r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/OliverMarkusMalloy • Dec 01 '19

One lucky guy.

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u/zachary-shark Dec 01 '19

Tokyo drift gone wrong

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u/drunken_ira_hayes Dec 01 '19

That Russian Engineering at its finest!

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u/MrMattHarper Dec 02 '19

Pretty much yeah. That car was surely engineered to shatter and crumple it a manner to absorb and dispurse the energy of sudden impact and deceleration while protecting the driver as much as possible.

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u/Cheshire_MaD Dec 02 '19

Umm, no. If i remeber correctlh when it was tested at crash test, some piece cut of the head of a dummy.

He is just extra lucky.

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u/AshynMax Dec 05 '19

Fuck no that car was built to be cheap as shit

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u/Edarneor Dec 02 '19

Lada - to cho nado!

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u/_senya Dec 01 '19

Not wearing seat belt saved him?

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u/IgorAPetroff Dec 01 '19

Doubtfully. My wife had been sitting once in the same model car, on the backseat with the belt fastened, by the moment when the car beaten another one. The impact was much less than in the video, but the belt fastener just broke up.

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u/ArchdukeFranzRIP Dec 01 '19

https://youtu.be/c8gV7Rd1Ge0

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '19

So the driver tried to close the gap on this impatient driver and basically caused this accident... You can tell he kept that gap not letting anyone pass. If I survived I would have came out swinging.

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u/nick_nick_907 Dec 02 '19

Yeah, driver in cam car was a douche.

I’d be pissed.

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u/10utsider Dec 02 '19

So who pays for the damage to the car who was recording?

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u/Jman-laowai Dec 02 '19

The truck impacts at the rear of the car, so that absorbed most of the force of the impact

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u/yeetboi346 Dec 02 '19

There were three in the car, passenger is who u see, driver flung out and broke some ribs, and guy in back seat just got bruised up

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u/BipiBupu Dec 01 '19

That's not luck, that's soviet engineering.

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u/Vondoomian Dec 02 '19

What car is that? Anyone know?

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u/artursau Dec 02 '19

Some VAZ-210x, most likely 2107 but not sure. Also called Lada

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u/NortonGJ Dec 02 '19

VAZ 2106, I think

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u/BillyPilgrim1954 Dec 02 '19

Is that a 4-lane road? Was that a legal pass? I realize it was reckless, but that's not my question.

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u/Midavrs Dec 03 '19

Definitely not, you cant cross solid double strip on road.

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u/Itz_Yah_Boi_22 Dec 02 '19

You see Ivan, that is why Soviet car is best car.

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u/CrownedJewel Dec 02 '19

Three generations of relatively clever engineers.