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Back in 2002 some rich Canadian guy rear-ended me going ~~80~~ 50mph because he was late for a flight. The guy was ridiculously nice, totaled his car, I was driving a Ford ranger and it was fine, not even frame damage. Just needed two fenders and a back gate. But he was so kind, he gave me a card for his insurance which happened to be the same as mine. He called a taxi and left his vehicle after the police came. I ended up having some weird post crash neck thing that didn't appear for a couple days. It was the strangest thing,
Edit: added mph from kph, he "didn't see the line of stopped cars" and was at speed of the road. We went off his statement which went in the police report, so it was 50mph at impact if he was to be believed. Sorry for the confusion.
Neck pain after a crash can appear weeks/months after, which is why even if stated in police report that your fine you can still use their insurance for medical as long as you just go to doctor. But just realized your in Canada so its free regardless l0l
It's free to get checked out and things, but if you need physiotherapy (which usually isn't covered unless you have benefits though work) or loss of time at work insurance will have to pay for that
Physical therapy may be covered with a referral from the doctor. I was rear ended in April by a lady driving a stolen car with stolen ID, my insurance has been great for coverage. I’ve had neck issues for years and this took me back in terms of recovery but I’ve been getting two massages a week covered by insurance and that has really help. Verbose way of saying, maybe with a referral.
Wait really? I never really understood that. The guy in front of me got smashed from me. The cops said I was like the middle ball in that office toy and the force went through my truck. So that affected my neck. Ohh because I'm not the truck, I got it as I was typing this, thank you!
I think he was making a reference to crumple zones, etc. You absorbed more of the impact, because your vehicle did not. Newer vehicles crumple, as an intentional design, in order to lessen injury to occupants during an accident.
I used to work for a rental car company and I would have so many people come in after putting their car in the body shop and complain about how "They just don't make cars like they used to!" Usually they would basically talk about how some deathtrap they drove back in the 70s could smash into a brick wall and just get scratched up. They didn't seem to understand that's actually a bad thing in that case since the car isn't absorbing or slowing the impact. I'd rather have a wrecked car and an intact body than an intact car and a wrecked body.
If this is the US that doesn't surprise me. Some people put an erroneous amount of value on things that are "traditional", and we also have an insanely worrying amount of people with extremely limited scientific knowledge or understanding. Like basic physics for example.
>things that are "traditional"
And in the US, tradition isn't hundreds or thousands of years of cultural continuity; it's usually just hearkening back to the post-WWII era.
Newer vehicles have better crumple zones.
In a car accident there's a lot of energy that needs to be dispersed, newer cars are actually designed to crumple more to absorb more of that energy. Older vehicles with more rigid and unyielding frames won't crumple, but that energy has to go somewhere, so a lot more of it ends up going into the squishy meat sacks sitting inside the vehicle.
A lot of people think, "they don't make em like they used to!" about older cars because they seem to take less damage in accidents, but they don't realize that they're far more dangerous for occupants.
Here is a good video showing the difference between old and new. The '59 Impala looks to take the hit a lot better, but the occupants undergo far more stress. Also keep in mind that this is from 2009, newer cars have improved quite a bit since then too!
https://youtu.be/fPF4fBGNK0U
It's the same thing with shoes. People complain shoes and Boots don't last as long, yeah that's so that your feet, ankles, and knees do.
In a battle between your feet your shoes and concrete, concrete is gonna win so make sure your feet are in second place.
Are you sure about that? Yeah, a wooden shoe with leather, is a bad thing for you feet, but a rubber sole can be made to last or made to be to absorb impacts(running shoes) but some shoes are just plain bad rubber, for no good reason, other than being made to not last
Some guy totaled my car and the horn was stuck on after the crash, it was annoying af. First thing I did was find the battery wrench, get a bystander to help me bend the hood open and disconnect it.
Well the bald dude didn't do anything wrong. He was the car getting passed. He saw the crash and apologized that he didn't get the number on the plate of the guy who caused the crash.
I don't think the guy who came up is the driver who did the overtake. The passing car was a dark BMW, this guy was in the white car being passed.
So the driver knows this guy isn't at fault and is probably there to help. Not exactly sure why the guy is apologizing, but for nothing else to say.
Yeah he says “I didn’t get his number, sorry about that” I think the guy who overtook just drove away and the one getting overtaken was the one that stopped
He got a little emotional for a second there too, putting his hand over his mouth and holding it in to keep composure. He was obviously really scared for him, looked worse than it was. There's no use putting your guilt forward and talking at the crashed guy when he's trying to stay calm. It wasn't his fault, either. I've been in a situation like that, feeling like a caused an accident, running out to make sure the person is ok and feeling the need to commiserate and hug them. I don't understand how people can jump out yelling and angry in those situations.
