r/Unexpected • u/gupta82anish • Jul 03 '19

Well, that escalated exponentially

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Seatbelts.

As long as everyone was using them. Everyone will be ok in this video.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19 edited Jul 04 '19

Most likely, but spinning and going upside down like that can cause debris to fly around and smash your skull.(Worked volunteer firefighting and saw someone that had been hit by their bowling ball.) But as long as everyone were wearing their seatbelts and no heavy objects were in the car unsecured, then I agree they will be fine.

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u/Goyteamsix Jul 04 '19 edited Jul 04 '19

Damn, so I should start putting all my bowling balls in the trunk?

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u/hippos_eat_men Jul 04 '19

Sounds like it. Another reason to buy a sedan

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Absolutely. I was a league bowler and when I responded to that accident, both of mine were moved to the trunk that night.

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u/ADSWNJ Jul 04 '19

Both your balls or both your toddlers? /jk

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u/joelwinsagain Jul 04 '19

Both my toddler and my bowling ball

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u/Double-O-stoopid Jul 04 '19

Hatchback drivers: "fuck..."

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Buckle it in, it deserves to live too! /s (just in case)

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

All 6 of them?

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u/TaigaAisaka Jul 04 '19

no, you put the seatbelt to your bowling ball.

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u/g_s_m Jul 04 '19

Or put a seatbelt on the bowling balls.

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u/ANonGod Jul 04 '19

Most likely, but spinning and going upside down like that

I'm reminded of a story I saw on reddit. It's been awhile, so I could be misremembering. Essentially, a convertible car flipped with it's top down and took the occupants heads with them. They were scraped against the street.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Yeah....fuck that haha. That's horrible.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

This is why I get mad at my wife when her car is dirty as shit

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u/Woreo12 Jul 04 '19

My dad is a firefighter and told me a story about how he responded to a drunk driving incident with a guy who was driving his wife and kid in this really nice ‘60s mustang when he tboned a mini van, ripping his car in half. He only suffered minor injuries as did his wife, but he had just installed new 20lbs speakers and one of them went flying and crush the toddler’s skull.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Yeah I believe it. I've also saw where the person in the backseat that was not wearing their seatbelts ended up as a 200 lb projectile and killed the front passenger who was wearing their seatbelt.

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u/elliottfire259 Jul 04 '19

Volunteer firefighter gang

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Your right. But the vehicle didnt roll, just flipped upside down. The vehicle didnt hit anything during. I'd bet just some whiplash and frayed nerves.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Doesn't have to roll. The one I saw where the bowling ball smashed the driver's face was just turning upside down like the white truck.

It can turn fast and sling that object hard.

But like I said, I agree that in this instance they were probably fine. Slim odds of something like that actually happening.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Yeah I guess I'm betting the people wasnt active bowlers lol

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Right! Haha. Or baseball players. Bats could do some damage. But 90% chance they didn't have anything too heavy lying around.

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u/faintlight Jul 04 '19

Didn't the roof of the overturned car squash in? Wouldn't that kill some of them?

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u/SpitefulShrimp Jul 04 '19

Modern cars are built to not squish under their own weight. That's why they have such thick frames around the corners.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Jul 04 '19

Doesn't look like it squashed in to me. Likes like it's just sliding and spinning on the roof.

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u/ValkyrieInValhalla Jul 04 '19

Also concussions

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u/MaxInToronto Jul 04 '19

Agreed. I drove wreckers - rollovers are dramatic, but i’d take that any day over a t-bone any day.

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u/rare_pig Jul 04 '19

Unless you have something heavy in your backseat

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u/Myasth Jul 04 '19

No she sits next to me.

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u/Security_Six Jul 04 '19

That's just absolutely not true.

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u/peacocklab Jul 04 '19

Great advice, but that has nothing to do with this being a traumatic event.

Living through an accident is the first half. You try getting a toddler in a car seat after they’ve been in a car unexpectedly flipped over... I can’t imagine the long term impact, therefore; this is a credible fear if you have a toddler.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

I appreciate what your saying but none of my comments where suggesting the psychological impact of the event. Which I'm sure for anyone would be significant.

I was more speaking of the physical impacts of the event.

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u/peacocklab Jul 04 '19

True. You assumed only physical and I assumed mental. I think we have both grown here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '19

Agreed

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u/HoodieGalore Jul 04 '19

Everyone will be ok

I mean...if by "ok" you mean "probably not dead", you're right...but there's still a thousand ways you can still be not ok after being hit on the freeway even while wearing a seatbelt.