This had to hurt....

[99Silver6.0]

http://www.ulrp.com/photos/accident/graphi...cs/carwreck.mpg

 

Didnt know if this had been posted before... If it has, I appologize.

[tps0424]

Holy Crap!!!! Was the guy killed??? Looks like the PT Cruiser might have run the light seeing as the cars going the opposite way were stopping.

[NOS#9BIGMAC]

 

holy sh*t batman I didn't notice the guy walking till I played it again. I don't think he could have survived that hit that is brutal.

[asepgrad98]

1. the PT crusier driver should be beaten severely.

2. This is why i always look both ways at green lights

[GM GIMP]

Man, that looked deadly!!!

[muddog]

yeah, that happened here in Dayton, Ohio....never really heard what happened to the guy. If I do some diggin I think I could find the artical on it, it happened last year I believe, but not 100%

[tps0424]

I just showed this to my kids to emphasize why we look both ways before crossing the street. I know it wouldn't have helped this guy but maybe it scared the kids enough that they will think twice before crossing a street.

[General Lee 01]

Thought you guys would like a follow up. Apparently the pedestrian made it!

 

From Snopes:

 

It's a chilling scene: a video clip shows a vehicle as it speeds through an intersection and runs broadside into another car; a pedestrian crossing the street breaks into a run to run to get out of the way of the out-of-control vehicles, but the struck car rolls on top of him. The video is all the more chilling because it isn't a scene from a movie, nor is it the product of special effects wizardry ? it's the real thing, captured by a red-light enforcement camera.

 

The accident seen in the video occurred at 12:40 p.m. on 23 May 2004 at the intersection of Third Street and Edwin C. Moses Boulevard in Dayton, Ohio. Betty J. Hayslip, 75, of New Lebanon, driving a PT Cruiser, ran a red light and struck a Subaru driven by Albertina L. Walker, 41, of Dayton. The collision caused the Subaru to roll over one and a half times; it came to rest upside-down and in the process crashed into pedestrian Scott Tegtmeyer, 42, of Dayton.

 

Tegtmeyer, who was crossing the street in the same direction as the PT Cruiser and had just reached the curb on the opposite side, can be seen in the video breaking into a desperate run as the collided vehicles bear down on him. He could not react quickly enough, however, and the Subaru rolled atop of him, dragging him several feet across the intersection. Although medics who found Tegtmeyer's bloodied body amidst a sea of broken glass initially pronounced him dead at the scene, he began breathing while in transit with paramedics and was fully resuscitated by doctors. (As of 2 June 2004, Tegtmeyer was reported as being in serious condition at Miami Valley Hospital.)

 

Investigators said that at the time of the accident the crosswalk signal was red, and therefore Tegtmeyer should not have been crossing the street. They also reported that Tegtmeyer miraculously escaped alive because the dent in the side of the Subaru caused by the crash created a hollow space that allowed the vehicle to roll over him without crushing him to death. Neither vehicle was carrying any passengers, and both drivers escaped with only minor injuries.

 

The crash was captured by one of the automated red-light enforcement cameras installed at a dozen intersections around Dayton to help reduce crashes caused by drivers running red lights. Each camera records 12-second motion videos used to issue citations to offending motorists.

[99silveradoz71]

Wow, that's something to live through it.

[KyleBst264]

Glad the pedestrian made it.

 

A. The driver who ran the red light was 75 years old. Further proof that the elderly are dangerous behind the wheel.

 

B. The pedestrian: You go when the crosswalk signal says "Walk" and when you do cross a busy road like the one in that video, you don't exactly take your good old time mozying across a busy street. Make it quick.