02/15/2006, 11:52 AM

Industry/General

Wild accidents captured in Russia’s new Lefortovo Tunnel

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…

 
 

02/15, 12:41 PM

posted by:

Greenspeed

okay, I can understand the cars because people can be stupid, but the bus… HOLY CRAP!

02/15, 1:11 PM

posted by:

Scott

HAHA, that bus is soooo funny!!!

02/15, 1:45 PM

posted by:

Brian

I’ve been on one of those buses in Russia - that’s some scary stuff to watch.

02/15, 3:41 PM

posted by:

Jason

This is what happens when you have vodka for breakfast then take a relaxing high speed drive in a tunnel.

02/15, 4:13 PM

posted by:

T

OMG, did you see those trucks????????
ouch!

02/15, 4:41 PM

posted by:

Anonymous

the bus=))

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02/15, 9:21 PM

posted by:

Steven Ackley

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…

02/15, 10:38 PM

posted by:

jim sanders

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.

02/15, 11:34 PM

posted by:

the final verdict

I wanna work in the camera control room at that place! Russia’s freakin awesome!

02/16, 3:49 AM

posted by:

Jeka

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. %)

02/16, 4:41 AM

posted by:

a nonymous

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.

02/16, 7:56 AM

posted by:

Greenspeed

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.

02/16, 8:00 AM

posted by:

Greenspeed

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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02/16, 9:06 AM

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Incidenti nel tunnel di Lefortovo

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02/17, 3:55 PM

posted by:

Anonymous

GOOD. ME LIKE

02/19, 5:48 PM

posted by:

Kevin

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

02/20, 7:04 AM

posted by:

jaro

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!

02/21, 6:01 PM

posted by:

Jeff Sergeant

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.

02/24, 10:49 AM

posted by:

dejkoman

Hey!

Does anyone know the music (title, artist) in the clip?

br, dejxc

02/24, 10:52 AM

posted by:

dejkoman

Ok!

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 :)

br, dejc

02/25, 8:14 AM

posted by:

MIHAIL

Мдаа …БР?ТЯ ру?наци, много пиете много бързо карате и ние ви гледаме излагациите на път?.. С?МО Смирноф :-))

02/27, 10:20 AM

posted by:

Blue

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?

02/27, 5:59 PM

posted by:

oz

Does anyone know the name and the artist of the song played on that video clip???

03/07, 3:49 PM

posted by:

Anonymous

drivers werent drunk, i think it s trouble that there is too cold and too much of water in air

03/17, 10:16 AM

posted by:

TS

what is the link with the music
so I can send this in an email?

03/28, 6:49 AM

posted by:

crabzone

Fantastic Site! domain reg

04/11, 11:41 AM

posted by:

Lenny

Eye vas een Moskva verkin at de shtudioh maken zees videeo. Eet is all reeel.

04/28, 2:51 AM

posted by:

Garp

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.

05/24, 7:50 AM

posted by:

Johnny B. Good

About the Lefortovo tunnel “accidents”…
This is the way ruskies drive in foreign countries, too…

06/26, 12:17 PM

posted by:

Ed Lizard

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

07/28, 12:58 PM

posted by:

Wladislaw

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!

08/02, 8:23 AM

posted by:

jilted

Ah them ROOOSKEES….a little Wodka and a good time is had by all!!!

08/07, 3:20 AM

posted by:

Wil Nau

Hard to believe the ice on road scenario when that bus is leaving some heavy rubber skid marks!

08/23, 10:41 PM

posted by:

CB

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.

09/08, 3:53 PM

posted by:

BypassSur

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.

09/25, 7:27 AM

posted by:

sobwcvuc

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09/23, 11:20 AM

posted by:

jkurrle

Blatantly copying from Wikipedia:

“Lefortovo tunnel (Russian: Лефортовский тоннель or Russian: Лефо́ртово тоннель) is a road tunnel in the Lefortovo District in Moscow, Russia. It is a part of the Third Ring road. At 2.2 km (1.4 miles) long, it is the fifth longest in-city tunnel of Europe (after the Dublin Port Tunnel at 4.5 km, the Södra länken in Stockholm at 4.5 km, the Giovanni XXIII Tunnel in Rome at 2.9 km and North-Western Tunnel in Moscow at 2.8 km).

The tunnel runs under the Yauza River, and water leaks in at some points. When the temperature reaches −38 degrees Celsius (as during the winter of 2005), the road surface can freeze.

It has been nicknamed “The Tunnel of Death” due to its high accident rate and a video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents recorded by monitoring cameras.”

 
 
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