Heard metal-scraping outside my window and then Holy shit So yeah I called for an ambulancepic.twitter.com/c717ZofaSZ
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Some folks RTing this w/ comments about car culture, which aren't broadly unfair, but - you don't just accidentally flip a car after this intersection at the legal speed of 25 or 30 - cars are useful here if you need to travel at certain times of day/night, it's not a safe area
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Cars are statistically very dangerous & tons of accidents involve the sort of "driver error" that you're probably lying to yourself about if you think you're immune to it, but... I think it's fair to say that whatever happened here was closer to The Fast and the Furious territory
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Cars cause about 1 in 100 deaths in the US which ends up translating to somewhere in the magnitude of about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying per year in a crash.y I feel like people really underestimate the danger of vehicles.
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I think they do underestimate the risks, despite a much larger number having personal experience with serious non-fatal accidents... part of it is just that it feels intractable on the individual level, w affordable housing in otherwise safe neighborhoods so far from city centers
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Maybe something wrong w/ the street. Even at high velocity, automobiles usually don't flip like that unless they jump off a ramp.
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At hwy speeds, 1 too-hard wheel jerk is usually how rollovers start, especially w. top-heavy vehicles like that appears to be. Not at 25-30 MPH, though, no. Even in an ambulance on a (wet/slick) skid pan at those speeds, you mostly just skid. W. enough camber / incline, maybe?
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happened across one of these a few years ago near a slow, 4-way-stop, pedestrian-clogged intersection in SF – also boggled on how they managed it https://www.instagram.com/p/BNyXUNOhptj/ pic.twitter.com/DajJlbGfM1
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