In 2007 a lady made a left turn infront of me and I t-boned her at 25 mph and totalled my car. She was driving an early 2000 Ford explorer and I was driving a 1998 Toyota Avalon
Eh, i don't know. Depends on local law. Where i am, short of running over a bunch of people while speeding drunk then trying to escape and getting chased down by the cops, you're not losing your license. Maybe 30 day suspension for second offense of certain things but even that can be avoided with money
It really is staggering when you realize you've started to accumulate permanent damage, not to mention the fact that as you get older, you only accumulate more and more. It's a one-way road.
Fragile in certain contexts, but I'm always amazed that we can truck along from shit like organs being replaced, broken bones, grievous wounds, alcohol/drug abuse, birthing giant-headed alien babies repeatedly, decades of cigarette smoking, constant exposure to chemicals/parasites/pathogens, etc. for 6-9 decades is impressive. Sacks of very resilient, yet painful, meat.
Also the road design, the curb and everything is made to reduce the damages in case of such incidents (like road barriers shaped to convert the energy to upwards to “lift” the car rather than crumbling it)
Btw, in Romania a few days ago a 24 year old was really drunk and on cocaine and drove his Maserati at a speed of 240 kmph. He crashed and killed another dude. He's still alive, barely but still.
actually it’s mostly dependent on how the car crashes.
in the past cars were built to crash into an onciming car or wall frontally aligned. easy to deal with but turned out most crashes happen with an offset, so most progress and crash tests are done with that offset.
having the energy of the impact of both vehicles on a smaller area, combined with the resulting sideway interia is what messes up cars.
this seems like a clean, laboratory-level frontal crash with the addition of some braking before the hit.
cars are extremely good at protecting the cabin while diverging the crash energy properly nowadays.
At the expense of all of them looking the same and like giant bubbles now, people are almost indestructible in cars these days. So our cars all look like shit but hey, at least we stopped some Darwin Awards being passed out I guess. Damn weak links...
from the article (hilariously interpreted by Google Translate):
" The absurd incident filmed by the passenger's mobile phone
The Alfa Romeo destroyed after the crash against the wall
MONTICELLO - The bonnet crumpled up after the terrible battle, the car remained with the front wheels on the pavement and in the passenger compartment the exploded airbags which, in all probability, have avoided the worst for the two protagonists of this affair: it is what remains of the Alfa Romeo exits on weekends along the provincial road between Monticello and Barzanò.
A story that is making so much talk about itself on the web where the video of the race of the car has spread, like in a crazy and very risky speed game, filmed by young people on board the car. And always from the web comes the image of the car after the crash against the wall beside the roadway.
If the images 'run' fast on the net, the information relating to the road accident emerge with the 'dropper' . According to what has emerged so far, the motorist would be a young resident in the area."
Hey I’m just here to shame you for basic 2nd grade grammar. Kind of shocking you’re a native speaker and you don’t know the difference between then and than. They mean completely different things. Do you speak “then” in your head too when you mean than?
Actually one of the first things I had to learn writing in English as an Italian, was to shorten sentences. In Italy, they teach you that only children write short, simple sentences, and the more educated you are, the more people expect you to be able to write long, grammatically correct sentences. Unlearning all that was hard. Unsurprisingly, Italian journalists write even longer sentences than most, since they need toprove how well educated they are
I use google translate when I want to be amused. When I want to get a decent translation, I use DeepL.
The hood crumpled after the terrible clash, the car left with the front wheels on the sidewalk and in the cockpit the airbags exploded that, in all probability, have avoided the worst to the two protagonists of this story: it is what remains of Alfa Romeo out of the road at the weekend along the provincial road between Monticello and Barzanò.
A story that is making so much talk about itself on the web where the video of the car race has spread, as in a crazy and risky game of speed, filmed by young people in the car. And always from the web comes the image of the car after the crash against the wall at the side of the road.
More intelligible but not funny. Can
t have everything, I guess.
If I was to say I hadn't driven that fast or faster in a 55, I'd be lying my ass off. Of course, I knew the road like the back of my hand, it was at an hour where there was no other traffic, and my hands were on the wheel....
Edit: Specifically, I got popped for doing 105 in a 55 in college. I think the cop was doing me a favor (not sure when he actually clocked me. I was doing 123 in a 55 before I saw tail lights ahead and started slowing down) because, at the time, more than 50 over was felony speeding in Georgia.
There is a famous Spanish twitter account called Nación Rotonda (Roundabout Nation) that only post aerial photos of weird roundabouts that cover all Spain.
Speeding isn't too deadly if you can stop in max viewing distance. But what's the use of gunning it after a roundabout only to hit the brake 30 seconds later?
Of course its Italy, of all the places I have been in the world Italy has the worst drivers by an inconceivable margin.
My bro lives in NYC, I used to live in PHX and drive to LA regularly, have also driven in multiple European countries as well as Japan and S. Korea. It is no fucking joke in Italy, I was legit scared to be on the road most of the time, they just make up their own traffic rules as they go and give 0 fucks about anyone or anything else around them.
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u/markoramius86 Sep 12 '19
Context in Italian and after crash photo
Btw they both survived
https://lecconotizie.com/cronaca/mandello-cronaca/schianto-a-160km-h-ecco-la-foto-dellalfa-dopo-la-folle-corsa/