the guy in the video sounds like a complete douche
how dumb do you have to be to pull out in front of a speeding car, even if the driver didn't realise he was speeding he still deserves the increased insurance premium for that
In my state the lambo would be entirely at fault, you lose the right of way when you speed.
It sounds dumb but its a law there for this exact kind of situation.
To me it seems the other car hit the brakes at the last moment, the front of the car was forced down from the braking in the video and you can see it was practically stopped at the moment of impact. It just threw the lambo's rear wheels far enough to loose grip and he spun out.
Jesus christ what is up with that video? It's like they need to fill the space that isn't a car crashing and burning with a video of a guy driving a car or someone in a boat, it's like they think the average viewer is a monster-chugging skate-climber that needs something exciting to happen every 5 seconds or they lose interest
Haha, I'd love to see the insurance bill the Mazda dude's gonna' have.
[editline]26th September 2013[/editline]
He deserves it too, he was clearly texting or just plain not paying attention to the road when that happened.
While I do believe the other car was more at fault here, I'm betting he saw the Lamborghini from a distance thinking he could make it assuming the guy in the Lamborghini was going the speed limit. So to me the blame doesn't lie on one driver or the other, but rather both. Though more the other car since he didn't even seem to slow to make the turn.
Then again after a few repeats I doubt the other guy would have made it even if he did assume the guy in the Lamborghini was going the speed limit.
[QUOTE=Saxon;42318585]In my state the lambo would be entirely at fault, you lose the right of way when you speed.
It sounds dumb but its a law there for this exact kind of situation.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Chubbles;42317589]I would say it's not the lambo's fault at all.[/QUOTE]
Thats an underestimation. If lambo driver wouldnt have driven so much over the speed limit, none of this would have happened.
What i think what happened is that the turning car driver was turning to his yard. He quickly glanced over that nobody is coming. Keeps eyes on his yard. Doesn't notice the speeding lambo and crash.
Most of this thread is defending the person that drove way over the speed limit. I dont understand. These kind of crashes happen when someone drives over the speed limit. Thats why there is speed limits.
Guy in the mazda is inattentive and stupid, guy in the lamborghini is a reckless asshole for doing highway speeds through what looks like a suburb.
[QUOTE=Saxon;42318585]In my state the lambo would be entirely at fault, you lose the right of way when you speed.
It sounds dumb but its a law there for this exact kind of situation.[/QUOTE]
That sounds horrible and reeks of insurance fraud potential.
What im saying is, the mazda driver probably got caught really off guard. I mean, when i turn into my yard, after quickly looking that nobody is coming from ahead, the last thing i expect is a fucking supercar whizzing by.
When that happens to me, when im turning into my yard and some reckless asshole hits me at ridicilous speeds while im turning, Im sure as hell not the person in fault.
Where is that cop facepuncher when you need him?
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;42318854]That sounds horrible and reeks of insurance fraud potential.[/QUOTE]
1. You cannot see how fast a car is going if it is coming straight towards you. This is because there is no frame of reference.
2. The Mazda driver calculates the time needed for the Lamborghini driving at the speed limit to reach the crossing and can see he can easily make the turn before the Lamborghini reaches the crossing.
If the Lamborghini did not speed, the crash wouldn't occur because as a driver you shouldn't have to account for speeding drivers because speeding is against the law. Therefore the Lamborghini is wrong.
A road where you have to cross oncoming traffic is not designed for high speeds, that's why there is a speed limit.
Aren't they designed to rip in half like this? It gets the motor and fuel away from the driver as fast as possible.
[QUOTE=smfE;42317490]Why does the most awful accidents always happen to the most amazing cars :(. That was clearly the guy/girl in the black car fault, he or she was crossing the lambos lane on top of that, the person did neither see it coming before it was too late.[/QUOTE]
Awful accidents the same or worse than this happen to normal cars all the time, but nobody cares when a 2002 Toyota Camry gets smashed up because it's worth like a 100th of what a Lamborghini is worth.
[QUOTE=The freeman;42317597]Because Lamborghinis are really popular and rather expensive cars. Also everyone knows what a Lamborghini is. The media would rather report on stuff people might care about, and that is what gets to you. A Lamborghini or Ferrari crash would gain more attention and make more web traffic than, say, a McLaren or Pagani crash.[/QUOTE]
Well, the current models from both McLaren and Pagani are more expensive than 98% of all Lamborghinis or Ferraris. I would think a Huayra or P1 crash would make headlines, albeit with it focusing on the price rather than the brand.
Also this reminds me of that guy who crashed his Ferrari Enzo and split it in half after spinning out on the highway. Guy lived too.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Trjle8V.png[/IMG]
There is no way that Mazda driver left enough space, even if the Lamborghini was going under the speed limit it would have had to brake/swerve.
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That video is annoying as fuck. Watermarks and embedded videos all over the fucking place.
[QUOTE=MIPS;42319602]Facepunch Insurance Brokers Inc.
