This is why you should wear your seatbelt.

wbeavis · 1 year

Moral of the story: never let a dummy drive your car. I mean, seriously, there are tons of videos of them getting into accidents.

HertzDonut · 1 year

Before there are 20 more submissions on this, I'll post to the thread.

This is also why you should wear your seatbelt [GRAPHIC CONTENT].

EvelKnievel · 1 year

Everyone into the van! http://img.reversegif.com/4348.gif

Madness_As_Muse · 1 year

I survived an accident like that because I wore I seatbelt. Walked away from this without a scratch.

freakball · 1 year

This is highly entertaining.

Quality submission.

thejumbles · 1 year

the first one goes off like a rocket!

bluestargalaxy4 · 1 year

Video with multiple angles and sound.

Full 8:27 video with super slow motion. Video starts 29 seconds in.

Shorter 1:23 version with faster slow motion. Lower quality.

iamthedan · 1 year

I'll vouch for this gif. Happened to me.

It was sometime around '89 or '90 (I was still pretty young, so I don't remember exactly) but my family was driving through Colorado in a Chevy Astro in the middle of the night, headed to California. My mother passed out in the driver's seat and rolled the car several times. My parents were belted into the front seats and remained there the entire time, but us children were sleeping in the back seats and not properly belted.

My little sister and I had the grace to be thrown clear of the car as it rolled...and into a cactus patch in the median. Now I don't remember the accident proper, but I sure as shit remember the doctor pulling out the cactus spines that were lodged in my bone.

My older sister was not so lucky. The van eventually came to rest right side up, but on top of her. She broke her jaw, her arm, and one of her legs. My parents remember freaking out because as they ran around looking for their kids they could only hear two of them, until my older sister began screaming through the blood from beneath the car.

We were all very fortunate to survive as well as we did, and even my older sister managed to heal back up with little more than a click in her jaw to remind her, but it still is one of the most frightening things I can remember happening to the entire family.

TL;DR: This happened to my family and shit was fucked up.

RonSequitur · 1 year

BEES!!!! EVERYONE OUT OF THE CAR!!!

ShayanFCB · 1 year

ITS RAININ MEN!!! ;)

TheJMoore · 1 year

I can vouch for that...seat belts saved my life and the lives of my four best friends. SUV flipped 6 times at 60 mph. Responders to the scene thought that we'd all be dead.

http://i.imgur.com/LEwQ3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wYCSV.jpg

mjklin · 1 year

...and THAT'S why you leave a NOTE!

genki831 · 1 year

I don't drive my car like that. I drive forward, not sideways.

hulk_krogan · 1 year

Shoes coming off is always a pretty good indicator of how fucked up you just got.

Dogby · 1 year

don't drive sideways

kyo45 · 1 year

i never wear my seat belt in the back seats........i think ill start now

Nimbal · 1 year

The first dummy to leave the vehicle takes roughly 2.6 seconds to reach the ground again which means he reaches about 8m height. Impressive.

PocketOSunshine · 1 year

I had a coworker that died exactly like this. The SUV she was riding in rolled and it landed on her. Her ex (who was driving) was thrown out the windshield and he survived with a few broken bones. I never leave the driveway without buckling up and making my kids do the same.

skitchx48 · 1 year

Obligatory Simpsons clip.

anexanhume · 1 year

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SO HAPPY THAT YOU FLEW OUT OF A FUCKING CAR?

DanduryConundrum · 1 year

That is a gloriously awesome display of why you should wear a seat belt.

dantk2 · 1 year

When I was a kid I worked at a supermarket. Mario Andretti was hired for some grand opening or other. I asked him the very same question and he replied its not for if you hit an immovable object like a tree, but if you hit another car it might allow you to remain in control of your car long enough to avoid a disaster.

unamerican · 1 year

'No, man, if I'm in an accident, I want to be, like, thrown clear! Plus my cousin knows this guy whose brother's boss's kid was in an accident and if he'd been wearing his seatbelt, he reckons he might have been trapped. An elaborate and improbable counterexample like that is far more likely than an SUV rolling over at speed! If that happens, I'll just brace myself.'

Highpersonic · 1 year

JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! JUMP UP, JUMP UP AND GET DOWN!

