# Amazing 100 MPH crash video captured on police dash camera **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2010, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254 "2010-08-24T05:21:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/21 "2010-08-24T16:04:42Z")
Maybe he thought he could clear the whole overpass. Note how the car rotates to the left while in the air (this is most clearly seen on the iteration of the crash at the end of the video). I wonder if this helped save him, that the car hit the bridge passenger-side-on. ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/22 "2010-08-24T16:24:06Z")
I have cameras running front and rear because people do stoopid things around me every freaking day… Left turn idiot > **[Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/?action=view¤t=typicalday.flv)** > > Store your photos and videos online with Photobucket's secure storage. Available on iOS, Android and desktop. Securely backup your memories and sign up today! Idiot hits me [https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=930annivwreck.mp4](https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=930annivwreck.mp4) Redneck Hood Launch > **[Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=hood.flv)** > > Store your photos and videos online with Photobucket's secure storage. Available on iOS, Android and desktop. Securely backup your memories and sign up today! UPS tries to hit me. > **[Photo and Video Storage | Photobucket](https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/?action=view¤t=Movie.flv)** > > Store your photos and videos online with Photobucket's secure storage. Available on iOS, Android and desktop. Securely backup your memories and sign up today! There are so many more… Long ago, as I stood with my hand on the door to a donut shop (insert cop joke here- I was in uniform) a Camaro launched over a curb and embankment just like above and landed in the parking lot, headed for me. Luckily it stopped a few feet away, and I was able to arrest all three lunkheads for a variety of things. Anyone want a ride? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/23 "2010-08-24T16:29:47Z")
It looks like he panicked when he saw the police cruiser and veered off the road. Should have just stayed on the road and taken the inevitable ticket. If he survives this and isn’t a vegetable or invalid, I hope they revoke his license permanently. ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/24 "2010-08-24T16:58:13Z")
A link on the video page mentions that the driver was arrested and released for possession of alcohol and paraphernalia an hour earlier. See “Eden arrested and released before crash”. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/25 "2010-08-24T17:12:21Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m guessing his insurance rates go up. Well, if he’s a loyal customer he might have an accident forgiveness coming to him. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/26 "2010-08-24T17:18:41Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > > [@kayaker](#): > > > > I’m guessing his insurance rates go up. > > Well, if he’s a loyal customer he might have an accident forgiveness coming to him. Maybe. He might not be covered. I doubt he had flight insurance. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/27 "2010-08-24T17:25:48Z")
> [@Kilmore](#): > > See “Eden arrested and released before crash”. By all means, probably fewer hits than if we searched on The Guard’n of Eden. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/28 "2010-08-24T17:33:47Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Anyone else hear the General Lee’s horn in their head while watching that? Yes, but just the first half of it. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/29 "2010-08-24T17:42:33Z")
Wow. I bet some idiots use this as an excuse for not wearing seatbelts; “See, he was thrown from the car and survived, that proves that you shouldn’t wear seatbelts!” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/30 "2010-08-24T17:45:51Z")
You might want to re-examine your life if the most interesting parts of it are all recorded on police dash-cams. ---
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/31 "2010-08-24T17:58:55Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > The car simply disintegrates. And yet, no huge fireball. Amazing the way cars are built nowdays. The car was a 1985 Pontiac Firebird - it was already disintegrating before it went airborne. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/32 "2010-08-24T18:00:45Z")
Damn, **ducati**. It’s like people see a cruiser and turn retarded. I watched the third video about five times and still can’t figure out what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/33 "2010-08-24T18:45:29Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Damn, **ducati**. It’s like people see a cruiser and turn retarded. Srsly. It’s like you’re living some _Twilight_ episode where you’re a magnet for stupidity. > [@](#): > > I watched the third video about five times and still can’t figure out what happened. Looks to me like someone had a hood latch failure - Only the hood wasn’t too well bolted on. Maybe held in place with the lock pins, with no latch at all? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/34 "2010-08-24T18:51:08Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > I have cameras running front and rear because people do stoopid things around me every freaking day… > > Left turn idiot > [Photo Storage](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/?action=view¤t=typicalday.flv) > > Idiot hits me > [Photo Storage](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=930annivwreck.mp4) > > Redneck Hood Launch > [Photo Storage](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=hood.flv) > > UPS tries to hit me. > [Photo Storage](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/?action=view¤t=Movie.flv) > There are so many more… > > Long ago, as I stood with my hand on the door to a donut shop (insert cop joke here- I was in uniform) a Camaro launched over a curb and embankment just like above and landed in the parking lot, headed for me. Luckily it stopped a few feet away, and I was able to arrest all three lunkheads for a variety of things. > Anyone want a ride? Is there any way civilians can get something like this? It would be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/35 "2010-08-24T18:57:11Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Gee, that concrete abutment the vehicle slammed into sure seemed to fare pretty well… nary a discernable scratch. Pier dammit, pier. Not abutment. Abutments are the substructure units at the ends of bridges. Those not at the center are called piers. ---
**Author:** ![GHO57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df788c/32.png) [@GHO57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GHO57)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/36 "2010-08-24T19:03:44Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Is there any way civilians can get something like this? It would be sweet. You mean like one of [these](http://www.motorsportcameras.co.uk/index.php?cPath=35&osCsid=a7001a77381a114996427b243500b617)? ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/37 "2010-08-24T19:10:03Z")
I think it’s only a matter of time before cars start having cameras and black boxes factory installed. I’m confused by the UPS driver - he was crossing a solid white to try to make his right turn, found a cruiser in his way and wouldn’t/couldn’t yield, but after that, was he trying to start something with the cop he’d just about rammed? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/38 "2010-08-24T19:19:30Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > You might want to re-examine your life if the most interesting parts of it are all recorded on police dash-cams. For the record, that’s now my facebook status. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/39 "2010-08-24T19:27:46Z")
> [@GHO57](#): > > > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > > > Is there any way civilians can get something like this? It would be sweet. > > You mean like one of [these](http://www.motorsportcameras.co.uk/index.php?cPath=35&osCsid=a7001a77381a114996427b243500b617)? Yeah. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254/40 "2010-08-24T19:29:23Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > I > Idiot hits me > [Photo Storage](http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v677/ural/videos/holding/?action=view¤t=930annivwreck.mp4) WTF? Thank god it didn’t turn out worse. That semi in the next lane could’ve made that whole scene quite a bit gorier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazing-100-mph-crash-video-captured-on-police-dash-camera/551254.md?page=3)