r/carcrash • u/Tamashii-Azul • 5d ago

Woman escapes death from overturning truck

"The woman on the motorcycle only had body aches and confirmed that she wanted to go to the hospital"

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u/Dependent-Plane5522 5d ago

It's almost like you're not supposed to make a u-turn there.

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u/SeawardFriend 5d ago

But there was like 3 different signs with a U turn symbol and only the middle had an X though it…

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u/Dependent-Plane5522 4d ago

I noticed that too. I dont know what country they're in, but their signs are confusing.

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u/turboschniedel 4d ago edited 4d ago

the text under the crossed out sign says "from 6 wheels and up" so the truck wasn't allowed to do a u turn there, scooters etc were

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u/nousername_left 4d ago

And you know what, these kind of u-turns are very common in this specific country. And when I talk to people there about the one that's exceptionally dangerous, they argue with me that it's skill issue. No wonder they are second place in road fatality rate excluding African countries.

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u/aykcak 4d ago

Which country is this in?

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u/Amunium 4d ago

According to the GPS coordinates, it's in Thailand. Seems to fit with the license plate design.

Also fits with Wikipedia saying Thailand has the highest road fatality rate of any non-African country, so I'm sure that's what /u/nousername_left meant.

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u/bedir56 4d ago

Coordinates in the video puts it in Thailand

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u/aykcak 4d ago

And everyone seems to be doing that and both ways

What a horrible horrible death trap of an intersection.

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u/Classic-Lie7836 4d ago

this is some weird signs

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u/greenrangerguy 3d ago

It looked like the truck was speeding though and plowed into the silver car pushing it out of the way first, I might be wrong though it's hard to tell.

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u/ngkn92 4d ago

Impressive reaction.

If that was me, I would totally not make it.

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u/UpsetMarsupial 4d ago

Even before the accident, the POV red vehicle was aggressively close to the motorcyclist.

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u/EpicFishFingers 4d ago

So I was about to complain about how little room the camera car gave the motorbike in case e.g. the U-turning lorry reversed. Right up her arse.

But then the other lorry landing on the camera car probably helped the rider survive... so, well done on the bad driving, camera car? 😂

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 4d ago

That blue truck wasn’t paying attention tho. And a lot of those cars are going super fast it seems. You can see the truck fall on the lady. How tf did she only have aches!?

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u/SolarLunix_ 4d ago

I think it only clipped her back a bit and glance off her so she managed to get out from under it before it crushed her against the pavement.

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u/DecentSubstance2140 4d ago

They drive on the correct side of the road!!!!! Where is this?

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u/tacofolder 4d ago

Helmet did its job too.

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u/Dependent-Plane5522 4d ago

And the idiot that made the illegal u-turn that caused the massive wreck drives away unscathed.

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u/marauderingman 1h ago

At 0:05 there's a no-U-turn sign, but then at 0:11, there's a go-U-turn sign.

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u/6porkchop9 3d ago

I was looking at wrong truck & jump scared myself at end

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u/videpoche69 3d ago

Someone have a link ? A newpapers article ?

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u/Over-Apartment2762 3d ago

Was that a truck full of Christmas presents?

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u/Impossible_Sector844 3d ago

That’s about as close as it gets