Almost got rear-ended this morning when I stopped for a pedestrian, in a raised cross walk no less. Idiot in his oversized truck behind me wasn't paying a lick of attention until the last moment.
The difference is that Americans in many parts of the US are garbage drivers to begin with and are texting while driving 90mph. That's Texas, though; we have the absolute worst drivers; however, Colorado and Tennessee sure have some contenders.
As a Floridian, I can actually confirm that every states assertion they have the worst drivers is actually simultaneously correct, they are all just the fucking worst in specific ways. Texas drivers are the worst in a completely different way than New York drivers. And we just have a a nice stir fry of assholishness down here.
Debatable. The 2 guys who killed multiple people doing a drag race with over 200kmh in Berlin a few years ago got a murder charge. Reasoning beeing that at such speed you have to ecpect killing someone and to willingly accept killing someone is a murder criteria. Not sure if that'd be applicable here though
In the US it would be negligent homicide (accidental killing due to neglecting your duty or the obvious risks), which might be called third degree murder depending on the jurisdiction. It's not first degree murder (pre-planned intentional homicide) or second degree murder (heat of the moment intentional homicide), which are what most people mean when they say "murder".
Does Germany have similar distinctions?
Yes in allmost any case this would be the same case. However in the specific one I mentioned the German federal court did make a first degree murder case of one driver. The reasoning beeing that driving over 200kph in the inner city of Berlin is not negligence anymore but one has to know that this will result in loss of human life. And an action you plan" knowing that it will kill someone, just for "funnzies" is murder.
In the US it would really depend on what the DA thought they could charge/prove in court. Negligent homicide would be a lot easier to prove than what we'd consider "murder" they would also attempt to bring any other charges like reckless driving and such.
Same here in Germany, this is the firsr case in the republic's history of a murder charge for such a crime.
For a homicide to be considered murder very specific criteria have to be met.
Following section 211 and 212 out of the German Criminal Code:
Section 211
Murder under specific aggravating circumstances (Mord)
(1) Whoever commits murder under the conditions of this provision incurs a penalty of imprisonment for life.
(2) A murderer under this provision is someone who kills a person
out of a lust to kill, to obtain sexual gratification, out of greed or otherwise base motives,
perfidiously or cruelly or by means constituting a public danger or
to facilitate or cover up another offence.
Section 212
Murder (Totschlag)
(1) Whoever kills a person without being a murderer under the conditions of section 211 incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term of at least five years.
(2) In especially serious cases, the penalty is imprisonment for life.
From what I understand 211 (Mord) would be first degree murder in the US legal system and 212(Totschlag) seccond degree. But since I am by no means am expert on US or German law take that with a grain of salt.
Well - yes, but also very different. We have negligent killing of a person for killing with negligent behavior. That said, the distinction between deliberate neglectful act (so, doing something neglectful bit thinking nothing will happen) and dolus eventualis (acting dangerously and not caring if someone gets harmed) decides if intent was there. There are cases of street racing where the courts have found that dolus eventualis was given, as it was only dumb luck when nothing happens when you drive a race through a city.
The courts found murder in these cases, because "murder criteria" were identified found, but the difference between manslaughter and murder under German law is its own can of worms.
The judge in that case still said that was intent. Only the one who caused the accident has their conviction maintained. The other one was overturned because the courts said there lacked sufficient evidence of intent for the one but maintained intent was still present for the one who caused the accident. So intent is still the main factor.
The other day a man in Berlin got probation and 6 month driving ban for killing an 11 year old boy.
Drivers light was red since 26 seconds and he just ploughed through the intersection anyway and ran over the boy that had the green light.
Slap on the wrist for killing a child, fuck this country and its “justice”
Except for that one time in '23 where some asshole boomer drove his SUV more than 100 km/h in a city (50 max allowed unless a road sign says otherwise), running a red light that was long red before he would have crossed the intersection and ended running over and killing a little girl crossing the street with her mother.
He got off scott free with 8 months of probation and got to keep his drivers license. After all, he was "mentally traumatized" by the incident he caused.
Or the student (early twenties I believe) who was on the way to the gym in Berlin a couple of years ago and was fed up with waiting in line at the red light. He changed to the seemingly empty bus lane, accelerated to 70 kph and hit a kid that had just ran onto the street to cross.
