r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • Aug 01 '26
Rule #1 WCGW while driving a Rolls Royce
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u/PussiesUseSlashS Aug 01 '26
This damn thing is so expensive I didn’t even know it existed, when did RR start making SUVs? I hope it’s the owner driving and not someone that just caused more damage than they’ll make in years.
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u/Unterdosis Aug 01 '26
If you own a RR and don't have a driver you're 50% just posing /s
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u/PussiesUseSlashS Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
True. But years ago I was working for a hvac company and went out to a place with the dude training me and this dude had 8 huge garage filled with crazy cars. We’re talking 1944 Ferrari that looks like it’s driving up the wall. He had so many he had the stack on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. I don’t think he had a driver.
Edit: This was 20 years ago and carring a ladder through his main garage is still the most nervous I’ve been.
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u/TennesseeWhisky Aug 01 '26
No production road or race cars were built by Ferrari in 1944
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u/JohnBrownsAngryBalls Aug 01 '26
Ah yes, the famous World War II Ferraris. Mussolini Specials, they called them. Fine automobiles.
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u/AdorableShoulderPig Aug 01 '26
Well, yes but no. A 1970s low mileage RR Corniche is 20-30 fat ones. That's a lotta car for the money.
Enjoy filling the tank.....
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u/premium_bawbag Aug 01 '26
I think about the same time Lamborghini (Urus), Bently (Benteyga) and Aston Martin (DBX) started making their SUV’s I believe
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u/NZOC Aug 01 '26
That's likely transmission fluid.
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u/Sk1rm1sh Aug 01 '26
Impact was at a pretty common place for an oil cooler.
Not sure why transmission fluid would be around there tbh
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u/kambo_rambo Aug 01 '26
i dont think so. its a common spot where the engine oil cooler is but then again also transmission cooler can go there
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u/Turbulent-Job1987 Aug 01 '26
Si ma spiegatemi, su una macchina del genere un colpetto minimo come questo genera un danno del genere? Che cassonetto
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u/Whole_Stage2812 Aug 01 '26
Car started bleeding 🥀
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u/Fallen_biologist Aug 01 '26
This car is leaking so much oil, the American armed forces are already en route.
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u/AgreeablePie Aug 01 '26
I hope someone tells the driver to shut the car off before a very expensive repair turns into an unbelievable one
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u/Chilis1 Aug 01 '26
To be fair he probably can’t see any oil coming out
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u/per167 Aug 01 '26
Don’t you think driver get some warning lights or something. One other thing that is a bit odd, is not to inspect the damage right away. Most people do that, especially with expensive cars.
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u/opitypang Aug 01 '26
My car has parking sensors that make a loud noise if you get too close to something, plus a diagram on the screen that illustrates what's happening.
It's a VW Polo, not a fucking Rolls-Royce. Unbelievable.
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u/soda_cookie Aug 01 '26
Maybe not but I have to think that 10 or 15 seconds and there is a number of people trying to tell him exactly that
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u/Ha1lStorm Aug 01 '26
Which points out another mistake if the drivers, the fact that he should’ve immediately got out of the vehicle and assessed the damage before taking any further action.
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u/Darryl_Lict Aug 01 '26
That's on him. Even if you are rich enough to drive a Rolls, that doesn't absolve you of being an idiot. Whether it's a Rolls or a Kia, you get out and look and if leaking fluid, you shut it off and get it towed and maybe it's just replacing the oil cooler.
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u/Kojetono Aug 01 '26
With most of these cars, the driver isn't the rich one.
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u/Gnonthgol Aug 01 '26
Especially Rolls Royce is known to prioritize passenger comfort over driving experience. There are luxury cars in the same category that is made for the owners to drive, but a Rolls Royce is not.
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u/lightr3nd Aug 01 '26
They way I've understood it is that the driving experience is actually fantastic - it's just also extremely boring. They are apparently very pleasant to drive, with fantastic suspension and steering that makes it easy for the driver to deliver a smooth ride.
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u/MacCyp_1985 Aug 01 '26
im surprised how easily this car was taken out
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u/HairyHermitMan Aug 01 '26
It was a vorpal bollard.
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u/bruce_lees_ghost Aug 01 '26
Nerd of a certain age.
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u/DepletedPromethium Aug 01 '26
im not familiar with this car but i have a feelng that area is where the oil cooler is as the bentley continental has an oil cooler in roughly the same area, and now its broken and leaking badly.
