im in the RFS rural fire brigade and look 240kph does sound rather ridiculous maybe your step dad exaggerated the story himself im not saying your liar but i have seen photos of a car hat hit a powerpole at a speed of around that i think less and it was liturally a big ball of steel....and yes its rather funny how you see cars with a little damage to them and the person is dead but you see cars get rather anilated and people just walk out free wheres the logic in that???