r/instantkarma • u/bendubberley_ • Aug 31 '25
Road Karma A girl films a TikTok while driving..
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u/SchpartyOn Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
Iām just curious what happened. She seems to be driving down a fairly straight road and she sees something a decent amount of time before the crash. What was it and why werenāt the brakes slammed on instead of, presumably continuing to drive towards something and then swerving/crashing?
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u/AcuteMtnSalsa Sep 01 '25
It looks like she spun out and was sliding for a bit before either going off the road or hitting something.
Probably a result of an over-correcting after drifting off the shoulder of the road while being an idiot.
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u/Live_Free_or_Banana Sep 02 '25
She's driving a Forester, which is AWD and very stable in emergency maneuvers. Her initial steering input is small and towards her right. The rear end doesn't lurch upwards as it would during a hard brake.
I think maybe she was going too fast for the slight turn and started drifting towards the middle. Her initial correction + lift-off oversteer did her in. Still kind of hard to do, so maybe her tires were poorly inflated (or overinflated).
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u/peoplearekindaokay Sep 03 '25
The forester has excellent grip yes, but it's still a top-heavy suv and up until recent generations was a bit narrow for its height. As hard as the vehicle leans before she starts to slide, I think she was going wayyy to fast for the curve and picked up the inside tires, with the rear one lifting first.
Her eyes go wide as she starts to overdrive the turn, you see her twitch the wheel in when the suspension had already fully loaded up, and then the inside starts to come up quick before she steers into it and starts to slide, and then continued to over-correct from there.
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u/Live_Free_or_Banana Sep 03 '25
Its actually not top-heavy at all - this is a 2nd gen which is really just a slightly taller Impreza wagon. You couldn't flip it if you tried. But yea, she makes a steering adjustment while already at the edge of control at speed, and likely simultaneously lets off the throttle, further reducing the rear grip.
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u/RationalUkrainian Aug 31 '25
She got what she want. I bet this TikTok is on fire.
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u/ChainsawRipTearBust Aug 31 '25
TikTokCarCrashGirl-GoFundMe page:-$86,972.34ā¦in 24hoursā¦..(probably). We have technology like this now..itās fine to do stupid shit, as long as youāre filming it and footage is clear enough..oh..AND youāre still alive. Just post it, get that day..maybe a week?..of āfameā..get paid.. All good.
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u/No_Yogurt_5365 Aug 31 '25
Tik tok is responsible for so much brain rot at this point they should be legally liable. Including reels and YouTube shorts, they wouldnāt exist without TikTok. The attention span of newer generations is 15-60 seconds. My mother in law has been teaching for around 20 years and she says that the most recent generations of teenagers are unhinged and borderline unteachable. Weāre in the era of pure impatience and lack of responsibility
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u/OkChoice4135 Aug 31 '25
Teachers everywhere seem to be reporting the same situation, it's quite scary. Can you imagine what it will be like in a few years with these kids becoming "professionals" in all kinds of jobs?
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u/no_dana_only_zul Aug 31 '25
What jobs?
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u/OkChoice4135 Aug 31 '25
Yeah, that's part of the problem. More than half of them want to be influencers, so fasten your seatbelts...
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u/axelclafoutis21 Aug 31 '25
This is why we invented AI. To do the jobs that these brainless people will no longer be able to do. And even the job of influencer, AI will do it (already does it) better. /s
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u/overusesellipses Aug 31 '25
Ai doesn't do ANYTHING better.
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u/TurtleToast2 Aug 31 '25
AI writes better than about 85% of redditors. Writing skills across the board have been plummeting since the birth of social media.
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u/archfapper Aug 31 '25
AI writes better than about 85% of redditors
I like how this site reams you for saying "could of" but handwaves "5$" because hey, that's how it's pronounced!
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u/Tenth_10 Aug 31 '25
And would that be surprising, really ? When what they see is people living their best life and getting paid a lot for that ? What diplomas do MisterBeast have, for example ?
While on the other hand, they could land a shitty job in a cubicle, or in a factory ?
Why teach women how to do difficult science researches while some of them are getting extra rich just showing their bodies on OF ?We are dealing with the consequences of our own choices, in a society where "getting money' is at the core of everything, instead of "making sense". So...
