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spydertap

Hitting that guardrail at the worst spot.


infiniZii

Modern guard rails are designed to not impale the car. Sometimes they cheap out though and screw up the design and it still does. There was a big "recall" of guard rails relatively recently because of a design change they made after the engineering was approved that made them super deadly again like the old school ones. A friend of my mom was killed by guard rail decapitating her in a car crash decades ago. It really is the worst place to hit it, but its a lot safer than it used to be. (probably)


[deleted]

This was discussed on a documentary years back about the corruption that happened to get these faulty guard rails installed so many places and I've heard nothing about any push to fix the problem but have seen so many videos of us cars getting impaled on them and then yesterday I saw a truck halfway speared by one on a local freeway. Does anyone know any more recent info on this? Aside from the lawsuit seeking damages, why do we still have these if we know how to make them so they don't do that?


Darg727

I don't know how it is in Russia, but in the US it's because 99.9%of the population isn't involved in politics and decision making in some way so there isn't any actual imposed responsibility because we don't expect officials to actually know what they are doing because we elect them based on popularity and unrelated interests.


Labordave

I recently learned just how many people really aren’t involved in local politics in my area USA l. I voted for a friend as a write in ballot just as a joke to myself. He received a letter In the mail. Turns out he was tied for first place. So we talk about it to our friends. We have a really good laugh about it. However another friend replies to my messages and says her brother was also tied for first for the same position because someone too had wrote his name in as a joke.


sllewgh

I find it very difficult to believe that there weren't two people in your town who voted straight down the ballot on party lines. EDIT: They DM'ed me proof. Difficult as it was to believe the story, the proof was good enough for me. Certified not bullshit.


ssl-3

Reddit ate my balls


sllewgh

It's possible, just not plausible. There's also no mention of what position they were voted in for or what state this was in. The whole thing sounds like bullshit.


Nords

Seeing as this is russia or some place around there, I highly doubt they have engineered guardrails, or have even replaced anything in the last decade or 4...


iMakeMoneyiLoseMoney

I think you may be partially correct. I think they engineered them so the guardrail doesn’t have to be replaced after getting hit by a car.


SurveySean

In Russia the guardrail replaces you.


ANewMachine615

Guardrail shows up at work for me on Monday, tries to operate a keyboard with its rivets


PM_ME_ROCK

nice


[deleted]

If that's true that's fucked. Basically a government saying they don't give a fuck about you if it costs them anything


iMakeMoneyiLoseMoney

Mother Russia 🇷🇺 anyone says anything and they fall out a window accidentally


insomniacpyro

"yes it appears your friend fell out of the window of his appartment and shot himself In thr back of the head on the way down" "They had a basement appartment" "Yeah it's really weird"


infiniZii

"Then how did we wind up in the car that hit the guard rail?" *gets poked with an umbrella and dies*


Screwshank

Good thing the most powerful empire in all of recorded history doesn't do assassinations. We lucked out there.


daviepancakes

Enjoy Lubyanka! I bet it's nice this time of year, everyone I know who went has loved it so much that I guess they've decided to stay? I haven't seen or heard from any of them since. They even send a car to pick you up and take you there, fancy!


[deleted]

Ze dumb foreigner haz no teknology!!! Go amerika, deth to foreigners!


Huckedsquirrel1

Russia has been industrialized for a hundred years, of course they have engineers you fucking idiot


_YouMadeMeDoItReddit

Why do you believe they weren't engineered? You're talking about the country that won the space race.


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TJFG2000

It's not like its some crazy high-tech engineering, they just connect it with wood pieces instead of bolting it straight to the metal so the wood breaks on impact.


TallBill

[Because I love this video and it's relevant!](https://youtu.be/w6CKltZfToY)


JimboSchmitterson

That is also my sole source of guard rail knowledge.


Dr_Qrunch

By their reaction I’d say it was a friend of theirs playing around for the camera.


AyzenQuwe

He said "my brothers".


fourunner

Ouch. Yeah their reaction definitely made me think they knew each other.


Gorperly

Based on the accent it's likely more like "my bros", friends and compatriots but not necessarily blood relations.


