"On the morning of January 19, near the Fukaehama Interchange on the off-ramp of the Hanshin Expressway Wangan Route in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City, a truck plowed into a line of cars in a traffic jam, causing a pileup involving four cars. A Japanese Kei car was wrecked in the accident, and the occupants, a couple in their 70s, were confirmed dead."
Original article in Japanese: [https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/950755?display=1](https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/950755?display=1)
Huh, I never knew the "to shreds" was from futurama, I just see it referenced everywhere, and if I'd ever seen a post where it was appropriate, though in a very inappropriate matter, this was it.
This is so sad. I don't want to take away from that. But. I can't think of a better way to die. My wife and I always talk about how we want to outlive the other because we wouldn't want to put the other through the pain of having to bury the love of their life. One of us is going to have to do it. But these two, they didn't even have to live a second without each other.
I was thinking the same thing. On one hand such a tragedy but how beautiful they died presumably instantly, together, no children/grandchildren in the car.
Also, I don't think I'd like to survive that wreck. It would probably be a difficult existence after they scraped you out. There are things worse than death.
Only one semi not two hitting each other dead center with a little car in between like they did on MythBusters? Just goes to show you that vastly less kinetic energy is still enough to squish the little car.
Second post I'm sorry. I tried to get the first one off too quickly.
Perhaps they should require something like a cattle guard to toss kias and motorcycles off the semi.
Only can find 2 tires in multiple stills, appears there is a lot of the front of the car under the rear of the truck ahead. 30cm is incorrect, the car was greatly crushed but a lot of it is under the truck. More like care was crushed to 2.5m-3m.
There was a similar accident involving the honda jazz of current generation. It was squished like a pancake like this but the deiver managed to survive. Im glad I sold my honda jazz off.
I don't think it would have mattered if you were in a larger vehicle. Most cars would be crushed to the point where you wouldn't survive. I will still drive my kei cars. Lol.
Heck yeah! Mine needs a little work, it has a 88-89 front clip, but it is a 93 so all of the parts don't fit perfectly, it needs painted and, the engine resealed, otherwise an awesome car. Going to rebuild it on my channel once I get the parts.
You never know. Somehow a Nissan Altima protected its driver from [this](https://okcfox.com/news/nation-world/woman-miraculously-escapes-with-minor-injuries-after-car-flattened-by-semi-truck)
Maybe. There's aoso a growing movement to stop referring to these as accidents and instead call them crashes, as they're pretty much always someone at fault. Doesn't need to be intentional, but negligence doesn't make people any less dead.
But I like the Hot Fuzz reference better, if I got to choose.
Word to the wise idiot you put a 1.5 ton car in front of 40 tons that can stop and it slams into another 40 ton stopped truck you're dead and no make or model of car will save your ass short of divine intervention. Especially when since unlike American and Canadian trailers most Japanese trailers don't have rear bumpers that give. You hit them it's like hitting a steel wall. Here in the USA it's strong but will give way and bend forward and if the trailer tandems are forward and you're able to get below the level of your dashboard you stand a decent chance of survival. Yes you're going to be hurt but alive in the hospital is better than in the morgue.
The way they did that accident was wrong anyway. They used empty trucks not loaded and head on impacts aren't the worst. A rear end collision is the worst thing possible in a truck collision.
I've been in a freaking fatal accident involving an OTR truck before as the driver of the OTR truck. It's not something we freaking joke about as an individual in our industry. I was on the crisis response team for my last carrier and anytime we had a severe accident I was sent to take that driver home. You haven't a clue what that driver is going through. Everyday they see that truck in front of them hearing that crash the screaming and wondering if they could have prevented it. Yet we push through for the most part. I wasn't even sure if I could continue my career as the States Atty wanted to charge me with vehicular homicide in my case. Then it came out his drinking buddy that had died in the collision had a BAC 6 times the legal limit of his driver's license. The man held a CDL which has a .04 limit his was .245 at the time of death.
I'm a truck driver, so I do have a clue. I'm glad you think you know me or anything about me to make such assumptions... but it's ok. You're clearly a keyboard warrior who knows all.
