February15
Security cameras in Russia’s recently-completed Lefortovo Tunnel captured some pretty wild high-speed car accidents. The 3.2 km tunnel appears rather cramped, but that doesn’t stop any of these drivers from traveling at ridiculous speeds, nor has it prevented from being generally careless. See the video after the jump…
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okay, I can understand the cars because people can be stupid, but the bus… HOLY CRAP!
HAHA, that bus is soooo funny!!!
I’ve been on one of those buses in Russia - that’s some scary stuff to watch.
This is what happens when you have vodka for breakfast then take a relaxing high speed drive in a tunnel.
OMG, did you see those trucks????????
ouch!
the bus=))
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Fake video??? Where does the second truck come from at the end of the video. It shows a head-on collision, but there’s no truck there beforehand! Maybe they spliced together two different angles of a more typical crash to make it seem spectacular…
That tunnel must be covered in ice… the way the car moves look like there’s no traction.
And that last scene with the two trucks is cognitively impossible for me. Looks like the second truck teleported out of the wall, traveling through time to visit another copy of itself. Spooky. But then again it’s Russia, so space aliens must be behind it.
I wanna work in the camera control room at that place! Russia’s freakin awesome!
HA-HA, this is don,t fake.
I’m live in Moscow and I do it too, one year ago, with truck(GAZ-3302) too, my car was VAZ-2105(Fiat 124)
This is was be dont fan, I dont drink vodka.
Nothing dont suffer, fortunately.
This is shema Lefortovo tunel: http://www.roads.ru/ttk/lefortovo.htm
Underground is blue and purpure.
Welcome in Russia. %)
Regarding the last crash with the two trucks, as this is a one-way tunnel there probably is a second tunnel next to it and the truck just drove through the wall between those tunnels.
I think the chops in the video are due to changing cameras from one where the crash started to another one a little further down the line so we can see the end of the crash.
I think “a nonymous” is right about the trucks… it looks like the second one came right through the wall. I wish they had the video of the other side so we could see how the truck managed to make it through the wall.
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jim sanders - if there is an ice on the road then why all the other cars stop ok? I dont believe they all have abs on board … The bus driver is a good one!
I think that ‘the second truck’ is there all along, in front and to the left of the truck you can see. It’s just obscured from view by the first truck driving so close behind it.
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Does anyone know the music (title, artist) in the clip?
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No don’t bother! I got this clip via e-mail, and there is a song playing in the background, here is just video clip, nevermind
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I live in Bucharest, you should try once to drive at rush hours here. Images? I think there is all true and that the speed is the main problem… not vodka(which I enjoy also)… I’ve been in Moskow and I can tell that they drive fast… and funny … In US you have no idea of this kind of speed on this roads… go Germany first…than go Turkey (fight the trucks!) and Bulgary (on the mountains in a rainy day), than go to Moskow. Want to have fun driving… come in Bucharest. Do not go Holland … do you know why?
Does anyone know the name and the artist of the song played on that video clip???
drivers werent drunk, i think it s trouble that there is too cold and too much of water in air
what is the link with the music
so I can send this in an email?
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Eye vas een Moskva verkin at de shtudioh maken zees videeo. Eet is all reeel.
The bus made in Hungary. Type Ikarus 435. Yeeess…almost flying:). But the driver’s skills are magnificent. http://www.vonatka.hu/ikarus_412_415_435.htm
As is saw, not the high speed is the only reason for these accidents. There are few divers not using sings changing track. It’s pervading here in Hungary unfortunatelly too.
About the Lefortovo tunnel “accidents”…
This is the way ruskies drive in foreign countries, too…
I believe the 2nd truck comes in with a merge lane. Study the map in the following link and
you will notice many merges that appear to be part of the underground.
Thanks to Jeka:
http://www.roads.ru/ttk/lefortovo.htm
It is very a pity Ikarus 435. It is our best bus and more such will not be. The best in Moscow is not present anything. Only on commercial routes there are buses of mark Scania!
Ah them ROOOSKEES….a little Wodka and a good time is had by all!!!
Hard to believe the ice on road scenario when that bus is leaving some heavy rubber skid marks!
it all has to do with the periferal vision and creation of an invisible high speed perception. remember driving in an enclosure you seem to go faster. if you panic or make a sudden move you loose control. driver could be loosing control because of the real fast speeds interfiering with their perception of a speed that their minds create due to the lighting and narrow tunnel vision. srry for mispeling im in a hurry.
Gallardon, the major of Madrid (Spain) is building a tunnel similar to Lefortovo.
The new tunnel of Madrid will be opened in 2007, with the name By Pass Sur M-30.
If you visit Madrid in future, don´t miss you the adventure of drive into the By Pass Sur M-30 Tunnel.
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