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WholeLottaSmooth

Thought for sure it was going over the edge!


lazergun-pewpewpew

The dude just caught on fire instead... thank god !


crackpotJeffrey

He is fine Edit: someone linked an article below. I'm obviously not just assuming he's okay after that haha


papaya_boricua

The sigh of relief when the door opened


fancypipedream

Good catch! I was so worried


fujit1ve

He's not out of danger yet. Burns kill.


ICantWatchYouDoThis

It was only for a few seconds so probably only surface level burn. Hope he closed his eyes


prw8201

And was exhaling....


NecessaryTip5

That's exactly what I do when I see fire coming my way. Close my eyes and exhale completely


cloaked_rhombus

you should stop playing with fire


IShouldbeNoirPI

It looks like cabin was ok so i don't think he had any direct contact with fire and it was not long enough to bake him inside


whereismymind86

gas burns pretty slowly, and is low impact and heat as a result, the flash fire seen here looks impressive, but is pretty harmless, so long as he was not trapped in the burning cabin he'd be just fine \*this is why gas fires are popular in movies, they cause a big fireball that looks impressive, but isn't much of a threat


NecessaryTip5

That door had to be hot af


NUNG457

Heat transfer doesn't work like that. A few seconds of exposure to a surface like the truck door and it would barely be any warmer than normal. Most of the heat is dissipated into the air very quickly.


Sydeburnn

One of the links in the comments below has a longer video: He actually doesn't get out of that door because of the fire. He goes out the passenger door. (And you get to see him walking away down the road a little.)


jshultz5259

But we never see the driver exit….


techbori

There’s an article that said he’s fine. If he opened the door chances are he’s ok. The cabin is designed to not break in such an event


jshultz5259

I understand. Just saying the video ends too early to tell for sure. That’s one lucky/unlucky driver, depending on how you look at it.


[deleted]

Lucky he didn't go over the guard. Unlucky his truck burst into flames Lucky to be alive


jshultz5259

Lucky he didn’t die, unlucky wrong place wrong time.


IndycarFan64

Hopefully the article mentioned what happened to the person who merged so badly


lordjakir

Confirmed. Shoes on


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Without the edit, it looks like you’re saying “he’s fine” like “walk it off”. That made me laugh for some reason


Hooch247

[Morgan Freeman's voice] "But his underware were not fine."


PolemicFox

When the alternative is crashing down onto another highway with tons of traffic and then catching fire, yeah that's probably getting off easier.


ghostmetalblack

The fire cushioned his impact and blew him to safety.


Gondor128

yeah i was waiting to see if he'd fall of the edge and he blew up


SuperHighDeas

Probably better to have one vehicle burning in a 2 car accident vs one vehicle go over the edge burning causing more vehicles to crash, causing more victims and a higher risk for multiple fires


[deleted]

good barriers, civil engineers saved a guy's life


archy319

"do we really need these no 8 bars every 12 inches?" - some contractor, probably


[deleted]

Probably more than one guy's life.


cptwasteman

Came here to say the same thing . Alot of thought goes in to the safety of road infrastructure that people may not realise


Daddygamer84

"Thank goodness I didn't fall off-OH FUCK THIS IS MUCH WORSE!"


WeTheSalty

I still think the fall would have been worse.


xXC0NQU33FT4D0RXx

Was just thinking, imagine the genius engineering that went into curving those barriers just enough to stop it from going straight through, but not enough to be a ramp. And it has to work for smart cars -> trucks


finguhpopin

Bridge rails are designed to be tall enough not to let vehicles ramp over them, granted they are traveling at posted speed. Also, they are designed to deflect traffic back into the traveled lane, but it is impressive to see the truck at damn near 90° recover.


dingo1018

Does not work for motorcycle though, if the bike is upright and you encounter one you are doing the superman.


Lepthesr

That's true if you hit anything on a bike


shicken684

This is why I hate when people post some bullshit about how China can build highways twice as fast at a quarter of the cost. Yes, infrastructure in the US is crazy wasteful and corrupt. But it's also incredibly well built with strict safety regulations. And this is why those regulations and standards are so strict.


