# Special fx: best car hitting pedestrian scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780 "2010-08-19T19:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/1 "2010-08-19T19:37:51Z")
Not among my favorite movies, but as I was channel surfing I caught the [accident scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hkdc-xAQ64) in _Meet Joe Black_. I think it’s the best car on pedestrian accident I’ve ever seen. Any other nominations? ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/2 "2010-08-19T19:46:02Z")
The ambulance running down in the guy in the pre-credit sequence of the remake of Dawn of the Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/3 "2010-08-20T00:33:00Z")
Not a pedestrian but one of the most realistic car crashes I have seen in a movie is the one in _Adaptation_. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/4 "2010-08-20T01:01:28Z")
I like the one in “The Orphanage”. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/5 "2010-08-20T01:03:45Z")
[Hi Wayne.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_NEcUFmf8) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/6 "2010-08-20T01:04:49Z")
[This one from Breaking Bad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RB8t0CCZB4&feature=more_related) is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/7 "2010-08-20T01:20:13Z")
[“Dreamcatcher” by Stephen King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0Vtb-dJ70&feature=related) was a terrible movie, but the car collision scene shocked the shit out of me the first time I saw it, and even when I knew it was coming looking for it to link here, it still shocked me (it starts at about 1:45). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/8 "2010-08-20T01:22:41Z")
1. This thread is awesome. Every time there’s a car-\>pedestrian scene in a movie, all I can react with is “oh shit!” or “that was friggin’ sweet!”, and it is immediately deleted from my brain. 2. Joey P already won. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/9 "2010-08-20T01:27:14Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > (it starts at about 1:45). (A (very little known) fact is that you can direct people to specific time in a YouTube link by adding “#t=1m45s” to the end of the URL (or whatever minute and second you want).) Ta-da!: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0Vtb-dJ70&feature=related#t=1m45s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0Vtb-dJ70&feature=related#t=1m45s) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/10 "2010-08-20T01:28:05Z")
[When Emil gets blown apart by Clarence’s 6000 SUX while the acid is melting him in the climactic scene of _Robocop_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ) What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/11 "2010-08-20T01:31:46Z")
[If you don’t think this is the best bus hitting a pedestrian scene then you can just drop fucking dead.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt2f-Zpe80) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/12 "2010-08-20T01:36:57Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > > (it starts at about 1:45). > > (A (very little known) fact is that you can direct people to specific time in a YouTube link by adding “#t=1m45s” to the end of the URL (or whatever minute and second you want).) > > Ta-da!: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0Vtb-dJ70&feature=related#t=1m45s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0Vtb-dJ70&feature=related#t=1m45s) I did not know that - thanks! Of course, the chances of me remembering that are slim. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/13 "2010-08-20T01:44:35Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I did not know that - thanks! Of course, the chances of me remembering that are slim. 🙂 I \*never \*remember it. But it’s worth a quick google of “youtube specific time” just to save people from waiting for a clip to load up 2 minutes of video to see 8 seconds. 🙂 Amp: You get bonus points for the blood spatter. I get bonus points for Rachel McAdams: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7os-ymfW4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7os-ymfW4) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/14 "2010-08-20T01:46:37Z")
Was just about to say Regina George getting hit by a bus in Mean Girls. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/15 "2010-08-20T01:54:00Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > [When Emil gets blown apart by Clarence’s 6000 SUX while the acid is melting him in the climactic scene of _Robocop_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ) > > What do I win? What makes that one even more hilarious is that the (censored) broadcast TV version has the driver swerve and miss him. He was doing him a favor by smearing his melting guts all over his windshield. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/16 "2010-08-20T01:54:47Z")
Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kanga-rooo-oooooooo": [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DWeR1hfY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DWeR1hfY) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/17 "2010-08-20T01:57:19Z")
The least horrific, but still hilarious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtELwekBpc#t=6m34s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtELwekBpc#t=6m34s) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/18 "2010-08-20T02:14:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [Hi Wayne.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_NEcUFmf8) Technically, this is a pedestrian hitting a car. Thanks for playing. > [@AuntiePam](#): > > [This one from Breaking Bad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RB8t0CCZB4&feature=more_related) is pretty good. This one is excellent. If I was a nitpicker, I’d point out that it’s not a movie, but WTF, let’s put it in among the finalists. Plus, some bonus points for hitting two pedestrians at once. > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > [When Emil gets blown apart by Clarence’s 6000 SUX while the acid is melting him in the climactic scene of _Robocop_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjEdLuqK1RQ) > > What do I win? Eh, it was too much like popping a water balloon. Also, the climactic scene was when the old CEO guy says, “Dick, you’re FIRED” so Robocop can fill him full of lead. Really though, it would have been better if he was impaled on something at the end of his fall out the window. > [@Amp](#): > > [If you don’t think this is the best bus hitting a pedestrian scene then you can just drop fucking dead.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jt2f-Zpe80) I have to downgrade this because she was pushed out of frame in just a fraction of a second. > [@Munch](#): > > > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > > I did not know that - thanks! Of course, the chances of me remembering that are slim. 🙂 > > I \*never \*remember it. But it’s worth a quick google of “youtube specific time” just to save people from waiting for a clip to load up 2 minutes of video to see 8 seconds. 🙂 > > Amp: You get bonus points for the blood spatter. I get bonus points for Rachel McAdams: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7os-ymfW4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7os-ymfW4) Same problem – she’s offscreen so fast there is no detail at all. > [@Munch](#): > > Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kanga-rooo-oooooooo": [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DWeR1hfY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7DWeR1hfY) Ok, too low a speed, but not bad. We’ll let that advance to the next round. > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > The least horrific, but still hilarious. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtELwekBpc#t=6m34s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZtELwekBpc#t=6m34s) Oh, comeon, the cab is going all of 3 miles an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Jennmonkye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/278dde/32.png) [@Jennmonkye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennmonkye)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/19 "2010-08-20T02:22:40Z")
Sayid’s wife, Nadia, being hit on LOST. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780/20 "2010-08-20T02:30:14Z")
Not a TV show, but a music video [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cud_k9f6tqk/hqdefault.jpg "Rabbit in your headlight by UNKLE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cud_k9f6tqk) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/special-fx-best-car-hitting-pedestrian-scene/550780.md?page=2)