This is one of the biggest pucker factor videos we have ever seen and it was vitally important in keeping the driver of the car you are riding in out of a massive load of legal and insurance trouble. According to accounts we have been reading, the kid claims that the woman in the van (who ran through a red light, placing her in front of the S2000 at the moment of impact) was telling police officers that the kid we’re riding with was the one who ran the red! Because of this video, the driver was able to show police exactly what happened (light turned yellow as has was in intersection) and as best we know that exonerated him. It is an amazing thing to watch happen because of the speed in which the situation unfolds and the speed in which a human being reacts.
If you watch this frame by frame the nano-second before he totally nails the van, the driver is going for the horn. It is just an instinctual thing we guess but it is still wild. The woman is also looking his way right before the impact as well. Seeing airbags inflate and save this kid in real time is also something else. How incredible are those systems when you see them work like this. It takes a second or two for the driver to shake the cobwebs out and get his car turned off. He finally reaches back for the camera and shuts it off as well. By the looks of it the thing is a GoPro or something similar. Does he have it on when driving all the time? Was it there from an autocross or something? Who knows but it sure was good he had it turned on!
We don’t get to see the outside of the car but judging by the shot it took and the crumpled stuff we can see, it is a write off. Dang.
Keep your head on a swivel. That was easily avoidable.
I agree, he should have noted her closing speed. She was never going to stop. Being in the right is not a guarantee that you will not wreck.
Got that right, especially if you ride a motorcycle!
I don’t get the horn as an “instinctual” thing. I drove professionally for a long time and avoided quite a few accidents, but my first or second reaction was never going for the horn.
I’m with Johnnyblackheart. I know, we were expecting it; but this was something my dad taught me long before i could drive, to always looks both ways even when I had a green light. What was this kid looking at?
Kid is at fault. Light turned yellow long before he hit the intersection, and if you look at 12 seconds, you can see the top light in the signal is lit as he starts going through the intersection. Dumb-ass ran the light, and he should have gone for the brakes or attempted to steer away from impact instead of going for the horn.
nope a yellow light on his side is still read on the vans side that van was never going to stop look at the speed it was going
If his light was yellow, then hers was red….
A yellow light is just as bad as a red light here in The Witch-Cheets-ya-all Kansas.
Say what you will about hitting the brakes when you see the light turn yellow. I’ve done that and nearly been rear-ended several times. Once I heard a semi’s horn and screeching brakes behind me. I had to roll out into the intersection to avoid that semi hitting me from behind. One time a pickup passed me on the shoulder while I was stopping.
You can see this kid looking and noticing the van is not stopping and he goes for his brakes.
Green means go, yellow means go faster….
He had a yellow but he still had the right of way. There is no way on this earth she had a green yet not even close, and she was already at speed when she came barreling through the intersection. Even if he would have tried to stop he would have slid into the intersection at the speed he was going. He is not at fault. Was going a little fast to me, but he did have the right of way with the yellow.