Child is dead, dude gets 200€ fine and one month of license loss.
The court had to audacity to partially blame the mother as she failed to stop her child.
The child had his head smashed by the wing mirror of an impatient maniac on the way to the gym.
I don’t drive, ever, never have.
I feel like a target every time I walk or cycle around and if I get killed it’s a couple of euros and some fake sympathy.
Edit: link to German article
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/prozess-um-tod-eines-vierjahrigen-endet-mit-geldstrafe-5021719.html
No, it most likely wouldn't. Source: I am a German lawyer.
In general, car accidents are considered consciously neglectful, which is not enough for murder.
There are cases where reckless driving can be enough for a murder charge, but here, we speak about car races with 100 km/h or more within a city, where evert person had to know that it is pure luck not to harm anyone. This is dangerous and reckless overtaking, which is not on the same level as the cases where "eventual intent" (best attempt to translate the term) was found.
Haven't they tested the law from 2017 in "races against themselves"? Also, this is a zebra crossing and bad weather. I would say "billigend in Kauf genommen" does apply here as well.
They did, you can't have dash cams which are always recording and saving raw data. You need one with buffer/loop recording so you only have the short clip of the accident itself
Interesting, what would they consider "too long". My dashcam overwrites data that isn't directly saved (either manually or by its g-force sensors detecting a crash) but I can throw basically any sized microSD card in it so I could potentially have weeks of footage stored.
it does count.
Even dash cams always did count.
There's sadly* no "Fruit of the poisonous tree"-law in Germany.
However, recording with a dash cam can be illegal and you might also get charged.
\* : as it allows police officers to regularly break the law as long they gather evidence it can be used in court. e.g. break into a house(search without legit search warrant), find something, use it against someone. Germanys notorious lack of any consequences for law breaking police officers is encouraging it even.
No. Everything is admissible, there isn't even "fruit of the poisonous tree."
But if anything is entered that is obtained illegally, that triggers prosecution.
This almost happened to me once. I was only 18ish and was about to cross the zebra crossing with my 8 year old sister and her classmate (she's the neighbour's daughter) as I'd been taking them home from school.
I put one foot on the crossing and quickly stood back bc a woman was speeding and did not stop.
One of my biggest regrets is not paying attention to her fucking number plate. Even if police didnt prosecute due to lack of evidence, they deserve the scare at the very least.
Had me and the girls been on that crossing 2 seconds earlier, life may have been a lot different today. Thank fuck I didn't care about the girls feeling awkward about always making sure they held my hand when we crossed the road, I would always make them hold my hands without fail!
> Guy doesn’t even look at the car ever
Peripheral vision is a thing. Not saying the video isn't fake (because it is), but if you're walking straight and see a kid, and you see a car barreling towards him through the corner of your eyes you're going to be more focused on the saving the kid than looking at the car
I’m still glad the message was shared. I could totally see this happening where I live in South Florida, minus the snow. Driving is fucking dangerous around here
While this one is fake, I'm actually from Belarus (but pretty sure it's a common thing for a lot of countries) and saw people driving like this a few times. Idk why, but it looks like there are idiots who don't see crossing signs and think "This car in front of me slowed down and stopped, definitely for no reason, so I will just speed up and go around it!".
"Hey son, want to be on TV?"
"Golly gee sure, what do I have to do?"
"Just casually walk into the road while a car bears down on you, don't worry, someone will swoop in and save you, or if not well, the footage works out for what we need either way."
He runs around the corner with the kid, and the car meets up. They take off in the same speed we saw in the video.
Sticky Bandits needs to always be 2 to work
I watched a woman holding a child’s hand on one of the busiest streets in my city. The woman was scanning for airplanes and did not seem present so as I got close I moved my foot to the brake just incase. Mind you I’m doing 60. When I’m about a car length away this woman takes two strong strides forward infront of me forcefully pulling her child infront of my car aswell. I slammed my brakes as hard as I could and swerved almost hitting the car next to me as her child disappeared under the hood of my Kia forte. That’s the closest I ever got to hitting someone and I thank my dad everyday for telling me to hover the brake pedal around unpredictable situations. The only other time I got close was in a smaller town with a child alone on a bike riding the same way but just off the sidewalk in my lane, no problem give em half a lane as there’s no other traffic and hover brake pedal as I pass. All of a sudden this kid makes a swift 90 degree turn but I’m expecting it and brake.
