I've been following this channel for a few weeks. It's a bunch of people doing boneheaded stuff, though it's usually fairly benign. The video uploaded today, however, has three particularly crazy accidents that make me truly wonder about people's sanity. My favorite is the second clip:


https://youtu.be/TsXZj2DMkmU

I believe one of the clips (the last one I think) is of the nurse who killed 5 people including kids, just in case someone's watching this with their family.

Those kinds of channels and road rage compilations regularly come up. I watch it to see if I can tell beforehand where the trouble will be coming from.

I find though that about half of the uploaders should have seen it coming or that they're the ones in the wrong and they think they're in the right.

I usually have this one or similar playing while I work. Some of I seems so obvious, but you're looking for it not living it live.

We were driving back from Austin to Houston yesterday, had a BMW X3 lose it going to opposite direction, cross the median right in front of us & end up off the road on our R shoulder
All 4 occupants uninjured, but the X3 was stuck, combination of highway tires & wet grass.

Looked like something straight out of these videos. 100yds further down the road & he'd have been in the driver's side of our car.

That last accident, my God. Why the hell were they traveling so fast?

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Originally posted by Pyker:
I believe one of the clips (the last one I think) is of the nurse who killed 5 people including kids, just in case someone's watching this with their family.

Yes. >100 mph on surface streets.
Haven't heard anything about her level of impairment.

A lot of older people that I've known are afraid of driving on highways, so they take city streets instead. I always tell them that it's the intersections that you should be afraid of. You never know when someone's going to plow through one at 90mph.

The Dukes of Hazzard attempt at 1:45 was amazing, damn near made it clear....

I believe the blue mini at 2:15 is Anne Heche just prior to the crash.

Down the rabbit hole again with these today.

One thing that strikes me, is how many people just drive by a major looking accident. From the short clips, seems not a lot of attempt to stop & render aid or even check if aid is needed.

Think twice before stopping at a crash scene. People are already distracted during everyday driving, and even more so approaching a crash. If you do stop, park beyond the crash site, not behind it. Even then it is risky. Call 9-1-1 if you think help is needed.
I investigated the most minor of fender benders that turned fatal when a distracted driver crashed into two disabled vehicles and crushed a woman to death who was standing between the two stopped cars.

The one I referenced above, I was probably 200yds past where they went off the road.
Definitely some situational awareness needed to be sure you're not putting yourself in harm's way as well.

"Do you know where the candle supply is?"

Classic.

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Originally posted by ridgerat:
"Do you know where the candle supply is?"

Classic.

What the hell did they drive into?

We watch that occasionally. The Idiots At Work series is entertaining too.

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by ridgerat:
"Do you know where the candle supply is?"

Classic.

What the hell did they drive into?

Only thing I can imagine is very still water on a missing piece of pavement & a big drop-off for a car.

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Originally posted by P250UA5:

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Originally posted by r0gue:

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Originally posted by ridgerat:
"Do you know where the candle supply is?"

Classic.

What the hell did they drive into?

Only thing I can imagine is very still water on a missing piece of pavement & a big drop-off for a car.

I was going to guess somebody took down the guard rails for an old loading dock.

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Originally posted by PeteF:

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Originally posted by Pyker:
I believe one of the clips (the last one I think) is of the nurse who killed 5 people including kids, just in case someone's watching this with their family.

Yes. >100 mph on surface streets.
Haven't heard anything about her level of impairment.

She's been charged with 6 counts of murder
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...-9-million-bond.html

An ICU nurse has been charged with six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter after a fiery 100mph crash left a pregnant mother, her unborn child, one-year-old son and four others dead.

Nicole L. Linton, 37, a nurse from Texas who works in Los Angeles, was charged Monday as she cried in court over the Thursday crash that killed six and left eight others injured. If convicted as charged, she could face up to 90 years in prison.

Police said Linton slammed her car into five other vehicles while driving as fast as 100 mph by an intersection at Windsor Hills.

LA County DA George Gascón revealed during a press conference Monday there was no evidence Linton was under the influence of alcohol during the time of the crash.

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
Only thing I can imagine is very still water on a missing piece of pavement & a big drop-off for a car.

I was going to guess somebody took down the guard rails for an old loading dock.

Watching it again, I think you're right.
Just before she falls into it, you can see the incline of the ramp.

I follow the similar channel Dashcam Lessons. Same sort of content but seems to be less choppy and less accident-centered.

What I learned from that is people with dashcams in many cases are really bad drivers, can't anticipate shit happening in front and around them and surely think their horn works dual purpose as a brake. Oh - and Canadians are the worst!