How not to save your hindside in a wreck
 

If in a wreck at 2am on a frwy in a crap neighborhood, definitely casually duck back in your car once more to check email or whatever.

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Jesus! One thing I noticed...other than truckers, few activated their flashers...

He was in a very bad place. Running across the road may not have been the best option although in retrospect he did get whacked a couple more times.

LOL......people all on their phones.

Meanwhile the media is warning us all about the pandemic.

Not one word about the freaking idiots on their freaking phones while driving.....:rolleyes:

Yep, tough call, but walking around was asking for trouble. Either this or a similar site covered a wreck where a diver got run over. They were sweeping up body parts - not car body parts.

Wow... Do we know what happened to the guy who got back in his car?

I know a lady who lost her father this way. The whole family was in the car and they had an accident. The father bumped his head and was dazed. He got out and wandered onto the adjoining lane and got creamed. My friend saw it happen. She was only around 14 years old at the time.

If I recall, he was taken away by ambulance and not the coroner.

I see brake lights up ahead of me, and I instantly let off the gas to see what's going on....some of these idiots never did see the accident.

First question I'd ask is , why isn't the patrol car behind him with his lights on, blocking him??


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I've always wondered about that massive screen up front in a Tesla.

The other cars companies have done the same and that's just asking for trouble IMO. Even a GPS can distract a driver.

They ain't gonna put their cruiser or their skin on the line.

What i don't get is why he didn't lay down flares.....

Man, that was a whole lot of not paying attention on the part of drivers. As for the driver of the first car (Altima?), inside his car was a whole lot better place to be than outside it. Being on foot on an interstate scares the bejeezus out of me and I’ll avoid it if at all possible. If I’m disabled or otherwise stopped, I’ll wait either inside the car or on the other side of a guardrail.

Good question, Vin. But - on the video site the author left these comments:

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Before leaving comments based on assumptions and not facts, please read the description.

1) No police or fire were on scene. Many of our photojournalists drive retired police and fire vehicles. The vehicles seen in the video are both photojournalists.

2) The photojournalists did everything they could to prevent the crashes, and a 911 call was already placed PRIOR to the start of this video.

3) The photojournalists pointed a 225,000 candlepower auxillary spotlight at the wrecked vehicles on the freeway to illuminate the scene. At that point, if you can't see that, you're not paying attention to the road.

4) At that point in time, the photojournalists did what they thought would be the best to help warn drivers. Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't. They did what they thought would be best in the moment. Maybe you would have done something different, but you weren't there, and you don't know the circumstances behind the accident.

There's only so much you can do to SAFELY warn drivers traveling 80-90mph on a 65mph highway. Those that crashed were clearly not paying attention.

Photojournalist?
Some yahoo in a crown vic and a cell phone

It's standard protocol. ( around here at least...)

OK was wondering. Seen the A-pillar spot and heard the radio in the background. Looked like LE.
Us firefighters call those guys "whackers"...
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There wasnt a police car at that scene.....

I was just on that fwy tonight. How is it that they can't see a stopped car on the side with all other drivers slowing down with all kinds of brake lights lighting up around the accident. I hear you about the hazard lights. You know what the problem is around here? Everyone is in a fooking hurry no matter what, they are inching their way through every crack possible until they are too late. I am no angel and have done some of those things trying to get by light, or heavy traffic. Also, the speed is now 80 in our max of 65mph and trucks or towing at 55. No one respect that anymore so as soon as some of the cars slow down to 45, it seems like they are crawling therefore, these idiots continue to have the gas pressed getting around slower traffic fighting for "That" spot and not paying attention but their godamnphones.

I saw that on the weekend...scary....the first that crossed my mind was the sheer speed that people were driving as they approached or went by the accident, even driving straight into the debris (one person backing up!). Clearly they were not paying attention.

TMZ employee is another description in SoCal

We have a hand free ordinance here in San Antonio. What that means to most people is put the call on speaker phone and hold the phone away from your head, I see it every day. I'm assuming that they believe hands free includes all calls on speaker phone regardless of whether you are actually holding the phone.

Concur, Idiots

The first few weeks of the snow or rainy season is always the worse for accidents.

Be careful out there, folks, and let those Darwin winners take 1st place in the short race.

I watched the extras from the movie Grand Prix.
In the rain scene, it turned out all those crashed cars were not staged..

wow
usually people slow down to rubber neck.

looked like a NASCAR pile up in slow motion

We know this because it wasn't hit by a Tesla on autopilot! :D

If the cars involved in that horrific chain of events were fully automated self driving cars they would not have crashed into that mess. We've all seen the 50 car pile ups in dense fog.
That said, I hate the thought of self driving cars. But can't they use just a little bit of the technology? radar that senses a stopped car in your lane a half mile ahead in the dark and then flashes a warning on your dash "traffic stopped ahead, slow down right NOW!!" ?
You can't teach every driver to pay strict attention, some have to learn the hard way

I knew that was the 110 before I even started the video!