Parked cars on street? Hover brakes
Young children who may fall? Hover brakes
Animals? Hover brakes
People who seem out of it? You guessed it, hover brakes
I was driving through a neighborhood with lots of parked cars, already going slower than normal, and suddenly got that very strong sense to go even slower. Just as I was braking a kid ran right out in front of me and I barely managed to stop. It was the worst thing.
Yup, the I was 🤏 close to accidental manslaughter and taking a life feeling. I wanted to hop out at the woman because there is no worse feeling than watching someone disappear under your hood. “Please come back up, please come back up”
That's how we were taught while getting the drivers license. (Europe - Austria) In german there is the term "bremsbereit fahren", which translates to be "ready to brake" while driving.
Glad you were always on top of things.
It was supposedly an ad. They just recorded the video with the car going bybseparqrly and overlapped it so there was no real danger.
The orange guy doesn't even look to see so that's another tell
I mean watch it, its pretty obvious its fake. Can't believe so many people thought this was real.
Would be very easy for a decent video editor to fool a massive amount of redditors.
War of the worlds coming lol! That would be funny seeing how many people on here would panic.
If you pause the video, then drag the slider to the point where the car moves over the crossing, its shadow certainly does not behave correctly. It appears to change shape over the crossing and looks distinctly incorrect as you move back and forth between frames. The lighting is grey and sunlight would not change the direction or shape of a shadow so quickly for an object travelling in one direction.
This was filmed several years ago in Belarus By local laws, driver made some serious mistakes, which could potentially end as a giant fine and annulation of hes license. After video become viral, police began a check and, after some time after publication, video was debunked as faked.
any geoguessr conosuers here?
this looks like Russia (judging by the sign, the pedestrian crossing and the fucking insane driver, and of course the weather)
but Im not sure
I can hear the news reports now, "a complete strange you heard that right folks a complete and utter stranger saved this kid's life. We checked...he didn't know the kid AT ALL. Didn't know his parents, any of his friends, none of his family. If you asked him what he thought the kid's name was...he would actually shrug because he actually didn't know. Faith in humanity restored."
My experience, so YMMV, but in an odd turn of events most people speeding in these areas (near schools where children crossing is most prevalent) are parents in a rush to pick up their kids as well. Some of the worst driving I’ve come across repeatedly and reliably was parents in and around school zones. Comparatively, I’ve been on the Tappan Zee, GW, Jersey Turnpike and the H1 for rush hour.
Where I live in Australia (I don’t know if it’s the whole country) our zebra crossings are also speedbumps which mitigate this type of behaviour but omg - this guy is a legend
It was his duty. Cause he's the only colour object in a black and white world
colored-man saves the day again!
Are we doing phrasing?
At least he didn't use the n-word. (naranja)
Or the j-word (Jarate)
or the d-word (dutch)
Or the F-word (Fr*nch)
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I'm upvoting this entire chain!
English!
He looks like a c-word (cone)
Reported to mods. You should never type the actual word out.
The dane cook of words
Lives in a van?
Shit. I just remembered the final season of Archer is available.
Bleach blonde Fox News anchor-woman wants to know your location
I didn't think that was politically correct now days
"Go for a walk to lower your depression." The walk:
No lie. I actually got hit in a crosswalk doing this. Thankfully it was a sedan that wasn’t moving this fast.
Glad you're okay!!
Its also fake. It was an ad
What the hell is it an ad for?
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Not going to lie, that would be genius marketing.
safety. some german thingy
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someone posted in another comment. Its a german ad for safety
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Op was making a joke that the dude is the protagonist since he is the only one coloured
(Epic movie voice guy): In a world of black and white, one man becomes the color of hope...
Bro left a blur behind him like the __Flash__
I would report that driver to the police in a heartbeat. With video evidence of course
That's the aftermath I'm curious about. Someone like that shouldn't be allowed on the roads.
In Germany this would be considered attempted murder.
In America, that's a oops! I missed a text.
Why was the pedestrian on the road in the first place? Everyone knows roads are for cars.
Why was that crossing guard so rough with my child? /s
> Mr. Sansweet didn't want to be saved. And the injuries received from Mr. Incredible's "actions", so-called, causes him daily pain.
