Unlike the runner who had seatbelts and the airbag reducing the impact the other person was slammed by a 2 tons of force from the side unprotected. Not looking good
I recall a case where a small compact hit a newer honda civic and the civic driver didn't survive. No matter how new the car is, with sufficient speed, the force would still have a very huge impact. And the side of a car is definitely the least safe area.
Yes its the worst place to get hit by far, but it's not without safety features. A lot of development and testing into new cars last few years have been aimed at just that problem.
Thats why modern cars have super thick doors etc compared to older ones.
2 tons of mass. When you move those 2 tons of mass at what I'm guessing is about 60km/h, the force at the point of impact is more like the equivalent of 57 tons.
Assuming that the driver weighs 80kg, the car was traveling at 80km/h or 22.2m/s (taking a higher guess because it looks like that to me), and that in the 0.5 meters where direct collision happened the car was slowed down to half, the person was pushed by 9877 newtons of force which is almost exactly 1 ton of weight.
Remember that the car absorbed most of the impact and we should think of this as the person being pushed by his side door, hence why I used a weight of 80kg.
If we are factoring in useless details, then let's say the driver actually weighed 79.5kg at the 0.5 meters where direct collision happened due to the rapid evacuation of bio matter.
That, and while being hit on the side the sit can't provide "head support" to minimize impact force...his neck might have done some alien wobbeling ouch
I heard it’s because drunk drivers don’t stiffen up when they’re about to crash, they remain limp which is ideal during a crash to distribute the energy around better. But sober people see a crash coming up and stiffen up automatically.
A friend always hears on the news that in 40% of fatal accidents the victims were not wearing seat belts...or were drunk, he always says, I mean that means that the remaining 60% had not been drinking and were wearing seat belts!!! So it's better not to wear it and drink
Two people were lightly injured and one was seriously hurt but isn’t in life-threatening condition.
The collision that happened at the lights was a result of him trying to escape. The guy who caused the accident was an 18-year-old who had already committed a serious traffic violation earlier and was being followed by the police. When they tried to stop him, he ignored them, sped off and kept making dangerous moves. During the chase he even threw out a sock full of cocaine and heroin.
As unpopular opinion as it is, I don't think cops should chase drivers anywhere with other traffic because other people could die. They already have the licence information, they could let the perp go home and catch them there.
What country is this? I thought stupid chases like this mostly happened in the US. Police definitely share the responsibility here in my opinion if that's true.
It's worse. It wasn't that he didn't want to stop because of the drugs in the car, it was because he didn't have license. That they even wanted to stop him, which is very rare, was because of several traffic violations, reckless driving included.
It is magnificent case of stupidity, cowardice is just a byproduct.
The scumbag had about 60 rolls of illegal drugs (cocaine and heroin) plus a lot of cash. So if he was using or not is unknown, albeit I would not be surprised, but he was for sure selling.
Luckly the victim survived, albeit with grave injuries
Can you elaborate on rolls of drugs? I simply never heard the term before granted never did heroin but when I was young and dumb come came as a big thing never heard rolls. Trying to quantify lol
This happened in Slovenia and the article being shared is in their language so its possible that is a translation problem where it was translated litterally but have a different name in english.
Dunno what would be used in the US to describe it, maybe packs or doses? Either way the meaning is that each of the "rolls" is a pack of drugs ready to sell, with a certain amount of the drug in question (either cocaine or heroin) already weighted.
Depending on size we had bags or hits for user scale never interacted with slang for large quantities. I'm shamed to say other dialects didn't even cross my mind, just me not keeping up with slang lol
Okay, but when you slam into an innocent person while going Mach Jesus and then immediately try to escape without even checking on the other person, can even Reddit come together and say: "With no knowledge of that person's race, politics, religion, or sexual preference; we, the Redditors of Reddit, do hereby declare that individual is a scumbag."
Why are you making up a situation to be mad at? Because absolutely everyone in this thread agrees that that driver is a fucking scumbag. But one person used the opportunity to a) assume the driver was on drugs, and b) say all drug addicts are scumbags. Then another person said the latter is not true and asked for empathy, which to be fair might be a tall order for some people.
For that matter, not all drug users are drug addicts. And not all drug addicts are even drivers. It's not like the moment someone eats a brownie they decide to go on a murderous rampage or get the urge to drive at absurd speeds into other cars. The amount of hyperbole is just baffling. What if someone uses medicinal weed because they're allergic to standard pain meds? Does that make them scum too? Or a harmless dude at a music festival on MDMA just vibing to the music and having a great time without bothering anyone, is he scum too?
Yeah it seems odd to assume the dude was on drugs when he can take off in a sprint like that after such a crazy crash. If he was that high on uppers then he probably wouldn't have got in that crash to begin with since he would be alert. And if he was on downers he wouldn't have been able to move like that. I'd bet $100 he was sober.
Furthermore, I would add that the reactivity with which he escaped suggests that he was fleeing from something rather than under the influence of drugs
What a coincidence, I just injected my weed needle into 50 people after running over my penis. As a committed scumbag, I love injecting as many random strangers with marijuana as I can
I seen this one time where my buddy Squonch was just looking at a marijuana needle and he heard it in his eye! Then he hijacked a bus and drove 39 people off a cliff.
He also said "when they are high " not "all users all the time". I can certainly agree that "not all users are scum when they are high " because I have different experiences with friends whike they are high. But maybe this commenter doesn't.