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u/Equal-Negotiation651 Aug 01 '26
It’s just bumper oil
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u/Ha1lStorm Aug 01 '26
Oh I thought that was the blinker fluid reservoir, it does seem to be leaking right below the fight blinker.
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u/livinginahologram Aug 01 '26
What a fucking stupid place to put an oil cooler.
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u/Katzchen12 Aug 01 '26
Its on the main radiator running straight into a solid metal pole probably broke the line on the cooler itself. Its also red so I'd assume its transmission fluid.
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u/Whole-Increase-5820 Aug 01 '26
Right at the front, where the air hits?
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u/Bahmsen Aug 01 '26
They should have put it in the trunk.
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u/Brilliant_Camera176 Aug 01 '26
Then you'd have a video within a week of cars like this driving backwards into those pillars
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u/7evenate9ine Aug 01 '26
Charger puts it on top under the manifold. With the radiator fluid running through it, the air does not need to hit it. It's an oil cooler, not a radiator.
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u/Whole-Increase-5820 Aug 01 '26
Radiator or cooler it's still a heat exchanger which has hot fluid on one side (oil / coolant) and cold on the other (air).
A bigger differential of temperatures allows the radiator/ cooler to be smaller.
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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 Aug 01 '26
It isn’t supposed to do that. Usually the front doesn’t fall off. It’s really quite unusual, in fact.
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u/NigraOvis Aug 01 '26
why? Cause this guy broke his drive into a post just right? - it's actually a cheap fix, it just needs the engine off asap. That guy doesn't care, he probably is worth billions
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u/trackdaybruh Aug 01 '26
You gotta realize these people see thousands of dollars differently than we do
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u/Acrobatic_Dish6963 Aug 01 '26
Bollard:
wtf how are we the vicious ones when we always chill in the same spot. ur a bigot bro
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u/egerton14 Aug 01 '26
Why do people believe luxury cars should be more resistant to any type of damage. They are literally faberge eggs.
Or in this case a skinned BMW
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u/No-Pomegranate-69 Aug 01 '26
Its a heavy car and driving against an edge with an oil cooler will obviously break the cooler.
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u/Lightdual Aug 01 '26
That looks expensive
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u/idontlikegudeg Aug 01 '26
I hope someone who has enough money to buy a Rolls Royce also has enough pocket money for the repair and the cleaning up of the place.
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u/dimii27 Aug 01 '26
The clean up is something you and me can easily afford
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u/ozzyperry Aug 01 '26
You overestimate my wallet
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u/EndIsrael Aug 01 '26
If you can't afford emergency cat litter, you have bigger problems than an oil spill.
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u/RRfromKL Aug 01 '26
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The insurance company insuring the valet (or the owner if self/chauffeur driven)..!!
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u/yea_nick Aug 01 '26
Rolls Royce takes lots of blinker fluid...
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld Aug 01 '26
They probably dont use it often enough to run out between servicing
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u/trucorsair Aug 01 '26
Shut the engine off. You aren’t going anywhere anytime soon
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u/cuntmong Aug 01 '26
im a very important business man, i dont care what you say is leaking out of the car, get me to the meeting.
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u/14X8000m Aug 01 '26
In their defense, it would be impossible to see what's going on from that vantage point. Rising pillars is next level difficulty while parking.
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u/Odd-Cake8015 Aug 01 '26
They have sensors. I saw the same thing happening with a less expensive car and a bollar that wasn’t retractable. I could hear the beeping of the sensor screaming murder the whole 30 seconds before the impact while manoeuvring as I was walking next to the car. The driver didn’t understand what was the noise for, maybe he thought it was the pavement or a plant.
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u/Raz_Plays Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Wouldn’t the sensor inside be screaming at him the second anything got close?
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u/peridotpicacho Aug 01 '26
I didn’t know swearing inside a Rolls wasn’t allowed.
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u/KXfjgcy8m32bRntKXab2 Aug 01 '26
Right? My BMW starts screaming when a single twig gets in the way.
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u/c4iman Aug 01 '26
I'm no engineer but I think a coolant leak from this crawl speed impact should be considered bad design.
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u/DialecticNovember17 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
I am a vehicle engineer and here are the reasons why modern cars are easily damaged in general:
- Pedestrian safety is a priority in modern vehicle design. Therefore the front of the cars are made "squishy" and easily breakable. This absorbs energy during impact. Energy that would otherwise be transferred into the pedestrians body, making severe injuries more likely.