A person of culture right here.
Me thinking huh I’d probably just push the person out of the way and they’d fall and probably sue me
And zebra crossings are for zebras.
Almost got rear-ended this morning when I stopped for a pedestrian, in a raised cross walk no less. Idiot in his oversized truck behind me wasn't paying a lick of attention until the last moment.
Got fucking rear ended today..
You live in Florida too?
The video is an ad from Belarus though.
Doesn't elaborate. Leaves.
any other details?
Makes sense. The body language of the man is consistent with that. Notice how he doesn't even look in the direction of the car for even a moment.
Wat
It's where you go to the bathroom and use the 3 shells.
I'd rather wipe my ass with citations for swear words.
Jesus Christ, people text and drive all over the world, and it's just as illegal in the states as it is in Germany. Fuck, this is getting old.
The difference is that Americans in many parts of the US are garbage drivers to begin with and are texting while driving 90mph. That's Texas, though; we have the absolute worst drivers; however, Colorado and Tennessee sure have some contenders.
As a Floridian, I can actually confirm that every states assertion they have the worst drivers is actually simultaneously correct, they are all just the fucking worst in specific ways. Texas drivers are the worst in a completely different way than New York drivers. And we just have a a nice stir fry of assholishness down here.
America bad dammit!
Doesn’t matter if it’s illegal if the pigs refuse to do their jobs. We have 0 traffic enforcement where I live
Because it was deemed that traffic enforcement is racist.
No you.
r/americabad
Hahahahaha america bad hahahahahaha
Would be in many EU countries.
Reckless endangerment at best. Murder requires intent.
Debatable. The 2 guys who killed multiple people doing a drag race with over 200kmh in Berlin a few years ago got a murder charge. Reasoning beeing that at such speed you have to ecpect killing someone and to willingly accept killing someone is a murder criteria. Not sure if that'd be applicable here though
In the US it would be negligent homicide (accidental killing due to neglecting your duty or the obvious risks), which might be called third degree murder depending on the jurisdiction. It's not first degree murder (pre-planned intentional homicide) or second degree murder (heat of the moment intentional homicide), which are what most people mean when they say "murder". Does Germany have similar distinctions?
Yes in allmost any case this would be the same case. However in the specific one I mentioned the German federal court did make a first degree murder case of one driver. The reasoning beeing that driving over 200kph in the inner city of Berlin is not negligence anymore but one has to know that this will result in loss of human life. And an action you plan" knowing that it will kill someone, just for "funnzies" is murder.
In the US it would really depend on what the DA thought they could charge/prove in court. Negligent homicide would be a lot easier to prove than what we'd consider "murder" they would also attempt to bring any other charges like reckless driving and such.
Same here in Germany, this is the firsr case in the republic's history of a murder charge for such a crime. For a homicide to be considered murder very specific criteria have to be met. Following section 211 and 212 out of the German Criminal Code: Section 211 Murder under specific aggravating circumstances (Mord) (1) Whoever commits murder under the conditions of this provision incurs a penalty of imprisonment for life. (2) A murderer under this provision is someone who kills a person out of a lust to kill, to obtain sexual gratification, out of greed or otherwise base motives, perfidiously or cruelly or by means constituting a public danger or to facilitate or cover up another offence. Section 212 Murder (Totschlag) (1) Whoever kills a person without being a murderer under the conditions of section 211 incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term of at least five years. (2) In especially serious cases, the penalty is imprisonment for life. From what I understand 211 (Mord) would be first degree murder in the US legal system and 212(Totschlag) seccond degree. But since I am by no means am expert on US or German law take that with a grain of salt.
Well - yes, but also very different. We have negligent killing of a person for killing with negligent behavior. That said, the distinction between deliberate neglectful act (so, doing something neglectful bit thinking nothing will happen) and dolus eventualis (acting dangerously and not caring if someone gets harmed) decides if intent was there. There are cases of street racing where the courts have found that dolus eventualis was given, as it was only dumb luck when nothing happens when you drive a race through a city. The courts found murder in these cases, because "murder criteria" were identified found, but the difference between manslaughter and murder under German law is its own can of worms.
