A motorist in Minnesota has uploaded a dashcam video to YouTube that shows a speeding, second-generation Chevy Equinox rear-end a Mazda3 on Interstate 35 with considerable force.
This clip was uploaded to YouTube with the short and succinct title “idiot,” on April 10th, 2022. The 36-second video shows the dash cammer travelling in the middle lane on Interstate 35, headed westbound and approaching Exit 17C for the University of Minnesota, when an errant Chevy Equinox driver enters the frame at a high rate of speed and nearly clips their front passenger-side quarter panel.
After that near disaster, the Equinox driver attempts to swing across into the far left lane, at which point a Mazda3 is seen entering the left lane with their indicator on as the driver attempts to pass another vehicle. Unable to stop in time, the Equinox slams into the Mazda, launching the passenger side of the crossover into the air and severely damaging its front suspension.
While we feel for the Mazda3 driver in this instance, the damage to their vehicle was surprisingly minimal considering they were hit by a larger vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed. The video uploader did not say if this crash resulted in any injuries, but it’s clear this crash could have been much worse if the Equinox made a more direct impact with the rear of the Japanese compact car.
It’s obviously not advisable to swerve in and out of lanes attempting to pass cars in Interstate traffic like this. Not only is it dangerous, but it’s also unlikely it will save very much time when commuting. As the uploader said in the video description, this driver was apparently in a “hurry to get nowhere!”
Check out the video embedded below.
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Until an accident report can be read, it is possible the driver was having a medical event. It is noted that before hitting the car and guardrail, the brakes were being applied. You’ll understand my comment if you ever seen a type 1 diabetic glucose level go low enough that they appear drunk and sometimes incoherent. My wife, one time, did and fortunately she had a one car accident and no injuries. She has no recollection of it other than someone asking if she was drunk.
If your glucose goes low like that as a diabetic that’s gross negligence on your part.
It’s not difficult to keep a bag of gummies, Candy or something rich in sugar in your car for an emergency.
Ah mindless Minnesota.
If this was not a medical event what I’d like to know is what in the world was going through their mind
I see this style of driving all of the in Orange county NY, Sussex county NJ, and Pike county PA… No matter what type of car they are driving people are to much of a damn hurry… And this is the end result even if your sugar levels where low you pull the car over when low blood sugar event starts and call your boss and tell them you running late or can’t my make it to work… My father had diabetes and if he even feels it getting low he will stop the car and get something to eat or carry something with him! But regardless this is bad driving! We need better driving schools and people should be required to take defensive driving courses!
Saw identical event Sunday down town St Louis, except high speed car flipped and ejected 2 persons.severe injury, rear ended vehicle did a 90 into the concrete divider, walked away minor injuries. Seat belts made world of difference.
Yep, see this kond of driving all the time on 40 and 270 thru north county.
So the witness found it worthwhile to record an post this event, but not stop and render assistance? Interesting priorities all around.
Not only render assistance, but they have documentation of the accident. That could be crucial evidence for the Mazda driver to prove innocence in the accident. The Equinox driver could have said they didn’t have a turn signal on, or cut them off and was the fault for the wreckage. If you’re going to have a dash cam and post this stuff, then you should claim some responsibility for providing the footage to the authorities. Not just post for social status.
Assist whom? The driver was way past the Mazda and why would anyone risk their life to assist the psycho in the Chevrolet and risk being shot or carjacked or in this case plowed into by another car?
You dial 911. Which they probably did once they got over the shock of it.
Idiot Boy: Exactly. It’s just not worth risking your own life in high traffic interstate/freeway driving like that. Now, if this was a low traffic 2 lane road out in the middle of farm country in MN, then yes. Stop and assist.
Forget about glucose, this is a guy high on Meth
Another fool on the road. God help us.
Very sad that this type of human lives among us.
Not even sure how they managed to slip between the camera car and that black crossover at the beginning of the clip when the lanes were merging. That looked tight.
Him driving like this, kind of cancels out the low sugar level theory. There is no excuse for stupidity!
This is what happens when a civilization is fully in decay. It is now normal to see people driving like this in any major blue state metro area. No civility. No common courtesy. No do unto others. No law enforcement presence to make the savages think twice. They were probably in a hurry to get to the nearest jewelry store for a smash-n-grab. Maybe next time, but you’ll have to carjack a new ride first, homie.
