What exactly was this driver trying to do?
According to the person who posted the video:
Guy hits 3 cars, struggling shifting the gears, was stuck in neutral most of the time
Just another day in LA
It happen around 7:47am
Was on my way to work and stopped by to get a donut & a monster to start my morning then BAM! Car crashed!
Aftermath: Guy speeds off, 10-15 seconds after Cops/EMT show up and bystanders found his license plate on the floor, not 100% sure what happen afterwards.
It is interesting that the onlookers are baffled as to what to do and I don’t blame them. Such a person might well be armed and dangerous.
“Might” be armed and dangerous? The guy has a car, and clearly isn’t bothered by ramming things with it. I wouldn’t have gotten as close as most of the people in the video.
I don’t know who is worse, the moron driving the car, or the moron filming in portrait mode!
Judging by the amount of wheelspin, he was entangled with the car in front. This was followed by a lengthy struggle with the deployed air bag. Impeding the escape of hit and run drivers is an unintended benefit of airbags.
I’d have been at a goodly distance, lest LAPD show up and lay down a carpet of suppressive fire.
He didn’t seem to understand the concept of turning the steering wheel.
I don’t think he was stuck in neutral -- you can clearly see the front wheels spinning when he tried to back up. Based on the position of the bumpers while the 2 cars were stuck together, I suspect the white car had a trailer hitch the he got stuck on. After breaking free, he managed to get reattached to the car in front.
@Alan Wilson, No. 2
I think there should be special movie theaters where people who record videos in portrait mode can see the world vertically.
Jeff
Several of those bystanders seemed way too close to me. Sure, normally you can be maybe 10 feet away from a car driving past at a pretty good speed and not be in any real danger but that’s because people understand how to drive safely. That guy looked like he was not thinking clearly at all and was lucky not to get sideswiped when he ran the red light at the end. I have to wonder if he really ran into the car in front on accident or if he was trying to nudge up to it and “push”. I can’t imagine that working too well with styrofoam bumpers.
The comments on the youtube video about walking up to the vehicle and pulling the keys or pulling the guy out of the car are incredibly stupid. The guy was clearly revving his engine and trying to jerk away from the other vehicle, not caring if he rammed them. What that would have done to a person whose torso was caught in his window (if it was even rolled down) or trying to enter his vehicle from the passenger side or really any aggressive approach is probably best not to think about too closely. It’s probably safe to say such “heroics” would have given the EMTs something to do.
I looks to me like he’s either mentally ill or hallucinating (or both) -- both good reasons for not approaching him while he is armed (and with a mobile tonne of steel under his nominal control, he is armed).
For instance, around 1:36 you can clearly see him spinning the steering wheel, even though the car isn’t moving, and looking out and back through the driver side window as though passing something. He seems to think he’s driving. At a couple of points he even seems to be quite enjoying it. He’s also audibly shouting/singing something, and seems unphased by the deployed airbag. This is not a “bad driver” in the normal sense, this is an ill person who needs specialist help.
http://grammarist.com/usage/faze-phase/
You learn something every die. Then you die and forget it all. For some reason I had always assumed that “faze” was the US spelling, like “color” or “realize”. And now I realise it isn’t. Thanks! 🙂
Day. FFS.
Too bad some civic minded individual (with an old truck) didn’t drive up behind him, park the truck and leave.
Well, SORB, people do die every day.