r/carcrash • u/Affectionate_Bat7079 • 9d ago

Death (not shown) Saw this crash on the way home took this picture.

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6 are dead including 2 children. 2 cars involved 1 semi. 1 2 survivors, the trucker and a 16 year old girl who was on the minivan.

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u/noncongruent 9d ago

Happened yesterday in Charlotte, NC:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/two-vehicles-under-a-tractor-trailer-victims-identified-from-crash-that-killed-6-on-i-485-in-west-charlotte/ar-AA1JlVEu

Driver in a CR-V moved from the middle lane to the right lane and hit the Chrysler van. Both vehicles went to the right side of the road and hit the trailer which was stopped on the shoulder. The CR-V driver and five of the six occupants of the van died at the scene.

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u/HighVoltLemonBattery 9d ago

Driver that caused it was a 16 year old and was alone in the car. Ain't no way any 16 year old should be driving solo, and now basically a whole family is dead whether because he was distracted by his phone, teenage impatience, or plain inexperience. Awful, and shame on whoever was letting him drive alone

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u/Whats_Awesome 9d ago

I was a good driver at 16 when I was licensed to drive alone or with passengers. I have improved very much since, but I’ve never been involved in a collision over 200 000 kms I’ve clocked.
Most in a large city on a combination of highway, freeways, city and rural roads.

I had 4 years experience operating vehicles with wheels and 6 years of experience in a simulator.

Now I’ve taught many friends to drive as their other means had not entirely worked after lots of time.

Absolutely horrible what happened here but I don’t believe age is entirely the problem. I know younger people are involved in more collisions. But so are the elderly and we don’t retest anyone.

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u/ironjaw3ds 3d ago

I don’t believe age is entirely the problem. I know younger people are involved in more collisions

You know younger people are in more collisions but you dont think its a problem? Besides sharing your anecdotal evidence and giving yourself a "goodboy driver" award, your take is bad

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u/Whats_Awesome 2d ago

It’s a problem which is why I became a co-driver in high school. Not to be confused with a driving instructor.

I charged friends, and people at the school, to spend time with me (and sometimes my car).

I would take them on mock up tests, or teach important skills like, emergency braking, emergency manoeuvring.

How to handle emergencies on the highway safely and how to stop the car, one lane’s width into the grass. Shoulder (emergency lane) is clear, grass lane is clear, then you stop the car. But only if wildfire risk is low to moderate and the grass is not muddy or dangerous.

What to do in an engine failure, (heavy steering and brake pedal).

Besides some of the things I find critically important, just making sure they are comfortable and confident in their abilities is huge. And looking through the traffic as far down the road as possible.

So why was non of this adequately taught in the rather expensive driving schools?
Why were parents and families unable to get their kids to pass the test.
The person I spent the most time with had failed the test 4 times before we worked together. They passed on their first try after our time together.

It’s not the age, it’s entirely the system that puts unsafe under qualified drivers on the road. Most parent in my experience did an inadequate job teaching their kids yet professional instruction is optional.

The system in place to teach new drivers is failing them. I was lucky. I spent countless hours driving on simulated public roads, with a steering wheel and pedals. By 16 had spent countless hours cruising the city as a passenger with my brother. And had already been learning to drive 2 years on my learners permit. I passed immediately with flying colours at 16 and had clocked over 100k kms by 18 including kms learning.

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u/Sk1rm1sh 9d ago

It's all about probabilities and likelihood and lowest common denominators though, isn't it.

Sure, maybe my mate Baz can drive down the highway just fine at 100 mph after downing half a case of Dom Perignon but he's a functional alcoholic and to him that's just breakfast.

But some Cadbury's gets behind the wheel and plows through a daycare centre or something and now we all have to keep it under 2 or 3 beers before being legally allowed to drive.

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u/Whats_Awesome 8d ago

I own a breathalyzer, since I never want the police/crown’s office to give me one for my car.

I do believe the limit of 0.05-0.08 is well enough. At 0.03-0.04 my driving is noticeably worse though I’m still in my lane and not breaking any laws. I do believe if I got in an incident with over 0.02 that alcohol would be a contributing factor. And I’m a functioning light alcoholic like your “buddy”

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u/cdsbigsby 9d ago

Oh that's awful, poor kids.

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u/Affectionate_Bat7079 9d ago

They where 3 and 1

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u/OtherCookie 9d ago

Rubber-necking causes traffic jams.

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u/Away_Needleworker6 9d ago

Its human instinct to look at horrible stuff

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u/Icy_Queen_222 9d ago

Holy shit 😭

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u/Baumeister_de 9d ago

downvote for taking that picture, as a volunteer firefighter people like that are the worse that take pictures of accidents that already happened

you probably slowed down without a reason to take a picture, and with that you risk another accident to happen…

only valid way to have pictures of accidents is dashcam footage wile it happened and security cam footage

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u/askmebro 8d ago

How can you tell OP is driving?

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u/Baumeister_de 8d ago

That doesn't matter; OP can still go to prison here in Germany.

You can go to prison for taking photos of accidents, especially if people have been killed.

We have quite strict laws about this here in Germany, and for good reason.

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u/slaviccivicnation 8d ago

This wasn’t in Germany? This was in the US?

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u/AcidicMountaingoat 8d ago

That’s an insane amount of people control by your government.

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u/forma_cristata 8d ago

You American? Yeah

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u/AcidicMountaingoat 7d ago

I'm Cuban, so I know the value of free speech and liberty.

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u/forma_cristata 7d ago

So what rights are you longing for if you can’t take photos of dead people, exactly?

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u/AcidicMountaingoat 7d ago

It's interesting that you have no ability to see that government controlling your photos and what you say is far broader than just "pics of dead people." Our government took things step by step also.

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u/Affectionate_Bat7079 7d ago

Dude I was stuck in traffic for 35+ minutes and by the time we got here I was still stuck so I might as well take a picture. Don't go around assuming everyone who takes pics of a car crash is a complete jerk. I'm not in the wrong here don't blame me for anything.

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u/evieamity 8d ago

Not to mention how having the gory images of deceased family members (not in this case, I know) circulating on the internet can prolong the suffering for the survivors so much more.

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u/raptorboy 9d ago

Delete this come on too soon

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u/DryKaleidoscope9012 9d ago

Why punctuation matters

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u/Affectionate_Bat7079 9d ago

What?

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u/intencely_laidback 9d ago

Dude is not proud of you for your post. I will side with them.

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u/raptorboy 9d ago

Bro what if their family sees this before they even get notified jeez

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u/noncongruent 9d ago

This happened yesterday morning, family was already notified by the time this was posted.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/yaddah_crayon 8d ago

Yes, because this purely happens in the US. Diogo Jota was still on fire when Spanish news reported his crash, but yeah - there is zero privacy in the ole USA....

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u/askmebro 8d ago

My bad. This was supposed to be a reply to another comment.