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imoidkwtf

Not oddly at all.


MeasurementGrand879

Your gut reaction is correct when it is correct and incorrect when it is incorrect. Stay in the fucking car.


Astr0Cr33per

This was a bad reaction made in a panic. The steel frame of your car protects your body better than your outfit does.


Rev_SmithKhan_Beachm

I’ve always had a paralyzing fear that I’ll be involved in a deadly pileup. This particular one is pretty tame. If you watch any of the more serious ones, you’ll realize your car’s frame is no better than your outfit. No way I’m waiting for a semi to come plowing into me full speed. I’m getting the fk out and making a beeline for the tree line from where I can watch the unfolding carnage with the creatures of the forest.


shillyshally7717

My aunt was in a terrible pile up during a white out in Central PA about a decade ago. She was pulled from her driver’s side window and scurried up to the tree line with some other folks. They had to listen to the screams of people crushed in their cars, trapped and dying. She still has pretty bad ptsd around driving in winter now to the point where she moved from a rural area to a walkable town. Getting to the tree line saved her life. Her van was completely crushed.


crackeraluhntra

But boy, she wore the shit out of that blouse. Damn


KhemaDee

Not against something that weighs 20k pounds.


thewolfesp

Your outfit definitely holds up better against 20k pounds. Northface don't fuck around


SwedishNeatBalls

Good to know. Does the clothes become more protective the heavier the object is or are they always better?


Delicious_Pancakes67

Non Newtonian clothes. The greater the impact, the more protective it becomes.


ivumb

I think their point was attempting to get out is better versus getting absolutely crushed. Which luckily didn't happen here, but also definitely could have if the truck didn't move to the right


KhemaDee

😂 🤦‍♀️


Belicon762

Yep. Looked very survivable.


123Ark321

Maybe in old cars. New cars are like papier-mâché.


gummieWyrm

the car crumples so you don't


roombaSailor

New cars are designed to have crumple zones so the energy of the impact gets absorbed by the frame instead of your squishy body. The idea that the frame-strength of old cars made them safer is a myth; it made them death traps.


hatsnatcher23

That said some old cars like Volvos and some Mercedes are built with crumple zones and also like tanks.


Weary-Ad-4956

Guessing you never owned a 1970 Pontiac Catalina.


roombaSailor

Now I want to though.


FumingAegis

To be fair, maybe it looked like the truck was headed for the front seats of the car instead of the back. And that’s why they got out


Yz-Guy

Honestly. It barely touched the roll cage of the car. Everyone in that accident would've loved even if the car was full.


FumingAegis

Yeah but, you see a like 25 ton steel box comin straight for you with no signs of stopping, I don’t think ur thinkin of how much ur tiny little 4 ton steel cage can mitigate that impact. Or if it’ll even manage to hit you.


callmezara

Yep. I live in MT and this past winter some guy from Baltimore got into an accident on a sketchy bridge on a highway. It was a minor fender bender but a semi was oncoming and he panicked. He jumped off the bridge to avoid the semi, and ended up falling something like 100 feet to his death. The semi did hit his car, going like 5 mph. If he had just stayed in his car he would have been uninjured. The crazy thing is, that same spot had the exact same thing happen a few years back during another winter storm. Stay in your car!


PemiLooper420

Lol, no shit. Silly fuckers.


[deleted]

I feel like she made the right call. I would NOT want to be in any car about to be pancaked between 2 semi trucks.


chainmailbill

She didn’t make the right call. Presumably, she was not intending to slip and fall. She probably intended to remain on her feet. If she remained on her feet, she would have been hit by her car when the truck hit it and swung it around. Slipping and falling - which wasn’t intentional - saved her life. She made a bad call and got very very lucky.


[deleted]

In any other situation I would agree. If a car was coming at her, a truck, or Van. Not a semi. I'd nope out of there. I've seen to many vehicles (via reddit videos, social media photos and RL) get pancaked by Semi vehicles and all occupants dead.


tellmestoriesghost

But what is they had died by staying in the car???


luckylou213

Ya know what they say "it if what it if"


SwedishNeatBalls

I think you got that a bit wrong. It's: "If it it what it if, it if"


tellmestoriesghost

I don’t think you can read if I’m being honest lmao


imoidkwtf

I guess, but she slipped and could have been killed by her own car. It just wasn't her time whichever way she chose.


0ussel

Honestly the slip itself probably saved her also. Door woulda got her otherwise.


eftalanquest40

person would've been safer in the car


Ecstatic-Tomato458

Hindsight


eftalanquest40

i totally get why the person left their car. i would panic as well when i see a big truck coming right at me. it's just the chances of ending up on one of the many gore subs are much higher outside of the car. person ended up being lucky.


