Of all the Russian traffic accidents we’ve seen, the most severe are the ones which take place on the open road, and involve at least one truck. In this case, it’s two cars and one larger vehicle.
However, this is not your typical car bumps into truck crash, because what it does with the larger vehicle is not slam into it, but rather act as a ramp, which sends it flying onto its side, with one of its wheels detaching at speed and hitting the third car, the one with the dash-mounted camera. It is a mouthful, but it pretty much covers what happened.
The cause of the first driver’s veering into the oncoming lane is not known, but judging by the way it drifts to the left relatively slowly (compared to the general pace of things), a lapse in concentration or fatigue could be to blame – there was no reaction from the driver.
In the end, things apparently turned out fine, and if we are to believe the video’s description, “everybody survives”, which is good. This makes it safe to watch multiple times, just to see the John Woo movie-style flip. Hollywood could have a thing or two to learn from Russian crash videos, and add a bit more realism into the mix…
By Andrei Nedelea
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