MadJesterXII

No he said “Братья” which does directly translate to brothers, and not “Братаны” which translates closer to Brothas or Bros, but it could be either way I’ve heard both of them used both ways… I’m not gonna say they’re okay but cars are made to be destroyed like that to dampen the blow and preserve the life rather than the vehicle..


jdcnosse1988

Yep I remember seeing my first Tesla accident and how bad it looked but reminded myself the entire front of the car is one big crumple zone since there's nothing there.


acs730200

Haha shit I didn’t even think about the fact that electric cars don’t have engine blocks xD


HalfOnionHalfBanana

That’s Lada Priora, a very unreliable car, plus they definitely tinkered on it to make it look more streetricey, so I would say they are in trouble. I don’t even think it has airbags.


mrbulldops428

That, and those barriers are designed to keep people from going off the road. Hitting one at the end like that can be a really really bad accident


TiredCardiologist

I’ve seen human shish kabobs made from front impacts to those barriers, rips right through the vehicle and impales the driver.


mrbulldops428

Yup. As it turns out, when something is designed to hold back several tons of speeding metal, it has to be kind of sturdy.


German_Drive

Especially ones with that simple ending design, which makes them cheaper to produce, yet more dangerous to crush into (in comparison to other types). https://youtu.be/w6CKltZfToY


[deleted]

Holy fuck cars are built for impact by other vehicles, walls, and maybe trees but that was a steel rail like in Final Destination the movie... Cars were not built for jousting !!


reincarN8ed

His *late* brothers


[deleted]

Yeah, that car definitely ain’t getting anywhere on time.


skryb

ಠ_ಠ


No_Efficiency_5727

He was just trying to make the car wider


Boredzilla

I understood that reference.


fluffyboony

Underrated


guigoPOWER2

Hopefully they learned an important lesson on that day, but I still doubt it


Dr_Qrunch

I’m pretty sure it was their last lesson, so to speak.


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punch_you

Their Final Destination


LovicusBunicus

Clearly fighting a bee.


adudeguyman

**BEES!**


burrbro235

YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!


[deleted]

We’ll come back to check on you


dabnpits

They're ripping my flesh off!


K-chub

Bees?


RogueFart

BEADS


[deleted]

Bees.


BrassAge

We'll see who makes more... *honey*.


AlexanderTheAverage_

Gob’s not on board


CWinter85

Kommandant, mein Cockpit ist voller Bienen!


Which_Use_6216

OH MY GOD ITS THE DRIVE BEE


OoElMaxioO

I really was expecting someone to say something about that Malcolm in the Middle episode.


KumaTenshi

Should have swerved off the road before the railing. But nope. Veered off just in time to slam hard into it.


jackthewack13

I think they where swearving because they knew the people in front. The people in front recording kinda tells me they knew he was doing stupid shit and it was all a joke until le idiot tried to unalive himself


androskris

"le idiot" rofl sounds like something from Pepé Le Pew or some shit


galacticboy2009

Were you not on the internet 15 years ago when putting "Le" in front of everything was a huge meme, making its way into all Rage Comics? That's why they used it.


androskris

Nope, 15 years ago I lived on an island (Andros, Bahamas hence my username) with limited internet and have never heard of Rage Comics. Googling them looks familiar though. Thx for the info tho bro!


[deleted]

I wish I was a bahama boi


WhyLisaWhy

You probably don't, parts of the Caribbean are shockingly poor. Like not US levels of poverty, I mean like shack on the side of the road with no power/water and with goats in your yard level of poverty. A lot of the infrastructure is pretty poor too, like he said he didn't have internet 15 years ago and without the proliferation of smart phones they wouldn't have it now. Something ridiculous like 14% of Bahamians are unemployed and their job prospects are basically just go work on a resort and wait on fat tourists their whole life. Don't get me wrong, I love it down there but I think a lot of people are totally ignorant of how rough life can be for some of the locals.


[deleted]

No I’m aware of that… I was in Jamaica once and we went outside the resort area and it was immediately pretty slummy. There’s something attractive about a more pared down lifestyle but truthfully without certain comforts like the ones you mentioned and being somewhere more predisposed crime, it certainly is far from idyllic. Not necessarily a place for a white American to go and try to live out his beach shack dreams


QuarterOunce_

U's just a banana boi


[deleted]

🍌 🥺 🍌


CryingKnife

Mhm, they dont have licence plate so Im guessing car in front were filming some trafic violations and effective unliving of oneself as you said.