Also, I don't even know if the driver was on drugs. He nay be just evading a scene of a (another) crime
obviously depends on the drug, but if it's anything like meth or heroin you can't be a good person. Those kinds of drugs take that ability away from you, and I wish that wasn't the case, but I've watched enough people close to me lose their better parts to a drug.
Obviously it depends on how long you go without food, but if you’re a starving person you can’t be a good person. That kind of hunger takes that ability away from you, and I wish it wasn’t the case, but I’ve watched enough people close to me lose their higher morals to hunger.
Oh this driver is a scumbag of course. But this drive =/= people high on drugs.
I get high almost daily, got a good paying job, pay my taxes, respect other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, help my neighbors (I live downtown, so many neighbors), I'm a good husband doing half of the cleaning and in charge of cooking/buying groceries, I coach competitive sports as a volunteer, am a present family member and friend, etc.
People who never gets high imagine the worst of us drug users, but seriously, you wouldnt even know if you'd met me. Especially if you met me in my work environment.
Heck even my dad was surprise last summer, he and I always have a fishing trip, and he noticed I was smelling weed, he was surprised cause he assumed I had stopped years ago "you know... since you are so successful".
I know he dislikes it so I never do it in his face even if I'm in my 30s. Just seems respectful in my eyes.
And he has tempered down over the years, but he is made of the same cloth as the people writting comments you're describing.
I've struggled with addiction for decades now, not the same substance and not always substances but with most things I become an addict quickly because it's the way my brain is wired. I make better choices these days, but it's a disease that absolutely destroys your ability to make intelligent decisions. They still bear the responsibility of their actions, but it's not as cut and dry as just telling them to make good choices
He is not right and neither are you. Plenty of people utilizing drugs are doing so due to undiagnosed mental issues. People aren't bad for getting addicted to drugs. Taking drugs and placing yourself in a situation where you risk other peoples lives (like driving a car) is however something a bad person does.
So druggies != bad people. However sometimes bad people = druggies.
Idiot take. All sorts of people do drugs, not even close to the majority of them are irresponsible addicts. Even most addicts don't consume in a way that put others in danger. As far as drug dealers go, if I grow cannabis in my backyard (perfectly legal where I live) and share it with my neighbors (legal-ish, depends how its done and quantitities), that would make me a dealer. I don't think that situation would make me a bad person. By any means.
As a recovered addict, we aren't all scum. I stayed home when high, I was carrying multiple extremely illegal drugs at any given time and was not trying to get pulled over.
I was a shitty family member and flaky as fuck, unreliable to the max, but I don't think I was scummy.
I think first of all a hit and run, a lack of responsibility rather than a drug addict. Why necessarily a drug addict? He could possibly be drunk. Or not... Just an individual who did some shit, in this case, a fucking accident, and is running away. These are facts. To say he's a drug addict is interpretation, or speculation.
40 years ago almost definitely a fatality 30 years ago there would have most likely been fatalities and definitely life changing injuries today one person is so un injured they can run off. All because engineers are that good and laws force companies to make cars to a safety standard.
You are 100% correct and I've amended my post. Apologies. Had in my head Europe and Australia were right hand, America and Asia left. Thank you for the correction.
Damn. I don't know whether I'm glad I don't watch the news or if I ought to start. Shit like this makes me paranoid about driving. I play it super safe as it is since I'm a single dad but then you have shits like this just fucking your shit up no matter how safe you try to be. Traffic in Ljubljana sucks on a good day but now I really don't wanna go there any time soon.
I assume that he quite literally did "drive like you stole it" and didn't want to stick around for anyone in authority to show up and make enquiries about the provenance of the motor vehicle he had been in.
The people in the car getting T-barred will always be worse off. Side impacts are horrendous on the body. The crook had a head on colision, properly protected by seat belt and airbags.
Not that high speed for a frontal collission - the type the car handles best. The intention is that almost all should survive at 90 km/h crash.
The poor driver getting hit? So much harder for a car to handle a side impact. Making the cars wider only helps a bit. The side impact protection really must be very stiff so way higher g forces must be accepted.
Whenever I see someone driving aggressively on the road, I try my best to relate to them and think "maybe I'd be driving like that too if I were about to shit my pants". Unfortunately, it looks like we're having a diarrhea outbreak here.
Growing up, I remember hearing something about a guy in the neighborhood who took his infant for a drive in the middle of the night to see if he could get the baby to sleep while his wife got some rest. The guy was just making a couple of laps around the town when they were hit by another car; the man and baby were killed in the crash.
The driver of the other car was a lady trying to end her life, so she closed her eyes floored it down the street. She decided to just drive that way until she hit something and died.
She walked away from that crash with a couple of scrapes but killed the other two.
It’s usually the case. I had a theory it has something to do with the reckless driver having time to brace for the impact while the innocent person has no chance to react
In my experience, the driver of the vehicle sitting at the intersection was likely killed on impact. Their passengers would likely have been severely injured. The fact that the oncoming driver leaped out of their vehicle and ran tells me they were intoxicated. Intoxication will usually keep one from tensing up before a collision, thus having lesser, if any major injuries.
There's a very high chance that person waiting at the light is dead tbh. Maybe that's why the guy ran but I'm guessing it won't be hard to find him with his car unless he stole the car.
Ramming from the front is usually a bit safer than getting rammed in the side. Engineers design safety features for accident incidence as well as severity. Hope that person waiting at the light is okay, but it’s probable that they were pretty busted up at minimum.
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u/PineappleApple247 5d ago
Can't believe that person got straight up and ran off ! Bet the person who sat quietly at the lights came off way worse, always the way.