crash, the second car can be seen coming up on the driver’s side. Apparently trying to catch up or pass (which is a no-no already), ‘Vette #2 closes dangerously fast on a slow-moving SUV. Realizing that braking isn’t going to be enough to avoid a wreck, Daddy Ordine veers into ‘Vette #1 ⁠— throwing the coupe into a spin that takes out at least one other vehicle. Police said no injuries were reported.

From New York Daily News:

Quinones fled the scene but returned an hour and a half later, and was issued three summons in Weehawken, N.J. for leaving the scene of an accident, failure to exhibit registration and careless driving, police said.

When Port Authority Police Department detectives asked him about the video, he yanked it from his Instagram page, though it can still be found reposted to other accounts, police said.

After an investigation, Port Authority cops charged Quinones and Ordine, both of Hewitt, N.J., with reckless endangerment, illegal speed contest and reckless driving.

“We are committed to tracking down people who commit this type of reckless behavior and prosecuting them. In doing so, we hope to deter others from doing the same,” Port Authority Police Chief Detective Matthew Wilson said.

The two are reportedly awaiting arraignment in Manhattan criminal court. Hopefully, they both get a little time with their families on Thursday in order to score a little turkey and perhaps a loving lecture about how stupid they’ve been throughout this ordeal.

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Matt Posky

A staunch consumer advocate tracking industry trends and regulation. Before joining TTAC, Matt spent a decade working for marketing and research firms based in NYC. Clients included several of the world’s largest automakers, global tire brands, and aftermarket part suppliers. Dissatisfied with the corporate world and resentful of having to wear suits everyday, he pivoted to writing about cars. Since then, that man has become an ardent supporter of the right-to-repair movement, been interviewed on the auto industry by national radio broadcasts, driven more rental cars than anyone ever should, participated in amateur rallying events, and received the requisite minimum training as sanctioned by the SCCA. Handy with a wrench, Matt grew up surrounded by Detroit auto workers and managed to get a pizza delivery job before he was legally eligible. He later found himself driving box trucks through Manhattan, guaranteeing future sympathy for actual truckers. He continues to conduct research pertaining to the automotive sector as an independent contractor and has since moved back to his native Michigan, closer to where the cars are born. A contrarian, Matt claims to prefer understeer — stating that front and all-wheel drive vehicles cater best to his driving style.

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Tankinbeans on Nov 28, 2019

Is this the definition of more money than sense? I will never understand the urge to use public roads as a venue to show off your driving prowess, or lack thereof. Go to a track; die on your own time; quit needlessly endangering everybody else because your mom didn't love you enough.

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- JimZ on Nov 28, 2019
  
  It's called "normalization of deviance." the idea was popularized during the Space Shuttle Challenger investigation. Basically, they knew the joints on the SRBs were weak and could fail, but they never had, so the possibility of failure was minimized. Until a very cold day in January of 1986... It's the same thing that leads people to drive recklessly, or text while driving. They know they shouldn't do it, but the more times they do it with nothing bad happening, the more likely they are to keep doing it because "nothing bad has happened." Until it does.
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Nov 28, 2019
  
  @JimZ NASA did not even made crew escape mechanism one of requirements of STS design. They were sure that STS will be 100% fail proof. What they were thinking? It is like Boeing not duplicating mission critical systems in 737 MAX.
  
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- 28-Cars-Later on Nov 28, 2019
  
  @Inside Looking Out Perhaps it was because where were the crew to escape too? The upper atmosphere and fall? Low Earth orbit with a few hours of oxygen and that's if they didn't get caught up in reentry?
  
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- SCE to AUX on Nov 29, 2019
  
  @JimZ: Quite right. Normalization of deviance is also what led NASA to accept the foam strike on Columbia as an 'in family' event, while those who actually studied the films said it certainly wasn't. It turns out that every single shuttle launch experienced foam loss warrantying further study, but NASA grew tired of having such 'non-events' stand in the way of fixing them or worse - slowing the launch schedule. I see the same thing in corporate behavior in industry.
  
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- Lou_BC on Nov 29, 2019
  
  @JimZ - exactly. I've also seen the term "institutional creep" and "mission creep" get used. People keep resetting the norms of behaviour until they get into a big mess.
  
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- Sgeffe on Dec 01, 2019
  
  @Lou_BC “Scope creep” in IT! One of the banes of my existence! ;-)
  
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Get Necked Ya Dumb Nigger! on Nov 28, 2019

Yeah what a great story to push. A couple of idiots endangering other peoples lives. Gotta crap post on Thanksgiving! *puke*

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- JimZ on Dec 01, 2019
  
  waaahh. grow up.
  
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