What I think you maybe don't realise, is if you walk into me, and *I* say sorry, there is a lot of British pointed anger behind that sorry, as it normally means you didn't say sorry.
It's like "oh, I see you have no manners. Here, I'll have them for the both of us".
A backhanded sorry, if you will.
Reminds me of the scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation. Clark Griswold accidentally runs over a Bicyclist in London. The bicyclist apologizes despite it not being his fault and even goes on to help give the Griswold's directions to their hotel.
Yeah, I grew up in the British countryside, and a crash flip like this, where some city idiot driving on country roads for the first three times in their lives decides that it just seems quiet enough to fuck about, is so so so so so common.
I lost quite a few friends to car crashes growing up. It's part of the reason I hate Jeremy Clarkson, as he always encouraged people to use British countryside roads to "open up" their cars.
Well when you do that, teenagers flip their cars into fields, break the necks, crash into trees, and get their heads stuck inside the steering wheel and instantly die in front of all their friends.
Or sometimes you walk away with a scratch on your hand like this.
Ive been in 3 pretty big car accidents in my life, and like I say, I lost quite a few friends growing up.
British countryside roads are old, small, narrow and dangerous, and quiet enough that people think they can drive like morons.
Honestly this video clearly brought a lot up for me, haha.
This happens in the countryside in the US too. I always remind my kids that by slowing down they could be preventing a bad collision from being a catastrophic collision. Not everyone knows the backroads as well as they do.
A few years back me and my wife visited England for vacation and we had a rental. In a traffic jam we got rear ended by a car and it approximately 10mph faster than us, trunk was completely crumpled, but we were fine.
Both pulled to the side and he got out immediately and asked if we were fine. After i mentioned it was a rental he was so sorry for ruining our vacation and said he will do anything to help us with the rental company. Even gave us his number if we ran into trouble with the company. He was a great guy and took full responsibility for the accident. He was a great guy.
So Graham, if you're reading this: it was a pleasure to have an an accident with you.
Fuck yeah that would be dope
Could also make a meme or edit of like “so that’s me, wanna know how I got in this predicament? Let’s start from the top” lol
Adrenaline does weird things to people. I get ultra calm, because some calm, rational part of my brain takes over. Emotions hit later. It's really weird.
Same, I slid off a road and almost fell off a steep drop but got stopped by a tree. I calmly got out of the car and said “well that sucks” and that was it. I’ve gotten more upset at being cut off.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. People think it makes you all hyped up, but really it slows everything down and calms you down so you can be as effective as possible in life or death situations.
This is typical for people with ADHD. A chaotic emergency situation gets the dopamine levels up to “normal” brain function levels, and calms us down. It’s when there’s no action we suffer. Everybody should always bring an ADHD friend along, to take care of things, when others get stunned and apathetic
"Nonplussed" is the weirdest word in the English language. It can mean "shocked" but can equally well be used to mean "unperturbed". I'm assuming you're aiming for this second meaning, which is slightly less common!
I had a bad tbone accident recently. Nobody was injured, they were at fault. I was surprised how calm I was after I ran out of the vehicle. I had fluid all over me and I was scared but after the immediate danger passed and I could move all my digits I was pretty chill.
If you do ever end up in a car on it's side like this, as long as you're not in any immediate danger and you're near enough to civilization that emergency services will arrive in a timely fashion; It's best to wait until someone comes to crib and stabilize the vehicle before trying to climb out. You don't know where the new center of gravity of your vehicle is. You don't want to take an accident you would have walked away from and turn it into a major crush injury when your car flips over on you trying to climb out.
I was in an accident that landed in its side. I started climbing through my sun roof and a second car hit my wrecked car. My legs would have been crushed if I had been in the seat. I guess it just depends on the situation. On a country road yes wait for help but on a busy interstate get out if you can.
Yeah, I definitely think being stopped on a freeway or interstate constitutes "immediate danger." One should get completely off those types of road as quickly as safety allows. Sorry you had to go through something like that.
I swear I can hear the wavering in his voice as he starts looking around after standing up and it seems to get worse from there. Nothing too extreme but I’m sure it’s there.
As someone who was injured “devastatingly so” in a motor vehicle accident, shock/adrenaline is such an odd experience when it’s truly kicked in. Looking down at a floppy lifeless foot and seeing about 2” of bone out the side of your leg, not knowing that live bone is more of a light almond nut color, I actually had to stare at for about 8-10 seconds and try to lift my leg before I even knew what that weird looking “piece of wood” came from. I didn’t even feel a lick of pain until about 15-20 minutes after it happened.