Idiot Boy: You truly earned your name with this comment. You are truly an idiot! Why would you even say “blue state”? I grew up in a very “red” area in IL and the drivers did the same stuff there as they do elsewhere.
The fact that you miserably tried to politicize this is stupid.
what area’s in IL are very “red”. A 49 year resident of Illinois would like to know.
JWL:
In answer to your question of very “red” areas in Illinois: Peoria, Decatur, Moline, Galesburg, Rockford, Morton to name a few examples. Lincoln and Reagan country.
The areas where citizens are productive and produce favorable tangible goods and positive results. No non productive or counterproductive activities. No zero sum gains.
JWL: I grew up in the very NW corner near IA and WI. But nearly all of IL is quite red unless you are in the heart of Chicago.
To deny reality is stupid. What you’re witnessing is the result of a failed state and civilization crumbling at the hands of leftist social justice pimping politicians who want it this way. The only thing miserable about it is far too many refuse to accept what it is and continue to make excuses for it or choose to deny the problem exists altogether. Confound all these irresponsible diabetics!
Idiot Boy: How can you go from reasonable comments above to this? Seriously? How?
The fact that you are saying what you just said above is beyond politics. It’s just insane. Want to talk about red vs. blue and in what areas? Great. Let’s talk about the GOP AG from either North or South Dakota. Last year he was driving home (drunk or high) and hit a man killing him. Worse, he left the man there and went home. At first, no arrest was made, but thank god the media got ahold of it and with pressure the state government impeached him now.
So because of that one example where we KNOW he is a right wing GOP person, shall we now label all GOP and/or “red” areas as you are with this?
Pull your head out of your a** and stop listening to Fox.
Everything’s fine in Blue America. No thoroughly debased and disintegrated moral fabric. Sometimes, homies just need a few extra Benjamins to buy a new belt. Move along now, Mr. Right Wing Conspiracy Theorist. Nothing to see here. Don’t you realize you are insane?
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Idiot Boy: Nice try. But you are way off base and it’s the disjointed mind-set like you have that is what’s wrong with this country today. I love how you attempt to scrounge up a few select cases to “prove” your mindless point. We could all play that game, but it doesn’t prove anything but the fact that we can all dig up something to make the other side look bad.
Try this one on for a second: Let’s rid this country of all the unnecessary weapons, require anyone buying a gun of any sort to pass a mandatory background check and then wait 2 weeks before they can purchase the gun, require every gun/weapon to be registered federally, hold gun manufacturers/sellers liable when a gun was sent out without following the rules and then used in a crime, and then place every criminal in federal prison when charged with a felony while using a gun. Then if that person is found guilty, put them to death. Most everything I just suggested is backed by those you refer to as “Blue America”. And guess what? I’ll bet that you and your “Red America” would cry a river about all that and then some. Yet you want to put all this crime committed with guns out there and then blame it on the other side.
Sorry chump. You can’t have it both ways.
You are living in a dream world. Law abiding people who purchase guns legally are not the problem. Let me know exactly how you plan to remove millions of stolen firearms from the hands of an exploding population of criminal psychopaths. Your policies will only serve to weaken the defenses of their victims. Crime statistics which are available to anyone capable of doing minimal research run counter to your assertions.
You know what’s really insane? The cancerous political correctness that’s ushered in the death of Western Civilization. Nobody in their right mind can be exposed to the garbage that’s corrupted far too many aspects of society and deny we are not in serious trouble and collectively responsible for what we’ve wrought and furthermore we owe it to our children and their children to acknowledge and fix the mess we created much of it by caving to “tolerance” which is code for “let the animals get away with bloody murder and don’t say anything – we owe it to them”.
What’s really mindless is that the Golden Rule is dead and it died on OUR watch. Forget Blue and Red. What we have now is Broken America.
Anyone truly interested in saving it will vote to make crime criminal again and restore Free Speech even though that involves hurting other people’s feelings which beats the heck out of innocents being savaged by lunatics given carte blanche to rip apart the fabric of society as some twisted form of atonement for cascading wealth inequality, government corruption and the unconscionable sins of certain men laid to rest generations ago.
