Passenger Ejected from Kia Cerato Roll Over Crash Lives Another Day

It has been said over and over again that seat belts are there for your own safety and should be worn by all passengers at all times, but some people just don't seem to get it.

In yet another display of what can happen when a driver or a passenger neglects to wear their seatbelt, a woman sitting unbuckled at the back seat of a Kia Cerato that drifted (it seems the driver fell asleep or was not paying attention to the road) and crashed into the side walk before turning over, was thrown out the rear window.

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In Russia, You Now Have to Watch Out for Driverless Cars

As if there were not enough irrational drivers on Russia's roads, pedestrians and car owners alike now have to keep an eye out for driverless vehicles with a mind of their own.

Captured on camera is a strange incident that took place the other day in the city of Perm, formerly known as Molotov, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains.

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Rail Buff Films Train Crashing into a Water Truck in Utah, Amazingly, No One Hurt

Have you heard of the old saying of being "in the right place at the right time"? If anything else, this holds true for a Utah man who was filming trains in the city of Wellington in Carbon County this past Friday with his iPhone.

In the YouTube video's description, James Wood says he was recording video for his 4-year old son at 100 E. Railroad Avenue in Wellington when he captured footage of a train ripping through a water truck that was crossing the tracks at that precise moment.

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Three Toyota Prius Hybrid Models Also Caught Fire at New Jersey Port During Storm

As it turns out, the 16 Fisker Karma extended-range hybrids weren't the only new hybrid cars to catch fire in Port Newark, New Jersey last Monday on October 29, after being submerged in seawater during Hurricane Sandy.

In a completely separate incident during the storm, three Toyota Prius models, including a conventional hybrid and a plug-in hybrid, were also damaged by fire at Port Newark, according to a report from the LA Times.

Toyota confirmed the incident. "One Prius out and out burned, the others just kind of smoldered and got really hot," Cindy Knight, a Toyota spokeswoman told the New York Times (NYT), adding that the fire "likely started because saltwater got into the electrical system." The Prius that burned down completely was a plug-in hybrid model.

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What Will Happen to All Those Cars Damaged by Hurricane Sandy?

We believe that we can deal with almost everything until nature decides to demonstrate that we are mostly helpless against its forces, no matter how technologically advanced our civilization is.

Hurricane Sandy that crashed onto the East Coast this week has sadly claimed many lives; and that pales in comparison to everything else.

Still, however harsh it may sound, life goes on and the survivors have to deal with the aftermath. Sandy being a hurricane and then a super storm has inflicted big damages. Besides homes, cars are probably the most expensive, as well as exposed, items that were flooded or broken by other means, such as falling trees.

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When You Try This with a Harley Davidson, You're Asking for Trouble….

We will let you in on a dirty "little" secret that may surprise a select few including the protagonist of this accident: Harley Davidson motorcycles aren't sports bikes and should never be treated as such on the road.

To give you an example, a telltale sign that you are definitely overdoing it and pushing your luck is the sound of stretched saddlebags scrapping the asphalt. If anything else, this should inform you that you are being too much of a "Low Rider" for your own safety.

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Sandy Super Storm: Bentley Continental GTC Convertible Driver Thinks he Owns a Boat

New videos shot during the cataclysmic Hurricane and then Post-Tropical Storm Sandy that unleashed it power on the Mid-Atlantic and New England Coasts this week are constantly popping up on the web.

In this clip filmed by a one "Gianni F", who along with his friend, was navigating through the flooded roads of Bayville, New York, captured several drivers including one in a Bentley Continental GTC Convertible and another in a BMW 5-Series sedan playing with their expensive wheel's fate and…insurance premiums.

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Driver Startled by Car Stopping at a Pedestrian Crossing, Makes a Run for It

As we have seen more times than we care to remember, slowing down at a zebra crossing is something not all Russian drivers are accustomed to, which leads to myriads of accidents like this one.

Only difference here is that after seemingly smashing into the car in front and on the side, the driver of the white Lada Samara quickly turns the hatchback around and heads towards the other lane abandoning the scene of the accident, almost causing another one in the process and leaving the other road users scratching their heads…

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Unbelievable Raw Video Shows Cars Under Water in Manhattan

It would take someone with the imagination of fictional character Agent Fox Mulder to have predicted the catastrophe caused by the mega storm known as Sandy and which has not yet been unveiled in its entirety, that hit the east side of the United States on Monday.

Among the areas hit the most was Manhattan after a record 13-foot storm surge flooded the southern parts of the city.

A video shot by a one Sean Blackwell from the relative safety of a higher building shows how the raging water turned East 8th and Avenue C into a sea river engulfing cars and everything else in its way, just before the blackout took place.

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Excitement Turns Into Fear for Family Filming Superstorm Sandy when Trees Smash into their Cars

Despite our better judgment and unlike animals, people have the tendency to stay put when Mother Nature unleashes its destructive forces – well, that is, until something-something hits the fan...

Like this family filming the powerful gusts caused by this week's Superstorm Sandy from the supposed safety of their own homes.