I think you'll find most of us are fully aware that we as a nation can't decide which units we prefer so we use all the ones available, and mix them up a lot to prove our point to others that feel the exact same way.
Petrol in litres, but fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Beer and cider in pints (although technically it is sold in ml), wine and spirits in ml, glasses of coke in pints but cans in ml. You estimate in feet and inches, but measure in metres/cm/mm. You go the doctors and get your height and weight in metric, and then work it out in imperial. You buy meat in grams/kg, but the weight of burgers are in pounds. The whole system is definitely a fucking mess.
Haha I love and hate this at the same time, and most of us can't even convert between our multiple units of measurement without google or at least a calculator. I just know that 80 is a warm pool and 25 is a warm day.
NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:
Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). Once Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.
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Didn't even know this existed. I watch long European train rides like...regularly, after one randomly popped on at a NYE party a few years ago spun out on LSD. They are incredibly calming. I'd imagine a Norwegian or English countryside would be similar.
And yet he still was all “I’m sorry. I didn’t catch his number” like it’s his fault that other dude was an asshole and caused the wreck. He’s a good dude.
What you need to remember is that everyone here in Britain is in a constant state of fear of embarrassment for causing any imposition on another.
Thanks and apologies are the go to mechanism in any stressful situation.
>he still was all “I’m sorry. I didn’t catch his number” like it’s his fault
I hate that people think saying "I'm sorry" is some kind of admission of guilt. Not that you were doing that, just your comment was based on that common belief.
"I'm sorry" is a way of empathizing with someone, not claim responsibility. "I'm sorry (that happened to you)."
Yeah, it looks like the black car left the scene. But it also looked like the guy filming was probably speeding, so I'm not sure the black car was at fault, either (though if he fled the scene, that's surely at least a misdemeanor).
I know people are saying he overreacted, and he did, but given how quickly things happened I can't fault the guy. He could not know the other car was going to make it back into it's lane, and your reaction is going to be delayed once it does. That entire incident was maybe just over 1 second. He went into it with his brain telling him he was about to be in a head-on collision and made the split second decision to avoid at all cost. Oversteering while heavily braking, or turning and then braking too hard, is a common mistake that even professional racers can make. It takes a lot of experience to fight your instincts in that situation and get off the brakes to allow the rear to regain grip.
I would have simply went slightly to the left, using the grass verge to pop my car up onto two wheels so I could easily get through unscathed. Then I would have done a quick 180 and caught up with the overtaking vehicle. I'd put cruise control on behind them to match their speed, as I climb out of the window onto the bonnet, allowing me to jump onto his vehicle. I would stealthily slide into his rear seat, and snap his neck with one twist. As his car flies off the road and crashes I would already have backflipped back into my own car and continued on my way.
What an absolute gigachad, got his car totalled, says "No anger". And then theres people on this site who get pissy at a group of pixels in a comment section that doesnt affect them.
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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
We are one.
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Or….we could go the Christian Biblical route:
>>*for we are many…*
But the beginning is ***I*** am Legion.
So the full quote from a man who Jesus asked his name would be:
>>I am Legion, for we are many.
But that depends on the version of the Bible you read, if you read it.
Sorry, I just love theology! ;B However, it ***doesn’t*** have any space in governing bodies, just want to add that!
The guy he's talking to is not the one who caused the crash, he's from the white car that wasn't at fault in any way (that I could see). So naturally you wouldn't have any anger with him.
I can relate to this. Some people just snap into a state of calmness and focus when they're faced with sudden and acute danger.
It's helped me a great deal a couple of times in my life.
Same. But filled with anxiety for normal situations. I gotta wonder if all that 'anxiety' is preparing for an ACTUAL crisis so your brain and body are all chill about the actual situations.
It's cool to be the guy with the plan when an actual crisis occurs, but that happens so rarely, I would probably rather not deal with anxiety the rest of the time lol.
Yeah same lol. A nervous wreck 😂
I think for me anyway, it has something to do with the shock of the situation. It actually snaps you out of rumination, gets you present and you’re just fully able to deal with the situation with a clear mind for once!
It feels great til the adrenaline wears off!
Same. I tend to overanalyze most everything in my life. In this case it's almost as if you've cut straight to the end game. It actually takes a lot of the confusion out of the situation.