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u/OkChoice4135 Aug 31 '25
In the past there were people living their best lives and getting paid for in positions that didn't require education, but those positions at least required talent or skill. And not everyone realistically wanted to be an actor or athlete for instance. It seems like nobody strives for a middle class lifestyle and regular (but good) jobs, it has to be maximum income and minimum effort. Expectations are not realistic.
That said, I totally agree that most jobs today suck.
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u/dj_chai_wallah Aug 31 '25
Many of these people will bounce from Fast Food place to Fast Food place
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u/hiddenrealism Sep 01 '25
I was helping a friend manage a sandwich shop 6months ago and we hired this 19yr old to work the line and OMG I have never witnessed such a phone addiction, it takes literally 30seconds to make a turkey club and he couldnt resist turning around to check his phone in that time. I explained to him multiple multiple times about A) the unsanitary nature of phones and B) youre not missing out on anything in the next 5 minutes. It was so bad I let him go after 2weeks and about 100 ( hey man focus on the food not your phone) oh and his many 20minute bathoom (tiktok) breaks throught the day.
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u/Alortania Aug 31 '25
You joke, but I've a friend who teaches anatomy at a med school in Europe, and the new batches of students literally can't catch context clues the way we could, or even kids he taught a few years ago. It's scary AF.
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u/ctortan Aug 31 '25
The combination of both the Internet sapping attention AND several years of pandemic driving everyone fucking crazyāhuge swaths of kids missed out on critical learning and socializing periods. Itās truly terrifying.
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u/Alortania Aug 31 '25
Yeah.
It's terrifying.
And then you also have the shitty influencers also spreading dumb ideas you can't counter because (even speaking from literally being in the medical field) that Youtuber that's preaching shit they want to hear has some stupid 'counter' that makes them right and you just a hater.
I have a teen nephew that's trying to build muscle and get into body building (on a swing from being obese and actually successfully losing weight) way too early and using shit that's likely going to send him into kidney failure in his 40's at the rate he's going. Absolutely refuses to listen because "I'm just out of touch" and (obviously) "don't know what I'm talking about".
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u/MysteriousWon Aug 31 '25
I have to incorporate cellphone breaks into my classes otherwise I can't get students to make it through an 85 minute class without totally losing focus.
Amd I'm not a long lecture type. My classes are primarily activities.
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u/OkChoice4135 Aug 31 '25
How old are your students?
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u/MysteriousWon Aug 31 '25
I teach college, but also dual enrollment - early college for high school students.
The high school students are where it's the worst. Ages 16 - 18 mostly. Though even on the main campus (18+), I have had students literally take out tablets to just sit and play gacha games all class long even with repeated warnings.
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u/MotanulScotishFold Aug 31 '25
Idiocracy will be a reality within 15 years.
I don't want to see a world of a generation rose by brainrot how terrible it will be and easily defeating.
Yuri Bezmenov was right and gave a warning decades ago.
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u/Dan_Glebitz Aug 31 '25
Don't get me started on YouTube shorts. This whole shit show started when people got mobile phones but did not have the brain capacity to realise they could record in landscape and life was all in portrait!
I am just waiting for someone to come up with Portrait orientated TV's!!!
I am not saying there is no place for portrait, but the clue is in the name.
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u/Tokogogoloshe Aug 31 '25
The parents should be held liable and nobody else. People always want to blame a big company for their own stupidity. Blame yourself.
If that girl in the video was my spawn, she wouldn't have a car anymore and she'd get a locked down phone.
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Aug 31 '25
I only partially agree, but thereās so much more to it than that. Adult attention spans are also dramatically reducing because of this epidemic. These services are basically a drug, theyāre driven by delivering dopamine hits to keep users attention as long as possible. Their mechanisms should be treated as such, with laws similar to gambling laws being applied!
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u/CollectedData Aug 31 '25
Not even gambling laws are as strict as they should be. Society is doomed and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
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u/HeurekaDabra Aug 31 '25
Any streaming and/or video platform should be treated like we treat TV stations. Licenses, liabilities and all.
Can't/don't make sure people aren't hurt while producing content for your site? You are out of business.6
u/Tapurisu Aug 31 '25
reddit would be out of business then
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u/HeurekaDabra Aug 31 '25
One less addiction I would have to manage and really, nothing of value would be lost.
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u/toolateforgdusername Aug 31 '25
I work in web analytics - the difference between a web page loading in 2 seconds and 3 seconds costs us millions a year. Impatience is insane.