The man holding the mobile camera describes the situation "The Apocalypse" and makes some funny remarks, but only until trees start snapping and crashing down on their own and their neighbors' cars as well as power lines, which eventually sparked a fire.

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Sandy Takes Down Jalopnik, Huffington Post and a Bentley Continental Convertible

The devastating effects of Superstrom Sandy continue to create havoc on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. The storm, which has already claimed the lives of at least 16 people in the States and one in Canada, adding to an earlier toll of 67, has cut power to more than 7 million people and caused massive floods in many states.

In addition, Sandy brought down several popular websites in the New York area such as the entire Gawker family of blogs, which includes our friends over at Jalopnik, along with the The Huffington Post, Mediate and Buzzfeed.

The crew at Jalopnik, who are well in their health and are now posting through the blog's Facebook and Twitter accounts, and just moments ago, from live.Jalopnik.com as well, were still able to capture this shot of a Bentley Continental GTC Convertible, most likely in the streets or shall we say…river streams of New York City, in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

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Holy Russian Luck! Driver and Passenger Make it Out Alive from Horrific Accident

True, Russian dashboard cameras have afforded us hundreds and hundreds of spine-tingling accidents over the years, but we cannot honestly remember any as shocking as this one, and at the same time, ending on a happy note.

Once again, the protagonist in this scene is driving a classic Lada / VAZ 2101 saloon.

We're not sure if the driver attempted a foolish overtake of if he was trying to avoid something on the road, but he drove between two busses in his lane and lost control of the RWD sedan crashing side first into a large truck on the other lane, which sent him flying into one of the busses (with the camera).

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Oops…Large Crane Falls and Crushes Rare Jaguar XKR-S and BMW 6-Series Coupes

An automotive dealer from the small Belgium village Gits was in for a nasty surprise earlier this week when a large crane trying to position a huge fuel tank for a new gas station being built right next to his shop tipped over and crushed a pair of cars parked on the lot.

The two vehicles were a rare Jaguar XKR-S coupe (the 2008 model), of which only 200 examples were built for the European market and one he reportedly had just…sold for €150,000 (US$194,000), and a previous generation BMW 630i Coupe.

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Backing Up Into a Ferrari California Should Help Fix Your Insurance Rates

When does a simple fender bender turn into an incident worthy of writing a post about? Well, duh, when it concerns a hot Italian supercar, of course.

While filming a dark colored Ferrari California driving with its top down on the busy streets of Cannes in the French Riviera, YouTube user Superlennyo was able to capture a white, older generation Renault Clio hatchback backing up, but not slowing down, until it scrapped the bumper of the Italian hardtop convertible.

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P Diddy’s Cadillac Escalade Crashes with Lexus RX

Rapper, singer, producer, actor and businessman Sean Combs, also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Diddy and P Diddy, was in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac Escalade along with a passenger, who is believed to be record boss Andre Hurrell, going west on Sunset Boulevard when their SUV collided with a Lexus RX that made a left turn in front of them. Read more »

That's One Way to Destroy to a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen…

Besides being amongst the most recognizable and oldest cars in production, the Mercedes-Benz G-Class or G-Wagen is also a tremendously capable off-road vehicle and one of the very few models in its class to use three fully locking differentials.

Nevertheless, you can understand that there are limits to what it can achieve. For example, attempting to conquer an extremely steep hillside cresting close to a 90-degree angle at full speed is practically begging for trouble.

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You Won't Believe This Motorcycle Accident Unless You See it

It's one thing to hear this story and another to watch it with your own two eyes, but if you're willing to read before you view the footage, here's what happened.

About 20 seconds after a group of motorcyclists began a dirt bike race on the tarmac, one of them lost his balance and slipped on the road. A rider coming from behind was evidently taken by surprise and didn't have much room to avoid the crash.

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In Russia, You Need to be Careful of Boats Hovering Over the Road…

Adding to the long list of hazardous objects one needs to be prepared to address while driving on Russian roads is boats - yes, you read that correctly.

Following a video with a boat on a trailer passing a car, which hit the interwebs earlier in the summer, we now have a second related incident that was captured on film.

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Two Cadillac Escalades Following their Boss in a Maybach Collide with Each Other and an Audi A4

Convoys of two, three or more cars following either a government official or one of the wealthy capitalists that emerged in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is nothing new, but watching these vehicles crash into each other is something we don't get to see very often, if at all.

According to the date displayed on the dashcam video, an incident of this sort happened last Friday, October 19, when what we assume to be the security personnel riding in Cadillac Escalade SUVs were trying to keep up to their boss who was in a black Maybach saloon, while also prohibiting any other vehicles from breaking their formation.

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Chuck Norris Approved: How to Survive as a Pedestrian on Russian Roads

It's a very well documented fact (through thousands of hours of footage obtained from dashboard-mounted cameras) that a large proportion of Russian drivers don't pay attention nor do they yield to pedestrians when they seem them crossing the road.

From the first few seconds of this video it becomes instantly clear that the driver is going way too fast for a heavily trafficked and fairly populated area, and that an accident is imminent.

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