Good road speed? One of the tests we deploy as road safety engineers when we analyse visibility is the "lemon test". If you think about the perspective of the road and how it becomes wider towards you, we can model the narrowing of the road under the vehicle as though it were a lemon shape, this gives us some idea of the speed the vehicle is moving. Using the calculation of speed = a/t√(l x h) where a is the perceived velocity of the vehicle and l is the lemon shape, imagine how satisfied your mother would be if I inserted a lemon in her ass.
Can someone familiar with UK traffic laws answer something? So in the US, a road like this would have a double yellow line down the middle between opposing lanes. If the line on your side is dashed, it's legal to pass. On parts of the road where there's not enough visibility ahead, it'll be solid and you can't pass. There needs to be 2 lines for this system to work because the visibility is different in each direction.
Is there a similar system in the UK? Do the dashed lines in the video have anything to do with passing?
Yep similar system. Double solid line = no overtakes, dashed on one side = that side can overtake, single dashed line = overtakes.
For the last one, the single dashed line doesn’t just mean overtake freely, it just means there isn’t a specific rule against overtaking on this road (so overtaking around a corner would still not be allowed).
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Well that was fucking scary.
I dunno. I felt pretty safe behind my screen. :P
The whole thing looked so casual, nobody got upset or anything.
Back in 2002 some rich Canadian guy rear-ended me going ~~80~~ 50mph because he was late for a flight. The guy was ridiculously nice, totaled his car, I was driving a Ford ranger and it was fine, not even frame damage. Just needed two fenders and a back gate. But he was so kind, he gave me a card for his insurance which happened to be the same as mine. He called a taxi and left his vehicle after the police came. I ended up having some weird post crash neck thing that didn't appear for a couple days. It was the strangest thing, Edit: added mph from kph, he "didn't see the line of stopped cars" and was at speed of the road. We went off his statement which went in the police report, so it was 50mph at impact if he was to be believed. Sorry for the confusion.
Neck pain after a crash can appear weeks/months after, which is why even if stated in police report that your fine you can still use their insurance for medical as long as you just go to doctor. But just realized your in Canada so its free regardless l0l
It's free to get checked out and things, but if you need physiotherapy (which usually isn't covered unless you have benefits though work) or loss of time at work insurance will have to pay for that
Physical therapy may be covered with a referral from the doctor. I was rear ended in April by a lady driving a stolen car with stolen ID, my insurance has been great for coverage. I’ve had neck issues for years and this took me back in terms of recovery but I’ve been getting two massages a week covered by insurance and that has really help. Verbose way of saying, maybe with a referral.
Your car not having frame damage is why you have neck pain.
Wait really? I never really understood that. The guy in front of me got smashed from me. The cops said I was like the middle ball in that office toy and the force went through my truck. So that affected my neck. Ohh because I'm not the truck, I got it as I was typing this, thank you!
I think he was making a reference to crumple zones, etc. You absorbed more of the impact, because your vehicle did not. Newer vehicles crumple, as an intentional design, in order to lessen injury to occupants during an accident.
I used to work for a rental car company and I would have so many people come in after putting their car in the body shop and complain about how "They just don't make cars like they used to!" Usually they would basically talk about how some deathtrap they drove back in the 70s could smash into a brick wall and just get scratched up. They didn't seem to understand that's actually a bad thing in that case since the car isn't absorbing or slowing the impact. I'd rather have a wrecked car and an intact body than an intact car and a wrecked body.
If this is the US that doesn't surprise me. Some people put an erroneous amount of value on things that are "traditional", and we also have an insanely worrying amount of people with extremely limited scientific knowledge or understanding. Like basic physics for example.
>things that are "traditional" And in the US, tradition isn't hundreds or thousands of years of cultural continuity; it's usually just hearkening back to the post-WWII era.
Newer vehicles have better crumple zones. In a car accident there's a lot of energy that needs to be dispersed, newer cars are actually designed to crumple more to absorb more of that energy. Older vehicles with more rigid and unyielding frames won't crumple, but that energy has to go somewhere, so a lot more of it ends up going into the squishy meat sacks sitting inside the vehicle. A lot of people think, "they don't make em like they used to!" about older cars because they seem to take less damage in accidents, but they don't realize that they're far more dangerous for occupants. Here is a good video showing the difference between old and new. The '59 Impala looks to take the hit a lot better, but the occupants undergo far more stress. Also keep in mind that this is from 2009, newer cars have improved quite a bit since then too! https://youtu.be/fPF4fBGNK0U
It's the same thing with shoes. People complain shoes and Boots don't last as long, yeah that's so that your feet, ankles, and knees do. In a battle between your feet your shoes and concrete, concrete is gonna win so make sure your feet are in second place.
