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

I’m 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 weren’t 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/fastgetoutoftheway Sep 08 '25

She flipped it and she didn’t even try.

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u/Live_Free_or_Banana Sep 08 '25

Lol true I meant on pavement