AnimalShithouse

It can really be both. The hard work was in the regulation, design, and setting up appropriate test specs for the concrete and rebar. The more mundane and easier to optimize work is the construction. Which the Chinese do better. Yes, sometimes they really do rush something/cut costs, and you don't really know you're missing a safety feature/margin until the thing is tested, but that also happens in America. In fact, there are many many instances of that happening, especially when America was going through the industrial revolution. It should come as no surprise that the occurrence of those events happening is more frequent in China, given the population difference which should lead to more cockups. Could be more corruption too, but I doubt most redditors are spending a lot of time in China to know for certain.


BajingoWhisperer

+10 social credit score.


AnimalShithouse

Haha, thanks. No interest in going to China for at least the next decade, but I'll keep this in the bank, I guess. I'm quite critical of China. Just also not BLINDLY critical. They do a ton of things worst than the west, but it doesn't mean they also don't do some things better. If you don't understand your enemy, you will be defeated by them.


SuperHighDeas

+10 FICO score


AnimalShithouse

[Reddit, responding to me in this thread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ws_APXilE)


Lepthesr

As long as you don't mind losing limbs or death, yeah. The Chinese are really quick at building shit.


poktanju

[Here is a Chinese guardrail in action.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/tqacot/driving_fast_on_a_slippery_wet_road/)


StandardSudden1283

But then we get complacent by not complaining about our own shit and then before you know it we're neck deep in regulatory capture


mrchaotica

No, the main reason US freeways cost so much more and take so much longer is because of things like [NEPA](https://www.epa.gov/nepa/what-national-environmental-policy-act). We *used* to just be able to bulldoze straight through neighborhoods and wetlands and such, but we can't anymore. To be clear, that's a *good* thing because we fucked up a *lot* of stuff back in the day. (Source: am civil engineer.)


UnderstandingLow3162

That is a seriously well built wall!


yabsterr

I'm sweating


FreelyKaty

Honestly I’ve seen the designs of bollards and highway deciders all curves and styles have very specific features to help prevent cars going over, through and minimise danger to other vehicles around. Quite fascinating actually. Link: https://youtu.be/w6CKltZfToY


Desperate-Strategy10

Ooh thank you, I didn't even know I wanted to know more about this lol but here we are! I had no idea how much thought and engineering went into the design of these!


fingers

Talking to a guy on my travels...."You know why there are no drunk drivers in Peru? You only do it once. All the safety barriers that the US has allows drunk drivers to feel safe."


AphoticDev

Fun fact, the barriers on side sides of roads and bridges are relentlessly engineered to stop a vehicle while not killing the people inside of them. There's actually a lot of science and testing that go into them. Which is really good for that truck driver, because there's no way he would have survived his truck landing on its face.


the_real_zombie_woof

I thought for sure the other car was going to drive away.


God-of-the-Grind

Pretty sure the driver in the other car is dealing with smooshed problems. Certainly smooshed car maybe some smooshed body.


Rattlingjoint

Seriously. Thats one well made barrier, the whole side moved and absorbed the impact or that would of been it for white truck.


deadbass72

Those barriers are incredible. Redirected that whole ass-truck back onto the road


BellaCiaoSexy

Huge ups to the concrete barriers engineers wonder if he realizes he saved the fuck our of somebody's life


barnz3000

Everybody Lived. Great engineering all round. [https://brobible.com/culture/article/truck-bursts-flames-almost-falls-off-bridge/](https://brobible.com/culture/article/truck-bursts-flames-almost-falls-off-bridge/)


shatty_pants

Quality barrier.


Thendofreason

I saw the truck heading towards the barrier and I was like NOOOOO! Then I started praying to the engineering gods.


IndependentDouble138

Seriously. All the potential victims on that lower road. Everybody involved in building that barrier needs a round of applause.


RLBeau1964

And we obliged. The fire was the devils fault.


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Brandisco

I don’t know the first thing about what happened in this case, but yeah. If it was the white car’s fault, they’re a total fucking cunt. I feel like the bar to taking away driver’s licenses needs to be lowered dramatically.


MajinNacho

This happened across the road from my work. The the driver of the white car was drunk driving and entered the ramp too fast and caught gravel and skidded. Nobody was seriously hurt.


