Crashes

Just last month, IndyCar racer Dario Franchitti suffered a scary wreck after touching wheels with Takuma Sato at the Houston Grand Prix. Today, Franchitti announced he is retiring from racing as a result of the head and spinal injuries suffered in the accident. The decision was made "based on the...

Remarkably, two people survived the flattening of this Audi without life-threatening injuries.

This video is hard to believe, but it appears to be as real as it gets. A man, passed out in his heavy-duty Ram truck (for one reason or another) along the side of a stretch of the Buford Connector in Atlanta, Georgia, is being filmed by a news crew. Then it gets surreal. The man's truck is...

the second Corvette Stingray crash in as many weeks shows that owners may be getting a little too enthusiastic.

A woman from Utah is lucky to be alive after the Mercedes-Benz she was driving was struck by not one but two trains. Amazingly, the 29-year-old was able to walk away from the wreckage with only a broken arm. The video below, sourced from Liveleak, initially shows the Mercedes after it was struck by...

The 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray has been making waves everywhere it goes--and occasionally hitting Very Hard Objects. It even managed to get into a tangle or two during development. But this looks like it might be the first known customer crash. While details are non-existent on the Reddit posting...

If you're going to race, there's a high probability that you're also going to crash at some point in your career. It's a part of racing. That part of racing was on display over the weekend at the Houston Grand Prix Indy Car race, when Dario Franchitti and Takuma Sato got tangled up coming around a...

[WARNING: The video above contains graphic scenes of the vehicular attack on pedestrians. Watch at your own risk.] Video games get a lot of grief for promoting violence, and criminals often use them as excuses. Whether you believe video games are the cause or not, you have to admit there are times...

NFL players crashing their vehicles is a relatively frequent occurrence. But NFL players following up their crashes with Instagram photos of the crashed vehicle--and the pizza they broke an arm trying to save--well, that doesn't happen every day. But it happened today. Nate Burleson, a wide...

There is the proper way to drive in the rain, and then there's what this Russian Camaro driver is doing. Though to be fair, he might be better served by the lessons learned at an off-road school like the Land Rover Experience, since the rain on this Russian street appears to be more like a series...

Just yesterday, BMW released the first official technical details on the 2014 BMW M3 Sedan and M4 Coupe. Today, we have photos of the first 2014 M3 crash, fresh from the Nürburgring. Our spies tell us the crash occurred during testing at the 'Ring today, at the Metzgesfeld area of the course...

There's basically never a good time to lose steering in a race car when you're blasting at 10/10ths around a track. There's also basically no place worse to lose steering than in the high-speed Eau Rouge corner at Spa Francorchamps. Eau Rouge has claimed more than a few drivers' lives in the past...

There are times in life when we've all wanted to just stand on the throttle and smash our way through traffic, but few of us have been stupid or desperate enough to actually do it. This driver was apparently both. The YouTube posting describes the driver as a drunk woman, but gives no other...

More than a hundred cars (the most recent count is 120) were involved in a pile-up during morning rush hour yesterday on the New Kingsferry Bridge in Kent, England. Dense fog has been blamed for the pile-up which has left eight drivers seriously injured and nearly 200 others with minor injuries...

Semi-trucks were made to haul a large number of items across long distances. They were not, however, made to be driven off of ramps. That doesn't matter to Scott Godfrey. His brother holds the record for longest jump in a semi-truck, and Scott wants to take that record and put his own name behind...

And now for something (maybe not so) completely unexpected. First, how does a Camaro ZL1 on bias ply slicks lose it altogether midway down a drag strip? Our bet is a poor shift of some sort--either a 3-2 instead of a 3-4 or a really brutal upshift. So maybe that's not so inexplicable. But what...

It would be scary enough seeing a car flipping into the air in front of you, but imagine if it were a speeding truck. That’s exactly what some drivers in Russia witnessed recently, when a truck barreling down the road loses control, crashes into a ditch and then does a backflip. After viewing...

Auto industry veteran Karl-Heinz Kalbfell, aged 63, was killed in a motorcycle crash on Saturday at Brands Hatch in the U.K. He was practicing for a classic motorcycle race when the tragic accident occurred. He allegedly came off his bike while exiting a corner and was struck by another rider. He...

Crash tests are one thing, but actual real world crash data is quite different. That's why General Motors engineers are taking a close look at a recent accident involving a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The C7 'Vette was being driven by a GM employee when it was t-boned by a Lincoln Town Car...

Tony Stewart took to the Southern Iowa Speedway dirt track on Monday night to take part in a sprint car race. He wound up wrecking, and the crash was a rough one, as Stewart ended up breaking his right leg. Both the fibula and tibia... ouch. Because of the wreck, Stewart will have to sit out of the...