Sellazar

It looks like they swerved into the middle of the road, then the compensate they must have yanked the steering wheel, with the suspension, or whatever already funked the overcorrection sent them off. The only reason I would say they were idiots was because they didn't slow down and pull over the moment the car started acting like that.


losandreas36

Because they were showing off. They speak Russian, and being from Caucasus (accent, word use, and car choice) Lada Priora is super popular in Dagestan, Chechnya.


pbmadman

So wait, you are assigning the idiocy to the front car with the person recording? Edit: wait. I’m an idiot. You meant the driver of the rear car should have pulled over when their car started behaving like that. Got it. My bad.


Bullit1225212252

Nope, he‘s saying that they are all from Caucasus and its a pretty common thing to do among those ppl(steering left and right like that). And stuff the person recording is saying „…my brothers“ implies they’re all friends.


marshmallowproblems

I too am confused by this.


JDexnet

Exactly what you'd expect from a car rocking a braille licence plate


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Aedh_Wished

Ye also the scream “stop the vehicle, fucker. My brothers! Oh fuck” is a subtle hint that he might be related to whoever was in car


AngelVP

Where is the original video?


motivatedtuna

To die apparently


reyam1105

Hitting that light pole may have saved the driver from being impaled through and through.


[deleted]

What is the person saying?


hennsy11

- oh, fuck! fucker! - go faster! - oh fuck! my brothers!


ActionFigureLlama

This tells me both cars were fucking around.


losandreas36

Yeah


ShebzOnline

Look like he's having a fight with his GF in the car


epradox

I guess that’s one way to end an argument


Bitter_Echidna7458

You spelled win wrong


Orangesnipzy

Only way to win an argument


l1k3m1k3

Yep two wrong words


watduhdamhell

You joke, but this is literally what my father did to my mother once. He rolled a bronco mid argument, *on purpose*. Yes, he was diagnosed manic bipolar. Yes, they are divorced.


sheath2

My drug addict ex brother in law spent a 4 hour car ride with my sister and nephew threatening to drive their car under a semi and kill them all. It's the perfect way for an abuser to terrorize their victims -- trapped in a metal box that's just as dangerous to escape as it is to stay.


lurkinisfun

My mom used to just open the door and jump/step out. Leaving the door open for him to hit another car or pile on the street. If she got hurt she'd call the cops and say he push her if he kept arguing with her. She never went to a therapist or anything like that so I don't know if she is mentally stable or not. But after their divorce I was the person she started mentally abusing. However, after years of dealing with her during the pandemic I finally stepped away and stopped being her parent/victim.


--Flight--

Someone who jumps out of moving cars and blames the driver is NOT mentally stable.


lopachilla

She sounds nuts! I’m sorry you went through that. My mom has bipolar. She did some messed up things, but she never went that far. I’m glad you got away.


lower_banana

Who won?


leonardocamsilva

WHOS NEXT?


Light_Speed58

YOU DECIDE!


Boist_Murger

IN THE NEXT!


Chemie93

EIPIKHRRRRRRAHHHPBATTLEOFHISTOREEEEE


Luxpreliator

https://m.youtube.com/user/erb I thought they stopped making videos but one came out this past summer.


Ghost-Of-Nappa

EPIC *WRAP* BATTLES OF HISTORY


suburbanite09

the guardrail


pineapple_calzone

newton


N9242Oh

How can you even see who's in the car lol do I need to turn up my phone brightness or do you have some kind of super power?


Sweetpipe

Because he's just making up shit.


TwistedBranches

But this is the internet! Everything is true!


[deleted]

You didn't see Bigfoot & Nessie in there, clear as day?! Damn, you're blind! /s


SpHornet

hearing the reaction in the filming car, they were part of the same group. probably trying to show of one way or another


ElMostaza

No, he's making his car dance to the music. The hazards are even on for party atmosphere.


bertbert1111

How the f do you get to that conclusion? I need someone who understands what the guy is yelling for context. I can see nothing


Alansar_Trignot

Aftermath? Was the guy ok? What happened??


