Dump truck versus concrete barrier. I don’t know if it makes you go, “Holy crap!”, but I really love watching a dump truck run full speed into a concrete barrier.
I apologize for posting the first video that underwhelmed you in this thread.
Dang. Did he get out and run across the finish line? Is that common in Nascar??
Two racing ones that may (should) make you say “Holy Crap!”:
WARNING: BOTH ARE ABSOLUTELY GHOULISH!
Gordon Smiley’s fatal accident, 1982 Indianapolis 500 qualifying.
An action montage of Weng Weng, a Filipino little person who starred in super low budget Bond knockoffs.
The trailer from his biggest hit, “For Your Height Only”.
And if you like me said “this has got to be an elaborate parody”, it’s legit.
Gun Safety Officer giving talk to schoolkids accidentally shoots himself
I never get tired of watching this one:
How do you BASE jump off the world’s tallest building?
Well, if you’re gonna text and drive, might as go all the way, yeah?
That Caminito del Rey video is sick. Only video where I was yelling at my screen, including that one where they were doing chinups on the crane.
Nobody had ever tried it, so he gave it a shot. It didn’t count and he was scored as finishing one lap down.
I forgot about the worst looking wreck that I’ve seen live when it happened.
I remember the Gordon Smiley crash. I lived just north of Indianapolis at the time, and we went to the 500 every year. My dad worked on the pit crew of Patrick Bedard and Scotty Brayton for a few years before we moved out to Cali.
I was only 9 when Smiley was killed, but I distinctly remember seeing the crash footage over and *over *and ***OVER ***again at a family friend’s house, while Dad and his fellow racing friends shared in their horror and grief. I remember it made me a bit queasy–and then, of course, the next day in school the lame dark jokes started (“Gordon Smiley isn’t smiling anymore!”).
Thing is, I remember something I’m not seeing, so perhaps over the decades the image distorted. I remember seeing Smiley’s body partially ejected from the car and being dragged–I’m not seeing that on this footage. Huh. I do see the helmet flying off, though, and that I remember.
Decades later, Scotty was killed in a crash that looked like nothing. He had pole position that year. We were no longer in Indy, but remained in touch with Scotty’s family and were very close to someone who was somehow high-up on his racing team (I don’t know racing, that was Dad’s world; I actually spent racing days in the racing manager’s big ass fancy RV watching movies). Funny how some of these crashes, the car disintegrates and the driver walks away. With Scotty, the car just hit the wall and it looked like nothing–but his head had taken a lot of the force.
Anyway–am I remembering the Smiley thing wrong? Am I missing his body being dragged in the YouTube clip? Gah, so macabre.
If you like the freeride / trials / bmx side of cycling, this vid of Danny MacAskillis a jaw-dropper. Beautifully shot around Edinburgh too.
On the driving theme - Ari Vatanen straightening shit out in the glory days of rally driving.
I apologize for unrelated content about my opinion of the video, however the fact remains that I had to click link chase to even find out what it was. Would it have been so hard to just give a liner about the video?
Wow. What was the cause of failure in Gordon Smiley’s car? It looked like he just decided to make a right turn into the rail –> boom instant vaporization…
Oversteer going into the corner combined with an exceptionally poor correction. His correction was more like one you’d do on a dirt track, and that’s why it came all the way around like that.
What’s even more horrifying than that is the knowledge that he must have known that was going to die. It happened fast, but not so fast that he couldn’t have been cognizant of the reality that he was going to hit the wall feet first at 170 miles per hour.
Here’s one that looks much less ghoulish than it was. Don’t let the looks of it deceive you.
Russell Phillips Fatal crash, 1995
Kinda changes everything when you read about what happened, doesn’t it?
This was a pretty chilling one, especially for an aviation enthusiast. A DHC-4 “Caribou” tries to take off—but apparently the preflight hadn’t been done correctly, and the flight controls were locked. :eek:
It’s over within thirty seconds. You can see—you can feel the moment when the flight is completely unrecoverable, even if the controls had been working. Worse, apparently the guy filming was the pilot’s father. 
Equally horrifying—though thankfully not fatal—is the “rough landing” from The Endless Summer II.
Seeing that is a combination of seeing a Bond movie stunt in real life, and watching someone use the Mona Lisa for a TV tray. :eek:
One more:
B-2 Spirit (Spirit of Kansas) crash at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
It was 1 of only 21 ever built, with a hull loss valued by the Air Force at $1.4 billion.
Could I request that the links that involve a death be explicitly labeled as such?
Thanks.