That video is annoying as fuck. Watermarks and embedded videos all over the fucking place.[/QUOTE]
He could have just linked the original that the article used.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqlVJku4w-Y[/media]
[QUOTE=PirateMax;42319201]1. You cannot see how fast a car is going if it is coming straight towards you. This is because there is no frame of reference.
2. The Mazda driver calculates the time needed for the Lamborghini driving at the speed limit to reach the crossing and can see he can easily make the turn before the Lamborghini reaches the crossing.
If the Lamborghini did not speed, the crash wouldn't occur because as a driver you shouldn't have to account for speeding drivers because speeding is against the law. Therefore the Lamborghini is wrong.
A road where you have to cross oncoming traffic is not designed for high speeds, that's why there is a speed limit.[/QUOTE]
Well it's still not the Lamborghini fault, sure he was going too fast but that doesn't really matter cause what the Mazda did was make a left turn without yielding to the car going straight and like you said it's hard to judge how fast a car is going when it's heading straight towards you this is why there is something called Right-of-Way which is made to prevent accident like this form happening and one of the rules of Right-of-way is when you're making a left turn always let the car going straight pass.
This is what happens when you get too much of a good thing.
You can travel so far in so little time now using a car, yet most of us become impatient at the wheel. The Mazda driver could have waited 1-3 seconds and it would have prevented that accident. If you're think you're going to make the turn, it doesn't hurt to wait a few seconds just to be safe. The lambo driver was possibly speeding, but you have to be careful of other drivers, good or bad.
[QUOTE=assassin_Raptor;42317269]It's the Mazda drivers fault, he pulled right in front of the Lambo when he should have waited. But the Lambo was probably going over the speed limit too. But the accident would not have happened had the Mazda waited for the Lambo to pass.[/QUOTE]
The accident would have never happened if the lambo wasn't speeding up from a stop/slow to 60 in an area where the speed limit is much slower.
The guy turning would have been clear and was likely expecting to be clear to make the left turn from the position the lambo was in when he started turning. Instead, the lambo was being dumb and continued to speed up resulting in a collision
That said if the mazda driver was paying attention to the fact that a lambo was speeding up instead he would have easily been able to atleast try to correct to avoid a collision, instead he just goes right in and clips the guy. He clearly wasn't paying too much attention to oncoming traffic, especially since he didn't honk his horn or anything.
So in conclusion, both drivers are fucking twats and they both should pay each other's insurance bills
[QUOTE=ForgottenKane;42318744]Haha, I'd love to see the insurance bill the Mazda dude's gonna' have.
[editline]26th September 2013[/editline]
He deserves it too, he was clearly texting or just plain not paying attention to the road when that happened.[/QUOTE]
yeah
the speeding car wasnt in the wrong [i]at all[/i]
[QUOTE=Lomme;42318395]GTA 4 car damage system was already dramatic enough:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/p14FV.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
it turned into a motor cycle holy shit
"I believe in all accidents both party's are at fault."
Lol yes when you get rear-ended hard while sitting at a red light it's also YOUR fault!
[QUOTE=KorJax;42320285]The accident would have never happened if the lambo wasn't speeding up from a stop/slow to 60 in an area where the speed limit is much slower.
The guy turning would have been clear and was likely expecting to be clear to make the left turn from the position the lambo was in when he started turning. Instead, the lambo was being dumb and continued to speed up resulting in a collision
That said if the mazda driver was paying attention to the fact that a lambo was speeding up instead he would have easily been able to atleast try to correct to avoid a collision, instead he just goes right in and clips the guy. He clearly wasn't paying too much attention to oncoming traffic, especially since he didn't honk his horn or anything.
So in conclusion, both drivers are fucking twats and they both should pay each other's insurance bills[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=theVendetta;42319577][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Trjle8V.png[/IMG]
There is no way that Mazda driver left enough space, even if the Lamborghini was going under the speed limit it would have had to brake/swerve.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Chubbles;42317589]I would say it's not the lambo's fault at all. It's the fucking idiot that was turning. There was CLEARLY enough time to see the lambo coming and he could have easily waited. The lambo definitely shouldn't have been going NEARLY that fast, but even so, in this case, there was plenty of time for the other car to see the guy and stop before turning.[/QUOTE]
My friend told me a story where he was driving in Iran, he was following a car on a dead straight two-lane highway. Going along, pretty constant speed, and one car approaches from the other direction. My friend could see the other car for a good two or three minutes. As they approached, (nothing else/nobody else on the road) everything was normal and the car coming from the other side turns into the car in front and they wreck. Freakin' NOTHING ON THE ROAD but two cars, and they still crashed. Silly people. My friend saw it all coming and was way back when it happened.
tl;dr:
Two cars on a dead straight road, could have seen each other for MILES before they met, and they crash. Nothing else on the road.
Lambborejini?
More like Lambosheemy?
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42317159]Is that just the light from cameras or are the headlights still on?
Where is the power coming from?[/QUOTE]
Battery's in the front.
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;42317173]Does the lamborghini have explosive separators in the middle of it for just an occasion or something? Damn.[/QUOTE]
No, but it IS designed to break away like that. The damage to the car is minimal if you look at it, except for the part where it broke in half. But that's intentional, like F1 cars
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