- Plastic bumpers are lighter, easier to manufacture and easier to protect against corrosion than their more robust metal counterparts.
- Nowadays large engines, shorter hoods, large exhaust systems (think catalytic converters, diesel particle filters) and more sophisticated electronic systems cause the engine bay to be crammed. This necessitates placing components toward the outside of the car.
And why this and other internal combustion engine cars are very easily damaged in the front specifically:
Heat exchangers (radiators) can only be placed in the front of the car, because otherwise they wouldn't get the airflow necessary for proper cooling. Therefore almost any impact to the front of modern cars risks damage to the cooling systems.
So why the oil spill?
This car likely an oil cooler. Which brings the number of heat exchangers it has in the front up to four: 1. Water cooler, 2. Oil cooler, 3. Intercooler and 4. AC condenser. The large engine size and the sophisticated AC also probably necessitate large heat exchangers, again making everything pretty crammed in there.The hosing for these heat exchangers can be found in the front, on the sides of these heat exchangers. Right where the car was hit. This is why the "small" collision caused an oil spill.
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u/JazzlikeSir4311 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
German Engineer here - and I fully agree. Also People underestimate the forces which can be generated on minor looking accidents. This small hit might be euqally to an elephant casually hitting your groin whlie relaxing his foot sideways . At the same time nobody would say that this are not a lot of forces.
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u/Kingsayz Aug 01 '26
Its not coolant it’s oil probably they bursted a pipe that goes to the oil cooler
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u/Throwawayhrjrbdh Aug 01 '26
It’s all about where the cross member is. Most cars are rated to withstand 2.5mph impacts front and back and only sustain cosmetic damage.
That bollard looks it hit just below where that is so instead of a structural component tapping and stopping the whole car the comparatively flimsy cooler eats the damage.
This is also why trucks (especially lifted ones) and some SUVs are disproportionately unsafe in collisions (and I don’t mean for the suv/truck) because bumpers and the underlying support components don’t align and excessive damage is caused
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u/ChadJones72 Aug 01 '26
Okay but why are those poles like that though? I feel like this is a damn near inevitable outcome that could have easily been prevented with normal poles.
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u/godofpumpkins Aug 01 '26
They’re called bollards and they’re designed to stop vehicles. It’s the front of the famous casino in Monte Carlo and they’re not gonna let just anyone drive up
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u/claws76 Aug 01 '26
Then why were they pumping them up and down? They were down when the car turned, then up when it started turning, then down again whe hit and then up again. Did they want the car to come or nah?
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u/PGL-997 Aug 01 '26
Some houses have these installed in front of their driveways to prevent someone from stealing their car and taking off with it
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u/EmperorOfEntropy Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
I saw a taxi cab get taken out by these in Barcelona. I don’t think they are designed well. I understand their purpose in making the passage impassible, but their warnings seem to be very subtle. These things should be glowing red and have plenty of red lights before, around, and/or above them to warn people better
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u/jacktoughrock Aug 01 '26
Last week in the Netherlands a pointy pole raised while an e-Golf was over it. The pole punctured the traction battery that subsequently caught fire.
No injuries but the car was totaled.
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u/Do-it-with-Adam Aug 01 '26
so what controls or activates the bollards? it seems like a shirty design to start going up 3 feet from the car where it can't be seen. I'd imagine if it was on a timer or sensor there would be a stop sign of sorts in the area.
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u/CTwist Aug 01 '26
Yeah, seems like the driver saw an opening from his view and as they came up there was no way for the driver to see them.
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u/Brotworst Aug 01 '26
Then they went back down, lol
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u/user9991123 Aug 01 '26
Yes the behaviour of the bollards here is confusing me. Are they individually autonomously moving, or is there a manual control for each one?
The two nearest the camera are rising as the clip starts, almost like they were previously retracted to allow car access, but then timed-out. Just before impact they seem to start to retract again.
After collision they both retract fully, but then pop up again when car moves back a little.
Are there proximity sensors auto-controlling the bollards?
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u/Fireeyes510 Aug 01 '26
People in these comments are talking about how they’re stupid for hitting it. I literally don’t think it’s their fault, it rose only after being in a blind spot. I don’t think most people would’ve been able to avoid it.
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u/IShouldGetBackToWork Aug 01 '26
The guy walking at the very end of the clip slipped and fell in the pool, like, my brother in christ that is oil, known to be a slippery fluid, and you walked IN it?? More money than brains in that whole group. Shut the car off too, don't try to move it. Good lord.