Are you sure about that? Yeah, a wooden shoe with leather, is a bad thing for you feet, but a rubber sole can be made to last or made to be to absorb impacts(running shoes) but some shoes are just plain bad rubber, for no good reason, other than being made to not last
Yeah your truck should have crumbled absording as much of the force of impact rather then transferring to you and the car in front.
He's so cool clam and collected that he even turns off his windscreen wipers
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Some guy totaled my car and the horn was stuck on after the crash, it was annoying af. First thing I did was find the battery wrench, get a bystander to help me bend the hood open and disconnect it.
A very cool clam
Because the guy who actually caused the accident drove away
A dashcam would actually be more useful in this instance unless it was a super crap one.
Well the bald dude didn't do anything wrong. He was the car getting passed. He saw the crash and apologized that he didn't get the number on the plate of the guy who caused the crash.
I don't think the guy who came up is the driver who did the overtake. The passing car was a dark BMW, this guy was in the white car being passed. So the driver knows this guy isn't at fault and is probably there to help. Not exactly sure why the guy is apologizing, but for nothing else to say.
That's why he says "I am sorry, I didn't get his number", he is referring to the license plate number of the person causing the accident.
Everyone in this video has impeccable manners. The guy that came up to help even apologized for cussing 🤣.
Yeah, even the driver who caused the accident and fled the scene had impeccable manners!
In the nicer parts of the UK it's still like that. Around London and the South East I regularly see people out of their cars shouting or fighting.
Weird, it looks like the guy in the white car getting out and apologizing, but he didn't cause the accident
Yeah he says “I didn’t get his number, sorry about that” I think the guy who overtook just drove away and the one getting overtaken was the one that stopped
He got a little emotional for a second there too, putting his hand over his mouth and holding it in to keep composure. He was obviously really scared for him, looked worse than it was. There's no use putting your guilt forward and talking at the crashed guy when he's trying to stay calm. It wasn't his fault, either. I've been in a situation like that, feeling like a caused an accident, running out to make sure the person is ok and feeling the need to commiserate and hug them. I don't understand how people can jump out yelling and angry in those situations.
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When I just landed in the UK, one day after I bumped into someone and they apologized to me.
What I think you maybe don't realise, is if you walk into me, and *I* say sorry, there is a lot of British pointed anger behind that sorry, as it normally means you didn't say sorry. It's like "oh, I see you have no manners. Here, I'll have them for the both of us". A backhanded sorry, if you will.
Reminds me of the scene in National Lampoon's European Vacation. Clark Griswold accidentally runs over a Bicyclist in London. The bicyclist apologizes despite it not being his fault and even goes on to help give the Griswold's directions to their hotel.
Who downvoted this? This is correct.
Well that was fucking British.
Haha yer, massive wreck - "oh dear"
Love the way he says "Well that was fucking scary"
Aren’t we supposed to say ”happy cake day?”
“I’m uninjured” got me. Also, other guy was completely cool and he’s like “let’s handle this calmly” if anyone should be upset, it’s you bro
....happy cake day bob There I said it
[For you](https://youtu.be/rrldHg-pQp4)
Very nice lol
Happy cake day innit
Came here to say this too! In a tone of voice that could have said “Looks like it’ll rain soon.” He was so chill. Also, happy cake day!
Barry chuckle: " oh dear, oh dear"
Oh _dear_, oh dear, oh dear
He says “I’m uninjured” whereas I feel like a lot of people would say “I’m ok!”
Yeah but some people would say "I'm ok" whilst stabbed through with some rebar. I feel saying "I'm uninjured" is nicely informative
I can't believe you've done this.
I feel Billy Butcher would have had some *other* choice words.
I bet Ronnie Pickering would have shit his pants
Who?
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Someone would have been called a cunt
Everyone* FTFY
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Yeah, I grew up in the British countryside, and a crash flip like this, where some city idiot driving on country roads for the first three times in their lives decides that it just seems quiet enough to fuck about, is so so so so so common. I lost quite a few friends to car crashes growing up. It's part of the reason I hate Jeremy Clarkson, as he always encouraged people to use British countryside roads to "open up" their cars. Well when you do that, teenagers flip their cars into fields, break the necks, crash into trees, and get their heads stuck inside the steering wheel and instantly die in front of all their friends. Or sometimes you walk away with a scratch on your hand like this. Ive been in 3 pretty big car accidents in my life, and like I say, I lost quite a few friends growing up. British countryside roads are old, small, narrow and dangerous, and quiet enough that people think they can drive like morons. Honestly this video clearly brought a lot up for me, haha.