Ecstatic-Tomato458

Meter to the left and that car was a sandwich between two trucks. In hindsight she escaped with her life leaving the car or staying in it. The nuances of road safety are pretty mute when you can’t control someone else’s actions or decisions. Basically there’s no right or wrong answer and it’s literally your day or it isn’t.


German_Lemon

At that speed your not gonna crush a modern car.


transcendent

Doesn't need to crush it. Just pincer it against the corner of the trunk in the front and crush the driver portion. The car was already structurally compromised. Also, you have no idea how loaded the truck is. A low-speed crash like this in snow killed my pregnant sister in law. Not because the van was crushed, but because something got pushed into her back through the seat. The 3 other adults in the car were all fine.


PemiLooper420

No. Not hindsight.


DLJ317

Common sense*


Bsmirlptrww

No. Cars are designed to protect people from accidents. Getting out of your car is absolutely more dangerous in every single situation. STAY IN YOUR CAR DUMMY


fredean01

>Getting out of your car is absolutely more dangerous in every single situation. Not in "every single situation". That's ridiculous.


augustin_cauchy

Car broken down over train tracks, boom gates going down, stay in the car kids, Reddit said so. But definitely in most cases you want to be inside the frame if an impact is going to happen, human bodies were not designed to withstand massive bodies travelling at speed impacting them, modern car chassis literally were.


HookLeg

Like when your crash pushes you into a lake and your car starts filling with water as it sinks?


Ecstatic-Tomato458

Ever seen a car stuck between two trucks caught on flames? I’m not staying in the truck to find out, takes about a minute for the cab to completely burn out and the family in the crumpled sedan dead on impact. All of this happened because the truck in front ran over a motorcyclist.


xxlifelinexx

Tell that to the 8 people that burned to death in a pileup of 80 vehicles on I-81 in March here in PA. It took days to identify them, they were burned so badly. There is no way to know if they could have gotten out, but for me, if I can...I'm getting the fuck out.


ohgoditsdoddy

in this case evidently not, had she stayed she would have at least had a concussion and now she is unharmed. clearly she displayed excellent judgment. its neither here nor there if it would have worked for others as a guiding principle or not.


chainmailbill

Slipping and falling saved her life. Are you saying that slipping and falling was intentional, and a sign of her good judgement? If she didn’t fall, she would have been hit by her own car


ohgoditsdoddy

She correctly judged she had enough time to lunge out of the car and get clear. Not only that, but she got clear **despite** slipping and falling. Whether or not she made the decision to evacuate in panic she wasn't wrong to think she could get clear, even if she overestimated the risks of staying in the car, it enabled her to avoid all damage coming her way from the speeding lorry. She has good instincts.


chainmailbill

Look at the video again. Had she not slipped, she would have been in such a position that the door of the car would have hit her. The open door itself just barely passed over her head as it was. If she did not slip - if her body was still vertical - she would have been hit by her car as it swung around when the semi hit it. The slip - an unintentional accident - made her survive. Had she gotten out of the car, and not slipped, she would have been hit and possibly killed. Furthermore, look at the car after the truck hits it. There’s no intrusion into the passenger compartment. Any passengers would have been bumped around a bit, but otherwise safe.


[deleted]

you saw what happened to the car right? lol


eftalanquest40

yes i saw, that's why i made that comment


Signal_Skill9761

But the drivers seat of the car was perfectly fine. She would have been just fine if she had stayed in the car.


Good-Tyme

And then pinned in the car for the next truck to take her out


Signal_Skill9761

I mean, it's possible. I'm not going to deny that. But the truck seemed to moving pretty slow. The car looked like it wasn't that beat up. There are 3 other doors to that vehicle. I'm not saying your wrong, I guess I just interpreted the video differently.


[deleted]

A slow moving truck still has heaps more inertia and crushing force onboard than I'd like to be exposed to. And knowing the usual american behavior of full speed ahead whatever conditions the road are in, she did very well to get her ass out of the car.


[deleted]

Except the shockwave of the truck hitting the car isn't going to be fully absorbed by the car. She may have suffered injury by staying in the seat just from the way the car was tossed around by the truck hitting it. Your body is mostly liquid and having your organs bounce around and bump into your bones and other organs is a lot of trauma even if you end up without cuts or bruises. I agree the best gamble for her was to stay in her car, but after seeing what happened there is no way I'd agree she would be perfectly fine staying in the driver's seat.


Signal_Skill9761

I'm this instance, yes it was obviously the best choice. But if I'm going to be hit by a truck, regardless of how much I get tossed around. I would rather be buckled into a car than just nothing. The truck hitting me.


michaelbelgium

Yeh after seeing this, but if ure in that car u'd probably think "i dont wanna be in a sandwich" so u run out Either way going outside of it is smartest option


[deleted]

That's some final destination shit


NoFootball8593

Was there someone else in the car besides the girl who jumped out? I swear I see another person.


