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dubai_phil

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OK THIS made me sit up and watch.

 

 

Moral must be if you want to avoid a car crash do not use a video camera while driving.

 

But FFS 5min 55secs of REALITY mayhem...

 

Jeez

Tractor_Saint

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Crikey! Reckon there are a few people that didn't get out of some of those alive. Specially the head ons with the lorries. 2m 40s in, check the guy out flying through the air and being hit by the car.

dubai_phil

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Crikey! Reckon there are a few people that didn't get out of some of those alive. Specially the head ons with the lorries. 2m 40s in, check the guy out flying through the air and being hit by the car.

 

The one that got me was the 4x4 hitting the Mack truck & simply disintegrating.

 

The first clip is almost Pythonesque in quality and bears no relation to what then follows!

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Jeez - sacred me... some folk drive like fricken nutters.....

 

This! Most of them desever what they got, just a shame that many of them took out some third parties whilst driving like utter bellends.

trousers

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That's genuinely made me feel queezy. That footage should be showed to every 17 year old who's just passed their driving test. Not singling out 17 year olds as the worst drivers per se, as no doubt many of the accidents on that footage were caused by lunatics across all age groups, but sometimes youngsters need the **** scared out of them to avoid them following in equally bad footsteps. I remember watching a "train awareness" film as a young teenager and recall it scareing the life out of me....everytime I cross a railway line some 30 years later I still have those images in my mind.

 

Off for a stiff one....thanks DP! :)

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Frank's cousin

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...only just noticed that the pedestrian at about 0.25 was nearly hit by an ambulance...

 

 

Agre this is the sort of thing that should be shown in schools - no patronizing voice over, nothing just show it and let them stew on it.

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...only just noticed that the pedestrian at about 0.25 was nearly hit by an ambulance...

 

 

Agre this is the sort of thing that should be shown in schools - no patronizing voice over, nothing just show it and let them stew on it.

 

It'll soon be forgotten by those interested in speed. The best way for those to learn is by going to visit the morgue or the intensive care ward to see the actions of their counterparts and the direct actions they themselves caused.

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Abiding memory of school is having the **** scared out of me by a train driver who came in to talk about what happened when he hit someone dicking about on the line (there was an open level crossing loads of kids used to get home so it was particularly relevant). Scared me so much for a while I'd walk best part of two miles to avoid crossing it. Remember it had a great (fake) picture of a kid running along a line with a train bearing down on him.

Also my uncle was a serving fireman at the time (engine driver) who regularly hosed up the mess on the M3/M27 - being based out of Eastleigh they were often first on the scene and the first to find the body parts :(

Got to love the '70s, it wouldn't be allowed now for fear of traumatising little Jonny...

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Also, recently read an eye-witness account of the accident that killed the cyclist at the Olympic Park - its the sort of thing that will stop cyclists from riding aggressively. Bloke was alive for a few mins despite having been dragged up in to the wheel housing of the bus and had the lower half of his body crushed. Guy who was first on the scene stayed with him until he died, said there was utter terror in his eyes.

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I couldn't watch to the end: they're were some absolutely horrific accidents there. I put my snow tyres on this week and will be up to the resorts skiing in the next few weeks, and then the bad weather will slowly begin to impact at lower levels. I won't be going at the speeds those drivers were, but what's to stop you being hit by some other lunatic. Frightening.

 

As for cycling "agressively": don't know the circumstances in that particular case, but you do have to hold your road position, "own the road" , as that is far safer.

The Majestic Channon

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I couldn't watch to the end: they're were some absolutely horrific accidents there. I put my snow tyres on this week and will be up to the resorts skiing in the next few weeks, and then the bad weather will slowly begin to impact at lower levels. I won't be going at the speeds those drivers were, but what's to stop you being hit by some other lunatic. Frightening.

 

As for cycling "agressively": don't know the circumstances in that particular case, but you do have to hold your road position, "own the road" , as that is far safer.

 

 

i've got until 1st dec to change to my winter tyres, have yours got metal studs too? they really are amazingly good, i drive almost as normal in snow no probs.

suewhistle

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No, just a different coumpound and tread pattern. If you have studs it means you're severely restricted on roads which aren't snow covered. Most of the time in the valley at 5/600 metres the main roads aren't covered for long: it's when you go higher and/or up the side valleys that you really need them.

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A very sobering video indeed. As already mentioned it a shame to see so many 3rd parties involved due to the actions of some complete *****s.

 

Just curious, but how do they get so much footage of these accidents? Is it compulsory to have an onboard 'black box' over there?

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Snow tires go on here really soon. Snow tires or not, most of those drivers were just stupid, really ****ing stupid. Driving in snow is an almost an artform but some folks just don't respect it and end up in the ditches or worse...

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The one that got me was the 4x4 hitting the Mack truck & simply disintegrating.

 

The first clip is almost Pythonesque in quality and bears no relation to what then follows!

 

If i remember correctly, i had seen this clip before and the biggest body part they found after the impact was a leg,

Lazlo78

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Shocking video that only reinforces me in my decision to always try to relax in traffic and take no chances. My biggest gripe is that 60-70% of drivers don't keep safe braking distance in traffic - and it's not just those who are busy and think that the laws of physics have magically changed because they want to overtake (so they can safely be driving 3 metres behind me at 100km/h *sigh*) but also people who simply do not seem to realise that a car needs distance to come to a stop. If the car in front of you makes an emergency stop, then you need more distance to compensate for your reaction time. Simple, yet most people don't seem to care.

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I don't understand why they don't show videos like that to kids when they pass their test. You have to shock people to get the message across.

 

Not just kids. I recently went on a drivers awareness course for speeding and I don't think it was anywhere as near as effective as watching that. Seeing the potential consequences of your actions has to be helpful to anyone.

dubai_phil

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Shocking video that only reinforces me in my decision to always try to relax in traffic and take no chances. My biggest gripe is that 60-70% of drivers don't keep safe braking distance in traffic - and it's not just those who are busy and think that the laws of physics have magically changed because they want to overtake (so they can safely be driving 3 metres behind me at 100km/h *sigh*) but also people who simply do not seem to realise that a car needs distance to come to a stop. If the car in front of you makes an emergency stop, then you need more distance to compensate for your reaction time. Simple, yet most people don't seem to care.

 

You think people re-inventing the laws of physics is an issue...

 

Down here (without getting into a Theological discussion), many of the Local Yoof believe they do not need to observe Highway rules like Red Lights or simply looking when entering a road junction because Allah is looking after them......

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buctootim

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A lot of those clips are from Russia. The Russians have a whole different psyche which takes wrecklessness to a new level. I drove once from Ekaterinburg to Samara in the Urals. Seems like about one third of drivers have a deathwish and another third have totally defective vehicles, brakes and tyres. Would never do it again.

dubai_phil

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A lot of those clips are from Russia. The Russians have a whole different psyche which takes wrecklessness to a new level. I drove once from Ekaterinburg to Samara in the Urals. Seems like about one third of drivers have a deathwish and another third have totally defective vehicles, brakes and tyres. Would never do it again.

 

Total nutters.

 

But my favourite in t hat new set wasn't a crazy Russian driver, it was the Horse crossing the road.......

 

 

Using the pedestrian crossing!

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dubai_phil

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This one is pretty unusual even for Russia.

 

 

Saw that on Skynews this evening.

 

1) A real WTF moment

2) Hope he kept his own image rights - would make a fortune from that clip!

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