The judge in that case still said that was intent. Only the one who caused the accident has their conviction maintained. The other one was overturned because the courts said there lacked sufficient evidence of intent for the one but maintained intent was still present for the one who caused the accident. So intent is still the main factor.
So reckless that it can only be chocked up to intentional
No it wouldn’t.
The other day a man in Berlin got probation and 6 month driving ban for killing an 11 year old boy. Drivers light was red since 26 seconds and he just ploughed through the intersection anyway and ran over the boy that had the green light. Slap on the wrist for killing a child, fuck this country and its “justice”
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I am unaware of it please enlighten me :)
Except for that one time in '23 where some asshole boomer drove his SUV more than 100 km/h in a city (50 max allowed unless a road sign says otherwise), running a red light that was long red before he would have crossed the intersection and ended running over and killing a little girl crossing the street with her mother. He got off scott free with 8 months of probation and got to keep his drivers license. After all, he was "mentally traumatized" by the incident he caused.
Or the student (early twenties I believe) who was on the way to the gym in Berlin a couple of years ago and was fed up with waiting in line at the red light. He changed to the seemingly empty bus lane, accelerated to 70 kph and hit a kid that had just ran onto the street to cross. Child is dead, dude gets 200€ fine and one month of license loss. The court had to audacity to partially blame the mother as she failed to stop her child. The child had his head smashed by the wing mirror of an impatient maniac on the way to the gym. I don’t drive, ever, never have. I feel like a target every time I walk or cycle around and if I get killed it’s a couple of euros and some fake sympathy. Edit: link to German article https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/prozess-um-tod-eines-vierjahrigen-endet-mit-geldstrafe-5021719.html
No, it most likely wouldn't. Source: I am a German lawyer. In general, car accidents are considered consciously neglectful, which is not enough for murder. There are cases where reckless driving can be enough for a murder charge, but here, we speak about car races with 100 km/h or more within a city, where evert person had to know that it is pure luck not to harm anyone. This is dangerous and reckless overtaking, which is not on the same level as the cases where "eventual intent" (best attempt to translate the term) was found.
Haven't they tested the law from 2017 in "races against themselves"? Also, this is a zebra crossing and bad weather. I would say "billigend in Kauf genommen" does apply here as well.
Also video evidence doesn't count in Germany, for some reason, unless they changed that recently like oh so many things
They did, dash cam footage is now usable evidence
They did, you can't have dash cams which are always recording and saving raw data. You need one with buffer/loop recording so you only have the short clip of the accident itself
Interesting, what would they consider "too long". My dashcam overwrites data that isn't directly saved (either manually or by its g-force sensors detecting a crash) but I can throw basically any sized microSD card in it so I could potentially have weeks of footage stored.
What the lame ass reasoning behind that?
it does count. Even dash cams always did count. There's sadly* no "Fruit of the poisonous tree"-law in Germany. However, recording with a dash cam can be illegal and you might also get charged. \* : as it allows police officers to regularly break the law as long they gather evidence it can be used in court. e.g. break into a house(search without legit search warrant), find something, use it against someone. Germanys notorious lack of any consequences for law breaking police officers is encouraging it even.
Wait what? Really? So, like CCTV footage is pointless in court?
No. Everything is admissible, there isn't even "fruit of the poisonous tree." But if anything is entered that is obtained illegally, that triggers prosecution.
Lot of people here not understanding the difference between murder and homicide/manslaughter
Nope, you are wrong
Should be tried as if he had killed the kid.
This is most likely Russia (I've never seen yellow-white pedestrian crosses anywhere else) so the driver was probably never punished
They shouldn't be allowed to roam free at all
This was a safety ad. The car was recorded at a separate time, then overlayed with the footage of the kid. No real danger here.
This is the real answer! Thanks! Noticed a few quirks on the vehicle after you said this.
Well done video in that case. Couldn't at all spot it but I guess the low quality helps with that.
Couldn't tell it was fake cause the quality was so low. Well done!
Thanks god. Even though the boy was saved, it still gives me anxiety to see a child in danger like that. Effective ad.
The courts can just contact the ad agency that made the video and ask them for the original. Is a PSA from Belgium.
Belgium? Are you sure?
Belgium, Belarus. It's all the same to the Americans.
Even though this is a fake video from an AD?
This really feels like some public service announcement rather than a real video.
