Valet Employee Will Likely Be Looking for a New Job After This

Someone ought to give this guy a…brake, but seriously now, while we've seen much worse like the Hyatt Hotel parking employee who was doing burnouts with customer cars and then…uploading the videos on YouTube, the valet will have some explaining to do to his boss and of course, the owner of the car. Read more »

Split-Second Decision Saves Florida Woman from Being Crushed Under Overpass

If you've ever been behind a truck carrying a massive load which you didn't think was fastened properly, then you will definitely know the kind of images that pop up in one's head in those instances. Well, a Florida woman materialized this scariest of driving fears, and was almost killed in the process. Read more »

Toyota Highlander Driver Demolishes Garage, Cries "Unintended Acceleration", But Is It?

Given all the attention Toyota has received for the unintended acceleration issues, it's not surprising that it's one of the first things that cross the minds of drivers whenever they're involved in a strange and usually, hard to explain, accident or incident. Sometimes they are right, but sometimes they are wrong.

A female driver of a relatively new Toyota Highlander posted a video of a rather bizarre incident on YouTube a couple of months back (on January 21, to be precise), though, this is the first time we've seen it, and judging from the low viewer counter, most likely the same applies to you too.

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Ukrainian Cars Do the Awkward Walking Dance and Collide Head On

You know when you're walking towards someone and you both try to change path, but end up taking the same direction and bump into each other anyway? Well, imagine the same thing, but instead of walking, driving a car – yes, it's as scary as it sounds.

Something of the sort happened to a pair of Ukrainian (or so the video author claims) drivers who tried to avoid each other on the road but their moves resulted in a head-on collision.

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Crazy Driver Plays Real Life GTA in Hong Kong

If you're into cars and video games, you've likely heard of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA for short) franchise where you can steal vehicles (and pay the services of prostitutes, but that’s another story…) and act like a genuine thug on the road, crashing and smashing into anything that comes your way, all in the safety of your home. This is what one man did - not in a game, though, but in real-life Hong Kong. Read more »

Look What Happens When Cops Fail to Place Warning Signals at an Accident Scene

The author of this Russian video states that the truck driver with the recording device was distracted and failed to stop at a scene of an accident on the highway, almost crashing into civilian and police cars as well as people standing on the road in the process. Read more »

Firefighters Cut Car to Extinguish Fire, Turns Out Smoke Came from an Auxiliary Heating System...

There’s nothing wrong about being a vigilant citizen and alerting authorities when you think there's a problem. That’s exactly what a woman from Baia Mare, Romania, did when she saw smoke coming out of a parked car’s engine compartment.

Suspecting a fire, she called the firefighters. What she didn’t know was that the old Audi A6 had an…"auxiliary heating system running on fuel" that had been turned on by the owner via a remote control.

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Volvo S60 Driver Tries to Overtake Motorcyclists on the Grass, Pays the Price…

Here's one incident where we think that both parties are to blame – the group of motorcyclists for spreading out on both lanes and blocking the road for the rest of the motorists, and the driver of the older generation Volvo S60 sedan for trying to overtake them by stepping on the grass and performing a very dangerous move, as it turned out. Read more »

"Lost in Thought" Drivers Cause More Accidents than Those Using Mobile Phones, Says Study

Latest police data in the United States reveal some surprising statistics. It seems that the use of mobile phones while driving, blamed by many as one of the leading causes of traffic accidents, is not as harmful as being “lost in thought” or simply put, daydreaming.

Ten percent of fatal auto accidents in the States involved at least one motorist who was distracted, according to a statement by Erie Insurance Group that analyzed 2010 and 2011 national crash data from NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System. The causes of the distraction in 62 percent of the cases was daydreaming and being “lost in thought”, with mobile phone use being blamed in only 12 percent of the accidents caused by distracted drivers.

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This is One Surprise You Don't Want to Experience

There are many surprises one can experience while driving their vehicle on the road – from pleasant ones, such as stumbling upon rare exotic examples from the automobile world or beautiful scenery and people, to nasty ones like an accident.

For this poor motorist, the surprise came in the form of another car that lost control (or was hit, we can't see from this angle), and crashed into the curb before heading his or her way.

