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100-mph Crash Caught On Tape

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Failure to launch...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭cadaliac


    Now thats a crash!! - Where did the rest of the car go? Mostly on the otehr side of teh freeway I presume. ??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭furtzy


    Straight to the lotto shop for that guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭mecanoman


    :eek: Sure put some dent in the pillar!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Aye saw that on CNN last night...and it reminded me of a few places along the M1 (plenty of other m-ways too) where the armco rises in a V shape from the ground, forming a wedge, to then split into two barriers right before a flyover and it's support pillar, which I often thought would cause exactly this type of crash if someone was unlucky enough to blowout/lose control at the wrong time...car launched into the concrete support or span at 70mph+.
    Amazing that that driver lived...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Would have been class if he managed to land on the overpass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,734 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    ...you know, that's one of those odds things which, in a few years time, someone will say.....'I wonder how did someone put a skidmark up there...'.....

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭privateBeavis


    Kitt... Engage Turbo Boost! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭celticbest


    Imagine he crossed 100m earlier were there was no guard rail, the damage he could have caused with the amount of oncoming traffic on the other carriageway would have been far more severe.

    Lucky Chap to have survived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭bazzachazza


    Wertz wrote: »
    Aye saw that on CNN last night...and it reminded me of a few places along the M1 (plenty of other m-ways too) where the armco rises in a V shape from the ground, forming a wedge, to then split into two barriers right before a flyover and it's support pillar, which I often thought would cause exactly this type of crash if someone was unlucky enough to blowout/lose control at the wrong time...car launched into the concrete support or span at 70mph+.
    Amazing that that driver lived...

    Absolutely never understood why the PENNYPINCHING fffers ever installed these things. You see everyday unguarded lampposts, road signs, trees and bridge supports. Then you see these bloody things if you had to swerve for whatever reason and hit one of these its lights out time. They dip****s doing the M50 have them everywhere and unlit most of the time. The worst of them used to be the concrete one they had going southbound and Blanch and this thing was litterly 12-15 inches from your left hand side.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭limklad


    There was a lot of examples of other poor driving beside the car launching in the air .

    The car travelling well past the bridge in the same (2second overtaking) lane braked when the demolished car was approaching from behind. What stupidity!! At least the car driver approaching from it back right (first Overtaking lane) moved over crossing the driving lane into the hard shoulder and manage to spot what was coming. I do not understand why he break too as s/he head towards the hard shoulder. I would have floored it to get some distance quickly.

    Also Several cars were in overtaking lanes when they need not be there!! They was plenty of space on the 3 lane road in the Driving lane. It looks like overtaking lane hoggers is not an Irish phenomena.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    It doesn't work that way in the US. There's no such thing as an overtaking lane on a freeway - you can drive in whatever lane you like. They may restrict trucks to the right lane or something but cars can usually drive/overtake in whatever lane they want.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,574 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    I like how unlike here, they are "evaluating if speed was a factor" in the accident. And before you laugh, he crashed cos he was driving in the freaking grass verge, either by accident or because he is insane, the speed is the headline for sure, but not the cause.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,467 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Was that him that slid across the road into the path of the car (which stopped just before hitting him) on the right?


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