Comments on: Amazing truck collision

By: Dust McPuddin

Dust McPuddin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:46:00 +0000

im guessing the music would be someone like Mikhail Krug, kinda like a soviet mixture of johnny cash/bob dylan. I studied for a year in his hometown Tver. and yeh…fuck driving in Russia

By: Matthew Blake Friar

Matthew Blake Friar — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:46:00 +0000

If you watch, the collision doesn’t occur until the cab of the truck is already across the road. The oncoming cab hits the back end of the trailer. So no, it wasn’t a head on collision.

By: nedmorlef

nedmorlef — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:27:00 +0000

hangin by a thread…mike and the mechanics

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Yet another in a very long list of reminders to never, ever, EVER, drive in Russia.

By: Michael Driver

Michael Driver — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:27:00 +0000

Are people STILL actually using that LAME “joke”? Obviously so.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:24:00 +0000

Pretty sure there’s an app for that.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:20:00 +0000

I think it’s less of a head-scratch and more brushing the busted glass out of his scalp…

Although the way he looks in the camera’s direction as he does it seems to say, ‘geez, how do you like that?’

Bloody awesome luck : )

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:11:00 +0000

Big trucks have to swing wide only for right turns, to prevent the trailer from cutting the turn short. On a left turn, where you swing more widely anyway, there’s no need for any set-up.

It looks to me like the driver didn’t allow enough of a space cushion ahead. Those trucks can’t stop on a dime, especially when loaded, so when the truck ahead screeched to a stop, there wasn’t enough room in front of the white truck to also stop, so the driver had to decide which way to veer. Maybe there was already a vehicle in the emergency lane, so the driver went to the left and hoped for the best. It was a bad call, and it could have all been avoided if the driver simply hung back a little more from the truck ahead.

By: Julian Bravo

Julian Bravo — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:44:00 +0000

I want to know what song is playing on that guy’s radio.

By: Nagurski

Nagurski — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Be like water, my friend.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:30:00 +0000

The truck veers right first (evidently, to prepare for the left turn), so he must have had visibility on that the truck in front of him was slowing or stopped. So, he made the left turn instead of just braking hard. So, he’s a maniac.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:24:00 +0000

His left arm looks a little funky. Wonder if he fractured it.

By: harvey the rabbit

harvey the rabbit — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:16:00 +0000

My guess is the stationary truck was waiting to turn left but had no rear lights showing. It almost looks as if the truck coming up behind saw it too late, thought about passing on the right, saw he couldn’t, and had to turn left across the oncoming truck. Hilarity ensued.

By: NelC

NelC — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Bosh. The driver doesn’t fly through the windscreen so much as tumble out of it. A seatbelt would have absorbed that little energy without any injury, except maybe a sore neck. As it is, he might have cracked ribs from hitting the steering wheel and dashboard.

If he had actually flown out of the window, he could have had a cracked skull, broken limbs and seriously abraded flesh, not to mention whatever the glass would have done by not getting out of his way in time. Whatever injury he might have had from a seatbelt stopping him flying through the windscreen, they wouldn’t have been as bad as all that.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:52:00 +0000

When you’re asleep, sure!

By: Ramone

Ramone — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Yeaaaaah, I kinda think it is a head-on. Since the front of the cabs touched. It’s kinda like rounding third on your way to home though.

By: Ushao

Ushao — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:46:00 +0000

The seat belt.

By: mccrum

mccrum — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:44:00 +0000

We call it Wee Britain. Watch out for the daily Poppin.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:42:00 +0000

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By: simonbarsinister

simonbarsinister — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Dude is so Alpha he wouldn’t let go of his jacket. Like Indiana Jones defying death to reach for his whip.

By: pduggie

pduggie — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:13:00 +0000

So is it typical to exit a highway by making a left turn in front of oncoming traffic?

By: Brandon Wright

Brandon Wright — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Or the force ripped both off? =o

By: brainflakes

brainflakes — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:12:00 +0000

The driver’s side of his cab looks pretty much untouched so not sure what would have injured him?

By: SumAnon

SumAnon — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:11:00 +0000

Truly Noodle-Touched, that man. Dressed like a pirate, too.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:08:00 +0000

I was thinking that he did it to avoid a collision with the truck stopped in front of him. Not sure why he didn’t notice THAT guy, but that’s what I thought was going on.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:04:00 +0000

That’s insane! One second you’re driving your truck, and the next you’re standing on the road. WTF!

By: ldobe

ldobe — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:38:00 +0000

I didn’t notice that the truck was actually making a left turn, I thought the driver just fell asleep and swerved. But on second review, I do see the ridiculous attempt to impossibly thread the needle.

That driver must have been suicidal if he thought he could cut it that close. Or perhaps he was an utter asshole, and expected both lanes of traffic on the highway to stop for him, so he could make an insanely dangerous turn.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:34:00 +0000

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By: Jesseham

Jesseham — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:27:00 +0000

My buddies father was in a head-on-ish accident in a convertible Karman Ghia and was thrown out of it, only to watch it explode from the side of the road. *most* of the time, seatbelts are a good thing.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:25:00 +0000

So, I think the driver in front of the car with the camera must have an interesting story. Had he not turned left he would have rear ended the truck in front of him. Had he not swerved right, he would have turned earlier and had a head on with the truck that passed right before the crash. He *almost* threaded the needle and made the turn.

The only question is, what was happening that made him have to try to thread that needle.