SnakeShady · 1 year

Dummies BreakDance http://i.imgur.com/cDDS9.jpg

rafuzo2 · 1 year

Real simple: Ask yourself if you want to be ejected from a car, usually through a glass window or windshield, at any significant fraction of the speeds we normally drive on the highway (and don't expect your departure from your vehicle will be at all clean, with your body in any configuration that might give you a chance to defend yourself) and then slamming into the nearest solid object (usually with pointing things, like tree branches, or nice well-defined edges, like highway overpass abutments) with the same kind of force that will crumple the front end of your aluminum and steel car.

You're not guaranteed to survive any crash at high speed, but all of a car's safety mechanisms can't protect you even in a very survivable low-speed crash if you're no longer in (and often times you can end up wearing the car in ways it wasn't designed for).

I mean to each his own, but given the rates of traumatic injury and amputation from being ejected from a vehicle, and the "benefits" of not wearing one, it seems like a pretty easy choice to make.

VThokie12 · 1 year

Dummies.

poopingRainbows · 1 year

There was a man showing a video of a car accident in a clip trying to demonstrate why it's good to wear a seatbelt:

As you can see in this accident the person without a seatbelt went through the window. He's all mangled up. Now look at the person wearing a seatbelt. He looks almost alive.

TheRealBramtyr · 1 year

Why are all the dummies in business casual?

hobbit6 · 1 year

That exact thing happened to someone I work with. She's lucky to be alive, but everyone always tells her "Jesus spared your life." Really? Wouldn't it have been easier for everyone involved if he had just told her "Buckle up!"

PippyLongSausage · 1 year

Something like this happened right in front of me and I ended up comforting a 20 year old kid while he died convulsing in my arms. It's not funny, it's serious shit. Wear you fucking seat belt!

SerendipitousCat · 1 year

I don't need any convincing but I mailed it to a friend who still never wears one. I doubt that it will convince him however.

ReversalToad · 1 year

At first i thought those were real people.

TakesOneToNoOne · 1 year

arm pops off

And this is why you always wear a seatbelt!

somerandomguy02 · 1 year

I feel naked without my seatbelt. Very similar reason on why i don't ride motorcycles(other than i would get too brave and kill myself). I would rather have a metal cage around me designed to protect myself than nothing at all.

too_many_secrets · 1 year

I saw an accident like this outside of Tampa with the same year/body Explorer. It was carnage.

[deleted] · 1 year

I feel nekkid without the seat belt done up. However I've heard the stories some people do die because of them. Meh we all roll the dice.

[deleted] · 1 year

This reminds me of something. Several years ago I stumbled across some "Arab drifting" videos on Google Videos. "Arab drifting" is basically where wealthy young men in the Middle East get in their white Toyotas and do various retarded things, mostly drifting, at high speed on public roads.

The reason I bring this up is because one such video captured our imaginations. It was a compilation of many brutal but hilarious Arab drifting crashes. One of the crashes involved a white sedan (obviously) drifting on a dusty road. They driver lost control and it slid off the road and began to roll; two people were ejected from the car. The first simply popped out of the window and fell to the ground. The second, however, was launched considerably higher; we estimated the distance as "90 feet," and thus a name was coined.

Here's where you come in, internet. We have been entirely unable to find this video for years. So if you can provide me with any leads as to the location of my treasured "90 feet" video, I would be eternally grateful.

UPDATE: I haven't found the video BUT the clip in question looks a whole lot like several clips in this video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=844_1252441268 including the two at the beginning, except the car flies off at high speed and rolls instead of just sliding around. It's almost like they were filmed in the same place. The very last clip in the compilation actually had me nervous because I briefly thought I had found it, but no one flew out of the car.

djxiayu · 1 year

This is why you don't let an inanimate object drive an SUV.

Merlaak · 1 year

This happened to me. The car did one roll and landed on it's wheels. When it stopped I was stand on my feet next to the driver side window with one leg still caught under the steering wheel. I was the driver. Not a scratch. Passenger had seatbelt on and was more fucked up then me. Funny how things work.

diametric · 1 year

When I was 12 my mom and I were in a car accident that happened exactly like that video. Seat belts plus this giant GORE-TEX coat I was wearing at the time resulted in zero injury (not counting the sore muscles). My mom on the other hand did smash her head into the driver side door window resulting in stitches but that's about it.

