Makes you wonder if it's safe to get in the car!
Makes you wonder if it's safe to get in the car!
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Gafferjim

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1,337 posts

295 months

Rusty Arches

694 posts

203 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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I love those videos, so naff laugh

ZeeTacoe

5,444 posts

252 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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fk me. who knew a swift half turn of lock will make a car turn through 90 degrees and fly 3 feet off the ground.

Total scaremongering bks.

iggletiggle

1,380 posts

215 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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As much as it is scaremongering... it made me feel a little odd..!!

fking video's though, most of those are completely unrealistic. Apart from the lorry in the tunnel which failed to notice the stationary traffic (believe that was in Russia)


Garlick

40,601 posts

270 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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The lorry in the tunnel was sobering.

Zippee

14,132 posts

264 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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The only one that really got to me, and I know it's one of the acted ones on that video, was the 2 lovers standing by the wall when the crashing car hits them. Seeing her pinned between the wall and her boyfriends now crushed and lifeless body really sent the jitters down my spine!!

Maldini35

2,913 posts

218 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Certainly scared me.

Lost soul

8,712 posts

212 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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I know its a bit ghey but what is the music ?

no-worries88

1,817 posts

228 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Does the trick,quite sobering to say the least,anything to do with injured kids gets to me,bit soft like that.

joebongo

1,517 posts

205 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Ok, what's the safest vehicle on the road for the vehicle occupants? Not meaning that Auto Express thing that said Defenders had the lowest incidence of injury, I'm talking out and out protection. To give an example, my old E38 735i was hit by a car doing 30+ and the sides weren't even more than 2 inches pushed in, and I saw a E38 740 which had a front smash sufficient to remove/crush the entire bonnet section and the driver/passenger cabin had no intrusion whatsoever.

That's why I have a 740 now as I know it's pretty good like that, but what's the daddy of them all in terms of hardness and crash protection?

anonymous-user

84 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Lost soul said:
I know its a bit ghey but what is the music ?
Shamefully I know the artist, Evanescence. A quick google reveals its My Immortal. You're right, very ghey.

One of those crashes is real but in reality the guy survived.

ETA: Ah seems a few are real crash footage.

Edited by MSTRBKR on Tuesday 6th July 17:27

XG332

3,927 posts

218 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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no-worries88

1,817 posts

228 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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That motorway one must have been a st day, crash,fall out of car,get run over...... Bummer.

Ian974

3,201 posts

229 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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I like how the car jumping the lights at the level crossing managed to turn into a completely different car before getting hit.
But really, whether set up or real, some of those are just so blatently stupid that there is almost loses the message. Trying to pass a truck round a blind corner, jumping over a hill through a hedge, driving straight past give way signs into the path of an oncoming bus...

TankRizzo

8,024 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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I tend to watch those videos with the sound off and the Benny Hill theme tune playing. Gives it a whole different slant.

nonuts

15,855 posts

259 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Does anyone else think it's not really cricket editing together accidents where it looks like people really did loose their lives and fiction?

davey1343

5 posts

203 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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How is it unsafe driving when the guy with the take-away walks into the road without looking and gets hit by the blue car ? :s

Lost soul

8,712 posts

212 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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davey1343 said:
How is it unsafe driving when the guy with the take-away walks into the road without looking and gets hit by the blue car ? :s
hehe i thought the same about that clip

buffly

370 posts

232 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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I`m going for a spin.... Bye!

Flanders.

6,439 posts

238 months

Tuesday 6th July 2010
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Is it me? Or if you were in the Red Car Overtaking and the Dog Ran out you'd just carry on. I wouldn't like to kill any Animal, but I'd rather not die myself.