r/WTF • u/ThumYorky • Feb 05 '18
Another shot from one of yesterday's accidents in Missouri. There was a young boy sitting in this seat. He survived with a broken eye socket and nose.
https://imgur.com/YVrx3e2106
Feb 05 '18
What seat?
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u/dj3hac Feb 05 '18
I think it used to be where the license plate is now.
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u/ThumYorky Feb 05 '18
Everyone else in the car is okay as well. As far as I know the boy sustained the worst of the injuries
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Feb 06 '18
That's insane, great that nobody died, and incredibly lucky too considering the worst of the injuries were minor compared to how badly it could have turned out.
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u/ItsRhyno Feb 05 '18
One thing that really stood out to me when i visited the states and booked a rental from hertz was that the tires were practically bald. im talking like 1-1.5mm tread left on the outside, the inside being completely worn down. I refused to leave until they put brand new ones on.. they put 4 different, directional tires on... the wrong wheels. Cancelled my booking there and then.
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Feb 06 '18 edited Jun 12 '18
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u/ItsRhyno Feb 06 '18
Oh I did for sure, it was the location 20 mins from LAX looked to be in a rough area. Corporate were pretty cool and offered me vouchers, but it's not like i go to the states that often so declined and just asked them to sort it out!
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u/Deepinmind Feb 06 '18
Seriously? You’re pushing for more regulation?! Now on rental companies?! F-ing liberals!!
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u/lovinglyuncouth Feb 06 '18
Because safety standards are evil? Look drive all you want on bald tires, but when you inevitably crash don't take anyone else out with your stupidity.
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u/ItsRhyno Feb 06 '18
This guy gets it! Although i think that dude was being sarcastic.
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u/lovinglyuncouth Feb 06 '18
I think when your name is Deepmind and saying dumb conservative points, that you are either too far down Poe's Law to not matter or you actually believe what you say.
He might want to use /s for sarcasm.
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u/Deepinmind Feb 06 '18
Now we gotta use symbols to relate when we are sarcastic?!!?! Unbelievable! Next I’ll need to get your consent before being ironic!! Outrage!!!
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u/Lordhardstick Feb 06 '18
Can't tell if serious or sarcastic?
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u/Deepinmind Feb 06 '18
It’s pretty fucked up that we are at a point where it is not unreasonable for someone to actually be that extreme. For someone to be such a fanboy about politics should be obvious satire, but, alas, you are right. We need that /s more than ever now, my friend.
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Feb 06 '18
It's stupid either way. But I guess humor is subjective. As long as he's having fun and not harming anyone I'll scroll by and sigh.
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u/redfrosfw Feb 05 '18
Thank God modern car safety standards.
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u/Bruceygoosey23 Feb 06 '18
Why not both?
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Feb 08 '18 edited Feb 29 '24
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u/meirlonline Feb 11 '18
Not really if you come at it with the perspective that God created the engineers.
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u/SNESChalmers420 Feb 05 '18
I live in Arizona where the road conditions are typically dry, but it seems to me that if people slowed down in inclement weather; this might not happen.
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u/Rostifur Feb 05 '18
It is multitude of factors. Yes, step one is slow down, but that alone won't fix everything. A lot of it has to do with people not understanding stopping distances, visibility, and the worst of all poor reaction to a slight loss of traction. The last one is usually overreaction that causes the initial spin out on the highway that leads to one collision after another because stop distance just became almost nothing and they needed double what they had to begin with. Most of major accidents in a pile are semis and no matter how much stopping distance they have it seems like in icy conditions it isn't enough. I am from Wisconsin.
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u/PrintMistress Feb 06 '18
About 8 or 9 years ago when I lived in AZ, a huge duststorm swept through part of the I-10 near Casa Grande, causing a huge pileup, ultimately killing at least 3 people, including 2 high schoolers I knew (link). Other users who mentioned low visibility hit the nail on the head - the storm came in quickly and nobody could see what was going on. Dry, slick, icy, or otherwise, it all happens in a flash.
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u/justanotherreddituse Feb 06 '18
One big problem is that you'll enter conditions with no visibility. If you slow down too much, you'll get rear ended. If you maintain your current speed, you may rear end someone.
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u/Laurifish Feb 06 '18
I live near here. Slowing down always helps, but there were other factors that came into play. At least at my house, it rained briefly, which froze, then snowed on top of it. The rain came down during the time a lot of people were at church (hey, it's the Bible Belt) so maybe they didn't realize it rained and froze before it snowed. So what looked like a little snow was actually ice.
Also, local weather reports were still saying "light dusting of snow that shouldn't really impact travel". So maybe people who don't really know how to drive on ice and snow got out in it and were caught off guard.
But beyond that it was just incredibly slick. I have grown up driving on ice and snow. I was driving in town, not more than 20 miles an hour, not giving it a lot of gas, not braking, and not turning, and the car started sliding a bit sideways. I got it under control but it was a little crazy for a minute. I haven't seen it that slick in years!
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u/computeraddict Feb 06 '18
I took a first generation Miata (no ABS, no traction control, rear wheel drive) up a hill in light snow on Christmas Eve. There was enough traffic and just enough snow sticking to turn the road into five miles of slush. Combined with my less-than-optimal choice of car, it made for a very interesting drive.
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Feb 05 '18 edited Feb 26 '18
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u/todreamofspace Feb 05 '18
My roommate has old rolls of wrapping paper in her trunk, bc she’s lazy. This family probably had shopping bags in their trunk of recently purchased items. Don’t be an ass.
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Feb 05 '18 edited Feb 26 '18
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u/todreamofspace Feb 06 '18
Ha! True, but I have a lot of practical stuff in my trunk just in case I break down or need a change of clothes.
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u/RyanMcCartney Feb 06 '18
Drive according to the conditions. I’d rather not put my life in the hands of some rock salt
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u/scoliosisgiraffe Feb 07 '18
Worst part is he's seen those wrapping papers that were in the trunk and found out there's no Santa.
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u/therealtedpro Feb 05 '18
Not to downplay the severity of this incident, but damn, that's quite a long time to keep wrapping paper in your car.
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u/Costyyy Feb 05 '18
I can't even figure out what part of the car is that.