Why is there no visible impact damage to Morrison Smith’s car?
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November 23, 2014 at 12:31am
Maybe that’s why they towed it away: to inflict some.
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Kieku ghadda b’heffa u kisser il-hgiega wisq probabbli kien iqaccata u taqa’ jew tiddendel.
The only way you can cause damage to the side mirror only of another car with your car, is with your side mirror. Morrison Smith’s side mirrors are both intact.
One starts to doubt whether there was a car impact at all.
There are some other doubts too.
1. Was this truly a chance encounter between Sheehan and Smith (as we are made believe) or did the two know each other? Now that would give it a new angle. Mallia’s wing mirror looks like it was hit with a hard object from on top.
2. Why does Smith have British number plates? As a resident, he is obliged to register his car in Malta within 7 days of arrival or pay a 30Euro daily fine for failing to do so.
3. He is reported to be a company director and shareholder of two Malta registered international companies. These companies don’t even have a website proudly marketing their products (as one would expect), only an address registered at Kordin Industrial Estate found on shared websites.
We may be looking the wrong way.
Is it possible that the only impact this Morrison had was with some bottle?
The fact, as you say both the Scot’s side mirrors are intact while the one of the minister’s car is smashed could mean that this was not just an unfortunate accident but could have been something intentional, possibly something aimed at the minister’s person.
Which part of ‘the Minister was not even in Gzira’ don’t you understand?
Ghadek iblah?
This is 2014 not the century of the Crusades. Why try to bring the mountain to Mohammed when Mohammed was nowhere to be seen.
Why order a low loader, or put the car on one, if it was immediately clear from the video published on Times of Malta on Wednesday that the car was not involved in any crime?
Don’t want to speculate or anything but luxury motors like the chauffeur driven car involved in this incident are usually equipped with automatic side mirror folding systems.
If that’s the case, the car must have been unlocked for its side mirror to come into contact with Mr Smith’s moving vehicle. Or was it a case that the chauffeur was in fact sitting in the car at the time of the incident?
At this point in time we should ask whether the driver’s mother really lives in the vicinity or Codruta has some “impenji” in the area.
Codruta is a pharmacist.
It would still be open if the engine was running or the key turned to the accessory position.
It has recently emerged that there was an as yet unidentified person sitting in the car which means that in all probability the engine was running for the air conditioning, or at least the key set to accessory position for the radio/CD/MP3 player to work. This would leave the mirrors extended.
With regards to mirror damage or absence of it on Smith’s car:
a) I think we’ve only seen one side of the car in the photos and video, so it could possibly be the other side mirror that was hit.
[Daphne – No, we have seen both sides of Smith’s car. The videographer at Times of Malta filmed both, and I uploaded screen grabs of both the RHS and the LHS last night as it occurred to me that we hadn’t focused on this particular aspect. We were all too busy looking at the bullet-holes in the rear.]
b) It is not at all unusual for very different extent of damage to happen when one car’s side mirror hits another. It is quite common for one to be completely demolished while the other has barely a scratch.
C.Falzon, yes fine, but how do you explain the mirror’s top part virtually smashed beyond recognition yet the structural bottom section still fully extended on its mount?
Mirrors are designed to break off their mount entirely if the impact was that hard.
Ahemm, not everyone failed to focus on the absence of damage on the Insignia.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/look-at-the-commotion-youd-think-the-british-man-had-shot-at-manuel-mallias-driver/
You could easily break off the side mirror of a car by whipping it, say, with the butt of a pistol.
We have been told that the driver was visiting his mother. Was it true?
Maybe it wasn’t his “mother” and Smith was surprised inside the place visited by the driver.
The official car mirror might have been damaged during the high speed car chase.
Only way to break a mirror in an accident is with another mirror. Both mirrors on Smith’s car are intact whilst the left mirror on the GM14 is completely shattered. Something is not quite right.
When they towed it away they tampered with evidence. They removed crucial evidence of the case without taking the rightful measures to preserve the evidence to a crime as established by law.
The only alternative they had is dictated by law – a magistrate’s inquiry on the spot. The least that could have been done here was not to remove the but to hold a “repertus”, that is, the only legal way of preserving evidence on the scene of the crime.
At least until what appears to have been an attempted homicide would have been cleared and declared legally and officially by a magistrate’s inquiry that it was warning shots.
Actually it can happen that one car’s mirror can damage another without damage to itself … happened to me … whilst one absorbs part of the impact the other doesn’t.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite,
If I’m not mistaken looking at previous photographs the mirror was completely destroyed not just broken or dangling out of its hinges.
There is no visible damage to Smith’s side mirrors. Smith’s car is a normal saloon car not a 4×4 which are higher and their bonnet can reach the height of a saloon’s side mirrors.This begs the question, “what was the cause of the damage?”
Side mirrors are compact and well built to sustain impact as they protrude from the main body of the vehicle. They incorporate cables and wires and also a spring mechanism allowing them to jump back into position if accidentally hit. Most of the time when suffering a big blow you are likely to find then dangling by the side of your car door.
Not to speculate further but if it was shot at, by accident maybe. The impact of a 9mm round at close range will blow the a side mirror into pieces. The bullet is hitting glass, metal mechanism and hard plastic. It is very different to hitting side lamps where you have just molded plastic.
If this was the case, the plot thickens.
Let’s hope the three stooges will seriously look into this.
What’s Paul Sheehan looking at, at the side of the road in the second photo? Maybe some evidence that might be used against him?
Why was he allowed to roam freely around the scene? I get a feeling that he thinks he’s Jason Statham.
I remember that in the 80s Triccas had a song about the police being ass-holes. Still relevant today.
The whole mess is getting scarier and scarier.
If shooting at a person for breaking your car mirror seems to be a gross overreaction, that’s because it is.
Have we all been led down the garden path with a cock-and-bull story of road rage to cover up an even more sinister one?
After all the MLP is an expert at cover-ups including last election`s “blokka bajda” story.
That’s why it was whisked away quickly. Luckily there were cameras taking shots.
What is the minister’s driver looking for on the ground in the second photograph? Perhaps pieces of a mirror he had just broken himself?
We had a minimal accident when our parked car’s mirror was hit by that of a moving vehicle.
Because our mirror was suddenly hyper-extended and the impact was on the mirror area, rather than the housing of the mirror, it broke.
The other car’s mirror was snapped closed not hyper-extended. So it only sustained some scratches on the back of its housing, no breakages.
When both cars are pointing in the same direction the mirrors spoon i.e are not face to face, so the force of the impact effects them differently.
Just in case someone wonders, we did not shoot, threaten or chase the other driver.
Were there any witnesses to the beginning of this incident because so far we have only heard about witnesses who heard the commotion after the alleged incident.
Why is Mr. Smith refusing to speak to the media?
Why is Mr. Sheehan still running about?
Are there any witnesses who filmed the incident on their mobile?
Ah, but would witnesses dare come forward?
U hallina, Silvio. Mela ghadek tibla’ kollox li jghidu tal-PL?
I have repeatedly looked at the pictures of the damaged mirror.
If the collision had been in a forward motion of a moving vehicle would the mirror not be folding over in a forward position?
The mirror seems to have been damaged from the front backward hanging towards the back. Seems that even the damage was staged. I put nothing past them.