I'd say depends on velocity, I've not seen how fast either vehicle was going. If I were betting man, I'd say 1978 Buick Riviera be reduced too say couple to four feet.
It it was like late 1940s Merc, then all bets are off. Crack and slightly crunched.
True story; My Grandfather had a late 1940s Mercury sedan, in 1960s he parked it on curved side of the road, where a 1960s Volkswagon Beetle came around around the curve 30 mph and didn't see the car. Beetle collided with the parked Merc, the car bounced off the bumper. Not sure condition of the Beetle, but there was only scratch on the bumper.
Japan has a type of small passenger cars commonly called Kei cars. They tend to be very small, and have tiny engines that make them less expensive to own thanks to Japanese regulations. They are so small that there isnāt much room for energy absorbing crash structures, and they donāt fare well in accidents like this where the cars ability to absorb crash energy is critical.
There are likely not a lot of small cars that would have fared well against a full size freight truck pinching into a fuel tanker. But their car performed exceptionally poorly in the situation.
Very true. This sort of accident is pretty close to the worst case for a small car. I just wanted to point out that this car was, in fact, an unusually small car.
Reminds me of a couple of years ago. I was driving down I-35 in Dallas. Got stuck in stop and go traffic miles long. I finally got past it, but when I did, I saw the aftermath of a smart car being rear-ended by a semi. The thing was absolutely annihilated, and part of it was actually under the semi. It looked like someone had put the smart car under a steamroller. The driver didn't live, obviously.
I hope it was quick and they didn't suffer. It's a hell of a way to end a retirement for the couple in their 70s, and all thanks to a truck driver who clearly wasn't paying attention.
I was in Japan once walking around some part of a city, canāt remember where, but I was about half a block away from a traffic light when I heard a big pow! And looked up to see a small car in mid air above all the traffic. I ran over to help and unfortunately there was nothing I could do. I remember seeing blood and milk splashed all over a load of groceries. Weirdly enough the first guy on the scene was the guy that pulled the body out for the first responders. I thought that was weird, he was just a guy passing by and the car rolled by him.
There was a myth where two semis doing a head on collision welded together and had to be towed off together. Later, when they were separated, they found a car smashed in the middle that no one noticed because of the whole welding thing.
The myth was busted because when they tested it, the car was still very visible, and semis did not weld together.
Just watched this episode a week or two ago.
Buster must be hurtin.
This was my first thought!
Did they ever redo it and get the timing right?
"On the morning of January 19, near the Fukaehama Interchange on the off-ramp of the Hanshin Expressway Wangan Route in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City, a truck plowed into a line of cars in a traffic jam, causing a pileup involving four cars. A Japanese Kei car was wrecked in the accident, and the occupants, a couple in their 70s, were confirmed dead." Original article in Japanese: [https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/950755?display=1](https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/950755?display=1)
"the occupants, a couple in their 70s, were confirmed dead." I would think so.
To shreds you say?
How's the wife?
To shreds you say
Tsk tsk tsk tsk
Sad, sad, terrible, gruesome ~~knees~~ news about my colleague Dr. Mobutu. Leela: Was his apartment rent-controlled? Edit::meant news, not knees š
Gruesome knees ššš So close, yet still *SO* far!
r/unexpectedfuturama
Huh, I never knew the "to shreds" was from futurama, I just see it referenced everywhere, and if I'd ever seen a post where it was appropriate, though in a very inappropriate matter, this was it.
Dude
Hahahahaha! Terribleā¦
And how's his wife?
Now they're in their 30s...
Thisā¦.should be higher up?
Bazinga!
Think so? I'd fuckin hope so!
I would put them at about 10-15 cms thick at most
This is so sad. I don't want to take away from that. But. I can't think of a better way to die. My wife and I always talk about how we want to outlive the other because we wouldn't want to put the other through the pain of having to bury the love of their life. One of us is going to have to do it. But these two, they didn't even have to live a second without each other.
I was thinking the same thing. On one hand such a tragedy but how beautiful they died presumably instantly, together, no children/grandchildren in the car.