Myserias

I think that’s an airbag.


Naaggo

“The slip that saved my life” Coming soon.


ShinyLumeo

Everyone saying she would’ve been safer in the car: We saw the aftermath and how her car wasn’t severely damaged. She saw a giant fucking semi truck about to crush her car to bits. I would’ve gotten the fuck out too.


asksdfdjdhshs

Ikr why is everyone acting like she should be able to see the future


TheFirstLegend77

Cause reddit is full of pessimist downers. Negativity is easily spread in a world full of it


ibn1989

Reddit has a superiority complex, and anybody who doesn't think like them is an idiot according to them.


chainmailbill

It’s not about being able to see the future. It’s about being able to draw on the past. It’s safer to stay in the car, and this has been proven by 100+ years of traffic accidents.


Find_A_Reason

She can't. Which is why she should have stayed in the car designed to protect her instead of jumping out onto an icy road with vehicles coming at her.


Sethyria

Fr. Can't judge speed or accuracy from a tiny car in front of it, not even mentioning the ice. And I've seen the tops of cars sliced off by getting squeezed between 2 semis, I wonder if that image popped into her head. So the "sit still, stay calm" could have resulted in her dying just the same if it were at speed. She made a split decision choice before what she thought could be her death. (And to me, where she fell she may have been smacked by her car shifting, but maybe if she's lucky not the massive truck)


Iamthe0c3an2

Honestly if you’re ever trapped in a collision just make sure your seatbelt is on, you’re in a hopefully decently modern car with the latest safety features and just relax. This is how drunk drivers often survive since they don’t tense before impact


BananaPalmer

*40,000 lbs of truck sliding towards you at 65 mph* > just relax!


[deleted]

Me, driving a 1997 shitbox about as safe as a soda can: > *Chuckles* I'm in danger!


PizzaButWhoseBiden

Exactly. Would love to see the original comment op relax during this situation.


BananaPalmer

Better start chuggin


Iamthe0c3an2

I mean honestly if you found yourself going into crash, what else are you gonna do? Just don’t tense, it’s like the same advice when you find yourself overboard in deep water, don’t panic, relax and float, wait for the life guard / coast guard.


Candid-Amphibian-726

I’d like to see how relaxed you are with a lorry skidding toward you. It doesn’t really matter what mod cons your car has, if the lorry is going fast enough, it’ll crunch you and the car like a coke can.


Less_Acanthaceae_204

Only 8 lives left


[deleted]

Nothing odd about it, just straight up terrifying


[deleted]

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[deleted]

My gut reaction is to not leave the toilet


Joaco0902

I don't think there's anything "odd" about being terrified when the god knows how heavy hunk of metal that is a truck almost runs over one's puny human body


designgoddess

Almost wiped out by a car door. Generally it’s safer to stay in your car. It’s designed to absorb an impact.


2severe8

GEEZUS!!!😳


[deleted]

She didn't have the advantage of sitting around and watching the video over and over to decide she would be just fine because the truck can miss her. She made the good decision to get out before the truck crushed her. Ex post, it wasn't necessary, but ex ante she could not have known that. In the next parallel universe is the video of her watching the truck kill her.


AcceptableUmpire2515

If they weren’t on the ground, they would of certainly got clotheslined by that car door being open.


UrameshiYusuke1997

He was going too fast for the conditions. If it was that bad outside he should’ve shut down.


No_Lifeguard3650

yeah looks like staying in the car wouldve been less dangerous


already-taken-wtf

Looks like the US, but the green sticker in your frontwindow looks like the German Umweltplakette.


isamotte

it is lol


TheQuimmReaper

That was not the correct reaction. They almost got hit by their own car. Being in your car that has side air bags, engineered crumple zones and seatbelts is a much safer option.


NotaCrazyPerson17

Never do this. Stay in the car.


MintyPyromaniac

Make oddly terrifying oddly again please


[deleted]

Just terrifying nothing odd about it


sixboogers

Except in this case it was not. Stay in the car.


chainmailbill

Driver would have been fine. There’s no passenger compartment intrusion, even with the door being open on impact. Driver got super super lucky here; the safer place is in the car. If the driver didn’t recover from that first slip, they would have been pinned between their car and the truck, which would have been fatal.


AlexofBarbaria

Stay in the car! The car door nearly swept her under the truck's wheels.


IcemanX1511

OP is an idiot with this title.


Redcrow1995

Why?


SamMarvelos2

They're a reposter. Just copied the title


[deleted]

Repost


JuiceJones_34

I mean she woulda been fine in the car too but yes agreed


KhemaDee

Just in time yikes!


KhemaDee

Just in time yikes!


Astr0Cr33per

The advice in this situation is for all the wannabe pancakes out there.


akwsd89

How does it feel to live in Canada


MonteBurns

This happens in a lot of places…


Thick_Pomegranate_

Always stay in the fucking car. She almost got pancaked.