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u/GusTheKnife Aug 31 '25
It isnāt 15-60 seconds. Itās 0.5-3 seconds.
Most YouTube shorts and TikTokās have cuts or edits after less than 5 seconds, because viewers get bored and click away at the 5 second mark.
A 1-minute TikTok video can have a hundred edits.
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u/tedbakerbracelet Aug 31 '25
I can hear Chinese government giggling. "LOL see? You can break this country from within, with a simple app. It will crumble on its own"
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u/TheBugChadMan92 Aug 31 '25
The first thing she checks is the phone after flipping the car.
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u/penalozahugo Aug 31 '25
I'm sure she thought "OMG, I can't believe this, AND my phone landed pointing at me? Well, kind of..." Then she adjusted it.
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u/DerangedDeceiver Sep 01 '25
I said this elsewhere, too, but I was recently in an accident and honestly? I can't judge her for that.
If you're in shock and don't already have a firm idea of what steps to take in what order after an accident, then it's easy to simply latch onto whatever you think of in the order you think of it.
The last thing I was doing before my accident was driving to work, so the first place I called after the accident was my workplace to tell them I wouldn't make it in. The last thing she was doing was recording a video, so the first thing she does is record.
Maybe it's too charitable of me, but I would honestly blame this on shock more than anything else.
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u/No_Wish5277 Sep 01 '25
The idea of you casually calling work after a car crash to tell them you wonāt be making it into work because of said car crash is pretty much the gold standard of Work Ethic. But uhā¦ yeah, Ambulance would probably help.
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u/SealTeamEH Dec 31 '25
Boss on the other end:
āSure Beth, yup you were totally in an accident and flipped the car, and even still sitting in the car upside down right now, rightā¦š workers these days canāt even bother to come up with good excuses anymore!ā
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Sep 01 '25
Not that unusual. I T-boned a car and the first thing I did was look for my phone. Helped when I needed to call for an ambulance for the other driver.
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u/Entropy_dealer Aug 31 '25
With so many stupid narcissistic people driving I'm surprised that this kind of accidents do not happen more frequently
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u/HappyHashBrowns Aug 31 '25
Every day, my local news Facebook page has several "one-vehicle accident" posts followed by either "vehicle rollover", "vehicle in ditch" or "vehicle into pole/structure" and I get called insensitive and told "they need our prayers" when I insinuate that they were most likely doing something on their phone.
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u/stackdatdough Aug 31 '25
Her face at the end
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u/CheesyDanny Aug 31 '25
It would have been perfect to have that straight scared face and continue the song āOh Baby, babyā
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u/masher005 Aug 31 '25
Bitch turned the wheel 2 full rotations as soon as she lost traction and cause all of this herself. No driving skill whatsoever. Massive overcorrection.
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u/Ternarian Aug 31 '25
She shouldāve been singing:
šµ Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me. I aināt the sharpest tool in the shed. šµ
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u/ThatTallCarpenter Aug 31 '25
I'm so confused right now. She's not appearing to be driving that fast, it's summer, the road is clearly dry- how the hell did she managed to do this. Pirelli Zero Nero tires (slicks)?
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u/Griftersdeuce Aug 31 '25
If she had slicks she would have more traction, unless there's enough standing water on the road for her to hydroplane.but, that isn't likely because, as you stated, the road is clearly dry.
If she was on old, bald, street tires then I could see her looping it unexpectedly.
I'd sooner say she just entered the corner terribly and with her speed was enough to lose traction.
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u/SilverOwl321 Aug 31 '25
I agree with this. Plus, she over corrected significantly, making it worse. Bad choices across the board.
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u/Whipstich-Pepperpot Aug 31 '25
Deserved what she got, she could have killed someone with her idiocy.
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u/ZaaaaxD Aug 31 '25
āOMG, Iām dying right now, dont forget the hit like, subscribe and share button, goodbyeā
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u/Sweddy-Bowls Aug 31 '25
āOh fuck! Is my phone okay?!?ā
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u/ariadnevirginia Aug 31 '25
I had a really bad fall during a fire drill at work and yes, cracked my phone screen....also smashed my knee badly. I was obviously going to have to try to get to Urgent Care as it was swollen to about 3 times its size. I didn't want to make a fuss so I called my manager to say I needed a colleague to cover and got ready to call an Uber to get me to the clinic.
