Safety first
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davidbeinct
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You’re going the wrong way!
How do they know where we’re going?
How do they know where we’re going?
I dare say neither the first-person driver or the fool in the old Hyundai are going anywhere.
JohnW63
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Looks like a handicapped card hanging on the rear view mirror in the far car.
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Terrifying Early Drag Racers Really Had the Rear Differential In the Driver's Crotch
Just the thought of something going wrong is quite awful.
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FNG
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I've only been to one big boy drag race, and man those things were LOUD!
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Terrifying Early Drag Racers Really Had the Rear Differential In the Driver's Crotch
Just the thought of something going wrong is quite awful.
GGJaguar
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That's pretty much a death trap. Tires an inch from your elbows, differential in your groin and the engine is in front so if it blows (and they did blow) you're getting all the engine shrapnel or possibly the entire engine in your face. Yeesh!
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Source:
Terrifying Early Drag Racers Really Had the Rear Differential In the Driver's Crotch
Just the thought of something going wrong is quite awful.
And you prayed this didn't happen:
Oh, yeah. This stuff was just nuts.
Source:
Terrifying Early Drag Racers Really Had the Rear Differential In the Driver's Crotch
Just the thought of something going wrong is quite awful.
JohnW63
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This is what happens when they steal your trailer hitch at the truck stop.
File under go big or go home ...
fronobulax
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File under go big or go home ...
https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/fai...station-service-sur-l-autoroute-a4-1593244524 and you might have to do some tweaking to get a language besides the original French.
Note that there is a carrier with two vans so the carrier driver, and not a van driver, is almost certainly at fault.
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Looks to me like three vans were being transported on the carrier. The design of the trailer meant that the rear of the third van was too high for the service station canopy, resulting in a collision when the truck pulled out
Yowch. That is one for the books.
Based on the photo, that is way out in the middle of nowhere! I can't make out the sign (AVID?), but I wonder where this took place? Crazy, no matter where it was...
walrus
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It's Avia, a rather large European fuel station company.
fronobulax
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East of Paris. Might be rural. If you look at the French link and translate there are things that could be place names or towns where the responders came from.
And in my OP I only saw two vans but there are three.
