Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Watch a Ford Focus do a 180-Degree Flip after Getting Caught on a Trolley Wire!


Russian dashcam videos never cease to amaze us. Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes an incident that defines the word 'strange'. And guess what; the driver is not the one to blame here…

The man seen in the video driving the previous generation Ford Focus hatchback, was going his way when all of a sudden, the car's front end clipped a street trolley wire that had fallen onto the road.

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Chuck Norris Approved: Truck Driver Thrown Out of Cabin During Crash Lands on his Feet!


You have to see this accident to believe it. In the video footage that follows, we see the driver of a long lorry suddenly turning left into the other lane to avoid a crash with another truck that had stopped in the middle of the road – who knows why.

A third truck coming from the other direction has no choice than to make a small maneuver and smash into the lorry's metal container.

What follows next, will leave you speechless as the second truck's driver, who was obviously not wearing a seat belt, is thrown out of his vehicle's window but he manages to land on his feet without suffering any injuries!

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One Helluva Dedicated Traffic Cop Hitches a Ride to Catch Lawbreaker


Now this is one traffic officer who really takes his job seriously! On September 19 (the date shown on the footage is wrong), a 46-year old policeman stopped a black Skoda Octavia for a traffic violation on the road alongside the Fontanka River in Central Saint Petersburg, Russia.

A driver of an unrelated car or truck, who we come to know as Roman Ilchenko from the name listed on his YouTube channel, was traveling on the street recording everything though his dashboard-mounted camera.

At around 1 minute and 25 seconds into the first video and on the right side of the road, you can see the traffic officer holding on to the side of the Octavia that was trying to make a getaway.

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Now That is One Extremely Lucky Motorcyclist



If you only watch the first few seconds of this dash-cam video, you are probably going to think that this accident did not end at all well for the BMW biker, as it looks like he got caught under the vehicle – which, judging from its height and the absence of a visible hood, appears to be a truck. Read more »

Lada 2104 Performs a Kamikaze Act on the Highway

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It could be that the driver of this dark-blue VAZ-2104, better known under its Lada nameplate out of Russia, could be thinking why the heck are all these cars going the wrong way or perhaps he or she was too wasted to know what was going on at the time.

All we know is that several drivers on this highway should consider themselves extremely fortunate for not getting into a deadly head-on collision with Russia's version of the "Kamikaze" act and just hope that we don’t discover a related dash-cam video over the next couple of days…

Consult the video just past the break for a closer look at the incident.

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Honda Says it has "No Immediate Plans" to Replace the Accord in Europe

2013 Honda Accord
While in the United States, the Accord is Honda's bestselling nameplate with 218,665 deliveries this year (from January 1 through August 31), in Europe, things aren't anywhere near as rosy.

Speaking to Just-Auto, a spokesperson for Honda said that Accord sales in the continent have plummeted to the point that the car has become a niche model. As a result, the spokesman said that the Japanese carmaker has "no immediate plans" to launch a new model in Europe.

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Russian Truckers Get Together and this Time, it Gets Really Ugly [NSFW]


Earlier today, we shared a dash-cam video of two truck drivers in Russia ganging up (to some extent) on a passenger car that had attempted to overtake them.

Now, another video of a group of truckers that was recorded on September 9 has been making the internet and even television rounds in Russia – and this one is far more violent.

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Humor us With Your Captions: Talk About Having a Bad Hay Day…


This video of an old Lada sedan peeking out from a gigantic nest of hay that is resting on its roof (and which may or may not have been filmed in Russia), just begs for some comical captions.

The 'bad hay day' in our article's title is the first thing that popped in our heads upon viewing the clip but we are pretty sure that you can come up with better captions that we would just love to read in the comments section that follows beneath the jump.

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Ouch…Jogging Man Violated by a Tram


Seriously now, what was this man thinking when he started jogging on the tracks of a trolley car?

