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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Here's Why Russian Drivers Still Believe in Miracles

If you avoid one accident, it's considered luck, but if you go on to escape a few more in the process, then it's nothing short of a miracle.

Take for example this impatient Russian (we assume) driver, who from the beginning of the video, is going faster than what he should have and what the traffic on the road justified.

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VIP Style Cambered Lexus IS Loses Control, Hits and Overturns a Van

Who knew? An off-camber wheel setting will not improve your driving or your car's handling capabilities…

From the land that has brought us so much fun in the form of entertaining video footag comes yet another one of those incidents that just makes you want to slap your palm on your forehead.

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Russian Drivers Saved from Trucks Out of Control

In many parts of Russia, the winter weather has already kicked into full gear, with all that this means for the safety of drivers, or the lack thereof.

Today we bring you two separate incidents filmed in different places, but with a similar scenario that concerns heavily loaded trucks losing traction on the frozen roads.

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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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Even the Dog Knows there's Something Wrong with this Woman's Parking Skills…

If you happen to be in Russia, you may want to memorize the license plate of this small city car and keep a safe distance from it in the rare chance you cross roads with the woman behind the wheel (or so we are told that it's a lady by the person who uploaded the video), especially is she's trying to park.

To our surprise, even the pup featured in the clip senses that there is something fundamentally wrong with her parking skills and tries to warn the driver about her shortcomings by barking aloud.

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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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The Force Must be Strong with this One to Make Russian Drivers Stop at a Crosswalk…

As it turns out, there is only one person in the universe who has a force strong enough within him to make Russian drivers (cough, cough) on both sides of the road (!!!) stop at a pedestrian crossing.

And yes, you guessed it; we are talking about Darth Vader, the evil, black-clad wizard of the Star Wars galaxy who was captured on camera in full suit walking across a road in the Russian city of Belgorod.

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Lucky or Talented? Russian Truck Driver Avoids Crash in Style

The jury is still out on whether the protagonist of our latest Russian offbeat video had lady luck on his side or if he's that good behind the wheel of a truck, but either way, the save was impressive, to say the least.

If you pay attention to the dashboard camera-sourced footage, at about seven seconds into the video, you can see an old (or new, it's the same thing anyway…) Lada Niva 4x4 legally entering the road from a side street.

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Toyota Land Cruiser Tries to Avoid Traffic Only to Get Stuck on the Train Rails

Unless the featured driver of this Toyota Land Cruiser is completely drunk out of his or her mind (something that may be the case anyway…), we will have to take the videographer's explanation for this bizarre incident as granted.

What we are told in the YouTube clip's description, is that the driver of the Japanese SUV tried to use his vehicle's off-road prowess to overcome the traffic at a stop light by jumping on the train (or tram) rails.

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Russian Road Rage Incident with Man-Purse "Boy" Ends with a Bang

As it seems, Russian drivers have become so immune to extreme road rage cases that when someone pulls out a gun and shoots at a fellow commuter in broad daylight it simply causes them to laugh – no kidding, as you will soon find out for yourself.

This particular incident begins with a young Russian holding a man purse, who came out of his car to squabble with the driver of an old Lada saloon behind him for unbeknown reasons to us.

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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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Always Look Towards the…Right Side of the Road

Even as is kids, we are all taught to cross the road safely and that's something that should stay with us forever, right? Well, perhaps that holds true for most people, but some insist on following their own rules and ultimately, pay the price for it…

Like the man in this video who not only forgot about pedestrian crossings–though in all fairness, for all we know, there may not have been one nearby, but while he was walking through the moving cars and trucks he failed to remember one very basic rule: always look towards the direction that the cars are coming from.

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Russian Driver in a Car Sliding Upside Down on the Highway Lives Another Day

Truth to be said, YouTube has really has improved since Russians started buying dashboard-mounted cameras for their automobiles and trucks.

If it weren’t for these affordable recording products, we would most definitely miss out on scenes like this one that happened just the other day (on October 16, 2012) in Russia when a silver sedan was captured on film strolling across the highway…upside down

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Chika, Chika, Chika, Chika, Chika, Opaaaa and Strike…Russian Style

You are probably wondering what's with our post-title. Well, it's actually what we heard the driver featured in this video saying when an accident happened, and since we couldn’t translate it, we left it as is…

In true Russian style, this isn't just one of your typical crashes. While driving on a freeway in pouring rain, the man in the camera-equipped car saw a motorcyclist slip and fall down from his bike, fortunately without being hit by another vehicle.

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ATV Fed up with Rider's Antics Makes a Run for it

Even machines have their limits and this ATV reached them when its rider tried to perform a front wheelie - we are going to take a shot in the dark and say it happened in…Russia, but we could be wrong.

The wheelie was successful for about half a second, but then the ATV decided it had just about enough and dropped the rider continuing on its own.

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In Kazakhstan, This is What They do to a 1992 Mitsubishi GTO

Compared to other sports car offerings from Japan in the 1990s, like the Mazda RX-7, Nissan 300ZX, Nissan Skyline GT-R, Toyota Supra Mk4 and, of course, the famed Honda or Acura NSX, the Mitsubishi GTO or 3000GT hasn’t aged as well nor have collectors warmed up to it.

Whether it justifies this bizarre transformation that comes to us from Kazakhstan is questionable, to say the least.

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