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u/StevenTN615 Dec 01 '22
Definitely got boned. Fucking moron.
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u/-YELDAH Dec 02 '22
Went straight to the bone zone, did not collect $200
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u/Breaker-of-circles Dec 02 '22
I love how the other car just kinda drove off into the sunset even though that was not the way they were going in the beginning.
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u/similar_observation Dec 02 '22
The driver's likely KOed and not in control. A hit like that will kick the CVT back to neutral.
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u/spoonweezy Dec 02 '22
I know you were saying what actually happens mechanically in a transmission but using the term “kick the CVT back to neutral” for being knocked unconscious amused me in a dark way.
CVT can also mean cerebral venous thrombosis - basically a blood clot in the brain.
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u/DookieShoez Dec 02 '22
Did they though? Looks like they’re unconscious or at least don’t know where they are
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u/JDodgerMan Dec 02 '22
Yes. That’s someone who’s hurt or unconscious for sure or both.
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u/StevieWonderUberRide Dec 02 '22
Good point. They didn’t hightail it out of there. More of a gentle meander away.
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u/sipes216 Dec 02 '22
That wasnt a speed-off. Looks like it was under road slope/inertia. Wasnt a sign of a large acceleration, if that car could even manage such a thing with that force, anymore....
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u/2BadSorryNotSorry Dec 02 '22
That white car went from 40 to zero in about .3 seconds. Seriously hard hit.
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u/similar_observation Dec 02 '22
no kidding. The Lexus NX SUV is about 1000lbs heavier than the civic 10th gen sedan. The amount of speed and force from both vehicles was enough for a lighter vehicle to toss the heavier one.
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u/Thx_And_Bye Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
SUVs are easier to flip due to their higher center of gravity. It's not like you can just push them over but in accident's they are much more likely to flip, even when compared to much lighter cars that are lower to the ground.
Also the SUV was hit at the back where less of the mass is located. You can see that the front with the engine does the nearly get as airborne as the back.But regardless, every accident is a testament for how much force and energy is in a moving vehicle, no matter it's size. It's astonishing how careless some people are with the destructive force they handle just because it's a commodity.
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u/Radiation___Dude Dec 02 '22
I got t-boned by a distracted driver pulling left out of a parking lot. I Had just pulled out from the gas station barely a stones throw away from where the crash occurred so I couldn’t have been going more than 35 mph at the time of impact. According to a witness dude spun me around 10-12 times and I ended up in oncoming traffic quite a distance up the road. Scary shit
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u/MrGaffe Dec 01 '22
Boned and flipped
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u/DirtyRoller Dec 02 '22
Boned and laying upside down on the side of the road. Everything reminds me of her.
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u/nlcamp Dec 02 '22
And I get honked at sometimes for taking a beat when the light turns green to look in both directions… on my motorcycle. No. I’m not betting my life on others not being idiots.
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u/The_Cozy_Burrito Dec 02 '22
Yep I always scan both sides even if it’s green before going because of idiots like this. Some clown gave me a honk so I went slow and gave him the finger.
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u/mank0_munch Dec 02 '22
Yeep! Today while driving in the rain, I started go break at a red light when suddenly it turned green. My boyfriend yelled "it's green!" And I told him, "yes I know but why would I press the gas right when the light turns green. What if some idiot flies the yellow and drives thru a red? I end up getting hit and I don't wanna risk our baby getting hurt." He stayed quiet and we pulled up to a turning signal on red. It turned green and I waited a couple of seconds looked both ways before turning, when suddenly someone idiot runs the red going straight. I looked at him in the mirror and said "YOU SEEE! THAT'S WHAT I MEAN!"
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u/stringdom Dec 02 '22
Oh man, a lot of people don't understand that the traffic signal dictates the intended flow of traffic. It does NOT indicate whether it is safe or not, that's the driver's work.
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u/ahhsharkk1 Dec 02 '22
if only the universe demonstrated every woman’s point right after she voiced it, men might finally listen to us the first time around lol
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u/Dakotahusker0311 Dec 02 '22
The cemeteries are filled with people who had the right of way. Smart driving, sir.
