God looks out for children and idiots, I guess.
Still, someone should tell that guy that it’s too late to hit the brakes when you’re 25 feet in the air.
Damn.
There was a Mythbusters episode in the latest season where they crash two cars at 50 mph and at 100 mph and it was very obvious that cars simply aren’t made to handle accidents at 100 mph. Getting hit straight-on – which is probably the safest way to hit something – you’re still going to have the engine block smash through your chest.
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
The fact that the driver lived though that.
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Air brakes. 
The car simply disintegrates. And yet, no huge fireball. Amazing the way cars are built nowdays.
Gas tanks are hard to ignite. Even when you vaporize the car. Which he did. :eek:
Darwin failed. 
I’m guessing his insurance rates go up.
Gee, that concrete abutment the vehicle slammed into sure seemed to fare pretty well… nary a discernable scratch.
I was visiting with a Sheriffs Deputy at the car wash the other day discussing preferred vehicles, departments, etc. and he mentioned that not only does his in dash camera come on automatically whenever he hits his lights or accelerates to a specific speed but that it preserves a 20 second loop of what happened prior to the start. Looks like this clip is direct evidence of that as the officer gave no indication he knew what was unfolding before the vehicle flew past him on the left.
I’d much prefer to have seen him try to shift into reverse.
Nowadays? I don’t think they ever exploded. Gas needs to be aerosolized to combust.
So you really can get in the air if you drive off the road. I owe the makers of the A-team an apology.
Looks like he was attempting suicide, but for the futile brakes.
He probably started to apply the brakes before he hit the barrier; he was going fast enough that while the signal was traveling brain-to-foot he traveled too far for it to be useful.
Happened to me when I hit a deer once.
Anyone else hear the General Lee’s horn in their head while watching that?
It’s pretty rare that I say I’m sorry to see that someone lived through a car crash. At least the stupid shit didn’t kill someone else, even though he easily could have.
Yes, I’ve been on that road a few times, and it’s usually busier than that. In addition, the way he was driving, he could easily have crossed over the median and hit several cars coming the other way.
I’d bet some pieces of his car did.
He dented that bridge something fierce though.
Win.
Would have, if not for the aerial detour.
Would’ve been seriously ugly.