Article snippet: Posted at 2:00 am on August 13, 2017 by Patterico Unbelievably, a drone captured the moment when a car plowed into a group of demonstrators Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. The video was posted online by NBC News. It is graphic, so consider this your content warning. As of this writing, there are three dead (one from this car crash and two from a helicopter crash that officials say is somehow related) and five people in critical condition. Horrible. UPDATE 1:10 a.m. PACIFIC: This appears not to be Fields’s car, as the post originally and erroneously claimed, but instead a car that was struck by Fields’s car — or perhaps the third car in a three-vehicle collision. While the video clearly depicts the area of Water and 4th where the incident happened, commenters below note that the vehicle depicted here plowing into demonstrators at that intersection appears to be a maroon SUV, while the video we saw earlier in the day depicted a grey Dodge Charger racing down the street and then speeding in reverse. (H/t joliphant.) Folks seemed to assume from the initial video that the Charger was the car at fault, and that assumption still seems valid. Commenters theorize that the Charger rammed another vehicle which then pushed the SUV into the crowd as depicted here. That makes a certain amount of sense. Two other data points: 1) poking around Google Street maps reveals that the original, ground level video was taken from almost a full block north, at 4th and Main, l... Link to the full article to read more