Another Lucky Driver
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AndyJRB

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45 posts

170 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Apologies if this is a re-post but you wouldn't think you could walk away from this one.

http://jalopnik.com/5955796/the-new-luckiest-drive...

anonymous-user

83 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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thats just incredible, did he survivie because the back end of the car disintegrated?

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

232 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Holy ship yikes

anonymous-user

83 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Holy st balls.

gog440

9,298 posts

219 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Pearoast.

someone posted this over the weekend.

He is still a jammy bd though, looke like the only thing that saved him was the fact he didnt have a seatbelt on!

pops and bangs

674 posts

186 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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What an absolute though, generally people that drive like that end up killing other people.

I see idiots like that all the time trying to switch from lane to lane while cutting other people up to make progress.

Fort Jefferson

8,237 posts

251 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Hard b@sterds, these Russians.

chr15b

3,467 posts

219 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Omg!!

ruff'n'smov

1,092 posts

178 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Epic. yes

Dave Hedgehog

16,335 posts

233 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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don't forget there's 2 in the front before the impact, and the space where one of them was aint there anymore frown

Gixer

4,463 posts

277 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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pops and bangs said:
What an absolute though, generally people that drive like that end up killing other people.

I see idiots like that all the time trying to switch from lane to lane while cutting other people up to make progress.
Not helped by the fact the lorry driver (camera vehicle) accelerated and closed the gap, helping to cause the accident


pops and bangs

674 posts

186 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Gixer said:
Not helped by the fact the lorry driver (camera vehicle) accelerated and closed the gap, helping to cause the accident
Yeah drivers like that are equally stupid, I sometimes get that when overtaking, the driver seems to get offended and suddenly speeds up.

Luckily in some cases my car is actually faster but it could be pretty dangerous.

I just watched the video again, does that car clip the camera car? It looks like that, but he might have simply just lost control.

Apache

39,731 posts

313 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Gixer said:
pops and bangs said:
What an absolute though, generally people that drive like that end up killing other people.

I see idiots like that all the time trying to switch from lane to lane while cutting other people up to make progress.
Not helped by the fact the lorry driver (camera vehicle) accelerated and closed the gap, helping to cause the accident
I think it was the bus slowing, you can see the brake lights coming on

StottyZr

6,860 posts

192 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Fort Jefferson said:
Hard b@sterds, these Russians.
yes some good compilations coming out, Russians are generally crazy, makes for good internet.

Petrolhead_Rich

4,659 posts

221 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Bus was slowing, car decided to cut up camera vehicle (truck maybe?)

Anyway, if you look at 0:35, there are quite clearly two occupants in the front, but only one emerges, possibly lucky passenger, not sure about the driver, at 0:37 the steering wheel emerges from what was the windscreen/A-Pillar!

Still bloody remarkable that the chap who is climbing out survived....

stevensdrs

3,264 posts

229 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Looks like the driver ended up as canned meat. A miracle that the passenger came out seemingly unscathed.

DHE

4,667 posts

219 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Amazed anyone could survive that.

AndyJRB

Original Poster:

45 posts

170 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Yep, looks like there were two people in the car frown so it looks as though the passenger is the lucky one and unfortunately the driver is another statistic. Was going to make a glib comment about Lada/Russian build quality but best not.

750turbo

6,164 posts

253 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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Dave Hedgehog said:
don't forget there's 2 in the front before the impact, and the space where one of them was aint there anymore frown
Yes, dreadful!

Sometimes videos like this show us just how sensible (as a rule) we are here.

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

232 months

Monday 29th October 2012
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AndyJRB said:
Yep, looks like there were two people in the car frown so it looks as though the passenger is the lucky one and unfortunately the driver is another statistic. Was going to make a glib comment about Lada/Russian build quality but best not.
Yep if you freeze frame it, there are 2 people in there frown

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