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Impact: Anatomy of a Car Crash (RTE One)

  • 28-07-2025 09:38PM
    #1
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just started on RTE One



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  • #2
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    This is f*cking terrifying, the main reason I take it easy on the road.



  • #3
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    A few seconds like that can have such devastating consequences for the rest of your life.



  • #4
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,790 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    is it an examination of a specific crash?



  • #5
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    I see some crazy stuff on the road, a good few drivers seem to be off their tits



  • #6
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123678818#Comment_123678818

    A crash that happened in Waterford December 2016.



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  • #7
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭CPTM


    Anytime I'm in the car I'm grateful I don't have to be there daily or for long commutes.



  • #8
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Any one any idea when this is repeated? Unfortunately my sky box failed me last night.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #9
    sugarman20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 344 ✭✭sugarman20


    It's up on the RTE player. Horrific stuff!

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  • #10
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,536 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681149#Comment_123681149

    This Monday at 11.40pm.



  • #11
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,121 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681202#Comment_123681202

    Thank you.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681159#Comment_123681159

    I don't have the patience for that.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • #12
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Watched the first few minutes on the player. Looked like it was going to be an hour long RSA ad.

    I don't drive anymore so not really for me. Will it make people think, maybe for a while but it will soon wear off, unfortunately.



  • #13
    Deregos.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Deregos.
    Time to put childish things aside.


    It was heartbreaking at the end when the family met two of the first responders, who had assisted them at the scene of the accident. That young girl crying nearly had me in tears too. But I felt that her meeting with them, and talking through the incident will maybe help give her some acceptance about the whole tragic event, and the legacy of what happened to her family that day.



  • #14
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 92,161 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    A tough watch but hopefully it will stop speeding, drug and drunk drivers

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • #15
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,168 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    A harrowing watch.

    It should be shown to all “learner drivers” as part of their training.



  • #16
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,790 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123684800#Comment_123684800

    It won't



  • #17
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,953 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123684800#Comment_123684800

    The sort of people who go out and drive cars at speed while full of coke and alcohol are unfortunately not the sort to sit down and watch documentaries and think "Hmmmm, I really must not do that, time for a change of lifestyle".

    It will make not a jot of difference.



  • #18
    brokenbad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭brokenbad


    Watched it on the RTE player last night….a harrowing watch to say the least. How people's lives can be changed in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it won't stop the speed merchants fuelled up with booze and cocaine from getting behind the wheel……just have a look at your local newspaper every week with numerous court cases for drug driving, drink driving, speeding and reckless driving…



  • #19
    McGrath5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭McGrath5


    A tough watch and an emotional end when the family met the emergency workers.

    The mother of Michael Tobin looks broken with grief.

    I wish they would stop referring to the crash as an "accident", considering the driver of the Golf was out of his head it was far from an accident.



  • #20
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,953 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    What I can't get over is, it was 9 or 10 in the morning.

    You'd associate those "spins" more with evening/night time.



  • #21
    SortingYouOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123686094#Comment_123686094

    I'd say they were still going from the night(s) before.

    Beverly Hills, California



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  • #22
    nearby_cheetah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭nearby_cheetah


    I was disappointed to see a memorial to Dixon was put up on the side of the road after the carnage he caused while coked off his head.

    That professor of Biomechanics is not much of a professor if he doesn't know Newton's Third Law of Motion "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." when he said the combined impact speed was 160 km/h if both cars are doing the rural speed limit.

    That Mary Bermingham is one beautiful woman.

    Post edited by nearby_cheetah on


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