Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Wreckage Video: A Stolen Truck Plows Through Traffic
Imagine yourself as the driver of the truck in this video. He’s a car thief who made off with the big truck only to drive into heavy traffic and total gridlock. Rather than seek an alternate...
Vintage NASCAR Wreckage Video: Johnny Allen Crash and Fire at Darlington Circa 1962
As much as we loathe the modern iteration what a racing “stock car” is, they are a vastly improved piece, on the safety front than their older brothers. Proof of this comes in the form of...
Epic Video Bonanza: Bus Jumps!
We tend to get fixated on stuff every now and again. Recently we have become obsessed with people jumping school buses over stuff. Judging by the comments of our previous items featuring flying...
Crunch Video: A Hot Rod Pile-up
Hot rods that get driven occasionally get crashed. This is a sad but unavoidable fact. We’ve all seen a guy who got a little nuts with his car on the street and hit a tree or pole. One thing...
Wild Video: Dude Swallowed by Alky Funny Car
The luckiest dude in America is the guy who is standing in front of this Alky Funny Car when the car shoots forward and swallows him up inside the body. It appears to us that the driver was whacking...
Wreck Video: Full Contact Aussie Road Racing
During our days announcing SCCA road races, one of the most fun classes to call was Spec Miata. What they lacked in power and speed they made up for in contact. It was Saturday Night Thunder with...
Extreme Wreckage Video: Sleepy Woman Drifts Jeep Into Convenience Store
Cars crashing into buildings make for good video. So long as no one gets hurt and the only wounds are suffered by bags of Cheetos and Funyuns we’re good with reveling in the carnage. This video...
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...
Wild Wreck Video: In-Car Footage of a Dragster Rolling Over at Speed
The advent of the affordable on-board camera has made the wonder of in-car video a rather normal thing these days. Footage of cars crashing from the inside out never gets old in our book. We were...
Crazy Crash Video: A Bad Motorcyclist Pays the Price
Riding a motorcycle is a dangerous enough enterprise when you are talented at it and generally know what you are doing. It becomes a painful experience when you are an idiot, like the man shown in...
Video: Insane Flaming Engine Failure and Freefalling Crowd Killer
Oh man is this video nuts. Racing up sand dunes is a full-on motorsports frenzy in the Middle East and this video shows the absolute worst case scenario at a dune event. The hot roddy truck makes it...
All-Time Carnage Video: Coach Bus Crash Testing
We’re total suckers for crash test video. We can watch cars smash into walls for days on end, but we’re now going to up our requirements. This is video of a coach-style bus being crash...
Video Carnage Bonanza: More Circle Track Spectator Drags Wreckage
Few things we have posted over the years here at BangShift.com have gotten us the response that the recent video bonanza featuring spectator drags wreckage from circle tracks across the country...
Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes
The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...