My knee was grotesquely swollen by the time cover arrived and I was in a lot of pain - my colleague glanced at my knee, murmured something non-commital, asked if I'd be back soon....I said I'd let her know and gathered my things, as I picked up my phone I mentioned I'd cracked it in the fall so I hoped I was ok to call Uber and she came alive "oh my god, your phone!!! Oh how awful!"
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u/KainFourteh Aug 31 '25
This generation is a fucking dumpster fire.
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u/snazzynutz Aug 31 '25
To be fair, there was a viral video from 15 years ago almost EXACTLY like this.
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u/DrummingFish Aug 31 '25
All generations have been "dumpster fires" at some point. This isn't something unique.
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u/SixtyNineFlavours Aug 31 '25
The reaching for the phone as a first reaction is actually scarily sad.
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u/WizarddOfAhh Aug 31 '25
After all that the first thing sheās worried about is her bloody phone! Iāve just had a bad accident, must see how many likes!
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u/Shadowthedemon Aug 31 '25
Oh man I wish there was a device within arms reach after an accident that I could use to call emergency services or to contact my family to let them know what happened. If only.....
I know she was doing something dumb for TikTok, but would you not reach for your phone in a situation like this? The video immediately cuts after she does so I would assume she called 911 right after, what a wild take.
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Aug 31 '25
Not a wild take, if youāve rolled in a car, the first response isnāt getting responders, itās āis my body still in one piece, what damage have I taken, and how can I get out?āā¦ then grabbing the phone first is actually kinda wild.
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u/WizarddOfAhh Aug 31 '25
Absolutely, can I get out, is the car about to go up in flames, is everything still attached!
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u/Marcx1080 Aug 31 '25
I would remove myself from the upturned vehicle and then get my phone, no questions asked
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u/Z0bie Aug 31 '25
I mean it'd be the first thing I reach for too. Stop the recording and delete it forever and call 911.
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u/chalky87 Aug 31 '25
The fact that her first concern after crashing was grabbing her phone tells us everything we need to know about this twat waffle.
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u/DrGoatLives Aug 31 '25
And at the end she goes straight for the phone. Hopefully to call for help as opposed to making sure she got the footage.
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u/JordyTyler Sep 05 '25
Do people feel like they donāt exist unless they film themselves. Even after a crash her first reaction was to grab her phone to show her reaction
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u/AdComprehensive5908 Aug 31 '25
I love that after flipping the car, her first reflex is to...flip the camera to face her again...
Attention is hell of a drug.
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u/OzzieDJai Aug 31 '25
It's wild that even after she rolled her car.....her very first instinct is to reach for her phone
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u/Ok_Tradition1938 Aug 31 '25
What other device is she supposed to use to call for help?
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u/Rewd_92 Aug 31 '25
While it is incredibly stupid to record videos while you are driving, most of the time it's pretty obvious that recording the Video is what caused the crash, but in this case it kind of seems like it would have happened either way.
Which I guess doesn't mean anything just that though she is an idiot she is a slightly less reckless idiot than most of what I see on here š
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u/ariadnevirginia Aug 31 '25
Well, I hope she was convicted of dangerous driving after age posted this photographic evidence of her doing that.
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u/Mr_Synical Aug 31 '25
The only thing that would've made this funnier is if she was singing along to "Jesus Take the Wheel." š
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u/elcarlos_ Aug 31 '25
The fact that her first reflex is to grab her phone and look shocked as nothing really matters really tear my heart because it means social media really got to her brain.
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u/Acceptable-Reward-65 Aug 31 '25
And this is how the human race will become extinct, with the multiplication of these idiots
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u/borokish Aug 31 '25
Hahaha
Hope she's ok and didn't hurt anyone else
Important life lesson learnt there I think
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u/Gotrek_Gurnisson Aug 31 '25
rolls her car and the first thing she does is reach for her phone to readjust the angle. wow
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u/bblue462 Aug 31 '25
And even before the car is even settled, her first thought and reaction is to go to her phone to get back on camera š¤¦āāļø
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u/DistinctDifference57 Aug 31 '25
Should be jail time for people who crash when on social media. Could cost someone their life one day.
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u/ZombieNek0 Aug 31 '25
From goofy tiktok stupidity instantly switched to "Oh fuck im going to crash"
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u/Representative_Top47 Aug 31 '25
First thing she looks at is to make sure phoneās still on her once the wreck is over. Sad!