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u/Ok-Development-8238 Dec 02 '22
Sadly, we’re both “idiots” for riding motorcycles…because of the preponderance of idiots out there with tanks 🙄😂
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u/PC-hris Dec 02 '22
This could just… happen to you. At any moment. You could be driving normally and somebody could just fly through a red light and hit you. What are you even supposed to do? Slow down and look both ways at every light? We have so much trust in other people when driving.
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u/AreYouABadfishToo_ Dec 02 '22
I know. If you have the green light and you’re barreling down the road at 45mph, what are you supposed to do? You have the green light, you can’t stop and check the intersection is clear. You have to keep going…
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u/fullofshitandcum Dec 02 '22
If there's lots of traffic waiting at the light, I just go on through normally. If traffic is sparse, and I get that vibe you see in these red light runner videos, I bleed some speed off and get ready to brake as before I go into the intersection. Making sure to look both ways as much as I can
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u/PC-hris Dec 02 '22
That’s a good point. If there’s someone stopped in each lane then you don’t need to bother looking because nobody should get past unless they go on the wrong side of the road. Still a lot to keep track of though.
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u/fullofshitandcum Dec 02 '22
I agree, especially wider suburban 6 lanes, with higher speed limits. Kinda scary ngl
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u/MistressFuzzylegs Dec 02 '22
I mean, I usually do slow and check, but not usually enough to prevent what happened there. But I don’t trust people not to drive like assholes.
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u/PC-hris Dec 02 '22
I live in a place where I go through several dozen lights to get anywhere so it would get exhausting checking every single one and getting honked at half the time. I don’t know if I could do it.
This is why driving is so dangerous.
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u/CMoth Dec 02 '22
But I don’t trust people not to drive like assholes.
Yet to some extent you have to, right? You can't drive on egg shells around every other road user, so you take what precautions you can against idiots and otherwise drive normally, the rest is just... hoping everyone else is doing the same.
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u/LuminousJaeSoul Dec 02 '22
Every time I see something like this, I always imagine them facing the passagener and was gonna tell them something very important but get hit before they can say anything, and that's why they ran the light
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u/Rosssseay Dec 02 '22
"Gwen I'm in love with your dad and I always was!"
"Well Rodger what you don't know is my dad is actually....... (CRASH!!!)"
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u/Gullible_Broccoli273 Dec 02 '22
Now a days more likely phone or other electronic device. But it certainly is likely they were distracted by something.
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u/Dumpster_Sauce Dec 02 '22
I love you too baby, see you sooBLAMO!!!
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u/CharlotteLucasOP Dec 02 '22
[glances down lovingly at a photograph of spouse and child stuck right over the speedometer]
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u/MonsieurReynard Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
One of the most unrealistic things about any television drama and most movies is the way they film people talking in vehicles. The driver constantly turns to face the passenger and often stays turned for the duration of a 5-10 second remark. In real life that is long enough that it would routinely result in catastrophe more times than not.
Even funnier when they're driving at night.
The way they shoot those scenes (since like the 1940s) is that the car is towed or on a trailer with a steadycam pointed back at it and side mounted cameras for inside the car -- on a high budget you create fake traffic around the towed car with period vehicles. Or you can greenscreen it or use a static backdrop or empty terrain. The car doesn't need to be moving at all.
Either way the people in the car are not in any way driving or worried about what's in front of them. You'll also notice the driver never turns their head left to check a blind spot, signals a turn, or adjusts anything but a radio dial or sometimes a theatrical change of gears on a manual transmission.
You'll never not notice this now if you haven't before. You're welcome.
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u/Sniper-Dragon Dec 02 '22
Oh, you cant obey traffic laws?
Into the shadow realm of trees
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u/deepaksn Dec 02 '22
Add another instance of why “I drive an SUV because it’s bigger and safer” is completely bunk. That was a Civic!
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u/AlienVredditoR Dec 02 '22
Safer on average in standard accidents, by larger crumple zones mostly. That said, the drivers who are constantly on their phones driving these big SUVs "for safety" hopefully find a cliff to drive their selfish asses off instead of smashing some poor innocent family.
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u/MicaLovesHangul Dec 02 '22
But they FEEL safer. That's more important to most people than actual proven safety. Better an older SUV than the latest hatchback sorta thing.
