Worst Driver in the Netherlands runs over TV show host

keithclancy

A 'Who Is The Worst Driver In The Netherlands?' contestant has run over the show's host.

The ironic incident occurred when filming for the final of the BNN TV programme, which attracted a record 1.2 million viewers, was taking place and a contestant known as Pim hit presenter Ruben Nicolai and a cameraman.

Nobody was seriously hurt as a result of the accident - which occurred when Pim took his eyes off the road and crashed into traffic cones - but Ruben had to spend the night in hospital.

He said: "'I've just a little pain in my shoulder and my foot. We all had the fright of our lives."

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What .... a .... muppet...

Love the bit at the end where he runs off like a Girl.

Tallon

What an idiot!

Closing your eyes during a crash?

jenizzle

What exactly were they trying to teach him in the first place?

Mr. Presentable

keithclancy wrote: »

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Love the bit at the end where he runs off like a Girl.

Nooo! He ran back to check the guy was OK!

Vertakill

I seriously laughed so hard at that.

The driver is such a wimp! Closing his eyes and then covering his eyes with his hands while the car is still moving.. ! Incredible.

MargeS

Tallon wrote: »

What an idiot!

Closing your eyes during a crash?

I think it might have been the air bag that caused him to close his eyes. I must look again.

/edit: yip you're right, eejit shut his eyes!

Anan1

The whole set-up strikes me as dangerous & exploitative. Great for ratings, though, if that's what matters.

MarkR

What did he see that made him turn around like that? A shoe sale?

seamus

Anan1 wrote: »

The whole set-up strikes me as dangerous & exploitative. Great for ratings, though, if that's what matters.

I don't think the format is all that dangerous. But the fact that they were driving down a straight piece of closed private road with fields on either side and he managed to run over the host means that whoever was in charge of safety seriously fncked up by not recognising that the host was standing in exactly the wrong place.

Or to put it another way: Who ever decided that standing right behind an obstacle was a good idea, deserves to be fired.

I thought the driver was being a complete pussy holding his hands over his eyes, but to be fair you can see from the reverse angle that he only puts his hands on his head after the airbag goes off and smacks him. I'd say he had a bit of a headache after that.

Anan1

seamus wrote: »

I don't think the format is all that dangerous. But the fact that they were driving down a straight piece of closed private road with fields on either side and he managed to run over the host means that whoever was in charge of safety seriously fncked up by not recognising that the host was standing in exactly the wrong place.

Or to put it another way: Who ever decided that standing right behind an obstacle was a good idea, deserves to be fired.

Fired? I'd have thought promotions all round were more likely, myself.

muff03

my god! watch some of the other ones of him, he just covers his eyes and ducks!

Tallon

seamus wrote: »

I thought the driver was being a complete pussy holding his hands over his eyes, but to be fair you can see from the reverse angle that he only puts his hands on his head after the airbag goes off and smacks him. I'd say he had a bit of a headache after that.

He did. he closed his eyes for the whole crash, and then when the airbag went off, he covered them with his hands

As for what he looked at, I think he was looking back at his speed!

unkel

According to the driver, when he hit the block wall, he panicked and slammed on the accelerator :rolleyes:

The idea behind the program is to find some terrible drivers (who all hold a valid current Dutch license, so must have passed their test at some stage) and then re-train them. The driver who improves the most in 8 weeks gets a free brand new car.

The whole setup looks fairly safe to me except for where the crew was standing.

Lando Griffin

I hope the back seat passanger is ok, she didn't have her seat belt on:mad: 4-7 seconds of clip.

bijapos

MarkR wrote: »

What did he see that made him turn around like that? A shoe sale?

The girl in the passenger seat told him to look around, must be part of the "test". Presenter was seriously lucky, you can see him flying through the air at 0:35 and from 0:40 the dent in the windscreen where he hit it. Girl in the back seat had no seatbelt on as well and gave the drivers headrest a good smack, good job she wasn't sitting in the middle.

If they tried to show that programme here the auditions would easily fill Croker, probably be more like the Pope coming to the Phoenix Park!

opinion guy

Anan1 wrote: »

The whole set-up strikes me as dangerous & exploitative. Great for ratings, though, if that's what matters.

The whole set-up strikes me as a publicity stunt to get ratings up.

Fake

johnos1984

opinion guy wrote: »

The whole set-up strikes me as a publicity stunt to get ratings up.

Fake

Nope, I remember Quentin Wilson had a similar show called "Britain's worst driver"

The test is they drive at a wall of boxes and the tell the driver when to brake. The second test is where they do the same again but try distract the driver and see if he can judge when it is safe to brake and stop.

The guy is clearly a bit of an idiot.