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Old 07-14-2009, 09:13 AM
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4runner smash captured on traffic cam

Seen this on www.break.com
http://www.break.com/index/crazy-car...ersection.html
what an idiot in the other truck
Old 07-14-2009, 09:15 AM
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WOWZA. Scary stuff
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DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

Thats insane. Anyone know the outcome of that?

This is what the article says. "Luckily, nobody was killed in this accident after the white truck completely blew a red light slamming into the cross traffic."
Old 07-14-2009, 09:45 AM
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Is that an Audi A4 that burst into flames?
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Scary. This happened to me a month ago. And that 4runner looks identical to my new truck.
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That 4Runner took a direct door hit. I'll tell ya, racing Figure 8 and taking door hits is scary enough with a full cage. I hope they were ok, but it looked like that 4Runner really did a good job not caving in on them. That ended up being a 7 car accident.

Look at the pedestrians crossing too, another 5 seconds and they would have been roadkill. Scary!
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I saw this a few nights ago or last night while cruising break and never noticed it was a 4runner , man that was a scary accident.

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That was NUTS! it just missed the driver, otherwise that person wouldn't have been feeling as good as they were after that! This is why we pay attention to what we're doing 100% of the time while behind the wheel, folks. Thankfully the truck was braking (though, too late) at impact...
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you see the tire fly off that would of killed or really mess someone up
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It really is amazing that no one was killed in that!!!
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Yeah I seen that one Break today....that Runner got the worst of it! Everyone apparently survived...which is the important thing.
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dang i had to watch that like 4 times thats intence
Old 07-14-2009, 08:10 PM
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Damn, that truck had a dog in the bed. He went flying and the car still in the intersection was on fire. Lots happening in that vid.
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poor dog! 0_0 well at least nobody died.
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how the heck did that car catch fire so quickly?
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The person was probably texting.
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That's why you scan every single intersection, every single time, no matter who has "right of way".

And that's why you never enter an intersection immediately after the light has turned green. Delay long enough to do a scan and you can eliminate yourself from being a statistic.
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Originally Posted by RobD
That's why you scan every single intersection, every single time, no matter who has "right of way".

And that's why you never enter an intersection immediately after the light has turned green. Delay long enough to do a scan and you can eliminate yourself from being a statistic.
That sounds like a CDL driver to me... what they taught us at "driving school", anyway...
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I'm impressed that the runner righted itself and ended up back on it's wheels. It's like a friggin cat.


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