You proved my point 100% just in your first two sentences. Nowhere. Absolutely nowhere did you read words from me saying anything about “law abiding citizens” who attain guns legally. But the problem with the right is just what you did: Inject something into what was said to make it something that wasn’t said. We see this every day. The funny part is that what I said above would secure the right for law abiding people to have guns that are legal to have. It would give them a process to protect their guns and allow them to protect themselves and hunt legally. The only thing that you fail to mention is those statistics from other countries that have much (MUCH) stricter gun laws and where crime is way below ours in the good old gun-toting USA.
The rest of what you said sounds to me like you are describing the following people or groups: Trump, proud boys, oath keepers, Kevin McCarthy, MTG, Lauren Boebert, Ron DeSantis, Matt Gaetz, Mark Meadows, Ted Cruz and a few others. Heck, I’d even add good old Moscow Mitch into that group myself. It’s these scum bags that have deteriorated this country to the rotten core it is now (I will reference January 6th here). As well, it’s the people who allowed them to highjack the real GOP. I can only hope that the GOP that I grew up in and was active with will come back and leave these maggots behind. Until such time, I will vote for the Democrats and few good Republicans that are left.
Oh, forgot to point out one huge issue with your comment as well. So if all these law abiding citizens had their guns properly registered, and if they were stolen, and if they then reported the guns as being stolen, then that would assist law enforcement in a huge way. The fact that so many gun owners don’t want to have a national gun registration policy in place is a huge problem.
Also, where are you getting this “millions of stolen firearms” number from? Even with the current (weak at best) gun laws in place, if there were millions of gun being stolen, then where are the reports of this to the police? Do you see the glaring problem in what you say? Do you see the irony in it?
The guns are already on the streets in the wrong hands. You don’t agree it’s millions? Okay, how about thousands? Would it be safe to assert there are a thousand criminals with guns in their hands across the USA? Some of them shooting others in the head in broad daylight with witnesses who are so distanced from anything resembling humanity that they practically walk up and sniff the corpse like wild animals? Ain’t nobody callin’ no 911, brutha! This scenario unfolds countless times a year mostly in Democrat run cities. But, hey this doesn’t point up any problems whatsoever with Democrat policy or anything.
And no law is going to separate the one-thousand criminals from their one-thousand guns til death do them part. But needn’t worry; someone else in the hood will take them out eventually!
Meanwhile, we have an increasing trend of reckless, lawless driving serving as an extension of the societal rot. Which is where all this nonsense began. It isn’t just guns. Those with the same savage mentality wreak havoc with fully legal rolling implements of death and destruction on public roadways as the featured video illustrates. Since you’re specialized in generalizing, I will posit that you’re more likely to encounter this type of insanity in the metro areas that are mostly Blue, but like the homelessness and decay and murder rates in those places, I know, it’s Republican’s fault. Just pick any name off your list and point.
At any rate, being the maggot that I am, I try my best to stay out of the cities which are starting to resemble scenes from Escape From New York, but you’re free to believe what you want to believe and keep on voting Democrat. Just remember next time you’re casting your 7th mail-in ballot😂: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Sayonara!
What a hoot. There’s so much wrong in what you just said and I find it hilarious how your point things out (blaming Dems and/or Blue areas) and then say it’s me pointing the finger. Because there’s so much false in your statement, I’ll just grab a couple:
“Meanwhile, we have an increasing trend of reckless, lawless driving serving as an extension of the societal rot. Which is where all this nonsense began. It isn’t just guns. Those with the same savage mentality wreak havoc with fully legal rolling implements of death and destruction on public roadways as the featured video illustrates.”
^^Yes, this is happening in very blue and very red states. Just take a look at what’s been happening all over Texas.
” Just remember next time you’re casting your 7th mail-in ballot”
^^ And yet, hundreds of crazy maggots across the country who searched high and low for voter fraud. None ever found. Taken to courts to fight a legal and lawful election. Lost every case. And yet, Mr Meadows and a few other Trump-GOP maggots were the ones actually caught committing voter fraud.
Facts sure are funny things now aren’t they. So turn off Fox. Stop listening to Info Wars and bull your head out of your a**.
Well, lucky for you Dan, your government’s listening and just rolled out The Ministry of Truth (aka Disinformation Governance Board). Things are really looking up!
And by the way – Alex Jones was right
Or meth dealers….
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