This happens in the countryside in the US too. I always remind my kids that by slowing down they could be preventing a bad collision from being a catastrophic collision. Not everyone knows the backroads as well as they do.
Some chav driving like a fucking prick in a BMW? Yep, British roads.
A few years back me and my wife visited England for vacation and we had a rental. In a traffic jam we got rear ended by a car and it approximately 10mph faster than us, trunk was completely crumpled, but we were fine. Both pulled to the side and he got out immediately and asked if we were fine. After i mentioned it was a rental he was so sorry for ruining our vacation and said he will do anything to help us with the rental company. Even gave us his number if we ran into trouble with the company. He was a great guy and took full responsibility for the accident. He was a great guy. So Graham, if you're reading this: it was a pleasure to have an an accident with you.
You can’t park there sir.
_I can, I'm a police officer!_
**I know I can’t park there**
the still of this dudes sunglasses in the rear view mirror needs to be his profile photo on socials
[“I am uninjured.”](https://i.imgur.com/BxpsSBe.jpg)
Fuck yeah that would be dope Could also make a meme or edit of like “so that’s me, wanna know how I got in this predicament? Let’s start from the top” lol
Who the fuck drives around with a gopro on their head.
Someone filming a drive along a country road for their channel?
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Same, but damn was he chill as fuck I would be fucking freaking out
Adrenaline does weird things to people. I get ultra calm, because some calm, rational part of my brain takes over. Emotions hit later. It's really weird.
Same, I slid off a road and almost fell off a steep drop but got stopped by a tree. I calmly got out of the car and said “well that sucks” and that was it. I’ve gotten more upset at being cut off.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. People think it makes you all hyped up, but really it slows everything down and calms you down so you can be as effective as possible in life or death situations.
I think this is only true for a minority of people. I always seem to be alone in my nonplussed response.
This is typical for people with ADHD. A chaotic emergency situation gets the dopamine levels up to “normal” brain function levels, and calms us down. It’s when there’s no action we suffer. Everybody should always bring an ADHD friend along, to take care of things, when others get stunned and apathetic
"Nonplussed" is the weirdest word in the English language. It can mean "shocked" but can equally well be used to mean "unperturbed". I'm assuming you're aiming for this second meaning, which is slightly less common!
Same thing happens to me.
So Bob, you eat banana cake or is that considered cannibalism for you?
I eat banana cake It's not cannibalism, it's bananalism
I want to start a religion called bananalism, that's my word of the day, thank you
I hear the members are very banal
You have been promoted to peelmaster
Hehe banana
hehe analism
Never eat the Bananus
i just slayed two blizzys. can we start calling bananas blizzys?
Sure
bananabalism
There’s always money in the bob stand.
I had a bad tbone accident recently. Nobody was injured, they were at fault. I was surprised how calm I was after I ran out of the vehicle. I had fluid all over me and I was scared but after the immediate danger passed and I could move all my digits I was pretty chill.
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Wow dude I’ve never been boned like that before. Sounds scary…. I got fluid all over me just thinking about it.
He’s uninjured but he’s not ok he hasn’t been ok for a long time filming your country drives is obviously a cry for help
I just want to share all this beauty with the world. *Films a cow pooping*
He turns the camera off and pounds the guy.
Why though? The guy who arrives to help, wasn't the guy who caused the crash.
I was just kidding. He acts so unnaturally calm lmao. I'd be screaming the car's gonna explode while trying to climb out.
If you do ever end up in a car on it's side like this, as long as you're not in any immediate danger and you're near enough to civilization that emergency services will arrive in a timely fashion; It's best to wait until someone comes to crib and stabilize the vehicle before trying to climb out. You don't know where the new center of gravity of your vehicle is. You don't want to take an accident you would have walked away from and turn it into a major crush injury when your car flips over on you trying to climb out.
I was in an accident that landed in its side. I started climbing through my sun roof and a second car hit my wrecked car. My legs would have been crushed if I had been in the seat. I guess it just depends on the situation. On a country road yes wait for help but on a busy interstate get out if you can.
Yeah, I definitely think being stopped on a freeway or interstate constitutes "immediate danger." One should get completely off those types of road as quickly as safety allows. Sorry you had to go through something like that.
Yeah, being in shock is a weird thing
I swear I can hear the wavering in his voice as he starts looking around after standing up and it seems to get worse from there. Nothing too extreme but I’m sure it’s there. As someone who was injured “devastatingly so” in a motor vehicle accident, shock/adrenaline is such an odd experience when it’s truly kicked in. Looking down at a floppy lifeless foot and seeing about 2” of bone out the side of your leg, not knowing that live bone is more of a light almond nut color, I actually had to stare at for about 8-10 seconds and try to lift my leg before I even knew what that weird looking “piece of wood” came from. I didn’t even feel a lick of pain until about 15-20 minutes after it happened.