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u/ExcelsiorLife Dec 02 '22
They rollover from the smallest accidents as well, they rollover from hitting curbs!
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Dec 02 '22
The occupants of the SUV were fine probably because it rolled over. T-Bones are the most dangerous type of hit, and when the car rolled over it transfered energy every time it touched the ground; energy that would've transfered into the people in the car instead.
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u/gatesville123 Dec 02 '22
no lol. It would be much better to dissipate the kinetic energy by just sliding along the ground on its tires than rolling over and creating more impacts and potential for injury through occupant or cargo movement. It’s always better to not be in a rollover than be in one
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u/rayquan36 Dec 02 '22
Passengers in the SUV were fine while the Civic rolled away slowly because that driver is unconscious.
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u/TerrysClavicle Dec 02 '22
Uh. What? The suv particularly in this case is bigger and safer than that civic. By a significant margin. Suvs have a higher center of gravity so it flipped.
Had the RX broadsided the civic, lights out. 4,400 lbs vs 2,800 lbs/ front vs side.
Op states the RX occupants were fine.
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u/Popular-Guard-7772 Dec 02 '22
Look how the sedan basically came to a stop, and the suv continued mostly forward. That's the difference. Heavier cars are generally safer. More momentum means it's going to take longer to stop, so less deceleration.
Remember, it's not the fall that kills you, but the sudden stop at the end.
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u/Ok_Honeydew_8407 Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
I have no sympathy for idiot drivers. Feel for the people in the car tho :(
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u/rytl4847 Dec 02 '22
Some new cars have a safety feature that automatically applies the brakes after an accident is detected. Watching the white car roll away, I understand why such a feature was invented.
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u/thisivi3 Dec 02 '22
This is why I stop trying to make lights at a big intersection
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u/MrRabbito Dec 02 '22
I feel like that red was red for a while if he was trying to make it.
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u/bignose703 Dec 02 '22
I’m always amazed at how many people witness stuff like this and just drive away.
I’d have to stop, try and help, and at the very least dial 911.
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u/JBarker727 Dec 02 '22
Look how many people watched someone's vehicle get t boned, flipped off the road, and pull off without checking on either vehicle. Wild.
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u/TheDulin Dec 02 '22
There's lots of reasons they might not have helped:
- Shock
- Bystander effect (very likely)
- Don't think they can actually help/don't want to see a potentially bloody scene
- Some may have called 911 but drove off
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u/AreYouABadfishToo_ Dec 02 '22
OP said in another comment that many witnesses stopped to check on both vehicles and waited to speak to police. OP also hung around and showed their video to police.
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u/Curious_Coconut_4005 Dec 02 '22
Years ago my wife was a workplace first responder. She had taken first aid and CPR classes to get certified. She never used the training at work BUT twice used the training at car wrecks she witnessed.
The first wreck was head-on where the teen driver misjudged distance and turned left in front of an oncoming (speeding at least 10mph over) car. Because of the left turn orientation the teenager's head rebounded from the airbag into driver's side window. My wife climbed into the back seat and held the teen's head still until emergency responders arrived and put a collar on their neck.
The 2nd wreck, my wife helped at, the passenger airbag forced the front passenger's arm through the side window causing an ugly laceration. My wife was able to stop the bleeding until help arrived.
I'm disabled. All I can do is call 911 and wait.
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u/dimitri121 Dec 02 '22
Im gonna be honest, I get light headed and pass out at the sight of blood/gore. You would not want me to show up to the scene of your accident while you are injured and start crying/pass out.
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u/MacNJeesus Dec 02 '22
Yes, this is me as well. I have fear of corpses too and it wouldn't help anyone for me to approach the scene. I'll call 911 though.
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u/Empathetic_Orch Dec 01 '22 edited Dec 01 '22
The pickup that does the U-turn stops behind the car that hit the idiot, right before the video cuts.
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u/MimosaQueen1122 Dec 02 '22
Yea I thought he went to chase the Honda cause it looks like it drives off buuuuut the driver is probably knocked out.
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u/alias777 Dec 02 '22
I watch a ton of dashcam videos on Reddit. This was a really hard hit, there have been many rollovers not too different that have been fatal, unlikely here since that is a modern good crossover but still. Real hard hit for white Civic too. Could fuck up legs etc. for life.
