Showing posts with label Accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accidents. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Police Chase Ends with a BMW X5 Crashing in Sleeping Man's Bed


You never know who (or what) may drop over by your house at night but somehow a large SUV crashing into your bedroom and landing on top of your bed isn't what 34-year old Michael Sweat had in mind when he pulled the covers over his shoulders.

It all went down last night when police started chasing a motorist in a BMW X5 after he didn't stop over motor vehicle violations at around 12:30am local time Tuesday morning.

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Lada gets Dizzy from Going in Circles and Falls on its Side


While it may feature a rear wheel drive arrangement, the lack of ponies under the Lada Riva's (or 2105) bonnet makes spinning its tail a tiresome act for any driver. This man tried his best but at the end, the Russian sedan just gave up and fell on its side.

You can watch the video after the break – skip to around 2:07 if you're not impressed with the driver's skills to view the mishap.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

An Amazing Front Flip Snowmobile Stunt and a Painful Mishap from the Winter X Games 2012


When you are trying to win a tough competition, you should be aware that with great risks come great rewards if you succeed but great pains if you fail.

At the Snowmobile finals during the Winter X Games 2012 that took place in Aspen, Colorado, on Sunday night, we saw a lot of both including the painful crash of Justin Hoyer on a double backflip attempt in the Snowmobile Best Trick competition and the scary free-fall of Colten Moore in the Snowmobile Freestyle event.

However, we also witnessed a truly spectacular front flip from Heath Frisby – the first ever of its kind in an official competition – during the Snowmobile Best Trick finals.

You can take a look at the videos right after the jump, just note that the third clip with Hoyer's accident isn't for the faint-hearted...

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Drift Battles: This is How 'Officer Dan' Crashed his Nissan 240SX


If you watched the "Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2" video that we showed you a couple of weeks ago, you will probably remember the scene with Officer Dan, played by Dan Brockett, crashing his 1989 Nissan 240SX coupe in the closing credits.

The makers of the driftaluscious short film have released a behind the scenes video that walks us through the accident, which luckily, didn't leave anyone hurt.

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Where Do You Think You're Going? Woman Tries to Escape Three Times After Being Stopped by Police


Surely, anyone with an iota of common sense would give it up when surrounded by at least three police vehicles, right? Well, maybe most people but not Alexandra Osteyee-Hoffman.

The 28-year old North Carolina woman tried not once, but three times (!) to escape from the police last Friday. It all began when deputies came to her house to serve papers on a hearing. The officer approached her Toyota Corolla and asked for her at which point she took off only to be cornered by at least three police vehicles shortly after.

From that point on, we have the video footage from the police car dashboard camera, which shows her fleeing the scene for the second time leading the police on a high-speed chase – well, as fast as a Corolla can go, that is…

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BMW Driver Too Fast for his Own Good…


It seems that the BMW 5-Series [E39] sedan owner seen in this surveillance footage using what looks like an Opel Vectra as a launching ramp either failed to recall or was never told about the merits of defensive driving.

Guess he just had to learn his lesson the hard way… Fortunately, from what we can tell from the video that follows below, no one seems to have been seriously hurt.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Top Gear Blows a Caravan for its 10 Millionth Facebook Fan, Plus Sneak Preview of Season 18


As promised, Top Gear blew up a caravan in celebration of the 10 millionth "like" on its Facebook page. The…honor of destroying the mobile home was given to none other than The Stig himself who played around with a yellow-colored Vauxhall VXR8 GTS (aka the Holden Commodore-based HSV GTS) before pushing the lever.

You can view the video for yourself right after the break where you'll also find a new gallery of teaser pictures from Top Gear Season 18 that returns to the telly this Sunday, January 29.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Whoops…Teenage Driver Slams Police Car


An Ohio teenager learned a little something about obeying the road rules when he collided head-on with a police cruiser while trying to make an improper turn into a gas station. Both the 19-year old driver and the police officer were treated for minor injuries on the scene.

And if that wasn't enough trouble, ABC5 reports that during the crash investigation, another police officer who arrived at the accident scene discovered a small amount of marijuana in the young driver's Monte Carlo…. Video follows after the break.

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It's a Slippery Icy Slope: Watch Cars and Trucks Pile Up in Utah


Just so you don't think that all the crazy automotive accidents take place only in Russia, here's a video shot with a handheld camera from a residential area in Utah.

What happened here is that many drivers took the bad weather and road conditions lightly the result being a very huge mess…

According to the person who filmed the video, even though some drivers were warned not to attempt the ride down the hill, many chose to ignore them and continued their way.

Head over the jump for more than five minutes worth of slides, bumps and crashes.

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Woman Suffers a Diabetic Attack on the Road, Drives Through the Median


Scary footage of a 2009 Kia sedan driving at highway speeds through the median on Interstate 81 in Dauphin County made its way on YouTube this week.

The video shows the car speeding through the snow and at times becoming airborne before it crashed into an embankment and came to a stop. Understandably, the incident could have easily gone horribly wrong if the car had passed on either driving lane.