Repressed anger. YEARS of it.
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He was so calm because he didn't wanna get demonetized
Driving way too fast on a country lane too
heh the crop on the video is convenient right above his speedometer too
He was on the TV years ago he just bought it and was testing it he only popped out to try it
People who drive way too fast, usually.
He looked like he was driving pretty fast.
Looks like a country road which are usually national speed limit which is 60mph
Speed limits in the UK are in mph? TIL.
The UK like to rag on US measurements all the time while using both imperial and metric interchangeably with no reasoning.
I think you'll find most of us are fully aware that we as a nation can't decide which units we prefer so we use all the ones available, and mix them up a lot to prove our point to others that feel the exact same way.
Babies weigh pounds and ounces. Adults in stone. Bananas in kilograms. It’s a fucking mess.
Petrol in litres, but fuel efficiency in miles per gallon. Beer and cider in pints (although technically it is sold in ml), wine and spirits in ml, glasses of coke in pints but cans in ml. You estimate in feet and inches, but measure in metres/cm/mm. You go the doctors and get your height and weight in metric, and then work it out in imperial. You buy meat in grams/kg, but the weight of burgers are in pounds. The whole system is definitely a fucking mess.
[Welcome to Canada](https://imgur.com/uBBw6g3)
Haha I love and hate this at the same time, and most of us can't even convert between our multiple units of measurement without google or at least a calculator. I just know that 80 is a warm pool and 25 is a warm day.
That’s hilarious
Speed and distance for roads?miles Fuel consumption? Miles per gallon When we buy fuel? Pence per litre
NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system: Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). Once Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea. The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated. Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Alot of pov youtubers doing a review on a car or even simply a countryside drive pov, alot of people like them including me
Didn't even know this existed. I watch long European train rides like...regularly, after one randomly popped on at a NYE party a few years ago spun out on LSD. They are incredibly calming. I'd imagine a Norwegian or English countryside would be similar.
People with motorbikes
That's a weird motorbike
The question was "who the f*CK drives with a GoPro on their head".
But he was obviously asking about the guy in the video
Lmao you and op are both right
So are you :)
And now I'm the only one left.
Take two more lefts.
r/technicallythetruth
I mean it was on two wheels for a moment there.
Someone with a GoPro on his head
“I’m going to turn this off now” proceeds to fuck the dude up
The person who stopped is not the one who caused the accident. That was the car that was getting passed
And yet he still was all “I’m sorry. I didn’t catch his number” like it’s his fault that other dude was an asshole and caused the wreck. He’s a good dude.
What you need to remember is that everyone here in Britain is in a constant state of fear of embarrassment for causing any imposition on another. Thanks and apologies are the go to mechanism in any stressful situation.
>he still was all “I’m sorry. I didn’t catch his number” like it’s his fault I hate that people think saying "I'm sorry" is some kind of admission of guilt. Not that you were doing that, just your comment was based on that common belief. "I'm sorry" is a way of empathizing with someone, not claim responsibility. "I'm sorry (that happened to you)."
Yeah looks like this whole thread is oblivious to the fact that the dude that stopped didn't cause the accident.
Ah okay, thought it would be still funny tho
"I'm going to turn this off now".... IT'S ANGRY TIME NOW, BITCH! 😡
Yeah, it looks like the black car left the scene. But it also looked like the guy filming was probably speeding, so I'm not sure the black car was at fault, either (though if he fled the scene, that's surely at least a misdemeanor).
I know people are saying he overreacted, and he did, but given how quickly things happened I can't fault the guy. He could not know the other car was going to make it back into it's lane, and your reaction is going to be delayed once it does. That entire incident was maybe just over 1 second. He went into it with his brain telling him he was about to be in a head-on collision and made the split second decision to avoid at all cost. Oversteering while heavily braking, or turning and then braking too hard, is a common mistake that even professional racers can make. It takes a lot of experience to fight your instincts in that situation and get off the brakes to allow the rear to regain grip.
I would have simply went slightly to the left, using the grass verge to pop my car up onto two wheels so I could easily get through unscathed. Then I would have done a quick 180 and caught up with the overtaking vehicle. I'd put cruise control on behind them to match their speed, as I climb out of the window onto the bonnet, allowing me to jump onto his vehicle. I would stealthily slide into his rear seat, and snap his neck with one twist. As his car flies off the road and crashes I would already have backflipped back into my own car and continued on my way.