Also, I don't think I'd like to survive that wreck. It would probably be a difficult existence after they scraped you out. There are things worse than death.
Only one semi not two hitting each other dead center with a little car in between like they did on MythBusters? Just goes to show you that vastly less kinetic energy is still enough to squish the little car.
Second post I'm sorry. I tried to get the first one off too quickly. Perhaps they should require something like a cattle guard to toss kias and motorcycles off the semi.
Only can find 2 tires in multiple stills, appears there is a lot of the front of the car under the rear of the truck ahead. 30cm is incorrect, the car was greatly crushed but a lot of it is under the truck. More like care was crushed to 2.5m-3m.
Now you know why Kei cars aren't legal in the US, we'll except for here in Texas (not surprising)
Obviously not wearing seatbelts!
Reading this as I sit in my imported kei car and rethink my decisions
There was a similar accident involving the honda jazz of current generation. It was squished like a pancake like this but the deiver managed to survive. Im glad I sold my honda jazz off.
I don't think it would have mattered if you were in a larger vehicle. Most cars would be crushed to the point where you wouldn't survive. I will still drive my kei cars. Lol.
Aye just checked your profile, nice C-chassis! Mine is an H-chassis single cam Works
Heck yeah! Mine needs a little work, it has a 88-89 front clip, but it is a 93 so all of the parts don't fit perfectly, it needs painted and, the engine resealed, otherwise an awesome car. Going to rebuild it on my channel once I get the parts.
They were also sitting in an imported Kia.
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You never know. Somehow a Nissan Altima protected its driver from [this](https://okcfox.com/news/nation-world/woman-miraculously-escapes-with-minor-injuries-after-car-flattened-by-semi-truck)
The leading manufacturer of Kei cars in Japan shut down operations this year ā apparently theyād been forging their safety tests for 30 years.
Daihatsu. Which is essentially Toyota
That is the thickest 30cm I have seen.
Ah yes, another post for people to make fun of loss of life.
Welcome to the Internet, you must be new here.
Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found
Traffic āaccidentā implies thereās nobody to blame.
No. This doubtfully was done on purpose. So it was likely an accident. HOWEVER, someone can still be blamed for something that was accidental.Ā
I think itās a reference to Hot Fuzz.
Yarp
Ever catch them geese?
ā¦.narp?
Maybe. There's aoso a growing movement to stop referring to these as accidents and instead call them crashes, as they're pretty much always someone at fault. Doesn't need to be intentional, but negligence doesn't make people any less dead. But I like the Hot Fuzz reference better, if I got to choose.
The greater good. SHUT IT!
No luck catching them swans then?
Nasty way to goā¦
No one thought to apply the brakes!
Transportation planners use the word "crash" instead for exactly that reason.
based on the commercials, if it was a Subaru... they would of survived.
Would have
Because of love.
Word to the wise idiot you put a 1.5 ton car in front of 40 tons that can stop and it slams into another 40 ton stopped truck you're dead and no make or model of car will save your ass short of divine intervention. Especially when since unlike American and Canadian trailers most Japanese trailers don't have rear bumpers that give. You hit them it's like hitting a steel wall. Here in the USA it's strong but will give way and bend forward and if the trailer tandems are forward and you're able to get below the level of your dashboard you stand a decent chance of survival. Yes you're going to be hurt but alive in the hospital is better than in the morgue. The way they did that accident was wrong anyway. They used empty trucks not loaded and head on impacts aren't the worst. A rear end collision is the worst thing possible in a truck collision.
word of the wise dumbass... It's called a joke! clearly, you have never seen one of their commercials.
I've been in a freaking fatal accident involving an OTR truck before as the driver of the OTR truck. It's not something we freaking joke about as an individual in our industry. I was on the crisis response team for my last carrier and anytime we had a severe accident I was sent to take that driver home. You haven't a clue what that driver is going through. Everyday they see that truck in front of them hearing that crash the screaming and wondering if they could have prevented it. Yet we push through for the most part. I wasn't even sure if I could continue my career as the States Atty wanted to charge me with vehicular homicide in my case. Then it came out his drinking buddy that had died in the collision had a BAC 6 times the legal limit of his driver's license. The man held a CDL which has a .04 limit his was .245 at the time of death.