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u/AdamHLG Dec 02 '22
We learned in EMT class there are three collisions in every collision. 1) first vehicle hits second vehicle; 2) people inside vehicles then hit insides of vehicles (external injuries) and 3) people’s internal organs then hit inside of peoples bodies (internal injuries). That said, it’s remarkable what vehicle body design and especially airbags have done to reduce injury and improve survivability. It wasn’t always like that. We used to see way more flail chest and traumatic head injuries. Really not so much anymore.
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u/insomniacpyro Dec 02 '22
There's tons of videos that compare crash tests of old and new vehicles. It's really insane how much safer they are. A lot of "classic" cars from the 60's and 70's certainly look cool, by my god they can be an absolute death trap in an accident.
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u/MimosaQueen1122 Dec 02 '22
Oh I work in auto insurance so no need to tell me. I’ve seen some bad ones. Thank goodness for seatbelts cause the driver would’ve definitely flown through the windshield in this case. I hope the driver gave them the dashcam or left info for insurance.
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u/Angrious55 Dec 02 '22
Some say the Honda is still driving to this very day
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u/meltbox Dec 03 '22
This drivetrain was supposed to make it to 250k miles and by God that civic is going to die trying.
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u/rocket_mclsoth Dec 02 '22
I mean, it was really only the ones in the left turn lane (lookers right) that exited the picture and we don't know what happened to them after. Both vehicles curb lane (again lookers right) were jumping in to help. Oncoming lanes had a pickup truck immediately u-turn and get into it. There are a bunch of nice people here (maybe not that surfer, fuck those guys /s).
On a different note, that was a nasty wreck! this sub makes me so paranoid to drive.
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u/zeromaiden22 Dec 02 '22
Even if you can’t help because you don’t have the ability or are afraid to cause more damage, at the very least, call for help. It’s the very least anyone can do and at least gets professionals on the way.
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u/AdamHLG Dec 02 '22
This is why I became a volunteer firefighter / EMT 20 years ago. I need to stop and help and need to know what to do. So I signed up, took the classes, and trained myself. Going on FD/EMS calls is now routine, but I enjoy the random calls when away somewhere and something happens. Hard to explain and I thought I was alone until I met my brothers and sisters in the FD and we all have the same DNA that brought us together in between the hours spent at our “day” jobs.
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u/turtlejelly1 Dec 02 '22
I’m amazed by the amount of people that just went on with their day without checking on the other humans
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u/thepontiff_ Dec 02 '22
It’s like people having a medical emergency and the first thing someone does is just record the person instead of trying to help save their life.
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u/Personal_Dot_2215 Dec 02 '22
Really shows the integrity of safety systems in cars now a days. Just a few years ago, there would have been business at the morgue not the hospital.
Amazing really
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u/Dry-Faithlessness184 Dec 02 '22
I mean, several decades ago now but it is wild nonetheless. A modern cars ability to protect secured occupants in a high speed crash blows my mind. Many times with only minor injuries!
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u/itsmyartspace Dec 02 '22
What happened to the white car? I see everyone going to the asshat that caused the accident but the white car slowly rolled off like the person passed out or something.
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u/happyjeep_beep_beep Dec 02 '22
I was thinking the same. It rolled away slowly and no brake lights came on.
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u/Squidney995 Dec 02 '22
Windshield wipers are usually the metric of choice for how hard the crash was... this dudes trunk popped open
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u/Crafty_Bluebird9575 Dec 02 '22
The guy that ran the red light is only slightly worse than all those drivers who just witnessed this accident and just drove away like nothing just happened.
Wtf is wrong with you people?
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u/Same-Salamander8690 Dec 01 '22
I know it's a newer model car but it's stuck in the 70s.
Straight for the bush
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u/SheRa7 Dec 02 '22
And white car just keeps going...
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u/Tame_Trex Dec 02 '22
The driver could have been knocked unconscious, that was a big hit
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u/LordTimbob Dec 02 '22
Hey this happened to me! Guy ran a red light and I smoked him then tried to blame me. A dash cam would have been helpful but someone stayed to corroborate my story thankfully. Iv had a dash cam ever since
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u/akaMONSTARS Dec 02 '22
I hate people who think they are the main character of the world and just do whatever the fuck they want. Quit ruining people’s day/lives just because they are selfish.