As it turns out, the 61-year old woman driving the Kia suffered from a diabetic emergency at the time.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Stray Pooch Causes Multiple Vehicle Pileup on Ohio Interstate


Raw footage from a police car dashcam shows a scary pileup that occurred in the beginning of January on Interstate 77 near Pike Township in Ohio.

What happened? Ohio State Trooper Jim Donohue was on the scene trying to catch a stray dog that was wondering on the highway when drivers started stopping in the middle of the road.

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Nissan 350Z Coupe Crashes Into 350Z Roadster on the Highway, How Did that Happen?


Here's a video that will have you trying out YouTube's loop feature to find out what exactly happened to cause this crash between two fellow Nissan drivers, which looks like it took place either in the States (more likely) or in Canada.

The dashboard footage from the Infiniti G35 that was following from behind shows the Nissan 350Z roadster on the left lane and the allegedly supercharged 350Z coupe on the right side driving at what appear to be normal speeds.

Then when hear something that sounds like an engine revving and all of a sudden the coupe Z pulls to the left and smashes into the silver roadster with both cars falling into the grass median.

Fortunately, according to the YouTube poster's description, no one was hurt during this incident.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Tough Guy Learns a Lesson About Road Rage and Hitting an Old Man


We strongly oppose any form of violence on the road or anywhere else, for that matter, but what happens when you actually see someone attacking another person? Obviously, there's not one answer to that question as it all depends on the circumstances and whether or not someone's life is in danger.

In yet another wild incident from Russia that was captured on camera, a middle-age man in a Mercedes-Benz was squabbling with an elderly man in a hatchback.

The talk quickly escalated and the person in the Merc stepped out of the car and began attacking the other driver, initially punching and then kicking him with all his strength.

At that point, a young man in an Audi SUV stopped over and came to the scene and said something to the Mercedes driver who brushed him away. Seconds later the Audi driver runs back with a metal bat in his hand and whacks the tough guy on his legs putting him down. He then rushes to the Mercedes and breaks the mirror and windows before returning to his Audi and driving off!

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Sorry, Didn't See Ya There: Hummer H2 Parks on Top of a Dacia Logan


Love it or loath it, who can deny that the Hummer H2 was and to some extent continues to be today an over-the-top status symbol for the rich and famous.

In fact, it’s not uncommon for some Hummer owners to the take H2's over-the-top attitude in the…literal sense.

There's not much info on how the H2 driver managed to park the heavy-weight SUV on top of a Dacia Logan other than that the incident took place somewhere in Romania, but the CanCan website that posted these pictures says no one was hurt from the incident.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Why You Shouldn't Play Wise Guy on the Highway


As the saying goes, there's a time and a place for everything. And stopping on the left lane of a busy highway with the intent of scolding the following vehicle's driver for supposedly approaching too close to your car is beyond doubt the wrong time and wrong place for such a move.

See what happens next from the footage recorded on the trailing vehicle's dashboard mounted camera.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Chechnya Wedding Car Parades are a True Death Race


Horn and blinkers? Fudge that, automatic weapons can be much more convincing and when the vehicle in front of you doesn't slow down to let you pass by just give it a slight nudge and it will work out for the guy with the largest automobile.

Welcome to what is claimed to be a Chechnya wedding tradition where drivers are supposed to get behind the car that transports the evidently, very brave bride, for good luck.

We could have sworn that we saw Jason Statham popping his head out the window at some point… Get to know Chechnya's wedding traditions a little bit better in the videos after the break.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Definitely, Chuck Norris Approved: Biker Does a Ninja Flip in Crash


You know they say that Chuck Norris is so tough that when he fell off his bike, he broke the road. We can't say whether or not this motorcyclist in Asia (we're not sure about the country) is as tough as Chuck, but he might as well star in one of his movies after what he accomplished here…

Don't believe us? Well then just flip over the jump and land your mouse on the video player button.

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Pawned: This is Why Russians Add Dashboard Cameras to their Cars


No doubt, you've probably seen at least a few videos shot from within a car originating from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.

Now, in the event that you were wondering why so many drivers choose to fit their vehicles with a dashboard mounted camera, we believe that the following clip will provide you with an answer...

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Is this the First Privately Owned Lexus LFA to Crash?


There's always a first for everything and while sometimes that may be good, there are times you wish you weren't the one to pop the cherry (or so to speak) – like being the first private customer known to have crashed the $375,000 Lexus LFA.

There's not a lot of information going around about the incident nor can we confirm that it's the first ever privately owned LFA to crash.

However, the buffs over at Club Lexus say that this is LFA No 142 that was originally delivered in Orlando, while the folks at Lexus Enthusiast add that according to the CarFax report, the accident occurred on October 8, 2011.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

It's Alive! Driverless Truck Runs Away in Reverse


Perhaps this large truck in the frozen Russian city of Vladimir got tired of waiting on the side of the road for its driver to return and decided to stretch out a bit in reverse, or maybe something went wrong. Who knows what happened, but we sure wouldn't want to have been in one of the cars behind it.

Take a look at the footage from a nearby surveillance camera in the video that follows below.

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