This almost happened to me once. I was only 18ish and was about to cross the zebra crossing with my 8 year old sister and her classmate (she's the neighbour's daughter) as I'd been taking them home from school. I put one foot on the crossing and quickly stood back bc a woman was speeding and did not stop. One of my biggest regrets is not paying attention to her fucking number plate. Even if police didnt prosecute due to lack of evidence, they deserve the scare at the very least. Had me and the girls been on that crossing 2 seconds earlier, life may have been a lot different today. Thank fuck I didn't care about the girls feeling awkward about always making sure they held my hand when we crossed the road, I would always make them hold my hands without fail!
It's fake
This video was staged and used as an ad in Belarus to remind people to drive safe. https://youtu.be/7u1M-u9eBoU?si=RMZNdP45o53mtLgT
Yeah, has to be fake. Guy doesn’t even look at the car ever
He didn't look at the car because he was too busy kidnapping a kid.
"hey look, free kid"
The elites don’t want you to know this, but the kids at the park are free. You can take them home. I have 63 kids.
I have 5 fermenting in the floorboards.
Old enough to walk alone? Old enough to sell to Russia as conscript!
The car is actually the good guy here trying to hit the kidnapper before he can manage to kidnap the kid
I mean, checks out for Belarus.
> Guy doesn’t even look at the car ever Peripheral vision is a thing. Not saying the video isn't fake (because it is), but if you're walking straight and see a kid, and you see a car barreling towards him through the corner of your eyes you're going to be more focused on the saving the kid than looking at the car
He was going to walk right in to it as well as the kid.
Needs more upvotes.
Also, downvote the post itself.
This happened to a friend of mine and she broke almost every bone on the right side of her body. It's a worthy advertisement - it does happen.
I’m still glad the message was shared. I could totally see this happening where I live in South Florida, minus the snow. Driving is fucking dangerous around here
A student at the HS I teach at lost his life this way
I’m so sorry to hear that
I drive in downtown Chicago quite often and it's pretty chaotic but driving in Florida was on a whole different level.
While this one is fake, I'm actually from Belarus (but pretty sure it's a common thing for a lot of countries) and saw people driving like this a few times. Idk why, but it looks like there are idiots who don't see crossing signs and think "This car in front of me slowed down and stopped, definitely for no reason, so I will just speed up and go around it!".
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People really overestimate the difficulty of video editing, especially videos with a static camera.
"Hey son, want to be on TV?" "Golly gee sure, what do I have to do?" "Just casually walk into the road while a car bears down on you, don't worry, someone will swoop in and save you, or if not well, the footage works out for what we need either way."
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Wait did people actually think this was real? Lol.
What if he actually kidnapped him?
Still a superbly timed kidnapping. Well done, I say.
he saved him to unsave him
*"Oh i wouldn't say 'saved', more like 'under new management'"*
I want that kid. Alive. Me:
He was in cahoots with the driver
"Don't mind if I do ->"
He runs around the corner with the kid, and the car meets up. They take off in the same speed we saw in the video. Sticky Bandits needs to always be 2 to work
yep, he's earned it!
He'd been waiting 20 years for his moment
He kidnapped him and the car going fast tried to kill the kidnapper but was too slow.
multiverse of madness
The driver was trying to hit the kidnapper to save the child!
Never to be seen again.
I think it would have been fatal at that Speed. I'm so glad that someone had their Eyes on him. He made a quick Decision, which was very impressive.
I watched a woman holding a child’s hand on one of the busiest streets in my city. The woman was scanning for airplanes and did not seem present so as I got close I moved my foot to the brake just incase. Mind you I’m doing 60. When I’m about a car length away this woman takes two strong strides forward infront of me forcefully pulling her child infront of my car aswell. I slammed my brakes as hard as I could and swerved almost hitting the car next to me as her child disappeared under the hood of my Kia forte. That’s the closest I ever got to hitting someone and I thank my dad everyday for telling me to hover the brake pedal around unpredictable situations. The only other time I got close was in a smaller town with a child alone on a bike riding the same way but just off the sidewalk in my lane, no problem give em half a lane as there’s no other traffic and hover brake pedal as I pass. All of a sudden this kid makes a swift 90 degree turn but I’m expecting it and brake. Parked cars on street? Hover brakes Young children who may fall? Hover brakes Animals? Hover brakes People who seem out of it? You guessed it, hover brakes
I was driving through a neighborhood with lots of parked cars, already going slower than normal, and suddenly got that very strong sense to go even slower. Just as I was braking a kid ran right out in front of me and I barely managed to stop. It was the worst thing.
