It’s a very well documented fact (through thousands of hours of footage obtained from dashboard-mounted cameras) that a large proportion of Russian drivers don’t pay attention nor do they yield to pedestrians when they seem them crossing the road.
From the first few seconds of this video it becomes instantly clear that the driver is going way too fast for a heavily trafficked and fairly populated area, and that an accident is imminent.
The crash happens at around 10 seconds into the clip when a young man crossing the road notices the crazy driver heading towards him at speed.
Instead of being a helpless victim, though, the eagle eyed pedestrian acts blazingly fast jumping onto the hood of car to dampen the crash, a move that ultimately saved his life.
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