I was expecting the rolling yellow into red. Some of these are insane. 8 stopped cars in 3 lanes and someone barrels in behind them at serious speed? WTF
Sadly this almost happened to me this weekend. Grocery store. Was exiting the parking lot. Green light for me. Had been some cars ahead of me who had already pulled out… going about 10, approach the intersection. Catch movement to my left. Granny - oblivious. barrels thru from the left 3 feet in front of my car doing about 30-40 miles an hour in the middle of my green… Honked, she did not even blink or brake.
A couple are, most are not. In the left turn ones, I see red lights on nearly all the forward traffic sides. Some of them you can’t see the light, though, so those may be left turn cock ups.
The one at 2:29 confounds me. They have their turn signal on, clearly they intend to turn right, but at that speed they weren’t going to make the turn even if there weren’t pedestrians in the way.
Yeah I understand it happens. I’ve run two red lights in my life and I distinctly remember them, and both times I was heavily distracted thinking about other things going on in my life. I hit the brakes both times and came screeching into the middle of the intersection, and luckily no one was crossing either time.
The crash at 2:15 is in El Cajon, CA, my friend worked at a comic book shop back in the '90s in the building just beyond where that truck crashes. The narrowest of narrow escapes at 3:10 is insane.
You know, the number of unsafe left turns/running the red on left turns just astounds me. Here in VA, I see them all the time and it’s pretty amazing that I haven’t seen a major accident here (yet).
The only major accident I have ever been in (in Montclair, CA) was a “left turn yield” situation where a lady turned left right in front of me. Un-fricking-believable. Totalled my car (and severely damaged hers), and she gets out of the car screaming “what the hell is wrong with you?”
Watching it was pretty hard for me, even though it wasn’t a red light runner that got me, it was someone basically running a side street stop sign onto a busy main street, and T-boned me but good. Watching the t-bonings going on in this video made me remember how scary it was.
Thankfully in my case the only fatality was my car, but if someone had been in the passenger seat they would have been hurt pretty bad.
Except for the fire trucks. The fire truck one makes me laugh for some stupid reason. Hope everyone was ok in that one. ><
Hey now. It took centuries for women to get the right to own land and vote and have the same jobs as men. It’s time to continue onward to “talking shit may get you punched in the mouth.”
What I find indcredible is how many American highways seem to not have any kind of wall or fence to prevent people driving into ongoing traffic. That must cause some pretty nasty accidents, I guess. Back in Tenerife, on the South-North highway, there is barely a meter without black leftover streaks from someone crashing into the middle separator wall. Scary.
The worst crash vid I’ve seen was that of some guy being chased by the police who speeds through an intersection and gets blown to bits by some huge black truck that seems to be travelling at 130 km/h.
I’ve done it once, not proud of it either. It was the 2nd week of 100 hour workweeks with a ton of hours the months previous. Luckily it was a backroad light and no one was around, I’m damn glad to not be working that job anymore though.
I was once making a legal left and had a group of kids not paying attention drive through a red and strike me in the rear left quad of my shitty, first-car-I-bought-myself Chevy Blazer. When I got out of my car and went to see if the high school kids were okay one got out and her guts were hanging out of her stomach and she was screaming in agony. I nearly lost it right there, but then I realized my mind had originally seen as a horrible mass of innards was, in fact, a strawberry sundae she’d spilled all over herself. Her shrieking was anger that she’d ruined her suede jacket.
I went and sat on a curb and waited for cops to show. The girl’s mother picked her up and shouted at me that I was a Nazi and worse than Hitler. To this day I don’t really understand the comparison.
These days I see people run reds all the time in Boston. Not people in cars, though. People on bikes who assume that being on a bike will mean that people will have to stop for them. As if bikes project some sort of force field or turn them into highlanders. I’ve never seen a car-on-bike accident, but if I did I don’t think I’d shed many tears for the bike.