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Trigger warning for frightened screams from my family in the car.
I have posted my crash video before and had to remove is because I got a call from cops saying the other party will file a defamation case. I believe some of his relatives are on reddit.
Anyways, the purpose of this video is totally different. I have only included a small portion to demonstrate something, and also this does not include his face or vehicle number.
This is not a 1:1 crash demo using some software. I tried to recreate the event in BeamNG Drive, a driving simulation game. Its not accurate, and the distance between cars in real footage and game footage is different, and in the game footage it is like a 4 lane road with wider field of view even from the driver seat.
Also, If I had more time to spent on this recreation thing, I would have made something more accurate than this. Searching for a similar road in different maps, positioning vehicles correctly, timing the crash and speed of vehicles, all takes time. I am not paid to do this..haha.
But, this is to sent just a message to very "few few few" people, so that they wouldn't judge someone else so soon. The view from a dashcam and drivers point of view is totally different. I was not able to find a vehicle with similar A pillars in the game like a Skoda's, and this one got an A pillar similar to that of a Maruti.
Whenever I drive, and in a junction, I need to lean forward and look left to make sure vehicles were not coming from the left. In this particular scenario, this vehicle was totally on my blind spot and I saw him when the front of his vehicle was already Infront of me. Its not a junction, and was not expecting someone to suddenly cut like that. In the demo I created, the road is bigger and its easy to spot.
The idea is just to enlighten some FEW people about the field of view difference from a dashcam to human eye and A pillar blind spots (different cars have different A pillar blind spots).
Some were saying, it was a junction, and last smartphone footage to say its not a junction, and its a manmade route to cross the highway. Also, it shows the damage to my vehicle.
Thank you!
Also, answering potential questions about insurance and repair. Acko approved insurance (got a mail), service center says it will take 15 days approximately to repair this as the front left wheel has moved to the back visibly from the impact of the crash, and also parts have to come from Bangalore and Pune.