31 October 2011

"Think fast !"

A driver survived having his car skewered by hundreds of steel bars in Taizhou, eastern China's Zhejiang Province. Yang Junsheng, 24, was driving at around 60km/h when he smashed into a truck carrying a full load of steel bars. At the moment of impact the bars shot backward, smashing through Yang's window screen. He says: "My mind was very clear at that second, and I immediately leaned down to the passenger seat...
Photo credit Quirky China News / Rex Features 

See also The end cap on a highway guard rail and Cringeworthy.

4 comments:

  1. Mel V.October 31, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    O_O This is why I always give loaded trucks a LOT of space. He's very fortunate to be alive.

    If he rear-ended a fully loaded truck and moved it far enough and fast enough for the tie-downs to fail and drop the steel into his windshield, why isn't the nose of the car crumpled? There must be a misunderstanding, mistranslation, or deliberately skewed report here.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 31, 2011 at 2:41 PM

    Could be that there were no tie downs on the truck. This occurred in China, where safety regulations may be nonexistent or unenforced.

    CCL

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  3. dragonmammaOctober 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Too bad the driver didn't think fast enough to hit the breaks.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 31, 2011 at 3:58 PM

    Reminds me of "The Fourth Man." (I tried to find a clip on youtube and ended up in some VERY NSFW spaces. Sorry.)

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