🚨#WATCH: Heart-Stopping Dash-Cam Footage Captured a 17 year old driving over 120mph loses control, nearly killing a officer
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⁰📌#Fairfax | #Virginia⁰⁰Watch as Heart-stopping police dash-camera footage shows when a 17 year old Teen driving BMW M3 going over 120mph in the… pic.twitter.com/s6Y5Ki5qKS
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If I were that officer, I’d go and play the Lotto tonight.
Lucky dude
Thing he did right-making a right-side approach on the car stop. You would be surprised how often this safety tip is ignored.
Thing he did wrong-You never ever make a car-stop next to a guardrail that limits/removes your escape route. There was an opening just up ahead, make the stop there.
I don’t remember the exact percentage but it’s something like ten to one, the odds of getting killed by cars versus getting shot, for highway patrolmen.
I’d have never believed it if not for the camera. He is much calmer than I would have been.
The Lord Almighty looked after that officer and the driver pulled over. Definitely not their time and place to go. 😇
Once again we are witness to the difference between a porcupine and a BMW?
The Lord was with that officer that day. He needs to THANK GOD everyday! Wouldn’t have believed how close the officer came to being cut in half practically.
Say your prayers everyday!
God Bless us all!
911- Bravo: Send roll of toilet paper STAT
Did any of those dumbass kids in that BMW survive that collision? And was the driver of the car that the cop stopped in the first place seriously hurt. 17- year-olds and fast BMW’s, muscle cars etc. don’t mix. I wonder if it was daddy’s car or if he was a drug dealer.
Here in Vegas the cops stop people at the worst locations on the road.
A lot of motorcycle cops.
Like they have no training.
I’ve had cops in other cities get mad if I pulled over in a safe spot.
Assholes want you to stop immediately.
Let’s face it, a lot of good cops mixed in with some real dumbass pricks.
Lucky fella!!
@ Rich Taylor
“-You never ever make a car-stop next to a guardrail”
Not trying to be a smartass but what’s the procedure when the drunk you’re chasing decides to stop next to the guardrail?
He was lucky twice –
Not sandwiched between the car and guardrail….
Just inches from being struck by the front of the beemer while it skidded past him as he fell down.
Give that guy a month off.
Jethro, at 4 seconds in, the beemer did hit him.
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The point I was trying to make is that the officer should always be mindful of his surroundings and what limitations are placed on him. This was not a high-speed chase involving a drunk driver, probably just a run-of-the-mill speed stop. A better and safer place to conduct that stop would have been up ahead where there was no guardrail and no limitations on the officer’s movement when faced with an errant car coming right at him.
@ geoff the aardvark AT 3:23 PM
I drove a Mach 1 and my brother had a Mercury Cyclone Spoiler at that age. I’ve often thought how lucky we were to have lived through it. When I was that age I was just fine with the next guy having a fast car… just so long as it wasn’t faster than ours.
I had a few broken bones, but nothing major. The year I spent in a hospital bed was from a motorcycle crash. I have no interest in fast cars any longer, I like them all optioned up and comfy now.
I’m surprised he didn’t jump over the guardrail, as he took six steps to try to get out of the way.
Can the 17 year-old get his car back so he can go to school tomorrow?
Who lets a minor kid have high-powered (expensive) car?
^^^could it have been stolen? Actually, that was my first thought.
CJ is right. Get behind the guardrail ASAP. That’s why it’s called a guardrail.
@ Rich Taylor
He seemed alert to his surroundings to me. It was 2 seconds from the time he started to react and the collision happened. At 120 mph, that’s 350 ft. Just my opinion but I think that guardrail saved him. The collision knocked the stopped car back at least the distance of two guardrail posts and hitting the guardrail deflected the other car. If not for that, one of those vehicles would have almost certainly got him.
Glad he made it.
In a split second he thought ‘I’m too fat to step over the guard rail. Better make a run for it.’
When I was in HS in the late 60s early 70s, a lot of the rich kids had fast muscle cars. There was one with a hopped up Mustang, wrapped it around a tree doing over a 100. Three other kids in the car, closed casket funerals. The local tow truck operator put the wreck on display by his lot on the main drag into town, as a public service announcement to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!
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JDHasty, my youngest brother had a 69 or 70 Ford Torino with a 429 Cobra engine in it that he won in a poker game. He said that thing was so fast and powerful that it scared the hell out of him driving on I 90 as fast as he could get it and well over 100 mph that he had to get rid of it before it killed him. The only thing he wishes is that he would’ve kept that 429 motor. Those motors are worth a lot of money now. His Triumph 750 motorcycle wasn’t quite as scary as that Torino but it was close and he still has that. He found out that it’s better to be old at 65 and not dead at 19 or 20. One of my friends 3 brothers lost one of his younger brothers in a car crash back in the late 70’s with a fast muscle car and excessive alcohol in his early 20’s. But for the grace of God go I and my brother for all the stupid shit that we did when were younger and supposedly invincible.
@ Wild Bill AT 4:49 PM
The guys I ran with, we were far from rich, mostly military brats. We worked to buy our cars and worked on them ourselves. What you said about rich kids parents buying them cars is very true. It’s almost a sure thing they will crash it.
@ geoff the aardvark AT 5:12 PM
Surplus Ford Galaxie 500 Police Specials could be bought in Lacey for $600 and they had a 429 Police Interceptor engine, 4 bolt main bearing caps, good rods, nodular iron crank shaft, and D20E heads with 2.08 IN 1.66 EX and a C-6 transmission w/cast iron tail shaft housing. Lots of good shit right there. For the price of a set of gasket set, some machine work, forged pistons and a camshaft you got power to spare. We put them in Fairlanes and Mustangs and they rocked. The 385 motor is shorter, but wider than the FE engines and fitting them into the narrow engine bays was a PITA.
Swap out the eight inch rear end if need be with a nine inch and call it good. There was damn little that would stay with them.
Wonder how long before the shakes started. In the moment you just react; afterwards (at least in my experience) you almost shake apart. Helluva lucky man. I want his Guardian Angel!
so do I still have to pay a ticket?
It was a good thing he was wearing dark pants.
“Speed kills”