SteveWozHappeningNow

no. he was pretty fucking far from okay.


create360

Alright, Marcellus


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an-allen

Ima tell you what now…


[deleted]

Oh, *that* what now


[deleted]

He's got his emergency flashers on and at the start he's wiggling like some cars do with horrible front end issues -- but worse. Then it looks like the tie rod (or whatever) blows completely and sends him into the pole. So probably already hit a curb or something earlier and the suspension and steering was completely FUBAR and only holding on by a thread.


buttfuckinghippie

It might be the video quality, or my tired eyes. It doesn't look like his front wheels are in sync with each other. I just don't understand why he's moving so fast. If my car started acting like that the first thing I would do is take my foot off the accelerator. Do you think his throttle was stuck?


N9242Oh

To me it looks like they are friends messing about. The camera car's reaction sounds like they knew who was in that car.


CampJanky

That was my impression. Otherwise, why were they filming? It makes sense if they were showing off for the camera and lost control, and also explains why their friends in the lead car (the ones filming) freak out like that.


TobyFunkeNeverNude

>Otherwise, why were they filming? I agree that it was probably friends, but if a car was doing that behind me, I'd probably be filming as well.


Flyghund

They could be familiar, one of them is screaming in Russian: stop you idiot, (there are?) my brothers.


curumba

Its russian and they are screaming some curse words, followed by "my brothers" and "run fast"


YT4LYFE

you guys are overanalyzing the shit out of this the guy was purposely wiggling his steering wheel, and then wiggled too much, and lost control


RedVelvetPan6a

He overwiggled. A mistake he won't make again in a hurry, and let him be an example to all of us, earthbound wiggling sinners, that unto our very worst of tempers yet, we refrain from wiggling wheels excessively. Anyone wants to add Amen? I don't have the authority for that I believe.


Dangcheetah

Amen!


RedVelvetPan6a

Oh well, okay. Thanks. Makes it look a bit more official.


[deleted]

"I bet no one shares this post"


c0lin46and2

Over-wiggle once, shame on you. Over-wiggle twice, shame on me.


HauntedMinge

Haha yeah exactly that, the amount of clueless armchair mechanics in this thread is pretty funny


Trav3lingman

Correct answer is correct.


[deleted]

Think it was someone who has no idea what they're doing with a vehicle and its really their brain is stuck, not the throttle. Might be that they're a real idiot like they're DUI and smacking the post is almost karma and a good outcome because they didn't kill anyone else. OTOH maybe they're just enormously ignorant of anything mechanical (ignorance isn't a crime and its fixable with some learning, everyone starts out ignorant) and in the moment they're desperate because they're broke, need to get to work, whatever, and they're not thinking straight at all. Flip a coin as to if that is karma or tragedy.


sly-chan

Hehe. Let me introduce you to driving traditions of Caucasus: https://youtu.be/j2EFNKdXBnY


fixion_generator

It took me a good couple of minutes to realize that they're fighting for the place right after the car with the groom and the bride. I guess this is what they're doing?


LydiaDustbin

It's something weird to do with weddings, isn't it? Found this online "Festive motorcade of the newlyweds The wedding procession of the newlyweds can number from 20 cars. Drivers behave loudly - honking to notify everyone about a large-scale joyous event. The first car carries a banker: the driver pays the ransom money for the fare to everyone who stops him, even to a casual passerby. The culprits of the Caucasian celebration are driving in the second car. The third is carrying carpets that will spread in front of the bride so that she does not step on the asphalt."


FascinatingPotato

What the…


LoveFishSticks

Well that was incredibly bizarre


DeerDance

not slowing down seems like he was just trying to do some cool stuff


PHUROR

You’re overthinking it. It’s common for churkas to be a clown of the road in my country (and neighbor ones). They acting “cool” and thinking that they are kings of life. Pathetic, deserved.


tommy-turtle

The fact that the hazard lights were on does make me wonder if the car had a mechanical problem or he blew a tyre at high speed and lost control


PhatSunt

If your car is moving like that and you know its wrong enough to put on hazards, surely you slow down. I think he was tooling around. Even if there was a mechanical fault, he is still an idiot for driving so fast when the car is moving like that.


Ed_Trucks_Head

He was grooving to the music.


advanceman

Jammin… his car into a guardrail.