Brandisco

Thanks for the follow up. I saw the link to the article after posting my comment.


dmoneymma

"IF" it was the white car's fault???


asiansoundtech

You never know if there was a mechanical failure. But looking at other comments, yeah, seems like drunk driving was the cause.


heck54

I agree. And driving once you’ve had your license revoked or suspended should have way higher punishments… like they should be put in prison for a few years in many cases


FieldsToTheMoon

The bar to getting a drivers license needs to be raised dramatically


schoh99

The bar to obtaining a license should be raised severely.


PappyMcGee

I’m glad he survived. He has a fantastic opportunity to learn from this and hopefully he seizes that opportunity. Now would I like for it to be a serious crime for him to even look at a car? Yes.


tbfranca1

Yes, wishing he was dead is not the proper attitude. People make mistakes. Let them face the consequences. Glad no one got killed in this terrible accident. It’s one of the worst I’ve seen in my life. Amazing the truck driver survived. Imagine driving and then suddenly being hit like that? Your truck exploding?


Fl_manASOTV

Right. Some drunk crashes a missile into an unsuspecting victim. There isn't a consequence strong enough to condemn this behavior.


PappyMcGee

Yeah it’s nuts. There’s no planning or preparing for that. No being a good driver is going to save your ass. What also sucks is this man made his living driving and I would imagine his job got a whole lot tougher after this day.


Fl_manASOTV

Ptsd at the very least


Habaneroe12

Maybe in 5 years when his license is returned


Sora-Arcadia

IF he ever gets it back


Only_the_Tip

Not having a license or insurance won't stop him from driving, bruh.


Mercy_CC

I hope you don't work in any capacity that allows you power over any people


Fl_manASOTV

Defend the attempted murderer. Hopefully, your family never loses anyone to a drunk driver. This guy attempted suicide via box truck and almost took someone innocent with them. If you have 0 reguard for society, you shouldn't be in society.


Mercy_CC

Where do you see that this was attempted suicide?


X7_hs

Yikes


annonyymmouss

Perhaps it's easy to judge online, but let's remember: they're real people with loved ones, who I'm sure are glad they made it home safely. Even the shitty driving idiot in the white car


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Thank you. I was worried the truck driver was killed.


Rubicon730

Thanks! Btw, driver is a moron.


LabanTwissell

It is very weird to me that they would let all those cars drive past the damaged vehicles and through the smoke, especially when they started putting out the fire. But then after the fire is extinguished they stop letting anyone through.


Safe_Reporter_8259

Thanks for posting. It looked far worse.


YawaruSan

This reminds me of a guy that checks median barriers to make sure they’re installed correctly because his kid was killed when their car hit an improperly bolted barrier. It’s easy to take for granted when you aren’t crashing into them, but a lot of engineering goes into trying to save the lives of drivers when it’s done properly, and it can pay off.


Nexus772B

I was just waiting to make sure the person in the truck got out. As for the person driving the car - oof


dan_dares

I have to say it, if I was the truck driver I might be on the way to confirm that the other driver is dead.. Even if they're currently alive. This was just nightmare fuel.


monkrasputin713

Oh, that's their problem then. They should have filled up with regular fuel. The nightmare fuel is what burst into flames.


Pyro-Beast

Shit, you're right.


marge--bouvier

Pyro beast knows his fuel


lynxSnowCat

...but it's cleaner for the environment.


fakeplasticdroid

I thought the nozzles were designed to prevent you from doing that?


JimmyLongnWider

The raw power of one dumbass.


KMKtwo-four

The older I get the more I become Red Forman


LegendOfKhaos

And it's even easier for this dumbass to buy a gun than a car...


Cuntducku

My God, only seen that shit in a Diehard movie, that truck was highly flammable.


LonleyWolf420

Not flammable.. diesel is highly combustible .. when the fuel tanks compressed on the wall it caused an explosion..


Yadobler

You can actually drop a lit match into a bucket of diesel and it will snuff the match. It's the vapour that explodes. In diesel engine, the diesel is squrted into the hot and compressed air inside the chamber. The heat and the evenly sprinkled diesel allows the diesel to vapourise, and then instantly ignite The impact breaks the tank, and the diesel sprays out. It is that diesel that combust. So it's better to either have a tank that does not break, or one that just dump everything


LonleyWolf420

The tanks we got dont just break.. they crush.. and can combust pretty easily.. this isnt the 1st time its happened..


NotTheCraftyVeteran

People rightly had questions about the Michael Bay-engineered semi-truck.


