Completely the wrong barriers as already mentioned. Those ones are designed for and impact of less than 45 degrees, at or less than 100KPH. The idea is to lift the front wheel of the vehicle that impacts them, so some of the energy is transfered up, so the car doesn't fire back into the traffic like a snooker ball. they then pull the steering hard towards the barrier then the car will stick to the barrier as the car slows. certainly not designed to be hit at that sort of angle - it is just a small jump if you do that. There are other barriers that are readily available that would have prevented that car becoming wet.
By the way, was everyone ok?