I only made it to the 2 minute mark before I was laughing so hard I couldn't see. Only in L.A. are people that stupid. Or should I say drivers?

No, I'll leave it at all people.

Edit: I went back for more and started laughing again. The circus was never that funny. I guess you have to drive a race car or something to know that braking is normally done in a straight line. You either steer around it or hit the brakes. Not both. The first hit was classic. Not a hint of brake lights, just instant deceleration from whatever the driver was doing to zero in a 10th of a second. Looked like one of those crash tests with the dummy with a yellow X on its head. I could watch that for hours.

I just noticed, the original driver's tail lights were functional, so he didn't turn his emergency flashers on. On top of that, it appears he had a right front blowout and just stopped in his tracks rather than pull to the shoulder. And then decided casually stroll about. I'll venture he's not a Cal Tech grad. Out on a limb there.

Yep..he just sat there...in a dark car, in the dark. Maybe calling for a tow truck? I'm sure one arrived....eventually. :rolleyes:

Seek help, Zeke.

After watching that a couple times I noticed a gap in the video after the guy gets in the car a second time. I wonder if the video poster edited out a part where the original driver got off the freeway before the first car hit to make the video more dramatic.

EDIT: I read the youtube description, "The driver of the initial vehicle that had crashed fled the scene on foot."

No, more than a flat. Curtain airbag is deployed at least on the passenger side, and something dislodged the taillight.
I know the youtuber says he was helping by shining his spotlight on the wreck, but I wonder if he had his flashers on. I've seen the same thing, car on the shoulder with the flashers on at dusk, and I've fixated on the car with the flashers and almost not seen the real issue. In my case a guy pulled over, put on his flashers, then got out to go to the median. Moved over to the left lane, as is the law in WI, and almost got him.

I really think we need to bring back Driver's Education in California high schools.

So why didnt the guy with the big spotlight turn it around and try to warn the oncoming traffic? geez...

You don't think wrecks are funny? There must be 10's of 1000's on YouTube and the number of views is astronomical. I guess I'm not alone.

Now I don't wish for death or injury, but to see someone roaring down the road plowing into a stopped object is nothing more than Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner, and countless others. In a visual sense it's pure comedy.

But what made me laugh the hardest was the total ineptitude of unaware drivers trying to handle an automobile. It did look like a circus, just not rehearsed.

Living in L.A. County most of my life I've driven into these kinds of deals more than once. And every time there seemed to be a lot more responsibility exhibited.

That was just a major CF. And as such, it was hilarious.

Long long ago at my first job, several ambulance chaser attorneys had the company I worked for on retainer. I had to go to the scene of a few big pileups and deadly crash sites to photo document what I could. Some were pretty gory, and some were really kinda cool.

The insurance companies would want the car destroyed ASAP if they could, so sometimes I had to go to the impound yard and photograph the fresh gore. That sucked.

The cool one was a train that hit a semi with a load of cotton. No injuries, just lots of money involved. Months later there was still cotton balls all over the area. The train company hired us, and I waited at the intersection. A train stopped a mile away, the engine pulled up and stopped. I shot photos of it from all angles. Then I got on the engine, and he backed up 100 ft, 200 Ft, and so on to 1,000 feet and then 2,000 feet. Then he pulled forward to let me off, and he went back to get the train. That was fun.

Many of the crashes were just head scratchers as to how someone could be such a bad driver to crash like that.

That was crazy ! Glad nobody was killed.

Um, have you ever noticed the number of pictures in the random transportation thread that our very own have been taking while driving?

Seriously.
My initial reactions were concern for those who may have been hurt or may end up with major hardship due to the financial loss. Unless they were purposefully doing a "hold my beer and watch this" moment I would not be gleeful over someone elses mistake and demise.

Do we know the layout of the road? Was it after a crest of a hill or a corner where you were blind to the accident until you were right upon it?

Are you saying he should shine the spotlight in the direction of the oncoming traffic?

Not sure if you were serious.

One night as I was traveling the back roads here on the island on the way home, a lady walking her dog shined her flashlight right at me the entire time as I drove past her. Right into my eyes! I'm sure she thought she was doing the right thing to advise me of her and her dog's presence, but in effect when you blind the driver of an oncoming vehicle - how in heck are they supposed to see you?

What a well-meaning idiot!

I wasn't driving very fast at all saw her VERY well beforehand, and as I always do when there's no oncoming traffic, I went all the way into the opposite lane and drove at a snail's pace until I went by them. Proper protocol for me in situations like that.

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What ever happened to emergency kits people used to carry in their trunks when they broke down - with flares, cones, reflective triangle, etc?

Well of course not shine it in their faces, but he could have circled it around or waived it overhead or something to get their attention.