Reason #1000 not to tailgate...

[PricklyPete]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnWOhkrP1bY&feature=player_embedded

This guy wasn't even that close and still got owned. Space between cars = good. There is a reason they teach that in driver's ed.

 

[rivan]

Holy mackerel.

 

[Powermoloch]

holy shit

 

[Kadarin]

Yikes. First thing that came to mind was Final Destination... It would have been awesome if he had John Denver playing on the radio.

 

[coldmeat]

holy cow

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

If he was tailgating it probably would have just hit his bumper and not potentially decapitated him... Reason #502 to tailgate...

 

[dabuddha]

holy fuck me. that scared the crap outta me!

 

[Ricochet]

That could have ended much worst.

 

[summit]

why would u record your drive?

 

[KaOTiK]

I'm more interested in why he was just randomly recording a truck on the highway?

 

[zokudu]

Jesus Hume Christ!

Also I don't think he was really tailgating...if he was closer it probably would have worked out better for him.

 

[destrekor]

Yikes. First thing that came to mind was Final Destination... It would have been awesome if he had John Denver playing on the radio.

I was thinking of Descent... there was a pipe meeting the windshield in one scene, but in that scene it made contact with someone.

That kind of shit is scary. Just think, it's one of the most random and unpredictable accidents that can happen on the road, and the end-result can be just as random. Did it make contact with someone, or were the occupants incredibly lucky and it missed all of them?

That's like, instakill if it strikes, I'd imagine.

 

[waggy]

ack. damn

 

[busydude]

Also I don't think he was really tailgating...if he was closer it probably would have worked out better for him.

If he was a little closer.. that plank would have probably hit him right on his head.

 

[destrekor]

I'm more interested in why he was just randomly recording a truck on the highway?

You know, I'm more interested in the fact that he was completely silent during the actual "event". I'd have been screaming and probably dropping a few expletives.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I was in Scottsdale a few years ago with some buddies. We were walking out of a strip club when a girl coming to work pulled into the lot, in hysterics. She had the same thing happen, except in was a 6' long steel road sign post. JUST missed her. She was freaking out, understandably so.

 

[Texashiker]

A lady I used to work with, her brother and some of his buddies were car pooling to work. While on the way to work one morning, they passed an 18-wheeler in the opposite lane, a part came off the 18-wheeler, went through the windshield and hit the guy in the head. The part turned out to be something from the brake assembly.

The poor guys brain was so damaged, he lost all motor control to the point where all he could do was blink to answer questions and was on a breathing machine. One night he vomited up some food that had been given to him through a feeding tube, and choked to death on his vomit.

Lucky nobody in the above video was killed.

 

[JTsyo]

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[skyking]

amen to that, Pete.
The closer you get to something like that trailer or truck, the more you put your entire future in that driver's hands. You can't see around them and get very complacent.
How many have followed a truck over a nasty chuckhole?
It is a heckova lot easier to avoid things if you have a moment or two to see them first.

 

[Wyndru]

I'm more interested in why he was just randomly recording a truck on the highway?

This, lol @ the most popular comment...

I too film with a camera on one hand and drive ,hoping to capture random accident that pops up nowhere.

 

[davmat787]

Try watching this again while counting "one one thousand two one thousand". Use the white lane stripes in the middle of the two lanes as a visual marker while you count. He was tailgating closer than the video makes it look I think. Probably the "vehicles are closer than they appear" effect.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Fuck...can't imagine what that would have done to me on my motorcycle.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Legally this has no bearing, but WTGDF is that guy with a trailer doing in the passing lane????? Drives me nuts..

 

[skyking]

Fuck...can't imagine what that would have done to me on my motorcycle.

Or what the guy behind you would have done after...........

 

[HumblePie]

uhh, if you watch the video closely this wasn't from tailgating. The trailer in front of him drove over a wooden post of some sort, probably a knocked down sign, and the tires kicked it up into the air which flung the post backwards. He just happened to be at the right trajectory arc for it to come crashing through his windshield.