Though the video isn’t very clear about this, we are going to assume that he was wearing earphones listening to music or perhaps his favorite radio station when the tram came approaching from behind and well, let's just say rammed him off his feet…

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Thunderstruck: Russian Mayor's Toyota Land Cruiser Almost Hit by Lightning on the Road


It’s never a boring day on Russian roads as there's always something interesting to be captured on film by the myriad of dashboard-mounted cameras used by local drivers.

Just the other day (never mind the 2100 date on the video), a resident of the Russian town of Zheleznogorsk, which as we learned, was established in 1950 for the production of weapons-grade plutonium, was minding his own business when all of a sudden thunder struck down on the road at the same time that a Toyota Land Cruiser was passing by.

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You May Want to Slow Down Next Time…


If you are going to speed on a road that you shouldn't in the first place, you ought to at least pay twice the attention to things like, oh say, vehicles that are in front of you and stop lights.

That's a lesson learned the hard way by the motorcyclist featured here and who imprinted his helmet on the rear window of a Porsche Cayenne in Russia.

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Excuse Me While I Drift Right By You Around the Corner


We have seen many videos of Russian drivers trying to overtake motorists at stoplights, but most of those filmed attempts that make it on the internet for our amusement end up in tears and shattered metals.

Not this one, though, as the driver of the black Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG (that's the 6.3-liter V8-powered model with 451 horses and rear-wheel drive) made a sweet pass with a perfectly executed drift without any incident whatsoever.

Check out the short video clip for yourself right past the break.

Thanks for the tip Vassia P.!

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Two Girls, a Car and One Very Big Facepalm…


Getting into a parking accident when you are all by yourself is one thing, but to crash when a friend is helping out is quite another…

The driver inside this burgundy-colored Dacia Sandero Stepway was having a hard time figuring out how to exit a parking space so she had one of her lady friends come out of the car and steer her towards the right direction.

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This is What Happens When You Take a Fast Turn in a Large Fuel Tanker


Unlike human laws, you can't change the laws of physics and you can't escape them. Simple as that.

Now try telling that to the Russian driver of the large fuel tanker that attempted to speed through a roundabout…

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Bat-Holding Teen Smashes a Mazda6 Over a Magazine Cover...We Think


While nothing really surprises us any more, it's not everyday that you see a youngster going berserk on a fairly new vehicle.

To be honest, though, we have some reservations about the authenticity of this episode and whether it was staged or not (for whatever reason), but ultimately, we will let you be the judge of that.

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Russian Driver Experiences the Night of the Living Dead


So, you're driving on a highway stretch that's not lighted and all of a sudden a man appears in the middle of your lane; what do you do?

It's a split second decision that's hard to make but this calm Russian driver made an extremely quick maneuver saving his own as well as the drunk pedestrian's life.

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Some Pedestrians Can be More Destructive than Cars in Russia….


While we don't condone violence of any kind, we can understand and perhaps explain why the pedestrian seen in this video reacted like the…the Karate Kid in this situation filmed in the land of dashcams and low-flying military air-crafts.

The young Russian man was using the pedestrian crossing when a furious old Lada came speeding around the corner only marginally stopping before it hit him.

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You Never Know What Will Pass You By…or Over on a Russian Highway


For sure, Russian highways are full of surprises, but these two related videos take the cake when it comes to the…unexpected.

In the first clip, we see a Russian fighter jet, reportedly a Sukhoi SU-24, flying very closely to the ground towards a passenger car on a stretch of road near Morozovsk in southern Russia.

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The Key for a Perfect Knock Down on the Road is Timing


No need to explain why speeding between vehicles stuck in traffic with a motorcycle, especially when its pouring rain, is a recipe for disaster.

On the other hand, perhaps we do since some riders insist upon placing themselves in danger like this motorcyclist, who was kind enough to share his painful story as it was recorded by his helmet-mounted camera.

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That's not What Excavators are for, But it Will Do…


Who knows how or why this Russian man found himself in such an extremely sticky situation in the mud, but he was fortunate enough to receive a helping hand…or rather a bucket from one of his fellow workers.

What's really impressive about this scene are the skills of the man operating the large excavator as he was able to scoop him out of the mud with the prevision of a gifted heart surgeon.

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