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Lada Saloon Slips on Ice and Takes a Turn for the Worse…

The thing with ice and even worse, black ice is that you won't notice it until it's too late to do something about it, so when temperatures drop below the freezing point of water at 32° F or 0° C, the best you can do is slow down and be extremely careful – the opposite of what the driver of this classic Lada sedan did.

Obviously travelling faster than what he should have in these conditions, the driver stepped on ice and lost control of the car that crossed over the road slamming into the metal guardrails before it tumbled and landed on its top.

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Lada Samara Hits a Wall -Literally- While Trying to Drift

Getting together with your pals at night at a local supermarket's parking lot to film your drifting efforts sounds like a very cool idea until you mess up and find yourself the star on YouTube.

The young driver tries to turn around the (front-wheel drive) Lada Samara hatchback's tail a couple of times using the small pools of water on the lot as a skid pad.

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Lada Niva Gets in a Wet and Sticky Situation

As the temperatures warm up and the snow begins to melt in the northern hemisphere, it's time for youngsters to enjoy nature's beauty. For this group, it means heading to a river and trying out their off-road vehicles, perhaps more to impress their female friends than anything else. Read more »

Marine Corps Sgt Goes Ballistic Over a Civilian Driver with Nerves of Steel [NSFW]

A new video that surfaced on YouTube on Monday shows how a simple fender bender can reveal the road-rage-driven beast hiding inside one man, and the remarkably calm demeanor in another.

From what we understand, a civilian driver with a disabled female Marine passenger, rear-ended another car driven by a Marine Corps sergeant (Sgt) in California, near the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

We don't know if something preceded the accident, but after it occurred and the Sgt exited his car, all hell broke loose. Screaming at the top of his lungs, the Sgt insulted both the driver and the passenger, while also kicking the door as he wanted the driver to come out of his car so he could "beat" his "f[explicit] ass".

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Tesla Model S Driver Creates her Own Drive-Through into Seafood Restaurant…

Have you ever had such a powerful craving for seafood that you just couldn't wait one second longer, and even once you pull up to the restaurant, you still feel like getting out of the car and walking inside is too much hassle?

If you haven't, then this is what an extreme case of the above can turn into, as shown by a 71 year-old driver, who crashed her car right into such a restaurant, the Lure Fish House, in Camarillo, California.

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Woman Tips Her Mitsubishi on Two Wheels

It seems that parked cars are really good ramps for launching other vehicles into the air. Judging by the videos we've seen, it's usually hatchbacks which offer the best lift. This new video shows how a woman in a red Mitsubishi (or so the badge suggests) hatchback gets some impressive two-wheel driving action. However, she does not topple the car over because it gently balances itself out using the trailer of a passing truck… Read more »

Another Ford Mustang Fail in British Car Meeting

Brits and America's most famous pony car, the Mustang, don't seem to be getting along these days.

After a fifth-generation, Ford Mustang killed some trees during the Big Breakfast car meeting in Malton, England, this past Sunday, today we were tipped off about a second incident that took place at the "Wheels Day 2013" event in English county of Hampshire on Friday, March 29.

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Blimey! Watch a British Ford Mustang Driver Plow a Few Trees

Losing control and crashing a tricked out, fifth-gen Ford Mustang all by yourself just after exiting a parking lot during a car meet, is one way to give American Muscle cars a bad name and lead to new jokes about live rear axle suspensions…

As reported by Jalopnik, it all went down on Sunday (March 31), during the Big Breakfast car meeting in Malton, England, when the driver of the cherry-red Mustang coupe came out of the parking and wanted to show off his car's V8-power to the enthusiastic crowd.

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Russian Tank Hits a Snag, Then a Curb and a…Pole

Have you ever had one of those days when everything goes wrong and you just want to punch something? We're guessing that it must have been one of those days for the operator of this BMD amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle (or so we think it is this type of army vehicle – if you know otherwise, tell us in the comments). Read more »

Huge Virginia Pileup Involving Almost 100 Vehicles Leaves 3 Dead, 25 Injured

At least three people were killed and 25 were taken to the hospital in huge pileup involving 95-vehicles that happened on Interstate 77 near the Virginia and North Carolina state line Sunday afternoon, according to reports. As is often the case with events such as this, fog and generally poor visibility are to blame here (and possibly drivers not keeping a safe distance). Read more »