. . . just remember, it could be worse. You could be driving in Russia.
Here's a selection of the more impressive Russian crashes of 2017. Language alert in places.
I must admit, Texas drivers haven't sunk that low, in my experience!
Peter
Saturday, December 30, 2017
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Texas, and the rest of the U.S., don't have the problem with insurance fraud/scams that Russia does, and thus doesn't have the sheer number of dashcams that Russia does. Thus, far less footage.
That said, at least two of those crashes were obviously in North America, probably the U.S. (North American license plates are easy to tell apart from Euro ones; I'm pretty sure I saw a Mississippi plate in one segment.)
As a cop in Texas, I can tell you that there are plenty of crashes that result from people driving like idiots/not paying attention. Case in point: I was pulling a woman over, expired MVR, IIRC. She pulls over and stops, then, as I open my door, she starts rolling again, right into the path of a pickup truck making a (properly signalled, I watched my video) right turn onto the intersecting street.
Rotten Russki drivers!
I don't miss driving in a place with a real winter, I don't miss it at all!
You must not get down to Houston much.
The two at 1.30 are definitely British roads, and I'd wager English drivers by the utterances issued!
@16 seconds.
You are submitting this claim because you were struck by a flying outhouse roof?
Yes, I have video proof.
For Russian crashes, these are "mild."
I follow this guy and when he says Russian Spectacular Crashes, he ain't kidding.
Just the intro will suck certain hairs on your rear area.
https://youtu.be/lDCfY1Y-S4k
No need to stop and render aid, they're probably OK, probably...
Main reason I got a dash cam was these videos. People are getting a little nuts around here of late.
I heard my expression once on the video
When people complain about Texas drivers, my refrain is that many Texas drivers are from out-of-state or the county. Not that we had a shortage of native bad drivers.
But dashcams are definitely on the list of items to get for our vehicles this year.
It's getting so anyone with good sense is afraid to go anywhere. It isn't my driving that I worry about - it's a toss up between the airhead banging her gums on her cell phone who's next to me, and the neanderthal that's tailgating me, and the soccer mom ahead of me who's fighting with the kids, looking for a store she can't find, and screwing around with her sat-nav system. Between all of these geniuses, I'm on borrowed time.
I drove roads like that for years in Russia. The trick is to drive slowly, very slowly. In almost all those videos they’re simply driving way too fast for the conditions.
Do half these drivers ever make their destination?
And why do all those vehicles seem to be made of clay and styrofoam?
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