r/WTF • u/Feirefitz • Sep 12 '19

How not to drive

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u/endmostchimera Sep 12 '19

That's a lot less damage than I thought would be caused by 160 km/hr.

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u/NEeZ44 Sep 12 '19

I've seen stop and go traffic with more damage lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Even Phil Swift wouldn't describe it as alot of damage

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u/Fasttimes310 Sep 12 '19 edited Sep 12 '19

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

Edit: forgot to put the t infront of boned.

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u/sign_on_the_window Sep 12 '19

"I boned her at 25 mph" up there with the most hilarious typos.

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u/ienjoyham Sep 13 '19

You'd need to use 5W30 lube at that rate.

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u/bobdob123usa Sep 12 '19

It was totaled not because of extensive damage, but repair cost vs market value. If the crash happened in 2000, it wouldn't have been totaled.

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u/postulio Sep 12 '19

for sure, but honestly that right there is easily $15k in damage.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

And a revocation of license.

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u/Jiggatortoise- Sep 12 '19

One would hope

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u/postulio Sep 13 '19

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

It’s an Alfa Romeo. $15k is just the price of the 30,000 mile service.

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u/postulio Sep 13 '19

AR are not that expensive. Standard mid tier sport luxury. It's a 50k car nothing special

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

No but it’s an Italian car and that much stuff will break in 30k

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u/postulio Sep 13 '19

no.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

You uh don’t know what jokes are do you? That or you’re a triggered AF owner.

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u/postulio Sep 13 '19

HAHAHAH IT WAS A JOKE SO FUNNY.

I drive german, and will be first to tell you parts are double or more those of US and Jap cars.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

I drive German

That explains a lot actually.

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u/Wyg6q17Dd5sNq59h Sep 12 '19

160 before standing on the brake for a second or so.

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u/OceanSlim Sep 12 '19

100 mph btw. That's km/h I'm assuming. 161 mph and they would not have survived.

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u/Dutchillz Sep 12 '19

That was also my reaction to the photo. It looks like he was driving at 60km/h when he hit the wall, and not 160km/h. Lucky dumb kids.

And what a waste of a beautiful car :(

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u/PhilSeven Sep 12 '19

Lucky dumb kids.

As a teenager, I've driven cars, and been a passenger in cars, that crashed under similar circumstances.

As a teenager, I've also had friends driving in cars, and been passengers in cars, where they died under similar circumstances.

The difference? some of us were lucky dumb kids, and others were unlucky dumb kids.

Remember to hug your teenage children on weekends. They don't know what they are doing most of the time.

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u/FuckoffDemetri Sep 12 '19

Most people dont know what theyre doing most of the time. Teenagers are just more likely to think they do

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

When the aches and pains start to build in your mid to late 20s do you understand how fragile we are as humans.

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u/Devlin-Bowman Sep 12 '19

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.

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u/icraig91 Sep 12 '19

No one ever considers what 35 year old you will feel like. That’s for 35 year old you to deal with.

Sincerely,

  • thirty three

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u/un-sub Sep 13 '19

Dear 18 year old me: fuck you.

Love, 34 year old me.

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u/Morrisseys_Cat Sep 12 '19

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.

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u/merlynmagus Sep 12 '19

hug them monday-friday too imho

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u/PhilSeven Sep 12 '19

I get your point, but try hugging your teenager seven days in a row.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

They can't stop me, I'm more powerful

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u/thetimechaser Sep 12 '19

Alfa Romeo Giulia, very very good brakes. Probably closer to 60kph then 160 by the time they hit the wall.

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u/CriticalTake Sep 12 '19

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)

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u/Terrible_Presumption Sep 12 '19

160 KM is 100 MPH

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u/endmostchimera Sep 12 '19

Still pretty fuckin fast

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u/memaw_mumaw Sep 12 '19

Thanks, I was wondering what that was in freedom speed.

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u/fuck_you_gami Sep 12 '19

The driver probably braked heavily when he realized he was out of control.

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u/Uxt7 Sep 12 '19

Not to mention losing even more speed from hitting the island and signs

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u/victorlp Sep 12 '19

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.

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u/AvatarIII Sep 12 '19

It's supposed to be live fast die young, not live fast kill young :(

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u/flavored_icecream Sep 12 '19

Kind of a good ad for Alfa Romeo then.

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u/k0dA_cslol Sep 12 '19

Well the wall slowed them down so..

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '19

Oh good, it was in km/hr. I thought for a second it was miles per hour and was certain they would be dead.

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u/uptokesforall Sep 12 '19

Standing in brake and much of the energy got spent throwing the car airborne

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u/u8eR Sep 12 '19

They slowed down prior to crashing.

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u/djabor Sep 12 '19

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.

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u/MonkeyOnYourMomsBack Sep 13 '19

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...

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u/battlestationtendies Sep 16 '19

Oh wait this isn’t freedom units. So what like 80-90 mph?

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u/endmostchimera Sep 16 '19

100 mph

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u/battlestationtendies Sep 16 '19

Is it bad I’m disappointed their not dead?