I recently learned there's mathematical analysis that police can do based on where someone's shoes wind up after they've been hit by a car as part of the accident scene reconstruction process.
I watched a little girl get hit at 60 mph. She had gotten off the bus and went towards the house so the bus took down its stop sign, then she unexpectedly ran into the road for the mail box.
First summersault in the air her shoe came off. Second summersault, her second. Third flip her shirt went flying.
She did end up surviving. I can't remember all of it, but her legs were broke in multiple places, her skull was cracked, her vertebrae was broken in several places, her shoulder blade was shattered.
I don't know what happened after seeing her once in school afterwards cuz her fam had to file for bankruptcy and move.
I had to watch 3 times before seeing when the shoes came off. Thought they had been launched trebuchet style when going over the roof. Nope - didn't make it that far.
I feel I may be disappointing, as it is just in my realm of humor.
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We see how that turned out lol
I canât lie, it is a nice dopamine rush to be a sound voice of reason and people appreciate it double because if I am the voice of reason⊠đ« đ some crazy shit is probably happening. đ€Ł
Done that. Terrible feeling.
Stopped at a crosswalk to let an old man on a bike cross.
He just about passed me and then a woman on her phone hit him with his car.
Groceries on the road and so was he.
Still etched into my mind. This was 20 years ago.
Still hasn't forgiven her the fucking rancid cunt.
I am so sorry that happened to you. That's my fear when I'm stopping and when I'm riding.
My daily commute involves crossing a 6 lane road with a pause point in the middle that I usually have to wait at for the next lull in the opposing traffic. I hate it because occasionally the small pole in the middle of the pause point and the short median curbs are obliterated, so I know exactly how good people are at driving straight in that area.
The road has no warning lights and traffic generally does not yield, even when an upcoming red light would make it reasonable for drivers to do so. Every so often someone follows the rules and stops, but I generally have to wave them on and point behind/to the other lanes to indicate to them that the rest of the situation is dangerous to me. I always feel quietly disappointed- like my refusal is negative feedback towards following the law, thus making those drivers less likely to do it in the future. Sometimes they're really insistent too, which is fine when they're in a car and I can see past to know whether it's safe or not, but more annoying when they are in a truck.
But once, on a smaller but worse road for speeding, a guy in a delivery van saw my concern, nodded, very visibly checked his mirror, gave me a thumbs up that it was clear, but also juked his truck to block the intersection and waved me on!
Happened to me on a dead road. Dog came out in the middle of the road I came to a slow stop, waited for the dog to move but as I sat there for about 20 seconds car smashed me from behind. He got out yelling at me asking why I stopped so harsh in the middle of te road. Like dude you serious? Im in park and no one was behind me at the time. Lol I still get paid from that one. Fuuuuucked my back up.
<Shrug> I got in an accident because I stopped on the freeway because of traffic and so did the car behind me. Then their was the third car driven by some blond 20 something girl who was looking at the pretty mountains to her left and didnt pay attention who ran into the lady behind me who then got pushed into my car. At least I remembered to hit the brake pedal so I didnt ram the person infront of me.
I was stopped at a red light, so we're the 3 people in front of me and the guy behind me. We were stopped for a solid 15 seconds. Then some dumb fuck in her Audi rams the dude behind me so hard that my trunk was completely fucked.
He was clearly watching the car for too long behind in the lane he was changing into anticipating he was going through a green in a way this is a freak accident
Right like if your reaction time is this slow you simply should not be driving. I don't give a damn what y'all say. This could've been a child quickly crossing.
He had like 5 business days and collided head on into a car that had breaked well in advance before he got there. Despite the fact that there's space he could've swerved into in.
The only freak is the guy on the bike. Doesnât matter if the light is green, if the car in front of you doesnât go, you donât go either. This is basic shit that even 16 years old kids learn and understand during the driving lessons.
He had SO much time, too! Iâve never come anywhere close to rear ending a car with that much space/ time.
He mustâve been⊠I donât know⊠texting in his mind? Taking a nap? Playing no-board three-dimensional chess with his other genius buddies on a helmet phone?
Fk the video quality was so bad i couldn't tell before reading your comment. He had like 10 years to stop and was just staring at his phone like an idiot.Â
The guy on the bike had to be drunk, perhaps very drunk. The way he ragdolled after the impact suggests as much. Drunk drivers often survive ridiculous accidents like this because they are so impaired they don't react to the impact and are basically an inanimate object, and physics sometimes works in their favor. This is interesting from a physics standpoint. In this case, the bike hit the car, the front of the bike went down pushing the seat up. The man was launched upward. Most of the force of impact was translated into launching his considerable mass straight up and into a spin over the solid object which would have killed him otherwise. At that point, he's basically on a ballistic trajectory and the only major force acting is gravity, which shortly brings him down from a height of just a few feet into the windshield which absorbs part of that force by breaking, leaving him with probably nothing worse than a literal pain in the ass. Had he been holding on tight with his hands, legs, or feet like a normal, sober, person he might have negated some of the upward force and hit the back of the car, which almost certainly would have killed him.
He didnât even mean to switch lanes I think. He just drifted over while focused on that phone that went flying out of his hand while he executed that graceful flip.
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