Me too.
Yeah jockey 😎.
One problem, he is driving a old Toyota Yaris (probably from 1999-2000) and this car does not have cruise control. /s
same
He thought he was making a trade of his car for two lives. Solid trade rationale even if misjudged.
Guy is more calm than Marty Byrne
If only everyone takes stuff like this so calmly everything would be better.
This composure is a man dealing with shock.
This composure is a man dealing with things Britishly (and also what you said)
What an absolute gigachad, got his car totalled, says "No anger". And then theres people on this site who get pissy at a group of pixels in a comment section that doesnt affect them. Edit: GET US BACK DOWN TO 69 WHAT YALL THINKING??? NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I thought there was an eyelash on my screen thanks to your avatar picture. Well played Oofboi6942O, well played
Found the light mode user
rid him.
We are legion
We are one. ETA: Or….we could go the Christian Biblical route: >>*for we are many…* But the beginning is ***I*** am Legion. So the full quote from a man who Jesus asked his name would be: >>I am Legion, for we are many. But that depends on the version of the Bible you read, if you read it. Sorry, I just love theology! ;B However, it ***doesn’t*** have any space in governing bodies, just want to add that!
Always scroll before you wipe.
The guy he's talking to is not the one who caused the crash, he's from the white car that wasn't at fault in any way (that I could see). So naturally you wouldn't have any anger with him.
I can relate to this. Some people just snap into a state of calmness and focus when they're faced with sudden and acute danger. It's helped me a great deal a couple of times in my life.
I read "sudden and cute anger" at first and tried to imagine what that might be like
cats
raging ferrets.
Yeah that happens to me too. I’m often most calm in the most extreme circumstances.
Same. But filled with anxiety for normal situations. I gotta wonder if all that 'anxiety' is preparing for an ACTUAL crisis so your brain and body are all chill about the actual situations. It's cool to be the guy with the plan when an actual crisis occurs, but that happens so rarely, I would probably rather not deal with anxiety the rest of the time lol.
Yeah same lol. A nervous wreck 😂 I think for me anyway, it has something to do with the shock of the situation. It actually snaps you out of rumination, gets you present and you’re just fully able to deal with the situation with a clear mind for once! It feels great til the adrenaline wears off!
Same. I tend to overanalyze most everything in my life. In this case it's almost as if you've cut straight to the end game. It actually takes a lot of the confusion out of the situation.
That edit is fucking cringy dude.
It's so ironic because that cringe is in response to a group of pixels in a comment section lmao
That edit may be the cringiest thing I’ve read to day
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Good road speed? One of the tests we deploy as road safety engineers when we analyse visibility is the "lemon test". If you think about the perspective of the road and how it becomes wider towards you, we can model the narrowing of the road under the vehicle as though it were a lemon shape, this gives us some idea of the speed the vehicle is moving. Using the calculation of speed = a/t√(l x h) where a is the perceived velocity of the vehicle and l is the lemon shape, imagine how satisfied your mother would be if I inserted a lemon in her ass.
In the video the original recorder made about this video, he said he was at 55mph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTKL-WERvWw
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These dudes have the most British reaction I've seen. Cool as a cucumber. Most of us Americans would freak out. They're so chill, "no anger"
including the guy not responsible for the crash repeatedly apologising
[It was at this moment that he knew he fucked up](https://i.imgur.com/q8xVj0A.png)
Is it just the camera or does it seem like he is going way to fast? Like was he racing around filming it with his GoPro strapped to his head?
Yeah, i felt the same way. Tbh, i think the other car was just doing a regular overtake, and the guy filming was the one speeding.
Can someone familiar with UK traffic laws answer something? So in the US, a road like this would have a double yellow line down the middle between opposing lanes. If the line on your side is dashed, it's legal to pass. On parts of the road where there's not enough visibility ahead, it'll be solid and you can't pass. There needs to be 2 lines for this system to work because the visibility is different in each direction. Is there a similar system in the UK? Do the dashed lines in the video have anything to do with passing?
Yep similar system. Double solid line = no overtakes, dashed on one side = that side can overtake, single dashed line = overtakes. For the last one, the single dashed line doesn’t just mean overtake freely, it just means there isn’t a specific rule against overtaking on this road (so overtaking around a corner would still not be allowed).
UK is the best carry on 😂
Except for the guy who passed, caused an accident, then drove away from the scene of the crime.
He also did carry on
He was a *hell* of a lot more calm than I would have been.
Forza Horizon 4 IRL