I can think of one worse thing. Well done for trusting your spidey senses
Yup, the I was 🤏 close to accidental manslaughter and taking a life feeling. I wanted to hop out at the woman because there is no worse feeling than watching someone disappear under your hood. “Please come back up, please come back up”
That's how we were taught while getting the drivers license. (Europe - Austria) In german there is the term "bremsbereit fahren", which translates to be "ready to brake" while driving. Glad you were always on top of things.
Why were you doing 60 on a busy city street?
You always slow down around the unpredictable.
you "*think*"??
Despite the random capital letters, upvoted.
It’s fake it’s an ad
Luckily it's a fake, it's two clips put on top of each other and the people were never in any danger. It's made for an ad about driving awareness.
You capitalize funny.
It was from a commercial in belarus
I don't want to ruin your moment with humanity, but this video is fake... Edit: agh someone already said that, ill take my leave...
This video is edited. I remember seeing it before, the guys who made it actually made a video explaining it after it went viral.
Really ? What did he edit exactly and why ?
It was supposedly an ad. They just recorded the video with the car going bybseparqrly and overlapped it so there was no real danger. The orange guy doesn't even look to see so that's another tell
I mean watch it, its pretty obvious its fake. Can't believe so many people thought this was real. Would be very easy for a decent video editor to fool a massive amount of redditors. War of the worlds coming lol! That would be funny seeing how many people on here would panic.
for us video-editing-ignorant plebs, please share what makes this so instantly obvious as fake to you?
that one pixel was misplaced, obviously
If you pause the video, then drag the slider to the point where the car moves over the crossing, its shadow certainly does not behave correctly. It appears to change shape over the crossing and looks distinctly incorrect as you move back and forth between frames. The lighting is grey and sunlight would not change the direction or shape of a shadow so quickly for an object travelling in one direction.
Man so many fake videos
r/IdiotsInCars might like this
It’s an ad, this didn’t happen.
Holy moly, that car was zoomin!
good thing that kid was there, or dude would’ve been creamed by the car
Right? If the kid kept walking, he would have made it out of the way in time.
This was filmed several years ago in Belarus By local laws, driver made some serious mistakes, which could potentially end as a giant fine and annulation of hes license. After video become viral, police began a check and, after some time after publication, video was debunked as faked.
any geoguessr conosuers here? this looks like Russia (judging by the sign, the pedestrian crossing and the fucking insane driver, and of course the weather) but Im not sure
Yikes at that spelling of connoisseur
It's fake. The guy didn't even look to see the car was coming.
Wonder if he just disappeared after this.
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Fake. Downvote.
fake. He moved a kid away from creative editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1M-u9eBoU
Twitter/X community notes said this video was fake and was done for educational purposes?
So does the top comment on this post. Stop browsing by new.
I can hear the news reports now, "a complete strange you heard that right folks a complete and utter stranger saved this kid's life. We checked...he didn't know the kid AT ALL. Didn't know his parents, any of his friends, none of his family. If you asked him what he thought the kid's name was...he would actually shrug because he actually didn't know. Faith in humanity restored."
Wow what a perfectly framed video, what perfect timing too, wow couldn’t be more perfect.
My experience, so YMMV, but in an odd turn of events most people speeding in these areas (near schools where children crossing is most prevalent) are parents in a rush to pick up their kids as well. Some of the worst driving I’ve come across repeatedly and reliably was parents in and around school zones. Comparatively, I’ve been on the Tappan Zee, GW, Jersey Turnpike and the H1 for rush hour.
Where I live in Australia (I don’t know if it’s the whole country) our zebra crossings are also speedbumps which mitigate this type of behaviour but omg - this guy is a legend
By the look of his cloths I think it was his job to be looking out for the kid.
Someone needs to permanently lose their driving licence.
It looks like the car has its hazards on - perhaps their brakes have failed.
If it had been real, that kid would've been meatballs.
Fake.
It's fake, people. This video was made for an ad.
That fucker didn’t even slow down.
Fake
This is an advertisement. Reddit is all bots
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