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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos

This Might Be The Most Expensive Bumper Tap In Automotive History

Ever bumper-tapped a car in a parking lot? I’ve done it once. I accidentally backed my Chevy Blazer into the nose of a Nissan Maxima in a gym parking lot. The second my truck stopped suddenly...

Seven Minutes Of Hell: These Enduro Riders Recorded Their Best Fails

Okay, so it’s seven and a half minutes, but who is counting, really? Trail riding a dirt bike can be an absolute blast, especially when it breaks up the monotony of being stuck on a track, but...

Poor Kitty…”Hello, Kitty!” Liveried McLaren Gets Wadded Up During A Blancpain Endurance Series Race At Monza

Even in a sea of colorful and notable race cars, a white McLaren 650S Blancpain GT car painted white with pink “Hello, Kitty!” graphics is going to stand out like a sore thumb. Maybe the...

Watch A Boeing 757’s Jet Blast Catch And Fold Up This Hatchback’s Rear Gate Like It’s Made Of Paper

Skiathos Island National Airport in Greece is very similar to Princess Juliana International Airport on the island of Saint Martin: the approach to the runway is butted up to a coastal road and a...

This Dashcam Caught The Moment A Truck Fell Off Of A Ramp And Into The Middle Of Traffic In Canada

It doesn’t take much to startle drivers on a busy motorway. If an animal darts into traffic, drivers saw the wheel like they were setting up for a drift entry, which tends to really mess with...

This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally

Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...

Did You Have A Flying Car Miss You By Inches? Are You Unfazed By That? Must Be Another Day In Russia!

What is it about Russians that causes them to have catastrophic wrecks, the kind of which wouldn’t look out of place at a rally, and have a completely nonchalant attitude about it? These four...

The Louisville Train Crash: Why Trains And Cars Don’t Go Together, Courtesy Of New Zealand

Two people died and two were injured on March 15th, 2015 in Louisville, Kentucky when a Toyota Camry tried to beat the train at the last possible second. There was no hope of the Camry making it,...

Touring Car Insanity At It’s Finest – High Speeds, Close Racing And Big Crashes!

Touring Car racing is, to me at least, what NASCAR should be. It’s got pretty much everything that makes NASCAR good (close racing, big crashes, drivers with attitude issues) and fixes what...

This Is What Happens When The Rear Suspension Fails At 110 Miles An Hour

17-year-old Ryan Savage had been having one hell of a day out at Donington Park in his Lotus Elise 111R. He had just set the fastest-ever Donington lap for the Elise Cup and was generally doing very...

More Russian Dashcam Footage! A Truck Blows The Tires Off On A Major Roadway!

Have you ever driven on a highway and had a semi-truck blow one of it’s tires apart? I had it happen to me once a few years back, one loud boom as the tire exploded, a couple seconds...

What Happens When The Pace Car Causes Problems? This Video Shows You What Happens When Things Go Wrong For The Safety Car

The pace car, the safety car…whatever you call it, it’s job is to keep the drivers safe when things aren’t all right on the track. Whether it’s a NASCAR track or a road...

This Nissan GT-R Launches Hard…Not Off The Line, But Over The Barrier!

The Nissan GT-R may have not been designed as a drag racer, but when you combine the twin-turbo 3.8L V6 with a brilliant all-wheel-drive system and a launch control system that can best be described...

Look Out Below! Boston Driver Launches His Toyota Tacoma Off Of Interstate 93

A Boston driver had better be thanking any and every deity possible for seeing him through this crash. Early Sunday morning 33 year old Vannak Sao launched his 2006 Toyota Tacoma off of a raised...