out of control

from http://www.westernjournalism.com/was-michael-hastings-murdered/ 

"Hastings may or may not have been murdered. But one thing is clear: The narrative of how the accident occurred is a total fabrication.

Here’s how the story goes: On June 18 at 4:30 in the morning, Hastings was traveling at 100 miles an hour in an upper class suburban neighborhood in the 600 block of North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. Moving at such a high rate of speed, he lost control of the vehicle—a 2013 Mercedes C250 Coupe—and slammed into a palm tree. Upon impact, the car exploded, ejecting the engine and part of the drivetrain several hundred feet, simultaneously bursting into flames.

The claim that Hastings was traveling at 100 miles an hour when he hit the tree is false. This claim was substantiated by a roving local reporter who had a dash cam running. The video shows Hastings’ car blowing through a red light at high speed in a business district several minutes before the crash. The dash cam video is highly suspect. As shown in the above video, the video taken frame-by-frame seems to show an unexplained anomaly, in which the background appears to be in front of the car on one frame.

Whether this video is doctored or not, however, is irrelevant. The vehicle was absolutely nottraveling at 100 mph when it hit the tree. There is little damage to the tree or the front of the vehicle, as would be expected from a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, which is probably why they covered up the front of the car with a large sheet once the media began to arrive.  Further, when the engine and drivetrain were ejected, as required by the laws of physics, the engine would be thrown in the general direction the vehicle was traveling. In fact, it was thrown at a ninety degree angle from which the vehicle hit the tree.

If in fact Hastings was murdered—and we are not saying with absolutely certainty that he was—it is likely an explosive device was detonated while Hastings was driving at a normal rate of speed.Or he was placed in the vehicle knocked out or already dead, at which time the bomb was detonated while the vehicle was at rest against the tree.

If Hastings was in the vehicle dead or knocked out while the car was moving, the problem then becomes: how was the vehicle steered toward the tree to make it look like this was the cause of the explosion? As the Huffington Post reported, in interviewing Richard Clarke, a counter terrorism expert under Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton, stated:

There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers—including the United States—know how to remotely seize control of a car.

This, however, is not news.  Car and Drive magazine reported back in their August 2011 issue that hackers could easily commandeer a vehicle:

Currently, there’s nothing to stop anyone with malicious intent and some computer-programming skills from taking command of your vehicle.

If in fact Hastings was murdered, who did it and why?

Just hours before Hastings’ death, he had contacted WikiLeaks requesting legal counsel, stating that he was being investigated by the FBI, which was substantiated by the email to Joseph Biggs. What hasn’t been generally reported is that Biggs stated in an interview with Fox News that the big story Hastings was working on had to do with the CIA, in contradiction to the lie perpetrated by the Los Angeles Times that he was investigating the David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell-Jill Kelley love triangle story."