Bad drivers are a dime a dozen. You know the type—weaving in and out of traffic like they’re pushing for the win at Watkins Glen, slamming the throttle and brakes in quick succession, sawing at the wheel for no reason at all, and generally endangering themselves and anyone unlucky enough to be near them. The driver of the Chevrolet Camaro featured in this brief dashcam video certainly fits that description, and the result is one smashed-up Bow Tie and an equally destroyed Tesla Model 3.
The crash footage comes to us from Austin, Texas, and was captured on video thanks to the dashcam of a following vehicle. The clip opens with what appears to be a fifth-gen Chevrolet Camaro with the RS package, draped in blue with twin white racing stripes. The Camaro in question is speeding along in the left-hand lane, passing the camera car at a pretty decent clip. The Camaro driver has his turn signal on, but that does little to prepare the other drivers for the dangerous lane change he executes, narrowly missing a crossover in the process.
Things get worse when the Camaro driver gasses it around a gentle right-hand bend. The Camaro veers over the divider line, clipping an unsuspecting Tesla Model 3 in the process.
The damaged EV moves over to the right-hand shoulder. Meanwhile, the Camaro ricochets off the outside retaining wall, minus one wheel.
Clearly, the Tesla Model 3 had nowhere to go to avoid the maniac Camaro driver. Luckily, the Camaro didn’t go flying off the edge of the freeway as a result of the driver’s incompetence.
Hopefully, both the Tesla Model 3 driver and Camaro driver walked away unhurt.
It’s shocking stuff, no doubt about it. But we suppose it finally answers that age-old question: who killed the electric car? Apparently, it was a Camaro.
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Comments
As a Camaro owner and enthusiast myself, I read the title to this article, shook my head, and refused to click on it and watch the video.
Then 4 seconds later I decided I couldn’t stop myself and clicked on it and watched the video.
I am ashamed. At both that stupid driver for being a stupid driver, and myself for have no self-control in this situation.
As a Camaro RS driver that takes this very route on the way home from work every day, I had to watch.
The flyovers are deceivingly tight, and we’ve had more than one instance of vehicles going over.
I wonder if the Camaro was going back to the left lane and the Tesla unexpectedly sped up.
Driving here is 1000% defensive head-on-a-swivel if you love your car.
I also live in Texas and drivers here do speed up, cut people off, and similar. Often, there is a large pickup with over-sized tires involved.