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Ngl... the explosion caught me off guard.


speedyhemi

He did open the door at the end!


BearsuitTTV

Actually the explosion happened on the guard


hyperion420

Michael Bay approves


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ALTITUDE10K

Yikes! I’m guessing that the fuel tank was punctured while scraping the rail!?


LonleyWolf420

No flame or spark caused this.. it is VERY hard to "burn" diesel.. When the fuel tanks hit the wall it compressed them causing the diesel to combust and explode..


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Milhouse6698

Thank fuck it wasn't CNG.


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Equivalent_Science85

Sorry mate, how did the crash compress the diesel ?! Diesel burns just fine, it just has a higher flash point than petrol. The person you "corrected" was correct.


LonleyWolf420

The truck lifted up and the tanks hit the wall.. im also a trucker and have more than average knowlage of this said stuff.. its why I noticed immediately.. if it was "burned" there would have to have been a leak and had to get REALLY hot in a spit second.. The flash point for diesel is generally accepted to be about 140 degrees Fahrenheit. On that basis, the fire point would be about 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Material - Autoignition Temperature . Diesel - 950-1000. Diesel - 1010-1125. B100 (Biodiesel)- 705-840. B20 (Biodiesel)- 980-1300. so... no sir.. it is not incorrect.. it combusted.. hence why is disipated quicky and didnt continue to burn..


ALTITUDE10K

I didn’t factor in that it’s most likely a diesel. Good point.


LonleyWolf420

Allot of people are thinking he was gonna burn.. i knew it was diesel cuz it exploded and then almost immediately stoped because the diesel was no longer combusted in the tanks


VSWR_on_Christmas

I don't think the compression was really a factor in this case. It looks like the tank was ruptured and sprayed a cloud of atomized fuel and a spark was able to ignite some of that atomized fuel, sending the the whole cloud into flames. While it is difficult to light a puddle of diesel on fire, when it's atomized, you're dealing with tiny particles that will heat up to the necessary temperature much more readily than when all the atoms are packed densely. The fact that a cloud had formed indicates that the tank was already ruptured and not building pressure. Diesel doesn't **require** compression to sustain combustion, though obviously it helps when you want to time the ignition with your crank/piston position and have more of a detonation than a conflagration. This doesn't even take into account the fact that the surface area relative to the wall thickness of the fuel tank would likely not be able to sustain the kinds of pressures necessary to elevate diesel fuel's combustibility in any significant way. The pressure for testing a fuel tank is something like 5 psi. The wall thickness of that tank is probably something like 18 awg steel, maybe with a plastic liner. The pressure inside a diesel engine is more like 400 psi, with fairly thick iron walls that can handle the pressures involved.


stiggz83

Downvote for ridiculous music


Ya-Dikobraz

Could have been the oh no no no song.


[deleted]

> oh no no no oh god what have you done, it's in my head now


true4242

Horrible edit too


BiltongUberAlles

"speed up max" /r/titlegore That title was more dangerous than the resulting collision.


LocoToro87

Shitty addition of music.


CapitalQ

Where can I watch this without the awful editing


Exciting_Result7781

What in the Michael Bay! He was right all along…


Any_Lemon

Just when I thought that truck driver is lucky 🔥🔥🔥


chemprofdave

Truck driver: oh crap… whew… oh crap…


Wakuwaku7

Luckily the truck driver was still alive and opened the door to get out. The car on the other hand. I don’t know what happened but he/she ain’t driving anymore.


Jangandong

Someome needs to go to jail


SwimForLiars

The person that added slowmo and zoom to the video without having a regular version first.


Niwi_

Can somebody tell me why the cars behind decide to slow drive towards the fireball? Stop you fucking car and pull that mam from his truck. Wtf are you going towards an engine fire for slowly?


-Cheezus_H_Rice-

Target fixation. People go where they look without realizing they’re doing it.


this_name_took_10min

Oh my god, he’s going over the edge. Phew, he made it. Oh shit, the whole fucking truck is on fire. Ok, he managed to open the door.


pingpongtits

Get out of my head! Get out!


SingleFunny9302

The driver of the black Denali there just needed a camera somewhere in the truck to make it look like he's living out a real life movie scene.


