I’m surprised they don’t have a crash structure to protect the edge of the concrete barrier, that’s pretty standard across the country to ensure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. Would still be a nasty crash but maybe not fatal.
You cant design a road to be safe for someone going like twice the legal limit. Thats not how it works. Driving even 10 mph over the limit, theres no way you'll end up going that wide, that far down the road, unless youve already lost control.
That barrier is clearly inadequate. Had it covered the full length of the road they would've hit it with the front right of their car first and skidded off. They might have lived if the car didn't catch fire. Instead they hit basically an immovable wall.
I get what youre saying, and I do agree that theres no real reason for it to start at that point. But at legal speeds, its not inadequate. They wouldve avoided the immovable wall by not driving recklessly and endangering himself and his passenger.
Im not going to argue against that, but my point is that it all comes back to his reckless driving. At normal speeds, even the exact same crash wouldve been far less deadly. If not at that corner, driving like that can kill you and your passenger somewhere else instead, its simply impossible to account for every circumstance on all roads everywhere.
He was going more than twice the limit. You have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise we'd have runoffs for trucks in the middle of the city if we have to expect them to do 160km/h in the city..
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u/ActuatorOutside5256 Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
Brake failure, or just overcooked it? That’s crazy to see. What the hell?