This pickup truck doesn't even try to brake for this upcoming red light. Instead, he drives full speed ahead into the intersection with disastrous results as he causes a spectacular crash involving multiple vehicles. What could this driver have possibly been thinking?
We hope no one was seriously injured.
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Is that SUV all the way on the right trying to drive away at the end? WTF?
probably driver went unconsious
good to see though driver in car on fire gets out quickly
I don't like the word "spectacular" applied here. My entire family, including my parents, was in the same position as the Odyssey in this video. Our huge SUV was thrown 14 feet and totaled. I was planning to sell it, and I'm not a fan of SUVs, but I was very grateful for our lives that day.
The couple hit T-Bone by the red-light runner was not so fortunate and sustained serious injuries.
looks like Obamas policies
it does , it does. what else do you see?
Hope they lock him up for a long long time.
One fo the few tickets I write. I cannot stand people running lights.. or stop signs.. or having no insurance.. or expired tags.. well OK, I do write more.
For all the people that bitch about us cops.. heres why we are writing you a ticket and not "catching REAL criminals"..
It's all good, man! I wish more people were ticketed for texting while driving. I wish our police would start enforcing our mandatory hands-free device for phones law.
To the Mom who was talking on the phone while driving her daughter in the family minvan yesterday afternoon...I saw you blow through that four-way stop as I was approaching. And that wasn't even close to a "rolling stop"! Next time, you may not be so lucky! I'm just so glad I was half a block away...
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please continue to write whatever tickets you think are necessary.
I wish more people were ticketed for not using their turn signals.
Forget about red light cameras. They only help to line the pockets of lawyers. I say, embed spike strips at semaphored intersections tied to the lights. As soon as the light turns red, the spikes come out and shred the tires of the red light runner. No tickets, no court, no dispute about license plate numbers or who was driving the car at the time. Instant "busting," sentencing, and punishment.
Yeah and instant lawsuit when the driver loses control and careens into another car. Its a nice idea, but wholly impractical and unsafe.
I was not being wholly serious when I wrote this suggestion, but it is no more unsafe than people running red lights with impunity. At least they would know what is going to happen to them. That's more than the unsuspecting driver who gets T-boned by the runner can say.
Seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, crash tests--all that intrusive government regulation saved a few arses there.
How do you know???
I know all.
The new HuffPo: all car crashes, all the time.
I don't think that's going to bring in the NASCAR crowd.
Just sayin.
Is this a metaphor for Sarah Palin's career?
No. That would be a train wreck.
I'm not sure if everything in the world that happens can be adapted to fit into a political framework.
With all the comments about red light cameras, can someone tell me how a red light camera could have prevented this?
As far as I know they don't have the ability to stop a speeding pickup truck or even a bicycle for that matter.
money talks. it's that simple, and it works.
That's why intersections with a redlight cameras have higher accident rates?
Stop light runner should be dragged behind his truck for a few miles.
This is John & Kate plus 8.
Great comparison!
Dig the two pedestrians in the crosswalk who kind of slow down in an "Oh, my God" kind of way...and then keep walking.
I like how the car on the right continues to make his right turn like nothing happened.
The driver probably had someplace to go.
That is usually why I drive.
That person was hit hard enough to be pushed back, they were likely dazed and let their foot off the brake. I mean... a freakin' car just flew at them.
Talking on a cell phone.
Or looking at a pretty babe on the sidewalk.
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First Posted: 07-13-09 09:02 AM | Updated: 07-13-09 09:14 AM