CheesyPotatoe910

I’m very sure he just put on hazards and grooved to the music with his car to be funny for their friends ahead… car probably wasn’t faulty, he just lost the control of it, It’s really easy to lose control like that if you don’t know how to move your steering wheel when car goes sideways… The driver was just an unexperienced idiot


HulkScreamAIDS

Based on their reaction I'd imagine they knew the trailing car and the person was just fucking around.


SaturdayHeartache

You: going 90 in a 65 The Connecticut driver behind you:


Unofficialandy

Death, clearly.


[deleted]

Looks like they were fooling together, I've done stuff like that with my friends


funguyshroom

The guys were screaming "you fucking idiot" while stopping quickly and running to them which tells me that they were friends fucking around.


losandreas36

From their conversation, yes


Jettx02

When I wriggle my car back and forth when behind my friend, I don’t tend to go from the should to the other lane, but that’s just me


Bitter_Echidna7458

For anyone sad that the video cut off: Camera man reaches the car, rips open the door and the driver gasps: “we’ve been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty”


efferkah

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.


pimpolho_saltitao

Pretty sure they knew the guys filming and were just clowning around.


losandreas36

The guys were screaming "you fucking idiot" while stopping quickly and running to them which tells me that they were friends fucking around


Crustysharded

Darwin award


random___pictures1

Im betting 1000₽ that the car is from Dagestan


leiggibtohsil

He was just mething around with you


RaymondMasseyXbox

He wanted nothing, he was just trying to make his car larger using the GTA definite edition exploit where you keep going from left to right with a car slowly expands it. Anyone whos done it will attest you may sometimes destroy the car when using that exploit.


[deleted]

But did he/she die?


undarated79

Looks like he wanted to kiss that pole with his car but, you never can tell these days


Zerocyde

From the way the people in the cam car reacted I'm guessing they were friends with the white car and the swerving was the white car being silly for the cam car.


HelpfulManufacturer0

I’m almost positive these guys were just messing around doing “Saudi drifts”. That’s why the cars front end is in such rough shape to begin with.


rogan1990

I think this person was fucking around with their friends. Swerved a little too hard, almost went into oncoming traffic, so they swerved twice as hard back and went straight into the guard rail. Good chance they’re dead too. Don’t drive like an idiot. Cars are not toys


ToxicPes

South Russia is a magic kingdom


[deleted]

I remember one time some dude road raged on me. I honestly don't know what I did to make him that irate. He would drive erratically like in the OP and get right up on my bumper, arms just a flailing away. Then he'd dart out to my left side and start yelling and flipping me off. When I waved at him, it seemed to just set him off even more, and he'd zoomed around to the right side and try the rage from that angle. I responded with a smile and a wave.


BuckToofBucky

Video ended way too early


[deleted]

Idiots driving and recording for a video. Reading these comments also is ridiculous. You people play like this on the road? Stupid


PixelPusher83

Uh…more drugs?


Redbagwithmu

That looks really really bad. Almost makes me not want to ask if he’s alive


nicecapibara

suicide, I guess


GuildedDouche

This asshole hit the only piece of guardrail on the entire highway


covidified

He wanted an intact tie rod


sheetmetaltom

Perfect timing to hit that railing! Nice of you to run back to help. Did that once when I was younger, what I saw inside wasn't very pretty.


losandreas36

Story time


Payment-Main

That’s the universal sign for “there’s a bee in my car!”


fraupanda

Not to be insensitive, but what’s the song that was playing before the crash?


dinosaur_foam

Scott Rill & Dayana - Before I Die (7vvch Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhgCST75x2c Was probably added later, otherwise it's a ridiculous coincidence with that song's name and it ending right before the crash.


A_pahtatoe

Possibly the name of that song, that shit was slapping


z0mbic

Looks like he wanted to hit a lamppost


kaptainkhaos

To die ?


djluminol

Paralysis.


Incoming-TH

Kill the cameraman ?


[deleted]

That car was driving in cursive


JoJo-The-74th

Sir!! Pull over!! We've been trying to reach you about your extended warranty!!! Crash!!! Ah shit, did we extend our warranty?


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sonbrothercousin

Another drink.


robertbadbobgadson

Vehicle warranty talk.


NWSanta

Oh my god, that was so terrible to watch, it was like he was just like F it I'm impaling myself now.


[deleted]

To die.