Sterlingz · 1 year

Even these crash test dummies dress better than I, fuck.

Nizzler · 1 year

This is why I prefer to drive straight, the way the design of the vehicle intended, and not sideways.

misterhand02 · 1 year

Um... I dunno. I think I'd rather be thrown out of that catastrophic bitch and land in the soft, soft dirt.

p_U_c_K · 1 year

the guy furthest to the left, in thebackground a little, watch where he comes from. He comes out waaaaay before anyone else and must go fucking atmospheric, because he lands last. holy shit. Next up, real people!

shitterplug · 1 year

Shit'l buff out...

Tinfoil_Haberdashery · 1 year

"I'd rather be thrown free of the vehicle!"

No you fucking wouldn't.

[deleted] · 1 year

See? They were safely thrown clear of the accident. Don't wear your seatbelt kids. Not even once.

IsaiahEyre · 1 year

More like, this is why you should never drive a Ford Explorer.

PornStarJesus · 1 year

I had a friend die in a similar manner back in the 90's. They were in an early model Accord and the driver swerved to avoid a deer; he over corrected, they had an off and hit a drain culvert. the car rolled 3 times. Driver was belted in, passenger was not and was partially ejected. The car rolled over his head and upper chest. He died with in minutes.

bitter_cynical_angry · 1 year

One of my friends used to never wear his seatbelt when he drove, saying he "preferred to be thrown clear". That sounds like a great plan.

chemistry_teacher · 1 year

I dunno. Looks like two of them got well clear of the vehicle and landed safely. The right front passenger jetted away scott-free.

imVINCE · 1 year

Crash test dummies are always so well dressed.

jotch · 1 year

WHY DOES SOMEONE ALWAYS LOSE A SHOE?!

[deleted] · 1 year

Wheeee!

sundowntg · 1 year

I don't know what you are talking about. That looks fun.

muldoonx9 · 1 year

Now you should submit one that shows what happens when you try to take pictures for karma at high speeds.

Context: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/helal/awesomeness_on_the_freeway/

MastaRikta · 1 year

Wait, this is why you SHOULD wear a seatbelt?

1) DON'T wear seatbelt.

2) Be thrown from car in event of crash

3) Land in stylish gymnastic position

4) ???

5) Profit!

Torquemada1970 · 1 year

And yet I've had to deal with more than a few redditors who will cheerfully argue against wiki/ studies/ anything that proves that not wearing one is insane - because they insist, quite openly, that their 'rights' are all that matters and if their judgement is impaired leading to someone getting killed THEN AT LEAST THEY WERE FREE TO DO IT.

elitexero · 1 year

People who don't put on their seatbelt when they get into a car are just stupid. Not really any other way to put it.

billybaldwinme · 1 year

This is unrealistic. There has never been a person wearing dress pants and shirt in a ford explorer...

Cresty · 1 year

Fuck safety, that looks like fun!

oblivion95 · 1 year

Actually, that's why you should not drive an SUV: high propensity to roll.

tHeSiD · 1 year

umm I have heard of paintball guns but, mannequin guns? this is the first time I am seeing one.

b4freedom · 1 year

Physics can be a bitch sometimes.

ironmanmarcsmith · 1 year

my name is Marc-Alan Smith and I seriously thought this was another me. cool video though

nosefart · 1 year

To avoid being hit by flying dummies!

m1chaelmichael · 1 year

Best laugh I've had all day :D

the_trout · 1 year

i would like to see this in slow motion.

djloreddit · 1 year

because i do barrel rolls so often?

ne1av1cr · 1 year

DAE hear them yell "wheeeeeeeeee?"

Tron33 · 1 year

I love how one of the crash-test dummies shoe goes flying off too

lepickle · 1 year

i love how the third one spins in the air with his arms spread.

Ragdolla · 1 year

And stop me from making my quick escape maneuver? I don't think so.

redditsaurus · 1 year

convinced

wolfbriar · 1 year

Can someone versed in physics calculate what altitude that first dummy peaked? it was in the air quite some time.

thesauce25 · 1 year

Somebody should have shown this to the director of Fast Five.