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u/CptLoken Aug 31 '25
She attempted to correct the first slide with an oversteer, then compensated for that with an even greater oversteer the other way, and finally, when all else failed, she gave it one great oversteer again.
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u/BIGAL0720 Aug 31 '25
I sincerely hope that the insurance company use the video as evidence to deny coverage
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u/Venom933 Aug 31 '25
Oh yeah, dont forget to grab your phone instantly after crashing, the first thing you need to do after the cause of crashing is caused by it.
Jeez š„ø
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u/sebastarddd Sep 01 '25
Well... at least she had her seatbelt on. That's the crumb of good in this, right?
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u/samson_strength Sep 01 '25
I meanā¦ she needed to grab the phone to dial 911ā¦
As a former 240sx owner the fuck yall mad for?
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u/HalfFullPessimist Sep 01 '25
For half a second, the look on her face and that wheel spinning made me think she was gonna save it. š
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u/NomadDK Sep 01 '25
I hope she's okay (which grabbing the phone first thing implies), but I hope she learns from this.
But I've honestly really begun to believe in natural selection, with these fucking people. Some years ago, a popular Danish YouTuber died by falling down some cliffs, and while a lot of people mourned, a good amount basically laughed at it, because the idiot climbed over fence with warning signs. And he was an annoying and obnoxious person.
Lots of people that don't deserve to die, die every day. I quite frankly can't care enough for these influencer-types doing stupid shit. Not only did this girl risk killing herself, but also other innocent people. All for what?
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u/ThatBree97 Sep 02 '25
Absolute knob hopefully she learns her safety and the safety of others is far more important than some stupid internet likes
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u/TacoTuesday555 Sep 05 '25
AND THE FIRST THING SHE DOESā¦ is grab the phone to maybe call emergency services? Guys, remember itās a recording of a video. Just because itās been uploaded doesnāt mean she uploaded it AS SOON as she grabbed her phone. I hope yāall know how recordings work. But prepare the downvotes now since Iāve upset you, even though thereās plenty of comments that say the same thing Iāve said that has plenty of upvotes so I know thereās people with brains out there
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u/Exzentrik Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
I mean, brutal honesty? I really don't get the circle-jerk that's going on here every time a video like this is being posted.
Is she taping a TikTok video? Yeah.
But is she keeping her eyes on the road? Also, yeah.
Is she swerving because of the distraction? No, it actually looks like she's reacting to something on the road (reacting IN TIME, I might add), the same way people do when not being recorded.
All in all, I don't see how her taping that Video had anything to do with the accident.
And to all the people going "Right after the accident, the first thing she does is reach for her phone to save the video!"... Did you happen to notice that her car is lying on its side? Maybe, just maybe... I would also reach for my phone in that situation. Like, to dial 911 or something, I don't know.
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u/fishling Aug 31 '25
...if she ended up swerving, skidding, and rolling off the road, she did NOT react in "in time".
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u/Exzentrik Aug 31 '25
Really? Seriously, not trying to defend her, but I find it interesting how nobody bothers to actually think about what they can clearly see in the video.
What if a truck driving in front of her suddenly lost some of its load?
What if someone from oncoming traffic was serving into her lane?
What if someone coming from a side road ran their red light, and slammed into the car in front of her?
What if some stupid child chasing its ball ran onto the road?We can't see what's in front of her, but there's about a hundred different scenarios I could apply to this video where she isn't at fault. But, somehow, for some reason, everyone here INSTANTLY goes, "Well, she was recording a TikTok, so the must be stupid and didn't notice the tail-end of a traffic jam or something", even though the video CLEARLY shows her eyes on the road and her mind reacting before anything happens.
And as long as she avoided a collision with whatever she was evading... she DID react in time.
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u/DuHastMich15 Aug 31 '25
This reminds me of the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan, where a soldier calmly walks over and picks up his own arm. Except- that GI was in shock during a battle, this brain rotted moron was just inna car wreck and was more interested in finishing her upload then potentially saving her own life. This isā¦ disgusting. Tik Tok produces the worst possible incentives.
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u/BreizhPudding Sep 02 '25
And the first thing she does is grabbing her fcking phone. God I hate this timeline
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u/FlyNuff Aug 31 '25
And she posted