Having owned a Vic and owing my lack of injuries in an accident to both its mass and engineering, I can tell you with absolute certainty that the car in that pic was NOT traveling anywhere near any kind of posted speed limit, residential or otherwise. The orientation of the car tells me it was already on its side when it impacted the pole, top first. For there to be enough energy to do that kind of damage, plus shear away a chunk of the car (I will presume the front, as that's where the majority of the mas is concentrated) the vehicle had to have been traveling at a very high rate of speed. I would guesstimate somewhere well north of 80. If the trooper was in pursuit, that's not unlikely.
Lots of cops owe their lives to the sturdy and reliable Vic. Notwithstanding the rear impact issue of a couple years ago (the vast majority of which could be directly atributed to the veritable warehouse of equipment mounted to the bulkhead in the trunk with self-tapping, and gas tank puncturing, sheet metal screws) the Vic is a tank and can absorb a heckuva lot of impact energy before the transmitted levels get to occupant-inury zone.
Brad