IHeartSoup · 1 year

You'd totally survive that if you were wearing your seatbelt

Spappy · 1 year

I just cant stop laughing

Sir_FartAlot · 1 year

That looks like a fun ride

isthebest · 1 year

Holy Fuck

fgmenth · 1 year

Yeah, I hate it everytime it hapens...

mulligrubs · 1 year

The first guy got some wicked air. On another note, I have been in a roll-over and was not wearing a seatbelt. Yes, I went flying. I was unconscious so I'm not sure if it was wicked air. Either way, I broke my right neck of femur...and laid on it in recovery position about 30 metres from the road for about 3 hours until an ambulance arrived. You don't know what pain is until you lie on a broken bone for a few hours.

petitegervais · 1 year

Don't be a dummy.

Hawkman10016 · 1 year

My favorite was the guy who flew out the window in the beginning and landed 3 seconds later! LMAO!

racergr · 1 year

Show this to everyone who says that they know omeone who knew someone who was saved because he was not wearing a seatbelt when their car caught fire or something. And then ask them what do they think it is more possible to happen:

a statistically highly unlikely combination of events in an acident where the driver is ejected unharmed or
what we see in the gif which happens in almost EVERY accident that involves rolling over?

Pr3dat0r · 1 year

Once there was this boy who got into an accident and couldn't go to school.....

trader_dave · 1 year

Becuase you might star in a new wave GAP advertisement?

wangruo115 · 1 year

seems like I do wanna be thrown out of the car than being squished in the car.....

voracity · 1 year

Whoa, are these people ok??

max_buttroom · 1 year

Oh what a feeling!...

somebrero · 1 year

There are 5 dummies and all of them get thrown from the vehicle. I'm pretty sure at least one would be smart enough to wear a seatbelt.

knucklor · 1 year

hehe, business casual

[deleted] · 1 year

hehehehehehe

dVnt · 1 year

Whatever dude, that looks like a fun ride!^/s

tracheotome · 1 year

it must be real bad that my immediate thought was "WEEEEEEEE".

My_Sonic_Boom · 1 year

Oh so that's why... I thought we just had to wear them to stop that annoying beep the car makes

madjecks · 1 year

And miss out on that ride? Fuck you, quit trying to stop people from having fun.

SgtBaxter · 1 year

I can see this being the next great ride at Six Flags.

zim2411 · 1 year

1 roll short of getting GTA 4's achievement.

pweet · 1 year

Those dudes had lots of hang time.

Congzilla · 1 year

The truck actually held up pretty well.

SonicBroom · 1 year

Wheeeeeeeee!

Nougat · 1 year

A friend's coworker died in a single car accident recently, was thrown from the car. A pretty big guy, too. Now I see how that could happen.

CriscoMelon · 1 year

Aaaaaaand there went somebody's shoes. People are always losing their shoes in car wrecks.

Always wear your seatbelt. And maybe some velcro shoes just in case.

theamazingroberto · 1 year

found this moderately difficult to masturbate to

TubaFur · 1 year

Also why you should never drive sideways.

cmd_iii · 1 year

For a second, it looked like The Rapture: "Hey, we're all going home!!" And then, it went horribly wrong.

blackguard · 1 year

but they were almost all thrown clear..

WoodsMD · 1 year

Like a glove!

Gurphy · 1 year

My caption would have been.

Hooray for car crashes

Waitopm · 1 year

Lol the first one takes like 5 mins to hit the ground and the last one is doing like a crippled Travolta move

devski · 1 year

I don't even.

The_Luv_Machine · 1 year

I hate it when you show up late to a thread and someone has already made all the good shoe jokes.

harbeas · 1 year

Now, tell me again why you don't wear a seat belt!

PfionaBW · 1 year

BUT BUT BUT SUVs ARE SAFE DERP DERP DERP.

Gallop · 1 year

Wheeee!!!

MadBeef · 1 year

They almost air fived.

MonsterIt · 1 year

"Hoooooooooooooooly shit!!! I broke my leg!!!"

Mekongcola · 1 year

This is why you SHOULDN'T wear your seatbelt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWe4pC-zbMw&feature=player_embedded

Mekongcola · 1 year

How about you let the individual decide what safety measures are appropriate in their own car?

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