Crashes

Every now and then we come across a news report where the accounts really do need to be seen to be believed. For example, take this latest story of a crash near Blackduck, MN, where a passenger was ejected from a car yet the driver and another passenger initially failed to even notice. According to...

The driver of this Ferrari 612 Scaglietti was lucky to walk away from a crash that literally tore his car apart. He was driving the bright red supercar on a road in Moscow, Russia, earlier this month when he allegedly lost control and careened into a roadside pole. The fact that the force of the...

Don’t worry, we’re not going to show you Saudi-drifting-dismemberment videos, since they get plenty of coverage on other internet sites. Instead, we bring you this security cam footage from Dudley, England, showing the luckiest man on the planet. For those of us who’ve raced cars...

As much as we love cars, many of us have a thing for motorcycles, too. As you’d guess, we’re not exactly the put-along-below-the-speed-limit-on-a-cruiser type, and many of our fondest two-wheeled memories have been racked up behind the bars of BMW motorcycles. While BMWs may not be as...

It's a somber day for news in the car world. Maria De Villota, test driver for F1's Marussia, has been injured in a crash during testing in the U.K. The latest updates indicate she's conscious and responsive. We hope she pulls through to a full recovery. Sergio Pininfarina, automotive designer and...

Racing isn't easy. It's not easy to get into, to stay in, or, even for the talented and well-financed teams, just to keep up with. Sometimes it's not the fierce competition that holds you back, however. Sometimes it's just bad luck. On the other hand, there are a few doses of good luck in what...

By anyone’s standards, the 616-horsepower McLaren MP4-12C (and soon, the MP4-12C Spider) is a fast car. Thanks to its advanced electronic stability control system, it’s also a very safe car, even in the hands of drivers unfamiliar with the car. Despite this, the car is still governed by...

Last week we brought you the in-car video of Doug Peterson's Formula Mazda crash at Road America, and now we have the incident from almost every possible angle and vantage point. While Peterson's ride was the wildest, the scenes of frenzied of avoidance maneuvers, brake lock-ups, and general mayhem...

There's now one less Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 out on the roads due to the results of a crash that occurred at the Nürburgring late on Friday. The driver of one of the rare Porsches was participating during a public track day when he lost control entering a corner at what is likely to have been...

Racing has gotten much, much safer through the years, and we say that’s a good thing. While speeds have crept ever higher, cars have gotten stronger, tires have become more durable and in the event of a worst-case scenario, safety equipment such as seats, helmets, roll cages and fire suits...

We’ve all been there before: one minute, you’re driving down the highway wondering why the band Boston still gets so much airplay, and the next you’re swerving to avoid some bit of debris narrowly missed by the car in front of you. Sometimes dodging isn’t an option, and a...

Let us preface this by saying we’re not here to assign blame or point fingers. Instead, we offer up this video as evidence that things go from good to bad very quickly in amateur open wheel racing. As Autoweek relates, Doug Peterson, the driver of the Formula Mazda in the video, brought an...

The number 8 Toyota TS030 LMP1 being driven by Britain’s Anthony Davidson suffered a major a crash just before the five-hour mark of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race taking place this weekend. As the video shows, the Toyota hybrid came into contact with a Ferrari 458 Italia competing in...

An owner of an FR-S crashed into a pole after losing control of his car driving through a turn with the traction control switched off.

Rally is dangerous. This is known. But when the danger becomes reality and it's captured on video, it's spectacular--especially when the driver and navigator come away unscathed. This crash, with Nicolas Diaz at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta rally car during the Rally de Catamarca in Argentina...

In 2009, Usain Bolt and two passengers walked away from a rollover crash of his BMW M3, presented in recognition of Bolt’s accomplishments in Beijing. Despite extensive damage to the BMW, Bolt escaped with just minor injuries to his feet, a testament to the safety of modern automobiles. Now...

The driver of the Lamborghini involved in this crash is reportedly just a teenager.

A woman driving a late model Porsche 911 Turbo has crashed into a gas station store in Turkey. The action was captured by several security cameras, showing the white 997 model pulling into the station before suddenly accelerating, crashing into a nearby car and then driving through the store...

We have the first details of the third reported crash involving a new 2013 BMW M5, which took place yesterday near the town of Soesterberg in the Netherlands. Despite this being only the third known crash of the new M5, it’s the second to have occurred in the Netherlands. The previous took...

Building on the work of the geniuses at CryTek, creators of the new CryENGINE3 video game engine, BeamNG has found a way to model vehicle crashes with incredible realism--within the world where your character hacks, slashes, shoots, and otherwise causes mayhem. The video, dug up from Reddit by...