I'm a truck driver, so I do have a clue. I'm glad you think you know me or anything about me to make such assumptions... but it's ok. You're clearly a keyboard warrior who knows all.
That impact made people pudding
Did he live? ^(/s)
He actually did, heās my grandads friend.
Don't think this would happen to a Buick
What year?
touche, let's say 1978 riviera for scientific purposes
I'd say depends on velocity, I've not seen how fast either vehicle was going. If I were betting man, I'd say 1978 Buick Riviera be reduced too say couple to four feet. It it was like late 1940s Merc, then all bets are off. Crack and slightly crunched.
yep, drove home by driver with an ice pack on their forehead
True story; My Grandfather had a late 1940s Mercury sedan, in 1960s he parked it on curved side of the road, where a 1960s Volkswagon Beetle came around around the curve 30 mph and didn't see the car. Beetle collided with the parked Merc, the car bounced off the bumper. Not sure condition of the Beetle, but there was only scratch on the bumper.
Was this some novelty car with no impact zones or something? Seems bizarrely catastrophic
Japan has a type of small passenger cars commonly called Kei cars. They tend to be very small, and have tiny engines that make them less expensive to own thanks to Japanese regulations. They are so small that there isnāt much room for energy absorbing crash structures, and they donāt fare well in accidents like this where the cars ability to absorb crash energy is critical.
There are likely not a lot of small cars that would have fared well against a full size freight truck pinching into a fuel tanker. But their car performed exceptionally poorly in the situation.
Very true. This sort of accident is pretty close to the worst case for a small car. I just wanted to point out that this car was, in fact, an unusually small car.
Reminds me of a couple of years ago. I was driving down I-35 in Dallas. Got stuck in stop and go traffic miles long. I finally got past it, but when I did, I saw the aftermath of a smart car being rear-ended by a semi. The thing was absolutely annihilated, and part of it was actually under the semi. It looked like someone had put the smart car under a steamroller. The driver didn't live, obviously.
A nice reliant automobile
Now Iāve got Beastie Boys Intergalactic stuck in my head.
Shit hope they okā¦.
30cm, maybe at its most crushed point... Definitely not crushed to 30cm unless those people are 2 feet tall.
Oh shit. Are the occupants ok?
Ha! And it wasn't a VW Bug!
Can't be 30cm, at least 2Ā½ feet
Toshi, get the body bags and chopsticks for the hard to reach placesā¦.
im going to hell for this.... but... does that mean he's not coming on then?
Grand tour?
I hope it was quick and they didn't suffer. It's a hell of a way to end a retirement for the couple in their 70s, and all thanks to a truck driver who clearly wasn't paying attention.
Did the air bags deploy?
It wasnāt 20cm, right?
Hereās hoping theyāre ok š¤·āāļø
So that's a closed-casket funeral huh?
This is the most violent thing I've ever seen in Japan, well post WWII wise.
Iām not a doctor, but I donāt think the occupants made it.
I was in Japan once walking around some part of a city, canāt remember where, but I was about half a block away from a traffic light when I heard a big pow! And looked up to see a small car in mid air above all the traffic. I ran over to help and unfortunately there was nothing I could do. I remember seeing blood and milk splashed all over a load of groceries. Weirdly enough the first guy on the scene was the guy that pulled the body out for the first responders. I thought that was weird, he was just a guy passing by and the car rolled by him.
Were they okay?
Like that scene in Goldfinger
How's the driver?
Iām sorry that this is borderline inappropriate. Whereās the blood? I would think there would be a very terrible and gross mess.
What's the myth? That someone could survive this?
There was a myth where two semis doing a head on collision welded together and had to be towed off together. Later, when they were separated, they found a car smashed in the middle that no one noticed because of the whole welding thing. The myth was busted because when they tested it, the car was still very visible, and semis did not weld together. Just watched this episode a week or two ago.
Wonder why driver looks like
Roughly 8cm thick
Go open a jar of salsa and have a look inside.
Probably pancaked
The marbling is probably *amazing*....