Monday 7th June 2010

Video: Why You Stop At Toll Booths

Suspected drunk driver misses Dallas toll booth with spectacular results

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A suspected drunk driver has been caught on video taking a rather unusual route at a US toll booth - going over rather than through.

The Dukes of Hazzard-style jump was caught on camera at the north toll plaza on the way out of Dallas Fort Worth airport last week.

The driver caught the concrete divider that separates one toll booth from another, which launched the Chevrolet Impala into a barrel-roll jump. The car then clipped the top of the toll booth before landing on the other side as a fiery wreck.

Fortunately the toll booth operator wasn't hurt at all, while the driver - Yasmine Villisana - amazingly suffered only minor injuries.

We suppose the moral of the story is that you'd better be careful about the in-flight movies you watch - it might give you strange ideas. Although Dukes of Hazzard was probably a better choice than Die Hard would have been...*

*we joke - we have no idea whether Ms Villisana had even been on a flight, let alone her choice of in-flight entertainment...

 

[Laurel Green]

A clear case of MCFD. For the uninitiated; Mad Cow Flying Disease.

[soad]

Thursday's pea-roast, meh.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Still, that takes some doing...

[AndySA]

Very poor design of the barrier, should never have happened. But bloody funny all the same

[Jasandjules]

AndySA said:

Very poor design of the barrier, should never have happened. But bloody funny all the same

I am thinking less the fault of the barrier and more the fault of the idiotic who didn't slow down........

I bet some of the drivers in the other cars could not believe what they saw.

[RT Phil]

Why is it American cars burst into flames when they crash, i thought it was just in the movies

[whythem]

It always seems to be female drivers that do the funniest of these vidio's.

[philmots]

I'd much rather fly through the air and barrel roll than stop dead into a lump of concrete~!

[Mitchmachine]

Chevrolet Impala for sale.

One careful lady owner Mrs E. Knievel.

[Laurel Green]

My first thought; oh no, not another Toyota thread.

[Godzilla]

Landed back on its wheels having cleared the entire toll booth, burst into flames and only minor injuries?!

Any stuntwoman would have been proud to have done that!

[[AJ]]

If only it hadn't burst into flames and she had been able to continue driving.. even if a door or the odd body panel had been hanging off.

[qube_TA]

[Galsia]

In the States drink driving only gets you a slap on the wrist. It would have been better if the driver died because she will almost certainly do it again and she might kill an innocent person next time...

[TheOrangePeril]

Jasandjules said:

AndySA said:

Very poor design of the barrier, should never have happened. But bloody funny all the same

I am thinking less the fault of the barrier and more the fault of the idiotic who didn't slow down........

I bet some of the drivers in the other cars could not believe what they saw.

Surely very good design of the barrier, it protected the booth occupant!

[dragonship]

Appropriate name for the car 'Impala'

[bobdylan]

AndySA said:

Very poor design of the barrier, should never have happened. But bloody funny all the same

i agree i once hit a tree of outstanding bad design

[Snoggledog]

qube_TA said:

But why does it show a DeLorean?

[mybrainhurts]

Yeeeeee and, indeed....Haaaaaaaaa

[John D.]

Snoggledog said:

qube_TA said:

But why does it show a DeLorean?

Indeed. WTF?

[ellisd82]

You drink drive - and this kinda things going to happen!