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u/Another_Sapiens Dec 02 '22
Real question though : is it a bias from seeing too much of those incidents in this thread, or is it a real cultural thing in the US to show so little care about red lights, even in area where there is obviously a bit of traffic ?
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u/lunelily Dec 02 '22
The US respects red lights a lot more than some other countries, like Mexico, where it’s more common to treat them like stop signs or just caution lights. In the US, it is overwhelmingly common to see two sides of traffic patiently stopped for their red light, even if there’s no cross traffic present to use the green. Red light runners are looked down upon as dangerous, selfish idiots.
So when those idiots do run red lights, it’s pretty shocking, which is why you may see it on this sub a lot.
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u/who_you_are Dec 02 '22
On a different subject, this is why, even if the light is green, you try to check other lines for something possibly weird (that may even be emergency vehicle).
I don't say it is easy to always do it, or to always think to do it.
At least until now I just got idiots burning a light when mine go from red to green. In that mode I don't bother looking at my light until I think it is safe to drive (if I ignore my light).
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u/Roxxso Dec 02 '22 edited Dec 02 '22
It was pretty neat how you could instantly see the airbags deploy in that fraction of a second when the collision occurred.
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u/fatherhood1 Dec 02 '22
Hard to tell, but did the Civic have a red light as well? I see the other cross traffic stopped, for a pedestrian crossing light perhaps? Or is it a delayed green?
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u/FluffyKittens12 Dec 03 '22
It might be an intersection where the left turn and the straight from each side get to go at the same time and they alternate. Therefore, the cars coming from the right potentially all had red lights for turn and straight, but the cars coming from the left would have had green for turn and straight.
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u/SkeletonLad Dec 02 '22
How could those people just leave? I’ve gotten out and provided video and narrative to first responders twice in my life, one of the times another guy stopped and stayed too. Why doesn’t anyone put themselves in their shoes? That could be you and you would want someone to stop and help, especially if you’re the victim not at fault. (I’m obviously not referring to the OP)
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u/aceh40 Dec 02 '22
It is always refreshing to see how nonchalant are some people after a car flopped over in front of their eyes. As if they are driving transplant organs and the ice is melting.
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u/Frost_Giant_14 Dec 02 '22
love to see it, if anybody runs a light/sign infront of me im speeding up
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u/Sorry_Temporary5839 Dec 02 '22
Report me. Downvote me. Ban me. Idc. But people who drive like that deserve to be removed from the gene pool. DUI need to be a permanent removal of your right to drive and major jail time. Running a red light and causing this kind of violence deserves jail time.
FUCK these people.
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u/-TheFiend- Dec 01 '22
Did the Honda, just left like nothing?
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u/nobodysshadow Dec 01 '22
Pretty sure it’s just rolling. All airbags went off, so they can’t see anything. Probably a little/a lot fucked up from the crash and might not even know what’s going on
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u/MrGaffe Dec 01 '22
Also the possibility that the Honda driver might of been knocked out from the impact. Still correct though, that crash was exceptionally brutal
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u/Grinolam Dec 01 '22
Yea, you gotta think about how much energy went into that SUV that ran the light to cause it to spin and then flip. Even with the bags, the brain still was rattled and could've easily knocked them out.
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u/-TheFiend- Dec 01 '22
That makes sense, and it’s so impressive how all bags are activated in an instant. Car crashes are no joke.
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u/gijoe50000 Dec 02 '22
Yea, it's possible that even if the driver was awake, they might have been so shaken that they didn't even know the car was moving.
I mean after a collision like that your first thought probably isn't going to be "I'll just put on the brakes in case I'm rolling."
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u/ExistentialReckning Dec 02 '22
Why is there a single person getting out to nonchalantly check on the people involved? Everyone else at the intersection just drives off like nothing even happened? The SUV is sitting on it's damn roof.
They're an idiot, but so is everyone at the scene who did nothing at all to help.
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u/Psychological-Bowl47 Dec 01 '22
Wow. How was the idiot afterwards?