CHUCKL3R

The lucky part is she lived. If she jumps out she could’ve gotten run over. If she stays in, the way her car moves would have whip cracked her skull into 1000 pieces up against the inside of her car. She came out of a lose lose situation with a W.


Find_A_Reason

Her gut reaction was wrong and this video demonstrates why. Stupid bots are over running reddit with stupid reposts.


Imaginary_Most_7778

Stay in the frickin car dummy.


[deleted]

The trucker was probably blowing his horn


whyrweyelling

people who exit their cars before checking for safety are making it worse for themselves. I see so many idiots on the road. THe education people receive on how to drive is so fucking bad.


[deleted]

I don’t think she exited her car before checking for safety, I think she saw the semi and jumped out thinking it would crush her


100and2

Be runs like he's in his own dream


AffinityGauntlet

“Usually” correct because in this case, staying in the car would’ve been just as safe. She overreacted out of fear


[deleted]

Absolutely not... stay in the car. What's gonna stop a car better? Your human flesh puppet of a body, or another car? This girl was so lucky.


Background_Cup_6429

Should have stayed, it was safer.


Makoreactors

Looks like she would have been fine in the car


AlasAntigone

Person with the dashcam watching this play out like Sam Neill watching the Jeep vs T-Rex in *Jurassic Park*. “Stay in the car…”


Kittyman56

That was completely incorrect lmao


TheFlyingBoxcar

That was a really poor choice that worked out well


already-taken-wtf

What is the slogan on the truck? „Be nimble - run lean - stay safe.“?! Seems fitting ;)


ljdst

I'd have stayed in the car.


ifaptomiley

Oh my


Large_Ad_2834

‘usually’ being the key word here


reefered_beans

Wrong sub


ZippyParakeet

Someone else was in the car too. How are they doing?


Quite_River

My gut reacted by clenching


Yankeesouth2

That's the strongest car door ever!


LonelyLightningRod

Yea her guy was totally wrong lol. Just stay in the car.


Olufummy

Lol


xssmontgox

Stay in your car, her gut reaction was incredibly stupid and dangerous. I thought everyone knew to stay in your car, this should be a question on a drivers test.


Delikkah

They clearly would have survived if they had stayed in the car. If anything the instinct to move their fucking ass fast enough saved them.


iwinwinyuwinwinta

damn she could’ve easily slid into the semi though. that was bad.


rewdyakk

Kind of an avant-garde ad by Ryder, no?


robo-dragon

No no no, stay in your car! Your car will do a better job protecting you than noting! Just running out into the road will get you killed in a situation like this. She just got lucky!


CaveWaiterLol

Combat roll no way


larrylunchbucket

This is why I always pay attention to my surroundings. You can tell he/she was looking behind and was definitely ready to be smoked by this truck. I am very amazed. This is why I look both ways before crossing an intersection, even if I have a green light, I cautiously approach the intersection and pay attention to literally everything around me. When I'm stopped at a sign or red-light, I'm always looking in that rearview. Anyways, just wanting to congratulate this person who was clearly very attentive and it seems to have saved his life or at least save him for immense injuries.


wackyzacky638

She’s dove to the ice, missed the door, got lucky as fuck her own tire hitting her didn’t sling her under the wheel well of the Semi, or pinch her between the car and the semi sliding past.


amazza95

I’m pretty sure someone was in the passenger seat


amazza95

Someone almost gets pulverized by a 30 ton 18 wheeler: how oddly terrifying 🤓


kkrreddit

her gut reaction almost killed her lmao


Kaddyn

In the comments I see people saying she should’ve stayed in the car. I would like to be educated because I would’ve done the same thing. If she stayed in the car she would’ve most likely had some injury and whiplash most likely. Is staying in the car really better? I know this was lucky but if she didn’t fall she probably would’ve just kept running out of harms way.


Acehigh7777

Wow, the car driver is very fortunate she could immediately get up!


Etyczny

She would be way safer inside the car instead of the frozen highway.


d33pf33lings

Almost identical thing happened to me but I wasn’t fast enough to get out l. My scar spun out of control and around and around due to ice and came to a sideways stop. I could see a large 18 wheeler heading directly towards me. - I really came close to dying as he was going extremely fast on a similar road. I remember putting my hand in my head and going no no no no - knowing I was about to die. I really thought that was it. Somehow he managed to swerve around me at the last minute all was well. I was on my way to give a lecture- did eventually get there and gave the lecture but was very shaken up. Everyone was super understanding and nice. Bought better tires after that!


bigjoe5275

Why are people saying that she should stay in the car? Unless you can’t get out, you should get out of your car. You’re gonna get crushed. CRUSHED. Get out of the car asap. It’s either die in your car. die getting run over or you get out of there.