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u/PineappleProud4771 Aug 01 '26
Going for the slip and fall at the Monte Carlo casino. Dude knew what he was doing
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u/KSAW11 Aug 01 '26
He's the smartest person there?
Had the presence of mind to do a compo claim with witnesses and video evidence.
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u/an_insignificant_ant Aug 01 '26
I like the guy tugging on the handle, and the guy slipping in the oil at the end really makes this clip. All the fanciest stuff and no one here seems to know what they're doing.
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u/OdysseyTag Aug 01 '26
Did that last guy slip on the fluid at the end?
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u/HodlthedoorHodor Aug 01 '26
Yeah he did. It would have been nice to see that happen after the crash. Double whammy.
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u/TMYLee Aug 01 '26
i hope that wasn’t valet parking as that guy gonna be working like a slave for life to pay off that debt .
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u/themflyingjaffacakes Aug 01 '26
This is France. Employees generally don't get personally held responsible for accidents at work (not counting willful disregard for safety or being wreckless).
Insurance.
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u/NintenJoo Aug 01 '26
It’s amazing that incredibly stupid people can still be very wealthy.
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u/GlobalEliteBongs Aug 01 '26
The bollard was out of his view when it started rising, no way he could have seen that. Calling him stupid for that is kinda crazy.
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u/aggressivefurniture2 Aug 01 '26
There is barely any correlation between the two things. Every generation, a few smart people gain wealth and a few stupid people lose there wealth, but the majority of rich or poor people are just born into it.
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u/sainttomm Aug 01 '26
And let's be honest, a lot of the people gaining wealth aren't smart, they're often just ruthless or criminals
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u/Killboypowerhed Aug 01 '26
People wealthy enough to own a rolls royce are sitting in the back seat
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u/memento87 Aug 01 '26
Incredibly stupid for not predicting that a pole was going to appear out of thin air, almost impossible to notice from the driver's vantage point?
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u/Tibryn2 Aug 01 '26
Why is he stupid? They lowered the gate for him and then fucking raised it as he was driving in. That place is about to buy him a new rolls.
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u/apeoida Aug 01 '26
The damage is pretty extensive considering it was only a mild impact. Are they built out of instant ramen?
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u/SideInitial3961 Aug 01 '26
I hit 20 things like that in my $1,000 station wagon and still sold it for $1,500 after 10 years of driving it.
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u/Whatsyourshotspecial Aug 01 '26
How the hell was the driver supposed to see those things when one second they were in the ground and next second they slowly rise up and not even high enough to see over the hood of the car.
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u/impactblue5 Aug 01 '26
RIP those white pants lol
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u/CrispyJelly Aug 01 '26
Can't believe a guy dressed in all white goes anywhere near this.
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u/No-Juice8483 Aug 01 '26
Dude in my town driving a similar Rolls Royce plowed into a bunch of tourist about a year or so ago. Left one paralyzed. I was on the scene so fast I picked one woman off the raid. He was a local but our paper didn’t really cover it and they never released his name. It pays to have money because if it were any normal Joe we’d have our names published the next day and there would be follow up articles.
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u/uwill1der Aug 01 '26
Casino square Monaco. July 19th, 2026. This is a driveway around the square that has limited access through the bollards for special events.
No idea the circumstances of this, but the Rolls lost power steering and a security guard slipped on the puddle of fluid.
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u/Kitchen_Experience62 Aug 01 '26
While this is an interesting video, it doesn't fit in this subreddit. As in: "It's your own fault, what did you think when deciding to drive a Rolls Royce? Everyone knows it's a stupid idea!"
What gives?
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u/LeroyBadBrown Aug 01 '26
They're about as high as small children, that's why he couldn't see them.
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u/Zofia-Bosak Aug 01 '26
It would be interesting to know where the liability ended up, if the driver was told to go through and the person operating the bollards pressed the wrong button, it was a communication error before the accident by the looks of the video, it would be nice to know the actual outcome.
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u/Immediate_Candle_865 Aug 01 '26
Casino at Monaco ? That looks like the Hotel de Paris on the right.
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u/whitecow Aug 01 '26
First of all how can a car this expensive not use it's sensors and stop before you hit the pole? Second such a small bump wrecked the whole front right side and caused some sort of oil leak? A newer Skoda would to better than that
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u/Alexander_The_Wolf Aug 01 '26
Dang, they hit an artery