Santa Ana Second Floor Car Crash

About

Santa Ana Second Floor Car Crash refers to a vehicular accident that occurred in Santa Ana, California, in which an intoxicated driver hit a median, causing his car to go airborne and crash into the second floor of a dental office building. The resulting picture was joked about on Twitter in a similar vein as Bae Come Over jokes.

Origin

On January 14th, 2018, the Orange Country Fire Authority tweeted an image of a car accident where the vehicle was lodged in the second floor of a dental office, which resulted from the driver hitting the center median at a very high speed and going airborne before crashing through the wall of the office. The driver and one passenger were able to get out from the car safely with minor injuries. The fire department's tweet garnered over 1,800 retweets and 3,500 likes.^[1]

The same day, Twitter user @KHOLMESlive tweeted video footage of the crash.

Spread

Shortly after the picture was posted to Twitter, users began making jokes about the image. Twitter user @livestrongfree^[2] generated over 207,000 retweets and 464,000 likes quoting Molly Weasley from the Harry Potter film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (shown below, left). Twitter user @KrangTNelson^[3] did a Bae Come Over joke involving the Pee Tape and gained over 1,600 retweets and 11,000 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular tweets using the "bae come over" joke include a tweet by @McJesse^[4] that gained over 70 retweets and 580 likes (shown below, left) and a tweet by @Useronweed^[5] that gained 14 retweets (shown below, right). While news outlets did not cover the spread of jokes, many publications covered the crash itself, including Uproxx,^[6] the Los Angeles Times,^[7] and Fox News.^[8]

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