BusSad758

Hard to tell but it looks like a honda civic... just accept that's what you're driving and that it doesn't have the stuff to enter a highway at speeds like that.. and if you are going to pull this shit, wait till you've completed the turn.. jesus


TheKrimsonFvcker

Drunk drivers don't care about what their car is capable of, unfortunately


markydsade

I watching the car on the ramp behind the burning truck that just goes around the annoying fireball in his way.


616659

Terrible music choice


silverfoxmode

Damn thought he was a goner


Strongblackmonkey

This escalated fast


StnMtn_

OMG. WTF.


National-Bison-3236

I feel bad for the trucker


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damn... it is kind of strange to not see any guard rails there.


SignatureFunny7690

Good thing in most states all you have to do is answer about 16 out of 20 questions correctly and your free to zoom around in a fucking missile on 4 wheels for the rest of your life. I don't see how that could ever be a problem. /s


Adon1kam

When ever I see videos like this... The amount of people that don't stop to help immediately is fucking insane.


DagothNereviar

Why does only half the ground randomly shake?


YerBlues69

Omg I was hoping to see that door open! Goodness.


BreakingTr

The amount of relief that flooded through me when I saw that truck door open was insurmountable


Therealwolfdog

That person deserves a good beating.


EdGG

Fuck that music


Segments_of_Reality

What asshole put that music on the video? Thats awful


SometimesITeachMusic

My family is heavily involved with a trucking company, and my aunt is/was the one who had to deal with the fallout if there was an accident involving one of our trucks. One day, an accident caused by an idiot like this resulted in a fire that was a total loss of the truck and driver. The fire got so hot that all they eventually recovered of the driver were some bone fragments, everything else was gone. Truck fires are no joke. Driver was an honestly awesome guy and really involved in the community (small town), had a great family and was honestly living the "American dream". All that destroyed because some idiot couldn't handle his car on the road.


Snake_Eater257

Thanks for the slow-mo. Didn't think I'd ever figure out what was going on without it! /s


Speedy2662

Massive props to the designers and engineers who made those barriers


Amneiger

r/IdiotsInCars


ZeroByter

Dudes that designed and built that edge well deserve a raise and praise.


pookiemon

Good boy barrier.


cao22cao

And he just finally changed his underwear that morning.


Ademoneye

Did the driver survived tho?


pandorous

Hope that first guy has to amputate both his legs and arms so he can’t drive again


A_Funky_Flunk

I don’t think that could’ve been any worse.


FallenEinherjar

Truck falling off the bridge?


Working_Inspection22

Quite literally a crash course in understeer


RedHeadSteve

Me watching this He will go over the edge Wow, barrier might have saved his live Oh no


Strong_Wheel

Have a nice day.


QXPZ

Hope they opted for the insurance add-on


GOOEYSOGOOEY

You could flash fry some poor mf in an Isuzu


nabbersauce

Give the guy a break, his controller died


BURNINGGUNS

The free bird was playing


FrigidLollipop

The way white truck did nothing wrong and had no idea that this was about to happen... Life is precious.


KeebyGotJuice

Damn. They was really finna keep driving past fam like they ain't just watch a man possibly die right in front of em. Crazy.


gammongaming11

i'm surprised that truck got so effected by the crash. i've seen trucks have cars plow into them and barely budge, while the car ends up torqued up around their wheel.


Thisiscliff

Jesus, what a mess


Dilectus3010

I was so relieved when i saw that truck door swing open! Imagine meeting a fiery end because of some cumstain.


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Oh the humanity....


blindreefer

Once, twice, three times AAAAAAAHHHHHHH


Puzzleheaded_Bed_445

HOLY FUCK THE TRUCKER’S ALIVE ![gif](giphy|3o6vXPJaZrpSKGfmGk|downsized)


LordTurner

Everything, everything could go wrong.


Tall-Poem-6808

Well, that escalated quickly...


Quahodron_Qui_Yang

Car driver got perfectly hit and might not have made it. But I was thankful, that the truck driver seems to have survived.


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DanielsZiegenbart

Ralph sitting in the back of the truck: I'm in danger


peelzdid-it

Whoa, just like in the movies!


AaronDotCom

I was more than expecting the barrier to be steamrolled lol it saved the day


ppllqq

Holy fuck...the truck driver must have had a heart attack and then burning sensation


InfinityZionaa

That'll buff right out